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Philippe Faucon • 2015 • France • Based on the poetry of Moroccan poet Fatima Elayoubi

Fatima is of North-African descent. Having relocated to France, she works as a cleaning lady so she can help pay her daughters' way through school, providing them with opportunities that were n...

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Gianfranco Rosi • 2016 • Italy

A small fishing town emerges as the nexus of the refugee crisis.

Halfway between Sicily and the coast of Tunisia lies a tiny island with a dwindling full-time population of several thousand. As the island denizens go about their business, distress...

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Aleksei German • 2013 • Russia • A visceral portrait of early humanity.

Based on the legendary science fiction novel by the Strugatsky brothers—who also wrote Roadside Picnic, the source novel for Tarkovsky's Stalker—Hard to Be a God doubles as an epic vision of the early stages o...

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Matías Piñeiro • 2016 • Argentina-USA • Blends the whimsy of youth with the cadences of theatrical text.

Blending the whimsy of youth with the jocular cadences of theatrical text, Hermia & Helena weaves an ever-expanding web of relations entangling a young woman as she comes into ...

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Ulrich Seidl • 2005 • Austria • Power and violence within the separating Eastern and Western Europe.

Import/Export is Ulrich Seidl’s bracing study of the intersections of power, capital, and violence within the chasm separating Eastern and Western Europe.

Olga lives in Ukraine w...

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Edoardo De Angelis • Italy • 2016

Daisy and Viola are conjoined twins. Sharing an apartment with their parents in a run-down neighborhood of Naples, they have spent their childhood singing at weddings and parties, where audiences are as transfixed by their condition as they are t...

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Eliza Hittman • 2013 • USA • Lila decides to lose her virginity during a summer in South Brooklyn.

A gauzy summer in South Brooklyn. Lila, an awkward adolescent girl, passes her time breaking into beach homes and tagging along on dates between her pretty friend Chiara and Chiara'...

Shira Geffen & Etgar Keret • Israel-France • 2006 • A magical-realist portrait of Tel Aviv today.

It feels like Batya’s life is falling apart. Things aren’t going well with her boyfriend, and she has a dead-end job as a catering waitress that brings her no satisfaction. Working a wedding recep...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s life has followed a peculiar trajectory–from the top of Russian society, to a Siberian prison. His meteoric rise tracked alongside that of Putin and his sycophants amidst the cowboy capitalism characterizing post-Soviet Russia, first as the proprietor of the nation’s first...

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Lixin Fan • 2009 • China • Each year 130 million Chinese migrant workers make the journey back home.

An experience of the world's largest human migration: Chinese New Year.

Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin rise early each day to work at a clothing factory, sewing together garments f...

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Michelangelo Frammartino • 2010 • Italy

A goat-herder nears the end of his life in Calabria.

In the mountains of Calabria, a goat-herder is nearing the end of his life. He goes about his daily routines, attuned to the rhythms of nature.

Drawn from Pythagoras' philosophical not...

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Bi Gan • China, France • 2018 • A noirish stunner and new landmark in world cinema.

Luo Hongwu left Kaili twenty years ago. Now he has returned—his father is dead. Back in his hometown, memories rush to the surface, including of an enigmatic woman with whom Luo once pursued a stor...

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Mohammad Rasoulof • Iran • 2013 • A political thriller that strikes at the heart of Iran's regime.

Khosrow and Morteza are hitmen for the Iranian regime. They proceed with their work with calm detachment, convinced that their actions are justified under sharia law. Their newest ...

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Jia Zhangke • 2016 • China • A sweeping portrait of love across generations.

Tao, a young shopkeeper in Fenyang, marries Jingsheng, hoping to escape her provincial existence. Fifteen years later, Jingsheng has remarried and moved to Shanghai, taking their 7-year-old son, Daole, wi...

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Vanessa Gould • USA • 2017 • Inside an award-winning team of obituary writers.

How to fit a life into 1,000 words? The obituary writers at the New York Times race against the clock to cull details, weaving decades of personal and professional history into a compelling digest of s...

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Ric Burns • United States • 2020 • A beloved figure who redefined understanding of the human mind.

Oliver Sacks discovered he was going to die in January 2015. Born and raised in London to physician parents—his mother was one of the first female surgeons in England—perhaps no one ...

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Abel Ferrara • Italy • 2014

Autumn, 1975. In an apartment in Rome, Pier Paolo Pasolini sits for an interview, unaware that it will be his last. These days he follows similar routines—post-production on his latest film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom; chipping away on an unfinish...

Richie Mehta • India-Canada • 2013 • A tale of a father's journey across India in search of his son.

Mahendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. Out of financial necessity, he sends his twelve-year-old son, Siddharth, to work in a distant ...

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Carlos Reygadas • 2007 • Mexico • Filmed with nonprofessional actors among a community of Mennonites.

Johan lives with Esther, his wife, and their seven children in rural Chihuahua state, among a community of Mennonites. For the past two years Johan has engaged in a passionate af...

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Aleksei Fedorchenko • 2010 • Russia • A man journeys through central Russia to lay his wife to rest.

An evocative exploration of the mysteries of love, existence, and death, Silent Souls charts an unexpected journey into the Russian hinterlands and its nearly-forgotten people.

Fo...

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Ken Loach • United Kingdom • 2019 • A wrenching, intimate family drama from the legendary Ken Loach.

Ricky has been a blue-collar worker his whole life. His wife, Abby, is a domestic worker, caring for the aging and infirm. They always managed to make ends meet, until they lost th...

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Naomi Kawase • 2015 • Japan • A heart-warming tale of food and friendship in contemporary Japan.

Sentaro runs a small bakery on the corner of a tree-lined street. Tokue is a seventy-six year old woman skilled in the art of preparing an, a traditional red bean paste in dorayaki. ...

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Nadav Lapid • France, Israel, Germany • 2019 • The challenges of putting down roots in a new place

Yoav is a disaffected young Israeli who has fled Tel Aviv to start a new life. Now in Paris, Yoav sees becoming French as his only hope for salvation. Step one is to replace his l...

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Paolo Virzì • Italy • 2010 • A gentle comedy of life, love, and family.

Bruno, a middle-aged teacher, sits stoned out of his mind on a park bench. He’s forgotten his own birthday, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Sandra, who organized the party. Before he can say no, Bruno...