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One or Two Questions — Available Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Directed by Kristina Konrad • Documentary • 2018 • 237 minutes • Pragda Films

What do peace and justice mean to you? In 1986, the Uruguayan Parliament approved a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the army and police during the dictatorship (1973-1985). This impunity law prevented continuing investigations into the disappeared and abuses of power committed during the civil-military regime and thus sparked a popular initiative demanding …

Fill 'er Up With Super — Available Friday, October 11, 2024
Directed by Alain Cavalier • Drama • With Patrick Bouchitey, Etienne Chicot • 1976 • 97 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is a car salesman who has to miss a family holiday to deliver a luxury Chevrolet station wagon to his boss' wealthy client. He decides to take his friend Philippe (Xavier Saint-Macary) along with him for the ride across the length of France from Lille to the Cote d'Azur. 

Le combat dans l'île — Available Friday, October 11, 2024
Directed by Alain Cavalier • Drama • With Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant • 1962 • 105 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Clement is a wealthy son of an industrialist who lives a secret life as a terrorist. Double-crossed following a job he flees to the countryside with his wife, Anne where they stay with his childhood friend, Paul. Clement plots his revenge but Anne falls for Paul and a love triangle is just one of many complications in this multi-layered discovery from the French New Wave. 

The Five Demands (74 mins) — Available Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss • Documentary • 2023 • 74 minutes • Icarus Films

THE FIVE DEMANDS is a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation …

El Gran Movimiento — Available Thursday, October 17, 2024
Directed by Kiro Russo • Drama • With Max Bautista Uchasara, Julio César Ticona • 2021 • 85 minutes • KimStim

Stunningly shot in the Bolivian mountains, jungles and in contemporary La Paz, the film follows Elder who arrives in the capital after a seven-day journey seeking to get back his work at a mine. Once in the city, Elder gets a job but his health soon deteriorates. An elderly woman known as Mama Pancha sends him to Max, a mysterious man who resides in the rainforest and occasionally heads to La Paz …

Guie'dani's Navel — Available Thursday, October 17, 2024
Directed by Xavi Sala • Drama • With Sótera Cruz Érika López Majo Alfaroh Yuriria del Valle Juan Ríos Valentina Buzzurro Jerónimo Kesselman Mónica del Carmen • 2019 • 119 minutes • Pragda Films

In a star-making performance, Sótera Cruz brings razor-sharp intensity to her portrayal of Guie’dani, a Zapotec girl determined to fight for her dignity. Guie’dani is dragged to Mexico City by her mother to help in her work as a housekeeper for an upper-middle-class family. There, the subtle psychological subjugation inflicted by the white family functions as a metaphor for the oppression of the old …

The Wolf House — Available Friday, October 18, 2024
Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña • Animation • 2018 • 72 minutes • KimStim

Maria, a young woman finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place. Like in a dream, the universe of the house reacts to Maria’s feelings. The animals transform slowly into humans and the house becomes a nightmarish world. Inspired on the actual case of Colonia Dignidad, …

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti — Available Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Directed by Maya Deren • Documentary • 1977 • 52 minutes • Women Make Movies

A journey into the fascinating world of the Voudoun religion edited from footage shot by Deren in Haiti.

Silent Witnesses — Available Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Directed by Luis Ospina, Jerónimo Atehortúa • Documentary • With Mara Meba, Roberto Estrada Vergara • 2023 • 79 minutes • Pragda Films

“Silent Witnesses” tells the impossible love story between Efraín and Alicia during the first half of the 20th century in Colombia. Based on remnants of the few Colombian silent films from 1922-1937 that have withstood the test of time, and taking as a reference several key Colombian novels, this new imaginary story pays homage to this little-known found cinema. What begins as a melodrama, in which …

The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff — Available Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Directed by David L. Lewis • Documentary • With Nat Hentoff, Amiri Baraka • 2013 • 86 minutes • First Run Features

Nat Hentoff is one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and was present at the creation of ‘alternative’ journalism in America. This unique documentary wraps the themes of liberty, identity and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act. At the core of the film are three extraordinary, …

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Monday, October 7, 2024
Directed by Carla Valdés León • Documentary • 2024 • 19 minutes • Icarus Films

A group of old friends reunite at a summer house in Varadero, Cuba. Their last meeting was in Minsk, mid-1980s: they were preparing to return home to Cuba after five years spent studying Marxist-Leninist philosophy in the Soviet Union. The meeting triggers a flood of old memories and historical reminiscences. Drawn to the Soviet Union by an idealistic commitment to utopian socialism, the young students … More

— Added Monday, October 7, 2024
Directed by Leandro Katz • Documentary • 1999 • 30 minutes • Icarus Films

Investigating death and the power of photography, EL DIA QUE ME QUIERAS is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors. After Guevara was captured and killed, in 1967, a wire photograph was transmitted from Bolivia. Its publication on October 10, 1967, was the culmination of a legendary search that had lasted two years. The photograph … More

— Added Friday, October 4, 2024
Directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel • Documentary • 1973 • 89 minutes • Icarus Films

Shot in Paris in 1973, this feminist film on the fight for abortion rights was banned as soon it was released. A large-scale game of hide-and-seek ensued, as activists created an underground distribution network, hiding the film from the police — and creating an effective model for cinema as an act of civil disobedience in the process. Faced with a tide of illegal abortions leading to death and sterility, … More

— Added Friday, October 4, 2024
Directed by Mei Makino • Drama • With Emma Galbraith, William Magnuson • 2021 • 90 minutes • Utopia Select LLC

Teen artist Angie Chen does NOT like Liam--she just likes getting rides home from him after soccer practice. Okay, so he has great eyebrows, but he's with Sheryl, the Instagram princess of their Episcopalian private school. After Angie is blindsided by her parents' sudden divorce, Liam serves as a welcome distraction. However, when that distraction comes knocking on her window in the middle of the … More

— Added Thursday, October 3, 2024
Directed by Víctor Luengo • Documentary • With Angelika Hilbeck, Gilles-Eric Seralini, Bernard Url, Nathalie Moll, Jean-Phillippe Azoulay • 2019 • 80 minutes • Pragda Films

In the urgent context that shapes much of the discourse on the future of agriculture in the E.U., "The Price of Progress" delves into the intricacies of the international food industry. This documentary exposes the intrigues, fears, emotions, and political pressures faced by corporate lobbies, politicians, esteemed scientists, and investigative journalists. As questions loom over the safety and regulation … More

— Added Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Directed by Laurent Fléchaire • Documentary • 2021 • 58 minutes • Andana Films

Three years ago, Notre-Dame of Paris cathedral’s roof tops were destroyed by flames in front of the eyes of the whole world. Since then, we have seen the clearance and securing efforts and eventually the start of a huge reconstruction task ahead. Men and women at the reconstruction site of Notre-Dame’s cathedral embody the mysterious aura of the place. As if the setting impregnates them. They are … More

— Added Monday, September 30, 2024
Directed by Paul E. Gierucki • Documentary • With Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curley Howard, Shemp Howard • 2005 • 63 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Whether you're a lifelong Stoogephile, or just a casual knucklehead, you are sure to find something to love about this award-winning, in-depth look at America's most beloved madcaps: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, and Curly Joe - The Three Stooges

— Added Saturday, September 28, 2024
Directed by Gaspar Noé • Drama • With Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz • 2021 • 148 minutes • Utopia Select LLC

A retired psychiatrist with dementia and a struggling author with a heart condition live their final days together in an apartment.

— Added Friday, September 27, 2024
Directed by Charlotte Gainsbourg • Documentary • With Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg • 2021 • 92 minutes • Utopia Select LLC

In creating a documentary portrait of a parent, as actor Charlotte Gainsbourg does in her directorial debut, one could overly flatter the subject or iron out the tough creases. Gainsbourg avoids these traps in her film about her legendary mother, the singer and actress Jane Birkin. Consisting of several intimate conversations between parent and child, as well as footage of Birkin performing onstage, … More

— Added Thursday, September 26, 2024
Directed by Laura Faerman, Marina Weis • Documentary • 2022 • 77 minutes • Pragda Films

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle wages between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty. An indigenous teacher and a lawyer with strong relations to Bolsonarist federal power are on opposite sides of the Guarani-Kaiowá people's struggle for their land.