Fresh from Theaters

Fresh from Theaters

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  • Human Flowers of Flesh

    Movie

    Directed by Helena Wittmann • 2022 • France, Germany
    Starring Angeliki Papoulia, Denis Lavant, Vladimir Vulević

    In her spellbinding, immersive second feature, director Helena Wittmann invites us to relinquish control and join her on a Mediterranean voyage unlike any other. After a stirring encou...

  • The Eight Mountains
    Movie + 3 extras

    The Eight Mountains

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch • 2022 • Italy
    Starring Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Lupo Barbiero

    An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery, THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS is a landmark cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental, as deep as it is expansi...

  • My Two Voices

    Movie

    Directed by Lina Rodriguez • 2022 • Canada
    Starring Ana Garay Kostic, Claudia Montoya, Marinela Piedrahita

    A poetic exploration of the fluid nature of identity, MY TWO VOICES introduces us to Ana, Claudia, and Marinela, three Latin American women who share their intimate experiences of immigrati...

  • Irradiated

    Movie

    Directed by Rithy Panh • 2020 • Cambodia, France
    Starring André Wilms, Rebecca Marder, Bion

    Having spent his career examining the Cambodian genocide that claimed the lives of so many of his family members in acclaimed documentaries like THE MISSING PICTURE, director Rithy Panh turns his attentio...

  • Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

    Movie

    Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb • 2022 • United States
    Starring Robert A. Caro, Robert Gottlieb, Ethan Hawke

    TURN EVERY PAGE explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb, who passed away this June. Eighty-six...

  • Tori and Lokita
    Movie + 2 extras

    Tori and Lokita

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne • 2022 • France
    Starring Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu, Alban Ukaj

    From two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT) comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori (in remarkable debut perform...

  • Stonewalling

    Movie

    Directed by Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka • 2022 • China
    Starring Yao Honggui, Liu Long, Huang Xiaoxiong

    The latest from Beijing-based wife-and-husband directorial team Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka is a piercing, meticulously observed examination of contemporary Chinese youth starring their recurring l...

  • The Blue Caftan

    Movie

    Directed by Maryam Touzani • 2022 • France, Morocco
    Starring Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Messioui

    With her stirring and sensitive second feature, Moroccan writer-director Maryam Touzani (ADAM) weaves a richly emotional tapestry of love, forbidden desire, and compassion that’s as beautifully...

  • The Innocent
    Movie + 3 extras

    The Innocent

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Louis Garrel • 2022 • France
    Starring Louis Garrel, Roschdy Zem, Noémie Merlant

    Part crime thriller, part family farce, Louis Garrel’s THE INNOCENT shows the dangerous lengths two men go to, and the outlandish lies they tell, for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, a museum ed...

  • Dry Ground Burning

    Movie

    Directed by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós • 2022 • Brazil
    Starring Joana Darc Furtado, Léa Alves da Silva, Andreia Vieira

    An electrifying portrait of Brazil’s fraught contemporary moment that blends documentary with narrative and genre elements, DRY GROUND BURNING reunites filmmakers Joana P...

  • No Bears
    Movie + 3 extras

    No Bears

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Jafar Panahi • 2022 • Iran
    Starring Naser Hashemi, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Vahid Mobaser

    One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being bann...

  • Dos Estaciones

    Movie

    Directed by Juan Pablo González • 2022 • Mexico
    Starring Teresa Sánchez, Rafaela Fuentes, Tatín Vera

    This richly evocative blend of fictional character study and documentary-like observation offers an intimate perspective on the ravages of globalization through an arresting portrait of one woman...

  • Saturday Fiction

    Movie

    Directed by Lou Ye • 2019 • China
    Starring Gong Li, Mark Chao, Joe Odagiri

    The latest from acclaimed director Lou Ye—one of contemporary Chinese cinema’s boldest auteurs—is a stylish, spellbinding thriller built around a tour-de-force performance from the great Gong Li. It’s 1941, and China has ...

  • Will-o’-the-Wisp

    Movie

    Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues • 2022 • France, Portugal
    Starring Mauro Costa, André Cabral, Joel Branco

    A rapturously queer, ecologically minded, antiroyalist musical fantasia, WILL-O’-THE-WISP finds the ever-audacious João Pedro Rodrigues (The Ornithologist) at his most playfully and pleasur...

  • Cette maison
    Movie + 1 extra

    Cette maison

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Miryam Charles • Canada • 2022
    Starring Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye, Marie Yardly Kavanagh

    Shot on dreamy 16 mm, the stunning debut feature from Haitian-Canadian filmmaker Miryam Charles resurrects a tragedy that occurred within her own family—the unresolved death of ...

  • ear for eye

    Movie

    Directed by debbie tucker green • 2021 • United Kingdom
    Starring Lashana Lynch, Tosin Cole, Danny Sapani

    With this riveting adaptation of her acclaimed play, debbie tucker green pushes the boundaries of stage and screen alike. Dynamic, absorbing, and visually inventive, EAR FOR EYE traces racial...

  • EO
    Movie + 3 extras

    EO

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski • 2022 • Poland, Italy
    Starring Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kościukiewicz

    With his first feature in seven years, legendary filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski (DEEP END, MOONLIGHTING) directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following t...

  • Loving Highsmith

    Movie

    Directed by Eva Vitija • 2022 • Germany, Switzerland
    Starring Gwendoline Christie, Annina Butterworth, Marijane Meaker

    The life and work of celebrated American writer Patricia Highsmith are revealed through her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends, and family...

  • Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2019 • Germany, Lesotho

    Part poetic essay, part documentary, this rapturous film by director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION) analyzes the complexities of his relationship to his native country of Lesotho from his new hom...

  • Clara sola

    Movie

    Directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén • 2021 • Sweden, Costa Rica
    Starring Wendy Chinchilla Araya, Ana Julia Porras Espinoza, Daniel Castañeda Rincón

    This revelatory first feature from Nathalie Álvarez Mesén is a mesmerizing portrait of a woman in the process of taking ownership of her body and sel...

  • Cane Fire
    Movie + 1 extra

    Cane Fire

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Anthony Banua-Simon • 2020 • United States

    The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen by many as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyperexploitation of workers, and destructive environmental extraction that h...

  • Marx Can Wait

    Movie

    Directed by Marco Bellocchio • 2021 • Italy
    Starring Marco Bellocchio, Alberto Bellocchio, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

    1968 was the year Camillo died. Nearly fifty years after the death of his twin brother at the age of twenty-nine, acclaimed director Marco Bellocchio (FISTS IN THE POCKET) gathers h...

  • A Night of Knowing Nothing

    Movie

    Directed by Payal Kapadia • 2021 • France, India
    Starring Bhumisuta Das

    Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes tak...

  • France
    Movie + 1 extra

    France

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • 2021 • France, Italy
    Starring Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay

    Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something r...