Directed by William Klein • 1970 • United States

William Klein’s candid portrait of leading Black Panther figure Eldridge Cleaver catches up with the charismatic, controversial, and outspoken revolutionary during his exile in Algeria, where he—along with his wife, fellow Black Power activist Kat...

Directed by Matteo Garrone • 2008 • Italy
Starring Toni Servillo, Salvatore Abruzzese, Gianfelice Imparato

Matteo Garrone’s GOMORRAH—presented here in its 2020 New Edition director’s cut—is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema’s most authentic depictions of org...

Directed by Monika Treut • 1999 • United States, Germany

Made at the height of the tech boom of the late 1990s, Monika Treut’s Teddy Award–winning GENDERNAUTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH SHIFTING IDENTITIES is a portrait of a group of trans artists, activists, and academics living in San Francisco—includ...

Directed by Ardak Amirkulov • 1991 • Kazakhstan
Starring Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshbai Dzhamankulov, Bolot Beyshenaliyev

Kazakh New Wave iconoclast Ardak Amirkulov’s hypnotic thirteenth-century epic is a feverish vision of one of history’s most decisive battles—Genghis Khan’s siege of the n...

Directed by Hideo Nakata • 1998 • Japan
Starring Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani

The film that launched the craze for J-horror in the West, director Hideo Nakata’s international sensation melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of techn...

Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina • 1975 • Algeria
Starring Yorgo Voyagis, Larbi Zekkal, Cheikh Nourredine

Burning with passion, poetry, and a nation’s fervent spirit of resistance, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s stirring revolutionary epic vividly dramatizes the pivotal decades leading up to Alger...

Directed by Julian Schnabel • 2007 • United States

In 1973, fresh from the mainstream success of “Transformer,” legendary musician Lou Reed defied expectations by releasing an album that would confound critics and listeners alike. “Berlin,” a startlingly bleak, uncompromising concept record abou...

Directed by Lena Dunham • 2010 • United States
Starring Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham

Lena Dunham got her start making YouTube videos, but she emerged as a major talent thanks to the breakthrough success of this exceptionally sharp comedy, which garnered the twenty-four-year-old writ...

Directed by Kirk Wong • 1998 • United States
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate

Hong Kong action director Kirk Wong and executive producer John Woo bring HK-style genre mayhem to Hollywood in this tonally bonkers blend of bullet-riddled spectacle and goofball comed...

Directed by John Frankenheimer • 1986 • United States
Starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity

Acclaimed director John Frankenheimer brings his expert craftsmanship to this sensationally sleazy, diabolically lurid neonoir adapted from a novel by Elmore Leonard. Los Angeles construction magnate...

Directed by Monika Treut • 1988 • West Germany
Starring Ina Blum, Gad Klein, Marcelo Uriona

Part German-expressionist satire, part sapphic travelogue, Monika Treut’s fiercely controversial VIRGIN MACHINE follows Dorothee Müller (Ina Blum), a German journalist researching an article about the nat...

Directed by Monika Treut • 2021 • Germany

Twenty years after the making of her groundbreaking trans documentary GENDERNAUTS, Monika Treut returns to San Francisco to catch up with her subjects and find out where time and life have led them. What she finds is a city transformed: what had once bee...

Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2019 • United States

Filmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT is a multitextured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary unlea...

Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2023 • United States
Starring Eva H.D.

Director Charlie Kaufman adapts a poem by Eva H.D. into an evocative meditation on New York City. A woman (played by the writer) drifts through the city—riding buses and trains, lingering in bars and coffee shops, moving across...

Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2015 • United States

Employing intricately hand-altered archival footage of Black women speaking on the push for liberation and freedom, director Ja’Tovia Gary crafts a meditative invocation of transcendence as a means of restoration.

Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2005 • Romania
Starring Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminița Gheorghiu, Doru Ana

Hailed as one of the defining works of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Cristi Puiu’s unflinching, darkly comic bureaucratic nightmare heralded the arrival of the Romanian New Wave as a major cine...

Directed by G. Aravindan • 1979 • India
Starring Ambalappuzha Ramunni, Ashok Unnikrishnan, Sivasankaran

Beautifully photographed amid the lush pastoral landscapes of southern India’s Kerala region, this enchanting child’s-eye fable conjures a folkloric world in which the magical exists side by s...

Directed by Monika Treut • 1992 • Germany, United States

Monika Treut presents four short documentaries about individuals who live and act outside of society’s expectations of womanhood. In DR. PAGLIA,“Sexual Personae” author Camille Paglia holds court with writer Bruce Henderson. Then, in ANNIE...

Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2023 • United States

Through a bold amalgamation of original and archival footage—of everything from Toni Morrison discussing her novel THE BLUEST EYE to TikTok videos to abstract animation—director Ja’Tovia Gary untangles complex ideas around beauty and Black womanhood.

Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1991 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Robin Williams

A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, Terry Gilliam’s magnificent, Manhattan-set THE FISHER KING features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their most brilliant roles. Bridges play...

Directed by Robert Bresson • 1977 • France
Starring Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc

“My sickness is that I see clearly.” Robert Bresson’s most controversial film (the French government banned viewers under the age of eighteen from seeing it, believing it would incite a rash of ...

Directed by Alison McAlpine • 2024 • Canada

The awe-inspiring majesty of the natural world—from the expansive desert to the star-streaked night sky—is captured through unexpected eyes in this sublimely cinematic, Oscar-nominated documentary short. In the vast Chilean desert, three wandering donk...

Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu • 2009 • Romania
Starring Dragoş Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Sǎulescu

Director Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST) interrogates the ways in which draconian authority, bureaucracy, and even language continue to shape life in post-Communist Romania in this mor...

Directed by Radu Muntean • 2010 • Romania
Starring Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu

One of the central figures to emerge from the cinema of the Romanian New Wave, director Radu Muntean has created in TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS a tense, emotionally resonant drama about a middle-aged m...