Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2023 • Laos, United States

ONLOOKERS offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country’s dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, r...

Directed by Max Keegan • 2024 • United States

Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears into a traditional shepherding community. Told through the eyes of an aging shepherd who struggles to find a success...

Directed by Sierra Pettengill • 2022 • United States

Welcome to Riotsville, USA: a point in American history when the nation’s rulers—politicians, bureaucrats, police—were faced with the mounting militancy of the late 1960s, and did everything possible to win the war in the streets. Using traini...

Directed by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes • 2019 • United States, France

The visionary designer who propelled fashion into the future, Pierre Cardin revolutionized the look of the 1960s and ’70s and created a global empire that set the template for the modern fashion house. This briskly ente...

Directed by Charlotte Gainsbourg • 2021 • France, United Kingdom, Japan
Starring Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg

An icon who left an indelible imprint on the worlds of music, film, and fashion, Jane Birkin was one of the most photographed and analyzed women of the last century. Yet this tender...

Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1972 • United States

Though director Emile de Antonio was best known for his caustic political documentaries, he was also deeply immersed in the art world, a connection that led him to make the definitive look at the New York School of painters from 1940 to 1970. H...

Directed by Daniel McCabe • 2023 • United States

Part one-of-a-kind nature documentary, part science fiction, GRASSHOPPER REPUBLIC unfolds over the course of three seasons in Uganda, where a local grasshopper-trapping team stalks and captures this elusive prey by the barrelful, pushing their way...

Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1964 • United States

This groundbreaking political documentary distills 188 hours of televised footage from the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings into a compelling narrative that reveals the aggressive tactics employed by senator Joseph McCarthy in his paranoid investiga...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1967 • United States
Starring Jason Holliday

On the night of December 2, 1966, Shirley Clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea to make a film. For twelve straight hours, they filmed the one-and-only Jason Holliday as he spun tales, sang,...

Directed by Mark Cousins • 2021 • United Kingdom

For decades, legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas has driven from England to the Cannes Film Festival. This time, he’s joined by acclaimed filmmaker Mark Cousins. On their intimate five-day road trip through rural France, they remember some of th...

Directed by Errol Morris • 2018 • United States, United Kingdom

The legendary documentarian Errol Morris (THE THIN BLUE LINE) sits down with one of the most controversial political figures of our time: former Donald Trump campaign strategist and advisor Steve Bannon, the inflammatory ideologue w...

Directed by Suhaib Gasmelbari • 2019 • Sudan

In 1989, the members of the Sudanese Film Group saw their dream of establishing a Sudanese cinema free from state censorship dashed by the military coup and repressive dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. Now, reunited after decades of distance and exile, ...

Directed by Nathan Silver • 2025 • United States
Starring Carol Kane, Joy Kane

Shot on wonderfully warm, light-filled 16 mm with the intimacy of a home movie, this vibrant documentary snapshot captures beloved actor Carol Kane (reuniting with BETWEEN THE TEMPLES director Nathan Silver) and her m...

Directed by Chloe Abrahams • 2023 • United Kingdom, United States

Sri Lankan British artist and filmmaker Chloe Abrahams’s debut feature is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its center are three extraordinary women: the dire...

Directed by Sreemoyee Singh • 2023 • India

Fascinated by Iran’s film culture and the works of the feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh sets out in search of the protagonists of Iranian cinema. The numerous interviews she conducts over a period of six years with film...

Directed by Milisuthando Bongela • 2023 • South Africa, Colombia

Filmmaker, writer, and poet Milisuthando Bongela’s youth in South Africa was untouched by the horrors of apartheid—at least that’s how it seemed. The Transkei, an unrecognized Black independent region established by the regime, cre...

Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing • 2024 • United States

Through intimate observation, UNION chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots labor-organizing campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island. Led by the c...

Directed by Ehsan Khoshbakht • 2023 • Iran, United Kingdom

Ehsan Khoshbakht’s riveting autobiographical documentary is an immersive portrait of postrevolutionary Iran and a stirring testament to the power of cinema to resist tyranny. It’s the story of his formative friendship with the mysterious...