Directed by Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman • Documentary • 2015 • US, Senegal • English, French, Wolof with English subtitles
Featuring Ousmane Sembene, Mbissine Therese Diop, Samba Gadjigo

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible ...

Directed by Susan Sontag • Arthouse • 1969 • Sweden • Swedish with English subtitles
Starring Adriana Asti, Gosta Ekman, Lars Ekborg

Essayist, novelist, critic, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological seri...

Directed by Justin Pemberton • Documentary • 2020 • New Zealand • English, French with English subtitles
Featuring Thomas Piketty, Francis Fukuyama, Joseph Stiglitz

Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty, this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey...

Directed by Phillip Borsos • Western • 1983 • Canada • English
Starring Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue

After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner, played by Academy Award nominee Richard Farnsworth, emerges as a free man without a place in 20th-century society. Times ...

Directed by Halina Dyrschka • Documentary • 2019 • Germany • English, German, Swedish with English subtitles
Featuring Johan af Klint, Julia Voss, Ulla af Klint

The subject of a 2018 awe-inspiring retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term even ...

Directed by Levan Koguashvili • Drama • 2021 • Georgia • English, Georgian, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Levan Tedaishvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze

In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, a former wrestler embarks on a journey from his...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2001 • Israel, France • English
Starring Samantha Morton, Danny Huston, Arthur Miller

Set in 1940s Palestine, Samantha and her husband Dov, both of American descent, have immigrated due to their Zionist convictions. Dov is a communist and architect. He dedicates ...

Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Drama• 2017 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
Starring Darya Zhovnar, Atrem Cipin, Olga Dragunova

Winner of an Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival, "Tesnota" is the incendiary debut feature from the brilliant filmmaker Kantemir Balagov ("Bea...

Directed by Miklós Jancsó • Drama • 1974 • Hungary, France • Hungarian with English subtitles
Starring Jacques Charrier, Marina Vlady, Ewa Swann

Political cinema master Miklós Jancsó offers an incisive exploration of social and historical themes in this film consisting almost entirely of 12 flui...

Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson • Documentary • 2014 • Sweden, US, Denmark, Finland • English, Swedish, French, Portuguese with English subtitles
Featuring Lauryn Hill, Robert Mugabe, Tonderai Makoni

Narrated by Lauryn Hill, this profound essay from the director of "The Black Power Mixtape" is a b...

Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • UK • English
Starring Nigel Terry, Garry Cooper, Tilda Swinton

Derek Jarman's profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtati...

Directed by Miklós Jancsó • Drama • 1972 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Starring József Madaras, Tibor Orbán, Jácint Juhász

Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972 and widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 70s, Miklós Jancsó's masterpiece set on th...

Directed by Pham Thien An • Drama • 2023 • Vietnam • Vietnamese with English subtitles
Starring Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh

Winner of the prestigious Camera d’Or for best first film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling "Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell" from Vietn...

Directed by Claire Simon • Documentary • 2016 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Alain Bergala, Emilie Deleuze, Xanae Bove

Claire Simon, one of France’s leading documentarians, gives an enlightening all-access tour behind the scenes at France’s premiere film school, La Femis, dur...

Directed by John Quested • Theatre • 1977 • US • English
Starring Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKenna

Set 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...

Directed by José Luis López-Linares • Documentary • 2022 • France, Spain, Portugal • French, English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Jean-Claude Carrière, Nahal Tajadod-Carrière, Julian Schnabel

In his last journey, prolific screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière returns to Spain and talks ...

Directed by Afia Nathaniel • Thriller • 2014 • Pakistan, Norway, US, India • Urdu, Pashto with English subtitles
Starring Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref

In the mountains of Pakistan, a young mother kidnaps her ten-year-old daughter to save her from a child marriage to a tribal leader. ...

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...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2009 • Israel, France • Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Amos Gitai, Rivka Gitai

“Carmel” is Amos Gitai's deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques...

Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove ...

Directed by Rahul Jain • Documentary • 2017 • India, Finland, Germany • Hindi with English subtitles

Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain's debut documentary - winner of the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival - takes audiences into the ...

Directed by Andres Veiel • Documentary • 2018 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Joseph Beuys

A chronicle of the life and work of the iconoclastic, 20th-century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys. This documentary is not a portrait in the traditional se...

Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet • Drama • 1970 • Tunisia, France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Zimmer, Catherine Jourdan, Lorraine Rainer

From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (“Trans-Europe-Express”) comes “Eden and After”, a dreamlike fable in which a grou...

Directed by Charlene Favier • Drama • 2021 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Noee Abita, Jeremie Renier, Marie Denarnaud

This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instr...