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Rocks in My Pockets — Available Thursday, February 13, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2014 • 88 minutes • Signe Baumane

"Rocks In My Pockets" is a story of mystery and redemption. The film is based on true events involving five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and suicide. It raises questions of how much family genetics determine who we are and if it is possible to outsmart one's own DNA. The film is packed with visual metaphors, surreal images and a twisted sense …

Chris & Don: A Love Story — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Tina Mascara, Guido Santini • Documentary • 2007 • 90 minutes • Film Sales Corp

Chris & Don: A Love Story chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger lover, artist Don Bachardy. It combines present-day interviews, archival footage shot by the couple from the 1950s, excerpts from Isherwood's diaries, and playful animations to recount their romance.

Teat Beat of Sex: Barn EP 15 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 15 "Barn". A woman discusses the sacred realm of virginity.

Teat Beat of Sex: Dawn EP 10 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 10 "Dawn". A woman's desire for sex is sparked by a little competition.

Teat Beat of Sex: Envy EP 12 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 12 "Envy". A woman and her lover both learn to appreciate what the other one has.

Teat Beat of Sex: Graveyard EP 9 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 9 "Graveyard". A woman is confused after her first make-out session.

Teat Beat of Sex: Hair EP 6 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 6 "Hair". A woman learns that hair is THERE for a reason.

Teat Beat of Sex: Job EP 14 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 14 "Job". A girl learns about some secret sex techniques, and can't wait to try them.

Teat Beat of Sex: Juice EP 2 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 2 "Juice". A couple gets dressed for a party.

Teat Beat of Sex: Key EP 5 — Available Friday, February 14, 2025
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes • Signe Baumane

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 5 "Key". A woman learns that stress can enhance sex.

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

Directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West • Documentary • 2022 • 95 minutes • First Run Features

A comprehensive look at the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find harmful, demeaning, and offensive. The film examines mascoting issues through archival footage and interviews with those involved in the fight. It shows how teams such as Kansas City's football team and Atlanta's baseball team have refused to consider a change and brings … More

— Added Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Directed by Celeste Bell, Paul Sng • Documentary • With Ruth Negga, Thurston Moore, Kathleen Hanna • 2021 • 96 minutes • Utopia Select LLC

Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain, with a rare prescience. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiration for the … More

— Added Friday, February 7, 2025
Directed by Antonino D'Ambrosio • Documentary • 2022 • 87 minutes • Film Sales Corp

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Antonino D'Ambrosio, this is the long overdue documentary about the legendary Roberta Flack. Of course she is well known the world over for “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and "Killing Me Softly,” for which she became the first person in history to win two back-to-back Grammy Awards for Best Record (a feat only recently matched by Billie Eilish), but there is … More

— Added Friday, February 7, 2025
Directed by Robert Clem • Documentary • With J.W. Alexander, Ira Tucker • 2018 • 87 minutes • First Run Features

How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source for what we would call rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in 1950s America. Beginning in the 1920s, Black singers across the country took to the highways as the new technology of radio and records made it possible to reach a wider audience. Intense competition brought new ways … More

— Added Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Directed by Erik Shirai • Documentary • 2015 • 93 minutes • Film Sales Corp

A beautiful and immersive portrait of life at the 144-year old Yoshida Brewery, a producer of world class sake. With changing times ahead and new regime led by the 6th generation heir, this is a rarified look at the personal and professional intensity needed to create a revered product and the artisans behind it.

— Added Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Directed by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky • Drama • With Melissa Leo • 2012 • 74 minutes • Film Sales Corp

After years of incarceration, a quiet, lonely woman, Francine (Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo), is released to start a new life in a small, rural town. But despite opportunities for warmth and connection, her years of “rehabilitation” have left her with little ability to create relationships and happiness, finding her only solace in her connections with animals. What happens when a second chance … More

— Added Saturday, February 1, 2025
Directed by Martina Car, Anthony Audi • Documentary • With Phil Harrison, Henry Herrera, Bernice Gutierrez, Bill Payne, Louisa Lopez, Tina Cordova • 2024 • 76 minutes • First Run Features

Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test: the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant, shrouded in secrecy, the world forever changed. Trinity explores the silences surrounding what was unleashed - in New Mexico, Navajo Nation, and Japan. Contrasting official histories with first-person testimony, it leaves viewers to meditate on the ironies that emerge.

— Added Friday, January 31, 2025
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Drama • With Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan • 2008 • 106 minutes • Cinema Guild

Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys is a moving, visually unforgettable triumph from the Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Thear Tree) An ambitious politician flees a hit-and-run accident in the dead of night and a fraid of hurting his election chances, he pays off his chauffeur Eyup to take the rap. While Eyup stews in jail, this devil's bargain … More

— Added Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Directed by Georgiy Daneliya • Drama • With Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze • 1986 • 133 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa Solaris directing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and you'll come close to the existential weirdness of this loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy. Two average Muscovites - a plainspoken construction foreman and a Georgian violin student - encounter an odd homeless man on the street who asks, 'Tell me the number of your planet in the Tentura?' In a flash, … More