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- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnna KarinaGraziella GalvaniPierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
- DirectorZora Neale HurstonA 2018 compilation of Zora Neale Hurston's registers of activities in American black communities from the rural South, it possesses a highly anthropological value. Shot in 1928-29, the collection includes children's games, capers and dance, a baseball crowd, a baptism and portraits of a beautiful black young woman and a tall man with an axe. The images are enhanced by the score composed by Renée Clark Baker.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsSaeidHamidWhen one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsKamalAhmadIn this early short subject set in a school which uses some animation, the pupils are shown imitating the movements of other creatures.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiA short film challenging humankind on universal themes of stability versus chaos.
- DirectorJerry CarlssonStarsRichard SseruwagiDoreen NdagireLisette T. PaglerMilo Moro finds out that his ex-partner Adrian, who has been cryopreserved for the past 43 years, can be thawed and brought back to life. When the staff from ScandiCryonics arrives to pick up the cryocontainer with Adrian's body, Milo realizes he might not be ready for Adrian to return.
- DirectorBarbara KoppleCathy CaplanThomas HanekeStarsLewie AndersonR.J. BergstromRon BergstromRecounts the 1985-86 strike against the Hormel Foods Corporation in Minnesota after its employees' wages and benefits were cut.
- DirectorLeigh LedarePresented in seven chapters, The Task focuses on four large group meetings, each of which includes all the 28 participants, three psychologists (or "consultants"), six camera operators, three observers-and Ledare himself, whose role evolves over the course of the conference. Throughout the film, the group's members grapple with the emergence of complex patterns of stereotyping and other projections of identity; authority is questioned, assumed, and then taken away; and viewers are implicated as the participants negotiate the subjective forces that exceed the structured constraints of the self-made system.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsSong Kang-hoShin Ha-kyunBae DoonaA recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiIn this short subject from the early part of Kiarostami's career, he interviewed schoolteachers in Iran to pay tribute to the role of education in that country's society.
- DirectorStanley NelsonStarsCecelia AntoinetteHenry Louis Gates Jr.Lani GuinierFilmmaker Stanley Nelson's look back at the 40 years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a black-oriented resort community on Martha's Vineyard.
- DirectorRichard E. NormanStarsStella MayoM.C. MaxwellAlfred NorcomA nere-do-well man, a beautiful girl, and her one-legged body-guard/family servant are the sole survivors---they think---of a ship wreck and make it to a uninhabited south-seas island. The influence of the girl brings about a reformation of the man in this version of Eden...until three sailors, also survivors, show up, and have designs on the girl. Then a pirates' treasure chest is discovered buried on the beach, and matters become even more tense...and violent.
- DirectorCaroline MonnetIn this bracing short cut from archival footage, people from Canada's First Nations move from the woods to the tops of New York skyscrapers-almost all of which have been built in part by Mohawk iron workers.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenAbstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsGrant MunroJean Paul LadouceurA surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- DirectorBrenda LienWhile we watch the "cat fail" of the day in cheerful safety, all that remains invisible in this neoliberal nightmare catches up with us.
- DirectorRenata GasiorowskaA young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
- DirectorJessie AurittNaomi seems like a typical 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl; watching her lift almost three times her bodyweight tells a different story.
- DirectorKenji IwaisawaStarsShintarô SakamotoRen KomaiTomoya MaenoA trio of delinquent schoolkids form a music band.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsYeon-su YuSang-hyo LimYun Il-juThree seemingly unrelated men commit petty crimes on the eve of an important televised discourse on social disorder in Korea.
- DirectorTrinh T. Minh-haTrinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.
- DirectorSahar MosayebiStarsElaheh MansourianShahrbanoo MansourianSoheila MansourianA ROCKY-esque tale of determination and grit, PLATFORM follows of three Iranian sisters as they compete to become international champions of Wushu, a Chinese martial art. The sisters thrilling underdog story explores not only their dedicated training, but also their surprising place in society as they challenge traditional gender roles on the path to success.
- DirectorCorey YuenStarsMichelle YeohCynthia RothrockJohn ShamTwo unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two hard kicking women cops from HK and UK get the case.
- DirectorKhyentse NorbuStarsOrgyen TobgyalNeten ChoklingJamyang LodroWhile the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world.
- DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsAdrian PorumboiuCorneliu PorumboiuFilmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu discusses a snowy soccer match from 1988 with his father, who was the head referee for the game.
- DirectorGabriel AbrantesDaniel SchmidtStarsCarloto CottaCleo TavaresAnabela MoreiraA fallen soccer superstar vows to adopt a refugee child, while becoming the naive unwitting centerpiece in in a bizarre plot to Make Portugal Great Again.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki PapouliaA controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
- DirectorLucas LeyvaJillian MayerStarsShira AbergelJessica AndersonLuther Campbell'Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke' A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film 'La Jetee', the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew) rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for first amendment rights, and later as he ushers Miami into a golden era of peace and prosperity as Mayor. Everything changes when a nuclear meltdown at Turkey Point Power Plant turns Miami into a radioactive wasteland filled with mutants, and Luke is the only survivor left unscathed. Directed by visual and performance artist Jillian Mayer, the entire movie takes place in custom built installations which distort and play with visual perspectives.
- DirectorBernardo BrittoA man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.
- DirectorLucas LeyvaJillian MayerStarsBen BotillerJ. Martin HolmanEric L. LancasterHere's a day in the life of a husband and wife living in a world of giant monsters.
- DirectorAmy SeimetzStarsShira AbergelAJ BowenAmy SeimetzFilmed in Miami during Hurricane Isaac, 'When We Lived in Miami' is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart. Using the real life storm to great effect, writer-director-star Amy Seimetz ('Sun Don't Shine,' ) crafts a simple yet haunting narrative that is deeply felt and powerfully realized. Co-starring AJ Bowen ('A Horrible Way to Die') and 5 year old new comer Fiona D'Avis, who turns in a heart rending performance, 'When We Lived in Miami' was shot on super 16 mm film by Jay Keitel ('Sun Don't Shine').
- DirectorWarren BeattyStarsWarren BeattyDiane KeatonEdward HerrmannA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.