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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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A grassroots branch of Catholicism that stood with the poor and oppressed played a powerful and influential role in Latin American revolutionary movements.

François-Xavier Drouet | 2024 | 116 minutes | Color | Spanish; French; Portuguese | 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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Arlane Mnouchkine, the founder of the Théâtre du Soleil, travels to Ukraine to work with actors as an act of solidarity during the Russian invasion.

Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini and Thomas Briat | 2024 | 59 minutes | Color | English; French; Ukrainian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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A retrospective of filmmaker Robert Kramer’s work and a moving biography of a friendship, directed and narrated by his longtime cinematographer.

Richard Copans | 2025 | 74 minutes | Color | French; English | 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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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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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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In the second installment of Wang Bing's YOUTH trilogy, individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops and become ever more dramatic as the seasons go by. 

Wang Bing | 2024 | 226 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles

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In the final installment of the YOUTH trilogy, Wang Bing starts out in Zhili's deserted textile workshops on New Year’s Eve, before travelling to Shiwei's marriage in the Yunnan mountains. 

Wang Bing | 2024 | 160 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles

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A queer motocross coming-of-age drama—sensitive, deeply felt, quietly profound. Rebel Without a Cause with dirt bikes.

Antoine Chevrollier | 2025 | 103 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

Veteran director Marc Allegret’s philosophical and restrained adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s sexually explosive novel, the first time it was ever brought to film.

Marc Allégret | 2022 | 104 minutes | English subtitles

Shohei Imamura's investigation into the disappearance becomes an investigation into the nature of fiction and reality.

Shohei Imamura | 2012 | 130 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles

Unforgettable stories of WWII's deadly Siege of Leningrad, which took more than 1 million lives.

Jessica Gorter | 2012 | 77 minutes | Color | English; Russian | English subtitles

Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile) tells Allende's story, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973.

Patricio Guzmán | 2006 | 100 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles

Explores the artist's work and philosophy, using extensive interviews and documentation of artwork installed around the world.

Chris Teerink | 2014 | 72 minutes | Color | Dutch; Italian | English subtitles

An amusing but informative look at the psychological, social and economic issues surrounding the modern American obsession with straight, white teeth.

Alice Arnold | 2007 | 26 minutes | Color | English

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