An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. More...

A cinematic master-class in which Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry) discusses his filmmaking in relation to his 2002 film Ten. More...

A surreal triptych adapted by TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh from his own collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, THE ACID HOUSE plunges the viewer into increasingly bizarre situations. More...

From the director of Manufactured Landscapes. Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. More...

After 30 years of Taliban and wartime rule, pop culture is creeping back into Afghanistan in the form of Afghan Star, an enormously popular American Idol–type contest. Filmmaker Havana Marking follows the dramatic stories of four of the contestants. More...

An unforgettable film about love, passion and the triumph of the human spirit. In the darkest days of World War II a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women: Lilly (aka “Aimée”), a married woman and an exemplar of Nazi motherhood, and Felice (aka “Jaguar”), a member of the Jewish underground. This award-winning film brings their incredible true story to life. More...

Derek Jarman’s lyrical celebration of gay love set within the context of a series of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Ethereal Super-8 images slowed to a magical, meditative pace play out to Dame Judi Dench's narration. More...

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This entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupes known collectively as the Ballets Russes treats modern audiences to a rare glimpse of the singularly remarkable merger of performers, choreographers, composers and designers who transformed the art of dance for generations to come. More...

“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace. More...

Jennifer Venditti's award-winning documentary is a provocative coming-of-age story—an odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. More...

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BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker?s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. More...

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From Kirby Dick, director of the Oscar-nominated TWIST OF FAITH. An expressive and poignant audio-visual chain letter that doubles as a portrait of 21st-century young America. More...

As seen on PBS, this award-winning six-hour documentary series on the history of 20th-century China uses never-before-seen footage and remarkable first-hand interviews to document the epic struggle of the Chinese people to build a unified, modern nation. More...

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Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. More...

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A hidden gem of the French New Wave, Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat dans l’île is as coolly modern as it is tensely gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betrayals, this scintillating neo-noir unfolds against a backdrop of 1960s political turmoil. More...

One of the most successful political documentaries of all time, THE CORPORATION is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. More...

Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Maddin casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femme fatales. More...

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One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of “deconstruction” Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. More...

In this mesmerizing collage of early Italian film clips, director Peter Delpeut captures the spirit of the Italian silent film heroines who teetered dangerously between a capricious indulgence in sexual passion and an hysteric remorse at their own cruelty. More...

As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Years later, in order to mend the breach with her family, she travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom. Nimbly clever and intensely illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery. More...

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In 1998 Edith Stein (1891-1942) was canonised by Pope John Paul II. A German philosopher of Jewish descent, Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt in the south of the Netherlands. During World War II she was deported and died in Auschwitz.

Director Frederieke Jochems worked for nine years to bring Edith Stein's story to life and to illuminate the controversy surrounding the canonisation. More...

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Filmmaker Astra Taylor (ZIZEK!) accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. More...

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A ravishing fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). More...

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Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger. More...

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Voted the best documentary of 2001 by the National Society of Film Critics, Agnès Varda?s universally acclaimed ?wandering-road documentary? focuses her ever-seeking eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. More...

An exuberantly inventive follow-up film, THE GLEANERS AND I: TWO YEARS LATER revisits characters and issues from the original, and further explores many of the emotional and creative responses elicited by this one-of-a-kind film. More...

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Six highly inventive early films from the brilliant and controversial director Peter Greenaway. More...

A searing portrait of one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers: Veit Harlan, director of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Süss. An eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present, one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation. More...

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How far would you travel to heal your child? An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. More...

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (J’entends plus la guitare) is Philippe Garrel’s haunting tribute to his ten-year relationship with the iconic German chanteuse Nico. Johanna ter Steege (The Vanishing) plays Marianne, the doomed lover of Gérard (Benoît Régent, Three Colors: Blue). Caught in a self-destructive heroin haze, the couple drifts together and apart as Gérard struggles with his simultaneous desire for and repulsion towards a stable life. More...

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Deemed ?Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body,? Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Documentarian Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only a fascinating portrait of this groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. More...

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An impressionistic and meditative chronicle of a year in and around the Grand Chartreuse, a monastery in the French Alps. Working alone without crew or artificial lighting, director Philip Gröning records the monks’ daily lives, prayers, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. A tranquil contemplation about the possibility of transcendence for all. The Institutional/Educational DVD will be available in August 2007 More...

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A cannily droll mix of social commentary and modern fable, Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's debut feature follows the adventures of young James, a devout wide-eyed Christian attempting a pilgrimage from his African village to the Holy Land. More...

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To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Rainer employs an extended therapy session--in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists--to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression. More...

Provocative, mischievous and difficult to dismiss, filmmaker Jamie Kastner's first-person docu-essay dissects identity politics by exploring the question, “What does it mean to be perceived as Jewish?” More...

Rainer continued her preoccupation with the contradictions between public and private personas with this story of a female lion tamer from Budapest who comes to New York to become a choreographer. More...

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Each year in China more than 130 million migrant workers travel home for the New Year's holiday—the one time they’ll reunite with family all year. The mass exodus constitutes the world’s largest human migration. Amid this chaos, director Lixin Fan focuses on one couple who embark upon a two-day journey to see their children. More...

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A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, LIVES OF PERFORMERS examines the dilemma of a man who can’t choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part of a dance performance choreographed by Rainer. More...

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE is a film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. More...

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The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (LITTLE OTIK) is a “philosophical horror film,” loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. More...

An unusual and moving tribute to early cinema, constructed from color-tinted nitrate films found deteriorating in the attic of an Amsterdam cinema. Through meticulous restoration, these films are shown in the rich and subtle colors in which they were originally exhibited, accompanied by an evocative soundtrack. More...

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Around a familiar theme--the breakup of a marriage--Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, Jack Deller, the man “who almost knows too much about women.” More...

An award-winning feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. More...

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. From the co-director of THE CORPORATION. More...

This international smash hit from the makers of Gomorrah is an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. More...

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Producer, narrator and granddaughter CC Goldwater takes viewers on a cinematic journey into the life of Barry Goldwater in MR. CONSERVATIVE: GOLDWATER ON GOLDWATER. The film reveals Goldwater as a man either glorified or vilified by the American public. It traces the roots of Goldwater’s conservative philosophy, conveys how he united the conservative movement to lead the Republican Party into a new generation of politics and demonstrates how his consistently Libertarian mindset led him to diverge from the Conservative party orthodoxy in the ‘80s and ‘90s. More...

MURDER and murder is a middle-aged love story between Mildred, a life-long lesbian, and Doris, who is in love with a woman for the first time. An unflinching meditation on female aging, lesbian sexuality and breast cancer in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance. More...

An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation, principally Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. Unfolding like a narrative drama, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY follows the agonizing predicament of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spread democracy in the Middle East. More...

Guy Maddin's 16-minute collaboration with Isabella Rossellini: a touching, whimsical tribute to her father Roberto, director of ROME, OPEN CITY and the founding father of Italian Neo-Realism. More...

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Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. More...

From the director of the Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country, The Oath is a spectacularly gripping documentary that unspools like a great political thriller. It’s the crosscut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay Prison and the U.S. Supreme Court. More...

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Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the ’60s. More...

Margaret Atwood’s visionary work Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for Jennifer Baichwal’s riveting and poetic documentary on “debt” in its various forms—societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. More...

This new short film by acclaimed animators the Brothers Quay makes random forays into one of the world's most extraordinary museum collections: Sir Henry Wellcome's unique trove of medical curiosities. More...

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The breathtakingly beautiful, long-awaited second feature by the Quay Brothers, master animators turned manipulators of live actors in uncanny puppet-show environments. In a world of minutely artificed trompe l’oeil, opera singer Malvina is spirited away to a remote island by her menacing admirer Dr. Droz. More...

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In this groundbreaking cult documentary from 1985, director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Derrida) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the (then) recently established discipline of sexual therapy. More...

Yvonne Rainer’s sixth feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Rainer has fashioned a witty, risky work about sexual identity and the unequal economies of race, gender and class. More...

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Promised Lands is famed writer and critic Susan Sontag’s sole documentary project (and her third directorial effort), shot in Israel on the fly in the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Not only does the film scrutinize the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, but it also brilliantly underscores the deepening divisions within Jewish thought over the very question of Palestinian sovereignty as well. Banned by Israeli authorities upon its initial release, this visually visceral portrait of a land torn apart by the competing values of militarism, consumerism and religious national identity is as prescient and thought provoking as ever. More...

Oscar winner Kevin Kline and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. More...

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Revered French auteur Philippe Garrel’s achingly beautiful memorial to the events of May ’68 and the poignant confusion felt by those who tried to keep the spirit of revolt alive. More...

In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life. More...

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This enthralling, insightful, uplifting and often hilarious documentary journeys to the heart of the largest gathering of humanity on Earth: the Kumbh Mela. The huge festival has been held in India every 12 years for over two millennia, but is little known in the West--until now. The film spectacularly captures the spiritual bliss, eternal wisdom and joy that envelop both the festival’s pilgrims and world-renowned gurus in attendance. More...

A selection of shorts by famed animators the Quay Brothers. Two of the world’s most original filmmakers, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have been making their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation for nearly 30 years and have spawned an enormous cult following. More...

Winner of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and featuring a trio of stunning performances, Julie Bertuccelli's exquisite SINCE OTAR LEFT... is a bittersweet tale of deception and affection. More...

Conceived by co-executive producer Paul Holland, and directed by Emmy-Award-winning filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the 20th century. More...

The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. More...

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One of the greatest survival stories of all time is finally told by the survivors themselves, brilliantly crafted by their childhood friend and master filmmaker, Gonzalo Arijon. If this is a story that you think you know, think again. More...

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In The Sun Behind the Clouds, Tibetan filmmaker, Tenzing Sonam, and his partner, Ritu Sarin, take a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the trials and tribulations of the Dalai Lama and his people as they continue their struggle for freedom in the face of determined suppression by one of the world’s biggest and most powerful nations. More...

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Celebrated Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami once again casts his masterful cinematic gaze upon the modern sociopolitical landscape of his homeland, this time as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. More...

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After his critically acclaimed mood pieces Distant and Climates, Turkey’s leading filmmaker moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience and nuance. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys tells a twisty, noirish tale set in motion by a hit-and-run accident. More...

TIERNEY GEARON: THE MOTHER PROJECT is a moving and complex portrait of an artist, her inspirations and unconventional family relationships. The mixture of art and family can almost be too close for comfort, but like much of Gearon‘s photographs there is subversive beauty that arises out of the incongruity between ordinary moments and madness. **Instances of nudity may make this film innappropriate for some educational institutions** More...

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The first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three toy figures who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events... More...

Khyentse Norbu’s follow-up to THE CUP. One of Himalayan Buddhism’s most revered lamas, Norbu weaves parallel fable-like tales about two men who seek to escape their mundane lives. This is the first feature film ever shot in the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan. More...

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Academy Award nominee and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tell the story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. More...

On the eve of The Fantasticks’ final Off-Broadway performance, documentary filmmaker Eli Kabillio takes a wistful look back at the show’s genesis, its creators and, above all, its continued worldwide popularity. More...