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In a polarized society, Sweden's Dialogue Police are united by humor and a shared calling: defending democracy with dialogue as their weapon.

Susanna Edwards | 2025 | 90 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Farsi; Turkish | English subtitles

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Explores the revolution of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel masterpiece, Maus, with humor and finesse.

Pauline Horovitz | 2025 | 52 minutes | Color | French; English; German | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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Explores one of the world's longest conflicts through archival Swedish TV footage, challenging conventions of history-writing and how media perceived the issue.

Göran Hugo Olsson | 2025 | 206 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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The story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world – what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.

Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland | 2024 | 79 minutes | Color | Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles

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A provincial builder falls in love with an alluring shopgirl, oblivious to her crowded romantic past or that she’s waiting for a local politician’s wife to die so she can marry rich.

Georges Lacombe | 2022 | 108 minutes | French | English subtitles

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PERSONALE is set at a four-star hotel in northeastern Italy where guests come to ski, swim, and relax. But instead of the scenery, the film focuses on the unseen: the housekeeping staff who are at the bottom of the hotel hierarchy, and whose work is absolutely essential.

Carmen Trocker | 2024 | 93 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles

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The rise and fall of Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen (1898-1975). As head of the Department of Film of the Dutch Nazi Party and SS, he became the most powerful man in the Dutch film industry during World War II.

Luuk Bouwman | 2025 | 108 minutes | Color | Dutch | English subtitles

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New on Blu-ray! A journey along Route 1, from Maine to Miami, yields a rich tapestry of American life. 

Robert Kramer | 1990 | 254 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned

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Exposes the French scandal of Nicolas Sarkozy's special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi.

Yannick Kergoat | 2025 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

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Through rare and long-forgotten footage, this documentary uncovers the hidden machinery of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay—one of history's longest-running regimes.

Juanjo Pereira | 2025 | 92 minutes | Color | Guarani; Spanish; German; French; English; Portuguese | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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Forty years after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa finally begins an independent life and learns to read. However, with the return of the Taliban to power, her dreams, along with those of her daughter and granddaughter, are cut short.

Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori | 2024 | 84 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles

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Traces renowned, prize winning writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India.

Aradhana Seth | 2003 | 50 minutes | Color | English

In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?

André Meier | 2007 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles

Based on a thorough historical research into the Paris Commune of 1871, this film leads to an inevitable reflection about the present.

Peter Watkins | 2002 | 345 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

Exposes the French scandal of Nicolas Sarkozy's special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi.

Yannick Kergoat | 2025 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: INTO HER OWN is an artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture.

Daniel Traub | 2020 | 57 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned

79 years old and overlooked since the 1970’s, abstract artist Peter Bradley reflects on life and shares his artistic process on the cusp of his rediscovery.

Alex Rappoport | 2024 | 86 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned

Ayed is a young psychotherapist in Gaza. The film shows his consultations with a variety of patients, and the challenges he and they face.

Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian | 2009 | 58 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles

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