Directed by Jennifer Baichwal • Documentary • 2007 • Canada • English
Featuring Edward Burtynsky

Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civi...

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...

Directed by Louis Garrel • Comedy • 2019 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp

Louis Garrel’s sophomore feature, in which he also stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Laetitia Casta, is at once a beguiling bedroom farce and a playful inversi...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2005 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass

Rebecca, played by Natalie Portman, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna i...

Directed by Mathieu Amalric • Arthouse • 2022 • France • French, German with English subtitles
Starring Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet

Vicky Krieps ("Phantom Thread") gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for mysterious reaso...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2020 • Israel, France • English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Maria Zreik, Khawla Ibraheem, Hana Laslo

With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, “Laila in Haifa” explores the interweaving stories of five women set over one...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • Arthouse • 1965 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle

A landmark of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette’s “The Nun”, adapted from Denis Diderot’s novel, follows a rebellious nun (played by an incandescent ...

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...

Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel

With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiec...

Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1922 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim

A cornerstone of horror, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" remains an unsettling and chilling experience steeped in the haunting style of German Expressionis...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux • Drama • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
Starring Paul Robeson, Marshall Rodgers, Lawrence Chenault

This bold and controversial film by pioneer independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux follows the path of an escaped convict who poses as a pastor in a small s...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2007 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau

Ana (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their fa...

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien • Drama • 2001 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Tuan Chun-hao

Hou Hsiao-hsien's stylish and seductive submersion into Taipei nightlife stars Shu Qi ("The Assassin") as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfrien...

Directed by Bette Gordon • Arthouse • 1985 • US • English
Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard Davidson

Emerging out of the underground NYC arts scene that produced the late 80's boom in American independent cinema, Bette Gordon's "Variety" is a sexually charged tale of a woman's journey ...

Directed by Anna Biller • Comedy • 2007 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno

“Viva” is a cult retro spectacle about a bored 1970s housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi (writer/director A...

Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac • Arthouse • 2018 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Andranic Manet, Gonzague Van Bervesseles, Diane Rouxel

A serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile leaves behind his steady girlfriend in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a...

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 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...

Directed by Alain Gomis • Drama • 2012 • France, Senegal • French, Wolof with English subtitles
Starring Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengu, Anisia Uzeyman

In 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...

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...

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 Juliet Bashore • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • US • English • Mature Content
Featuring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunges into the 1980s porn industry and takes an unsparing look at issues...

Directed by Yvonne Rainer • Arthouse • 1974 • US • English
Starring Dempster Leech, Shirley Soffer, John Erdman

Yvonne Rainer’s second landmark feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary femini...

Directed by Lavinia Currier • Drama • 1998 • US • English
Starring Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Kenneth Collard

From the controversial novella by Honoré de Balzac comes the story of a young army officer who finds himself stranded in the Sahara desert. Left to his own devices, Augustin Robert (B...