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Identifying Features
Directed by Fernanda Valadez • Drama • 2020 • Mexico, Spain • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas, Juan Jesús VarelaMagdalena has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hop...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Murina
Directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic • Drama • 2022 • Croatia, Brazil, USA, Slovenia • Croatian with English subtitles
Starring Gracija Filipović, Danica Čurčić, Cliff CurtisSet on a remote island along the Croatian coast, this Cannes Camera d’Or winner follows 17-year-old Julija (Gotham Bre...
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Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Directed by Catherine Gund • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Elizabeth Streb, Sarah Callan, Fabio Tavares"Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity" traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky.
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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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The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Directed by Paul Auster • Drama • 2007 • US • English
Starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael ImperioliAn enchanting exploration of the mysteries of creation from writer-director Paul Auster. Having completed his fourth novel, Martin accepts the invitation of friends to their vacant countr...
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News from Planet Mars
Directed by Dominik Moll • Comedy • 2016 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Francois Damiens, Vincent Mascaigne, Veerle BaetensPhilippe Mars is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world, but the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turn...
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Something Ventured
Directed by Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine • Documentary • 2011 • US • English
Featuring Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, Nolan Bushnell“Something Ventured” tells the story of the creation of America's start-up economy, an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and econo...
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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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Kamikaze
Directed by Didier Grousset • Crime • 1986 • French • French with English subtitles
Starring Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique LavanantFrom co-writer/producer Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element") comes the sharp and sumptuous sci-fi/comedy/thriller. A crazy, old, bored and unemployed sci...
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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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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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The Sweet Requiem
Directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam • Drama • 2018 • US, India • Tibetan with English subtitles
Starring Tenzin Dolker, Jampa Kalsang Tamang, Tashi ChoedonWhen a young, exiled Tibetan woman unexpectedly sees a man from her past, long-suppressed memories of her traumatic escape across the Hima...
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Web Junkie
Directed by Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam • Documentary • 2014 • Israel, US • Mandarin with English subtitles
Featuring Ran TaoChina is the first country to label internet addiction a clinical disorder. “Web Junkie” exposes a Beijing rehab center where teenagers are being "deprogrammed" and forced...
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Young Ahmed
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne • Drama • 2019 • Belgium • French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Idir Ben Addi, Myriem Akheddiou, Claire BodsonWinner of the Best Director award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Young Ahmed" is an intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of ...
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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 ...