Directed by Alain Resnais • 1966 • France, Sweden
Starring Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold

With an Academy Award–nominated, autobiographical screenplay by Spanish political exile Jorge Semprún, LA GUERRE EST FINIE (“The War Is Over”) finds pioneering modernist Alain Resnais channel...

Directed by Rithy Panh • 2020 • Cambodia, France
Starring André Wilms, Rebecca Marder, Bion

Having spent his career examining the Cambodian genocide that claimed the lives of so many of his family members in acclaimed documentaries like THE MISSING PICTURE, director Rithy Panh turns his attentio...

Directed by Takeshi Koike • 2009 • Japan
Starring Patrick Seitz, Michelle Ruff, Liam O’Brien

This eyeball-blasting optical joyride takes animation to new heights of high-octane delirium. On the military-controlled planet of Roboworld, the Redline—held every five years—is the most dangerous and t...

Directed by Joyce Chopra • 2008 • United States

GRAMERCY STORIES is an inspiring look inside a unique residence in Manhattan that provides a safe home for twenty-five gay and transgender teenagers who have experienced violence at home and on the streets. Told from their candid, often witty persp...

Directed by Léo Berne and Raphaël Rodriguez • 2021 • France
Starring Damien Bonnard, Yoko Higashi, Alexis Rodney

Each night, a team of harried, hapless dream censors work furiously to keep a sleeping woman’s unconscious mind from entering its darkest realms—but just what are they trying to cover...

Directed by Kevin Smith • 1995 • United States
Starring Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee

Kevin Smith tapped into the Gen X zeitgeist once again with his hilariously, proudly sophomoric follow-up to CLERKS. When Brodie (Jason Lee) and TS (Jeremy London) are both dumped by their girlfrien...

Directed by Joyce Chopra • 1980 • United States
Starring Félix Blaska, Martha Clarke, Philip Grausman

Joyce Chopra traces one year in the artistic evolution of celebrated choreographer Martha Clarke, offering an intimate window into Clarke’s creative process as she sets out to redefine the bound...

Directed by Ibrahim Shaddad • 1981 • Sudan

This short by Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group is a report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room—a sesame mill.

Directed by Nikyatu Jusu • 2007 • United States
Starring Ebbe Bassey, Kadane Clark, Erik Gullberg

Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the usually composed Isatu. In this coming-of-age story, West African tradition conflicts with American idealism and Isatu is forced to ...

Directed by Robert Zemeckis • 2000 • United States
Starring Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid

In Robert Zemeckis’s tense and twisty supernatural thriller, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer play a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a secret so disturbing it threatens to ...

Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2008 • China
Starring Joan Chen, Lü Liping, Zhao Tao

Founded in 1958 to produce aviation engines, the once prosperous, now abandoned Chengdu Engine Group, known as Factory 420, awaits its destiny. Sold for millions to real estate developers, it will be transformed into ...

Directed by Ashley McKenzie • 2013 • Canada
Starring Brooklyn Campbell, Susan Kent, Jennie Raymond

In this jagged childhood portrait tinged with menace, a nine-year-old girl alienated from her family roams her neighborhood’s postindustrial landscape in search of a feral cat.

Directed by Fritz Lang • 1943 • United States
Starring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee

The combination of Bertolt Brecht’s eloquent script (the legendary playwright’s only Hollywood credit), director Fritz Lang’s potent moral themes, and noirish cinematography by the great James Wong How...

Directed by Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, and Chloé Farr • 2022 • France
Starring William Lebghil, Alma Jodorowsky

Death is only the beginning in this fantastically phantasmagoric animated odyssey, which imagines heaven in the boldly colorful, psychedelic style of George Dunning’s Beatles clas...

Directed by Farhad Delaram • 2019 • Iran
Starring Behdokht Valian, Alireza Sanifar, Anahita Eghbalnejad

A young Iranian woman attempting to renew her driver’s license is plunged into a menacing bureaucratic limbo when officials begin questioning her about her tattoos.

Directed by Robert Altman • 1969 • United States, Canada
Starring Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton

Though often overshadowed by its follow-up, MASH, Robert Altman’s third directorial effort was in many ways an artistic breakthrough for him: the first in which his experimental, iconocl...

Directed by Reed Harkness • 2022 • United States

Sam Harkness was fourteen years old when his mother, Jois, abruptly disappeared. Tracking cryptic clues of her whereabouts years later, Sam and his half brother—director Reed Harkness, who has been making short films with Sam since childhood—head ...

Directed by Grace Passô • 2020 • Brazil
Starring Grace Passô

Made at home at the beginning of the 2020 quarantine in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, REPUBLIC reveals the necropolitics at play in a country in the midst of both a public health and political crisis.

Directed by Takeshi Koike • 2009 • Japan
Starring Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, Tadanobu Asano

This eyeball-blasting optical joyride takes animation to new heights of high-octane delirium. On the military-controlled planet of Roboworld, the Redline—held every five years—is the most dangerous and thrill...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1982 • United States
Starring Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black

Twenty years after James Dean’s death, a group of former superfans in rural Texas—not far from where the movie star shot his final film, GIANT—gather in an old Woolworth’s five-and-dime store to celebrate h...

Directed by Sammo Hung • 1989 • Hong Kong
Starring Sammo Hung, Max Mok Siu-chung, Lau Kar-leung

Rascally pedicab driver Lo Tung (Sammo Hung) yearns for the lovely Ping (Nina Li Chi)—but a dangerous gang boss also has eyes for her. When two of his friends are killed by the gangster’s men, Lo must...

Directed by Nikyatu Jusu and Yvonne Michelle Shirley • 2015 • United States
Starring Amee Apedo, Belle Le Grand, Grant Tambellini

Two teenage girls in Brooklyn plot revenge against a teacher, only to see their calculated plan fall dangerously apart in this tense, complex examination of racial an...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1980 • United States
Starring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul L. Smith

Robert Altman brought his exuberantly chaotic experimental sensibility to this live-action version of the classic comic strip, featuring spot-on performances by Robin Williams and Shelley Duva...

Directed by Corinna Belz • 2011 • Germany

A sublime work of art in its own right, this beautifully shot, endlessly revealing documentary offers unprecedented insight into the life and work of one of the greatest artists of our time. In the spring and summer of 2009, legendary German painter Gerh...