Directed by Lotte Reiniger • 1922 • Germany

One of Lotte Reiniger’s first forays into the world of fairy tales tells the story of a poor young man who sets out to rescue a Chinese princess imprisoned by her father in the tower of a pagoda.

Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A beautiful spring day tempts a bookkeeper to play hooky from the office.

Directed by Jessica Bardsley • 2022 • United States

LIFE WITHOUT DREAMS is set in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness due to light pollution.

Directed by Mira Nair • 2002 • United States

Based on events surrounding the September 11, 2001, disappearance of Salman Hamdani, a young Pakistani American man from Queens, this film portrays his mother’s struggle with terrorist allegations, her own fears, and her son’s fate that day.

Directed by Ashley McKenzie • 2015 • Canada
Starring Sofia Banzhaf, Andrew Gillis

An overworked student finds his life thrown into chaos when he gets involved with a young drug addict.

Directed by Tze Chun • 2006 • United States

A string of break-ins breeds distrust in a racially mixed neighborhood outside of Boston.

Directed by Richard Lester • 1959 • United Kingdom

This film, directed by Richard Lester, was shot over two Sundays in 1959 for a cost of about seventy pounds. Nominated for an Oscar for best live-action short, it features Lester, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Graham Stark, and Bruce Lacey.

Directed by Jessica Beshir • 2016 • United States
Starring Fred Nelson

In 2016, Jessica Beshir directed this short film about Fred Nelson, a man she met in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park who tap-dances every day on a worn piece of wood.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 2015 • France
Starring Jasmine Thiré, Michel Jeannès, Jacky Patin

A billowing pink dress launches a stouthearted teenage girl on a time- and space-collapsing odyssey from her humble goat farm to the big city and beyond in this playfully meandering feminist fantasia from...

Directed by John Hubley • 1959 • United States

John and Faith Hubley recorded a conversation between their young sons and set it to animated visuals to create this charming, Academy Award–winning adventure in which two boys set out on a late-night quest to capture a bird.

Directed by Alain Resnais • 1959 • France

Poetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.

Directed by Mariama Diallo • 2018 • United States
Starring Kara Young, Taliah Webster, Madeline Weinstein

She’s white and she wants dreads . . . The staff of a Black hair salon in Brooklyn fend off a terrifying new monster: white women intent on literally sucking the lifeblood from Black culture.