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Denise Ho - Becoming the Song
Directed by Sue Williams • Documentary • 2020 • US • English and Cantonese with English subtitles
Featuring Denise Ho"Denise Ho – Becoming the Song" profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented access, the film explores her remarkable jo...
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Ever Deadly
Directed by Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan • Documentary • 2022 • Canada • English, Inuktitut with English subtitles
Featuring Tanya Tagaq, Laakkuluk Williamson, Bathory Mary Gillis"Ever Deadly" weaves together intimate concert footage of Tanya Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections, stunni...
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Invisible Valley
Directed by Aaron Maurer • Documentary • 2021 • US • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Congressman Raul Ruiz"Invisible Valley" weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snow- birds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California...
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Amar Akbar & Tony
Directed by Atul Malhotra • Comedy • 2015 • U.K. • English
Starring Rez Kempton, Sam Vincenti, Martin DelaneyA Sikh, a Muslim and an Irish Catholic take stock of their lives in contemporary London in Atul Malhotra’s coming of age romantic comedy drama.
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
Directed by Mark Noonan • Documentary • 2017 • Ireland • English
Featuring Kevin Roche"Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect" is a feature documentary that considers many of the key questions throughout the career of Pritzker Prize winner Kevin Roche, including the relationship between architects an...
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A Great Wall
Directed by Peter Wang • Comedy • 1986 • US, China • English, Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Peter Wang Sharon Iwai, Kelvin Han YeeThe first American movie shot in China, "A Great Wall" is a delightful comedy about a San Francisco computer programmer who quits and moves his family to ...
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Defining Hope
Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rudolph Bilotti Sr., Berthold Cohen, Charlotte Cohen"Defining Hope" weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illnesses, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much m...
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The Man Who Drove with Mandela
Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 1998 • UK, US, South Africa • English
Featuring Corin Redgrave, Joseph Bale, Adriaan BassierIn 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theater director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. His name was Cecil Williams. This...
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Liar's Dice
Directed by Geethu Mohandas • Drama • 2013 • India • Hindi with English subtitles
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Geetanjali Thapa, Manya GuptaAn official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, "Liar's Dice" is a deeply affecting road movie set in picturesque mountains on the Tibetan border to ...
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Keep Quiet
Directed by Sam Blair, Joseph Martin • Documentary • 2016 • UK, Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Featuring Casanad SzegediAs vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials. But his life was upended when his gr...
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Rabin, the Last Day
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Docudrama • 2015 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Ischac Hiskiya, Yitzhak Hizkiya, Pini MittelmanIn his brave and provocative film, Amos Gitai sets out to prove that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination was not just ...
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Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time
Directed by Robert May • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring William Blackwell, Sal Delgadillo, Robert Kesselring"Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time" is a true story about obsession, greed, and the hunt for gold. When a retired missile scientist makes a monumental discovery, he hatches ...
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Marco Polo
Directed by Piero Pierotti, Hugo Fregonese • Action • 1962 • Italy, France • English
Starring Rory Calhoun, Yôko Tani, Camillo PilottoIn this sumptuous sword-and-sandal feast, Rory Calhoun stars as Marco Polo, the legendary 13th-century explorer who journeys to China with the aim of expanding w...
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Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Directed by John Quested • Theatre • 1977 • US • English
Starring Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKennaSet in playwright Brian Friel's mythical Ballybeg, Ireland, The American Film Theatre's “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” presents an ingenious glimpse into the stock-taking of young Gareth "Gar...
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Steak (R)evolution
Directed by Franck Ribiere • Documentary • 2015 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Jacques Abbatucci, Marcos Bassi, Joe BeefA global pursuit (with layovers in Japan, Argentina, Brazil, France, Spain, the U.S. and other countries) for the best steak in the world, "Steak (R)evolut...
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The Changin' Times of Ike White
Directed by Daniel Vernon • Documentary • 2019 • UK • English
Featuring Ike White, Lana Gutman, Greg ErricoServing a life sentence for murder, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent. Ike's skills were so exceptional that his story captured the media's attention...
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The Olive Trees of Justice
Directed by James Blue • Arthouse • 1962 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Prothon, Jean Pelegri, Marie DecaitreFilmed in Algiers and the surrounding countryside during the late stages of the Algerian War, under the pretext that it was a documentary about the wine industr...
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What Is Democracy?
Directed by Astra Taylor • Documentary • 2018 • Canada • English
Featuring Astra Taylor Angela Davis, Cornel WestComing at a moment of profound political and social crisis and featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, a...
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Lost in the Stars
Directed by Daniel Mann • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. JacquesDaniel Mann ("The Rose Tattoo") transforms Alan Paton's novel of racial oppression “Cry the Beloved Country” into a tragic and beautiful film musical. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's luci...
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Weddings and Babies
Directed by Morris Engel • Drama • 1958 • US • English
Starring Viveca Lindfors, John Myhers, Chiarina BarileA work of artistic finesse and great emotional candor by celebrated independent filmmaker Morris Engel, “Weddings and Babies” is a bittersweet tale of love, hope and sacrifice, staged t...
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Sisters with Transistors
Directed by Lisa Rovner • Documentary • 2021 • UK • English
Featuring Laurie Anderson, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kim Gordon"Sisters with Transistors" is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly trans...
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The Boat Is Full
Directed by Markus Imhoof • Drama • 1981 • Switzerland • German with English subtitles
Starring Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Martin WalzNominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of four awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, "The Boat is Full" is a tense and...
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Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
Directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Bill T. Jones, Arnie ZaneReaching beyond the world of dance and the remarkable legacy of renowned choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones, this Peabody Award winning documentary touches the essence of c...
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Tey
Directed by Alain Gomis • Drama • 2012 • France, Senegal • French, Wolof with English subtitles
Starring Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengu, Anisia UzeymanIn a village outside Dakar, the gods - or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Directed by Alain Gomis and s...