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  • Short Films by Sophy Romvari
    Short Films by Sophy Romvari
    1 season

    Short Films by Sophy Romvari

    1 season

    With her acclaimed debut feature, the heartbreaking family portrait BLUE HERON (in theaters this April), Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari builds on her early short works to reveal an astonishing cinematic sensibility exquisitely attuned to the delicate, sensory details that shape experience. Freq...

  • Born in Flames
    Born in Flames
    Movie + 2 extras

    Born in Flames

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Lizzie Borden • 1983 • United States
    Starring Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield

    A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden’s explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revoluti...

  • Bergman Island
    Bergman Island
    Movie + 3 extras

    Bergman Island

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve • 2021 • France
    Starring Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska

    Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve embarks on a luminous summertime odyssey to the home of Ingmar Bergman for her seventh feature, a graceful, shape-shifting tale about the interplay of life and art and the ...

  • Sambizanga
    Sambizanga
    Movie + 2 extras

    Sambizanga

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Sarah Maldoror • 1972 • Angola
    Starring Domingos de Oliveira, Elisa Andrade, Jean M’Vondo

    This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. Based on a true story, SAMBIZANGA follows a young woman as she makes her way from the o...

  • Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba
    Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba
    1 season

    Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba

    1 season

    A true cinematic revolutionary who used the camera as her tool in the fight against oppression in all forms, the Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez brought the stories of ordinary Cubans to the screen with a bracing immediacy and insight. Drawing on her background in ethnography, Gómez became her co...

  • Not a Pretty Picture
    Not a Pretty Picture
    Movie + 2 extras

    Not a Pretty Picture

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Martha Coolidge • 1975 • United States
    Starring Michele Manenti, Jim Carrington, Anne Mundstuk

    Trailblazing filmmaker Martha Coolidge made her feature debut with this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction. Centered on an intense reenactment of Coolidge’s experienc...

  • All We Imagine as Light
    All We Imagine as Light
    Movie + 2 extras

    All We Imagine as Light

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Payal Kapadia • 2024 • France, India, Netherlands
    Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam

    Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed fiction-feature debut is a radiant ode to hope-giving connections forged amid big-city anonymity. Set against the hypnotic luminescence of Mumbai, ALL WE IMAG...

  • The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
    The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
    Movie

    The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

    Movie

    Directed by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich • 2024 • United States
    Starring Zita Hanrot, Motell Gyn Foster, Josué Gutierrez

    A sumptuous, spellbinding anti-biopic as provocative and elusive as its subject, this hypnotic journey through the world of Caribbean surrealist writer and anticolonial activist Suz...

  • Compensation
    Compensation
    Movie + 10 extras

    Compensation

    Movie + 10 extras

    Directed by Zeinabu irene Davis • 1999 • United States
    Starring John Earl Jelks, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb

    A poignant portrait of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of love at both ends of the twentieth century, Zeinabu irene Davis’s film is a groundbreaking story of inclusion and...

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