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Powerful Stories

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  • The Haunted Castle

    Movie

    Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Arnold Korff, Lotar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann

    F. W. Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within. A hunting party is interrupted by the arri...

  • The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

    Movie

    Directed by Francisca Alegría • Arthouse • 2023 • Chile • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Leonor Varela, Mía Maestro, Alfredo Castro

    Singing cows, fish, and bees introduce a world of magical realism in this stunning Sundance hit. Long-dead Magdalena (Mía Maestro) surfaces in a polluted r...

  • Girl on the Bridge

    Movie

    Directed by Patrice Leconte • Drama • 1999 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis

    Patrice Leconte's intoxicating "Girl on the Bridge" follows the whirlwind courtship of carnival knife thrower Gabor (Daniel Auteuil) and lonesome wanderer Adele (Vanessa P...

  • Sweet Bean

    Movie

    Directed by Naomi Kawase • Drama • 2015 • Japan, Germany, France • Japanese with English subtitles
    Starring Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Etsuko Ichihara

    Shot during the height of cherry blossom season and selected to open the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, this touc...

  • Babylon

    Movie

    Directed by Franco Rosso • Drama • 1980 • UK • English, Jamaican patois
    Starring ​Brinsley Forde, D​avid N. Haynes, Archie Pool

    Franco Rosso's incendiary “Babylon” follows a young dancehall DJ (Brinsley Forde, frontman of landmark British reggae group Aswad) in South London as he pursues his mus...

  • A Summer in La Goulette

    Movie

    Directed by Férid Boughedir • Comedy • 1998 • Tunisia, France • Arabic, French with English subtitles
    Starring Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan

    Beautifully shot on the sun-dappled seaside of Tunisia, Férid Boughedir's summer comedy beautifully captures the waning innocence of three teenage girlf...

  • It Felt Like Love

    Movie

    Directed by Eliza Hittman • Drama • 2013 • US • English
    Starring Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein

    In this unflinchingly honest and refreshingly unsentimental coming-of-age story from Eliza Hittman ("Never Rarely Sometimes Always"), 14-year-old Lila spends a languid Brooklyn s...

  • Horses of God

    Movie

    Directed by Nabil Ayouch • Arthouse • 2014 • Morocco • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek

    Winner at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and Morocco's submission to the 85th Academy Awards, "Horses of God" is the story of two brothers living in an ...

  • Eden and After

    Movie

    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...

  • Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

    Movie

    Directed by Férid Boughedir • Drama • 1990 • Tunisia • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Selim Boughedir, Mustapha Adouani, Rabia Ben Abdallah

    Set against the sensual backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker Férid Boughedir's “Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces” is a b...

  • Damaged Lives

    Movie

    Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer • Drama • 1933 • US • English
    Starring Diane Sinclair, Lyman Williams, George Irving

    Eugène Brieux’s play "Les Avaries" endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel "Damaged Goods", ...

  • Ganja & Hess

    Movie

    Directed by Bill Gunn • Horror • 1973 • US • English
    Starring Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn

    Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American ide...

  • Green Border

    Movie

    Directed by Agnieszka Holland • Drama • 2024 • Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium • English, Polish, Arabic, French with English subtitles
    Starring Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai

    Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland ("Europa Europa") brings her masterful filmmaking eye and d...

  • Assassination

    Movie

    Directed by Emilio Miraglia • Thriller • 1967 • Italy • English
    Starring Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Evelyn Stewart

    This explosive Eurospy thriller stars the criminally cool Henry Silva as a man who must die twice in order to live. Time, memory and fear have no meaning for Secret Service man John Ch...

  • Casablanca Beats

    Movie

    Directed by Nabil Ayouch • Drama • 2021 • France, Morocco • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Anas Basbousi, Ismail Adouab, Nouhaila Arif

    Morocco’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards offers a refreshing dose of youthful inspiration alongside a powerful message about the power of...

  • Diary of a Lost Girl

    Movie

    Directed by G. W. Pabst • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne

    G. W. Pabst’s provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhme's notorious novel, in which the naive daughter (Louise Brooks) of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by...

  • Little Fugitive

    Movie

    Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, Ray Ashley • Drama • 1953 • US • English
    Starring Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Richie Andrusco

    Widely regarded as one of the most influential films of American independent cinema and nominated for an Academy Award, “The Little Fugitive” is a charming ...

  • Weddings and Babies

    Movie

    Directed by Morris Engel • Drama • 1958 • US • English
    Starring Viveca Lindfors, John Myhers, Chiarina Barile

    A 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...

  • Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux

    Movie

    Directed by Guy Maddin • Arthouse • 1988 • Canada • English
    Starring Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck

    Guy Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature is regarded as one of the true cult hits on the midnight movie circuit. Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba ne...

  • Fanny

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Auteuil • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy, Raphaël Personnaz

    Faithfully adapted by Daniel Auteuil, the second part of Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy follows the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Fann...

  • Yom Yom

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Comedy • 1998 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-Khamis

    In “Yom Yom”, Israel's preeminent writer-director Amos Gitai weaves a comic tale of characters driven by divided loyalties and inhibitions in the mixed nat...

  • Tsili

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2015 • Israel, France • Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Sarah Adler, Meshi Olinski, Leah Koenig

    Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp,Tsili hides in the forest,...

  • Eden
    Movie

    Eden

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Roses à crédit

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2010 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Catherine Jacob

    Léa Seydoux stars in Amos Gitai's adaptation of Elsa Triolet’s 1959 novel. A young couple marry in 1940s France and we follow the arc of their marriage ...