Fresh from Theaters

Fresh from Theaters

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  • About Dry Grasses
    Movie + 2 extras

    About Dry Grasses

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • 2023 • Turkey
    Starring Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

    Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Further disenchanted when he and Kenan (Musab Ek...

  • The Breaking Ice

    Movie

    Directed by Anthony Chen • 2023 • China, Singapore
    Starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao

    Three lost souls find tentative connection in a frozen world in this delicate, lyrical tone poem of youthful alienation and longing. In cold, wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northeastern border, young...

  • Anselm
    Movie + 2 extras

    Anselm

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Wim Wenders • 2023 • Germany
    Starring Anselm Kiefer, Anton Wenders, Daniel Kiefer

    In ANSELM, Wim Wenders creates a hypnotic portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 6K resolution—and released theatrically in 3D—th...

  • Mambar Pierrette

    Movie

    Directed by Rosine Mbakam • 2023 • Belgium, Cameroon
    Starring Pierrette Aboheu, Karelle Kenmogne, Cécile Tchana

    Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam has distinguished herself with her incisive observational documentary portraits of African women. With MAMBAR PIERRETTE, her f...

  • Our Body

    Movie

    Directed by Claire Simon • 2023 • France

    Timely, intimate, and deeply empathetic, OUR BODY observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, veteran documentarian Claire Simon questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the d...

  • Our Father, the Devil

    Movie

    Directed by Ellie Foumbi • 2021 • United States
    Starring Babetida Sadjo, Souleymane Sy Savane, Jennifer Tchiakpe

    Ellie Foumbi’s elegant moral thriller is a grippingly intense exploration of trauma, revenge, and forgiveness that stands as one of the most exciting feature debuts in recent memory. ...

  • Orlando, My Political Biography

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Paul B. Preciado • 2023 • France
    Starring Oscar-Roza Miller, Yanis Sahraoui, Liz Christin

    “Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography” as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Pr...

  • Unrest

    Movie

    Directed by Cyril Schäublin • 2022 • Switzerland
    Starring Stefano Knuchel, Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski

    A singularly arresting, precision-crafted tale of time, radical politics, and burgeoning love unfolds amid the bucolic beauty of a Swiss town in this intellectually and stylistically captiva...

  • Amanda
    Movie + 1 extra

    Amanda

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Carolina Cavalli • 2022 • Italy
    Starring Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno

    The boldly assured debut feature from writer-director Carolina Cavalli is a hip, deadpan portrait of a young woman looking for human connection—in all the wrong ways. Born into an uppe...

  • Plan 75

    Movie

    Directed by Chie Hayakawa • 2022 • Japan, Philippines
    Starring Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura, Stefanie Arianne

    In a dystopian future, Japan’s government launches Plan 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population’s social and economic ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...