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The Elk Forest — Available Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Directed by Ane Helga Lykka • Documentary • 2021 • 57 minutes • First Hand Films

Sigrid has hunted elk for years, but is still not sure if she actually wants to shoot the beautiful animal. She’s hunting with her father, Geir, who is faithfully doing everything he can to facilitate for his daughter’s first kill. Sigrid is moving home after studies in Oslo, hoping to be able to combine life as a professional folk-musician with the life close to nature in her home village.  Halvard …

Where God is Not — Available Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Directed by Mehran Tamadon • Performance • 2023 • 112 minutes • Andana Films

Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will one day reconnect with his conscience ?

Eighteen Years In Prison — Available Friday, April 25, 2025
Directed by Tai Kato • Drama • With Noboru Andô, Shinobu Chihara, Asao Koike • 1967 • 90 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Trying to survive in the ruins of post-war Japan, Kawada (Noboru Ando, By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him) and Tsukada (Asao Koike, Sympathy the Underdog) run afoul of the military police after stealing valuable copper wire. Kawada is arrested and sent to prison, but Tsukada uses their gains to start a yakuza gang. Their paths cross again when they fall in love with the same woman.

Japan Organized Crime Boss — Available Friday, April 25, 2025
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku • Drama • With Kôji Tsuruta, Noboru Andô • 1969 • 97 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Two major yakuza factions from Tokyo and Osaka battle over control of Yokohama, using local gangs as their proxies. Amid this violent struggle, Tsukamoto, the head of one of the local gangs, is released from an eight-year prison sentence. The feud forces him into action, but he learns that those pulling the strings have political connections and that he is up against overwhelming forces. 

A Shepherd — Available Friday, April 25, 2025
Directed by Louis Hanquet • Documentary • 2024 • 70 minutes • Andana Films

In the mountains of France, a shepherd fights to preserve his way of life against the threat of wolves and the challenges of traditional livestock farming. A Shepherd is a poetic documentary that explores the intimate relationship between humans and nature, while celebrating ancient pastoral practices. Through breathtaking images and a moving narrative, the film highlights human resilience and contemporary …

Yokohama BJ Blues — Available Friday, April 25, 2025
Directed by Eiichi Kudo • Drama • With Yusaku Matsuda, Hyoe Enoki, Mari Hemmi • 1981 • 112 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ (Yusaku Matsuda, The Game Trilogy) gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past. 

The Bohemian — Available Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Directed by Petr Václav • Drama • With Vojtech Dyk, Elena Radonicich • 2024 • 142 minutes • Music Box

In 18th century Italy, aspiring opera composer Josef Mysliveček dreams of becoming a musician. His ambitions lead him to embark on a journey, exploring the world of opera to fulfill his destiny. Against all odds, he makes his mark in sophisticated Venice society as “Il Boemo,” his talent and charm winning over socialites, impresarios, and performers – in addition to the many women captivated by his …

Lost Illusions — Available Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Directed by Xavier Giannoli • Drama • With Benjamin Voisin, Cécile De France, Vincent Lacoste • 2022 • 150 minutes • Music Box

Lucien de Rubempré (Benjamin Voisin) is an ambitious and unknown aspiring poet in 19th century France. He leaves his provincial town, arriving in Paris on the arm of his admirer, Louise de Bargeton (Cécile de France). Outmatched in elite circles, Lucien’s naive etiquette prompts Louise to retreat back to her husband, leaving the young poet to forge a new path. Lucien makes a new friend in another …

The Illusion of Abundance — Available Thursday, May 1, 2025
Directed by Erika Gonzalez RamirezMatthieu Lietaert • Documentary • 2022 • 58 minutes • First Hand Films

Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk? When police repression, corporate …

300 Trillion – The Debt Trap — Available Thursday, May 1, 2025
Directed by Rudolph Herzog • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes • First Hand Films

The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300% of the world's annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. Will the system collapse under its weight? The film explores the significance of our debt situation, looking at true stories behind the situation, from a debtors' prison in Mississippi to the world's most notoriously indebted country. 300 Trillion – The Debt …

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Friday, April 18, 2025
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2024 • 160 minutes • Icarus Films

Shi Wei, a young migrant garment worker, flops back onto a pile of soft fabric bundles on his workshop’s floor, cellphone in hand. “Shit, I’m exhausted,” he says to the boss who’s trying to get him to sew more clothing before the Lunar New Year break. “I’m beat, I tell you.” Work in the garment factories of Zhili, where some 300,000 migrants from rural China sew clothing, is winding down for the season. … More

— Added Thursday, April 17, 2025
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2024 • 226 minutes • dGenerate Films

YOUTH (HARD TIMES) is the second installment in Chinese director Wang Bing’s monumental series chronicling the lives of migrant garment workers — some as young as 15 — in the Zhili district of Huzhou City. Wang immerses himself in the lives of these workers, as they try to find potential dates, negotiate better piece-work rates with bosses, and sew, sew, sew, everything from padded jackets, to jeans, … More

— Added Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2020 • 3 minutes • Icarus Films

In July 1971, language poet Bernadette Mayer decided to document an entire month of her life. She called the project Memory. Each day, Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm slide film and wrote in her journal. The result was 1,100 snapshots and a text that took six hours for her to read aloud. In 2020, filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs visited Mayer’s childhood home in a Queens neighborhood of New York City … More

— Added Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 74 minutes • Cinema Guild

Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs' cinematic … More

— Added Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • With Dr. Kimberly Looney, Anonymous Driver • 12 minutes • Icarus Films

In the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade, “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an obstetrician and a reproductive rights activist who movingly lay out these vital issues. We watch 14 women and their male allies who witness and perform with their backs to the camera. In a state where … More

— Added Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • With Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, Gunvor Nelson • 2018 • 9 minutes • Icarus Films

From 2015 to 2017, Lynne visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives. From Carolee’s 18th Century house in the woods of Upstate New York to Barbara’s West Village studio to Gunvor’s childhood village in Sweden, Lynne shoots film with each woman in the place where she finds grounding and spark. … More

— Added Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Directed by t.o.L • Animation • With Takeshi Katô, Hisayo Mochizuki • 2002 • 92 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Arguably the only Japanese anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that follows the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her home world of Meguro City, a BLADE RUNNER-like mega-city controlled by the Catty & Co. corporation.

— Added Thursday, April 10, 2025
Directed by Éric Gravel • Drama • With Laure Calamy • 2023 • 88 minutes • Music Box

Julie (Laure Calamy) can’t catch a break. For a single mother raising two children in the suburbs of Paris but working in the city, the commuter train is a lifeline–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Without the train, Julie can’t get to her job as the head maid at a five-star hotel–or to the interview for a better job she has lined up. Out of desperation, Julie turns … More

— Added Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Directed by Mark Kendall • Documentary • 2021 • 71 minutes • Film Sales Corp

After eight years, American public school buses are auctioned off by the state school system. Filmmaker Mark Kendall follows the extraordinary second life of one decommissioned school bus as it travels from 3000 miles from Pennsylvania to Guatemala, where it is repainted and re- furnished as one of the brightly-colored camionetas, which bring a majority of Guatemala’s population to work every day. … More

— Added Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Directed by Gabriela Chaim Tumax • Documentary • 2022 • 28 minutes • EPF Media

Four Paths to Dignity profiles the pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives. The midwives confront challenges, as they battle racism and a health establishment that strives to prevent them from providing care that is culturally appropriate. Although the midwives provide important services to their communities, they are opposed by a government that seeks to eliminate their practice. This film reveals … More