Directed by Sophie Huber • 2012 • United States, Switzerland

HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION remembers the legendary actor in his intimate moments, with film clips from some of his astounding films and his own heartbreaking renditions of American folk songs. Featuring David Lynch, Wim Wenders...

“Arrival”
Directed by Don Chaffey • 1967 • United Kingdom
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick

After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as the Village.

Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2025 • Nigeria, United Kingdom

Created in 1948 to produce compliant colonial subjects, the University of Ibadan stands as an example of the university as a colonial project. Following Nigerian independence, it briefly flourished as a center of Nigerian thought and cultu...

Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu • 2014 • Romania
Starring Adrian Porumboiu, Corneliu Porumboiu

Cinema doesn’t get much more minimalist—or more casually inventive—than this unique experimental documentary from Corneliu Porumboiu, which consists solely of a videotape of a snowy 1988 Bucharest socce...

Directed by Henry Hathaway • 1953 • United States
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters

Marilyn Monroe dazzles in her star-making turn as a devious femme fatale in this sultry tale of seduction and murder. While on vacation at Niagara Falls, Rose Loomis (Monroe) plots to murder her...

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg • 1967 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Paul Newman delivers one of his most celebrated performances as a man who will not surrender to authority—even at the cost of his life. When Luke ...

“Mark Up”

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, and Pat Powell • 1978 • United States

In the 1970s, the U.S. faced an energy crisis so severe that President Jimmy Carter declared it “the moral equivalent of war.” Seeking to curb the country’s dependence on foreign oil, Carter kicked off ...

“Filibuster”

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, and Pat Powell • 1978 • United States

In the 1970s, the U.S. faced an energy crisis so severe that President Jimmy Carter declared it “the moral equivalent of war.” Seeking to curb the country’s dependence on foreign oil, Carter kicked o...

“Final Vote”

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, and Pat Powell • 1978 • United States

In the 1970s, the U.S. faced an energy crisis so severe that President Jimmy Carter declared it “the moral equivalent of war.” Seeking to curb the country’s dependence on foreign oil, Carter kicked o...

Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1958 • United States
Starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine

Master stylist Vincente Minnelli applies his spectacular visual flair to this feverish melodrama, a scorching indictment of small-town hypocrisy that sets every inch of the CinemaScope fram...

Directed by Jeff Howlett and Mark Christopher Covino • 2012 • United States

Before punk took the world by storm, there was a band called Death, the project of three African American teenage brothers from Detroit, Michigan. At a time when Black music meant funk, soul, and disco, they forged a vis...

Directed by Julio Bracho • 1954 • Mexico
Starring Ninón Sevilla, Andrés Soler, Rodolfo Acosta

Scorching eroticism, expressionistic lensing by renowned cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, and a ferocious performance by Cuban Mexican superstar Ninón Sevilla supercharge this melodrama, which infuses ...

Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford • 2019 • United States
Starring Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean

Blending psychological horror with realist drama, the stunning debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and...

Directed by Imani Nikyah Dennison • 2024 • United States

THE PEOPLE COULD FLY is a poetic documentary about the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville, Kentucky, from the 1960s to the mid-2000s. Through an intimate combination of archival footage, still photos, newly shot material, and ...

Directed by Blitz Bazawule • 2018 • Ghana, United States
Starring Ama K. Abebrese, Joe Addo, Henry Adofo

A profusion of dazzling, magical-realist images grace the visually and emotionally stunning debut feature from musician turned filmmaker Blitz Bazawule. Through the eyes of Esi (Cynthia Dankw...

Directed by Alberto Gout • 1950 • Mexico
Starring Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Andrea Palma

A darkly glittering feminist revenge tale played at fever-pitch delirium, this oft-cited pinnacle of the popular Mexican cine de rumberas genre—dizzyingly plotted “fallen women” melodramas studded with show...

Directed by Khyentse Norbu • 2024 • Bhutan
Starring Kuenzang Norbu, Prasanna B. Hambarde, Sonam Pelden

After a young teacher and aspiring YouTube creator dies in a motorcycle accident, he awakens in an unfamiliar realm suspended between death and rebirth. As Dolom (Kuenzang Norbu) slowly comes t...

Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2020 • Nigeria, United Kingdom

Blending footage shot in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, the other in Bristol, England—this double portrait considers the “sonic shadows” that colonial images continue to generate even after the disintegratio...

Directed by Andrew Dosunmu • 2011 • United States
Starring Sy Alassane, Sky Nicole Grey, Tony Okungbowa

The visually ravishing feature debut by Andrew Dosunmu is a mesmerizing plunge into a New York rarely seen on screen, the city’s West African diaspora. Djibril (Sy Alassane) hustles to get by ...