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Delta Space Mission — Available Monday, September 16, 2024
Directed by Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia • Animation • With Mirela Gorea, Marcel Iures, Dan Condurache • 1984 • 71 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art spacecraft named Delta - whose highly advanced computer brain develops a mad teenage crush on her with disastrous results. For fans of Fantastic Planet, Heavy Metal magazine and Star Wars.

They Stole The Bomb — Available Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Directed by Ion Popescu-Gopo • Drama • With lurie Darie • 1961 • 69 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.

Visitors From the Arkana Galaxy — Available Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Directed by Dusan Vukotic • Documentary • With Lucie Zulová, Ksenia Prohaska, Zarko Potocnjak • 1981 • 89 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

A truly gonzo 1980s Croatian sci-fi / fantasy / comedy about a struggling writer, Robert (Zarko Potocnjak), who dreams up a story of gold-skinned alien androids named Andra, Targo and Ulu from a distant planet. Incredibly, his fictional alien creations become reality, causing chaos in his relationship with his girlfriend Biba (Lucie Zulová) and threatening his small seaside village.

Amore Mio — Available Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Directed by Guillaume Gouix • Drama • With Alysson Paradis, Élodie Bouchez • 2023 • 80 minutes • Distrib Films

Still in shock from the sudden death of her husband, Lola (Alysson Paradis) makes a snap decision to flee the funeral with her 7-year-old son and sister, Margaux (Élodie Bouchez, IN SAFE HANDS, GUY). As the impromptu escapade turns into a road trip through France, the long-estranged sisters are forced to contend with each other’s clashing personalities. The responsible and reliable Margaux bristles …

The Strangler — Available Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Directed by Paul Vecchiali • Drama • With Jacques Perrin • 1970 • 96 minutes • Altered Innocence LLC

An unconventional French giallo released before the sub-genre’s popularity boom resulting from filmmakers like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, THE STRANGLER centers on Émile (Jacques Perrin, The Young Girls of Rochefort), a handsome young man targeting women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to Émile’s suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective …

Island in Between — Available Thursday, September 19, 2024
Directed by S. Leo Chiang • Documentary • 2023 • 20 minutes • dGenerate Films

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with China. Filmmaker S. Leo Chiang weaves lyrical vignettes of tourist visits and local life with his own narrative as someone negotiating ambivalent personal bonds to Taiwan, …

A Light Never Goes Out — Available Thursday, September 19, 2024
Directed by Anastasia Tsang • Drama • With Sylvia Chang, Simon Yam • 2023 • 103 minutes • Orchid Tree Media

Directed by Anastasia Tsang and starring the legendary Sylvia Chang, A LIGHT NEVER GOES OUT revolves around a woman attempting to reinvigorate the neon signs of Hong Kong after her husband's passing, while nurturing a friendship with his lonely apprentice in his absence. Sylvia Chang won the 59th Annual Golden Horse Best Actress (Asia's version of the Oscars).

Youth (Spring) — Available Friday, September 20, 2024
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2023 • 215 minutes • dGenerate Films

The town of Zhili, about 95 miles from Shanghai, is a center for the children’s garment industry. Workers in their teens and early twenties come from surrounding provinces to live in sparse, trash-strewn concrete dorms in the same buildings as the small factories where they spend their days sewing leggings, shorts, fluffy skirts, and jackets with Mickey Mouse hoods. A remarkably intimate documentary …

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise — Available Monday, September 23, 2024
Directed by Robert Mugge • Documentary • With Sun Ra and his Arkestra • 1980 • 59 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poetry readings, a band rehearsal, interviews, and extensive improvisations. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and restored for the best possible viewing experience.

Gil Scott-Heron: Black Wax — Available Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Directed by Robert Mugge • Documentary • With Gil Scott-Heron • 1983 • 79 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

BLACK WAX is a musical-political entertainment film produced and directed by Robert Mugge. It centers on the late African American poet-singer-songwriter Gil Scott-Heron - the man Melody Maker called "the most dangerous musician alive" and many dubbed the forefather of rap music - and his Midnight Band. The entertainment is political. HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored.

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Friday, September 13, 2024
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska • Drama • With Gabriela Muskala, Lukasz Simlat • 2018 • 103 minutes • Dekanalog

After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja (screenwriter Gabriela Muskala) is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. Suddenly thrust back into a domestic life she has no recollection of choosing, Alicja struggles to reconcile her new and unfamiliar roles of dependability with the unshackled independence sprung by her recent mental break. With surreal, … More

— Added Thursday, September 12, 2024
Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen • Documentary • With Peter Beinart, Noam Chomsky • 2023 • 84 minutes • MPI Media

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. ISRAELISM uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel … More

— Added Thursday, September 12, 2024
Directed by Mohamed Jabaly • Documentary • 2020 • 22 minutes • First Hand Films

Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly’s 2020 short film follows the interactions with friends and family back home in Gaza while living in exile in Northern Norway, not being able to return. Jabaly’s first award-winning feature Ambulance was released a few years prior, and his latest film Life is Beautiful – Al Haya Helwa premiered in November 2023 to great acclaim and broad distribution. Together, … More

— Added Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Directed by Alejandra Carmona Cannobbio • Documentary • With Raúl Zurita  • 2019 • 76 minutes • Pragda Films

National Literature Award Laureate Raúl Zurita is one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial living poets. He is not only a great poet – one that has captured his work on paper, on the Chilean geography, and even on his body – but also a rocker, a human rights activist, a public figure, and a tireless struggler. The film is an account of his experiences during his travels and his daily … More

— Added Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2023 • 96 minutes • Icarus Films

THE FIRST YEAR is a jubilant record of the 12 months following the election of Chile’s first socialist president, Salvador Allende. Director Patricio Guzmán travels the country, meeting workers who no longer have to answer to the caprices of bosses, fishermen hoping to be freed from predatory capitalist middlemen, and Indigenous people rising up to reclaim their land. Guzmán has a talent for capturing … More

Directed by John Scheinfeld • Documentary • With Micky Dolenz, Terry Gilliam • 2010 • 116 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

In this definitive documentary on the Grammy® award winning music legend Harry Nilsson, friends, family and colleagues delve into the acclaimed singer-songwriter's music, creative process and personal demons.

— Added Friday, September 6, 2024
Directed by Chris Hunt • Documentary • With Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad • 2019 • 51 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

It's been 50 years since Abba's founders met, 40 since their last concert, and 20 since Mama Mia! became a worldwide phenomena. This multi-Gold Award-winning doc tells their story from Waterloo to today. With commentary from all four band members, new interviews, and rare archives. Band members talk about their lives, their songs, and how it all came to be. With a feast of music and performance.

— Added Friday, September 6, 2024
Directed by Thomas Robsahm • Documentary • With Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar, Magne Furuholmen • 2021 • 108 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Follows the band a-ha on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985 the dream came true. Or did it?

— Added Thursday, September 5, 2024
Directed by Dong-heon Shin • Animation • 1967 • 67 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

South Korea's first ever animated feature, this epic adventure has been remastered and released for the first time ever in North America! The illegitimate son of a nobleman, banished from his family due to a fake prophecy, Hong Gil-dong witnesses first hand the injustices of society. Along with his sidekick Chadol Bawi, they from a corrupt Magistrate and return the money to the poor.

— Added Thursday, September 5, 2024
Directed by Léa Fehner • Drama • 2024 • 100 minutes • Distrib Films

After five years of dedicated learning in the noble profession of midwifery – often hailed as “the most beautiful job in the world” – Louise (Héloïse Janjaud) and Sofia (Khadija Kouyaté) are embarking on their professional journey, bracing themselves for substantial responsibilities. In a world that operates at a frenetic pace, they navigate the delicate realms of birth, motherhood, and occasionally, … More