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Newly restored, and now on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time ever! The epic chronicle of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973.

Patricio Guzmán | 2023 | 275 minutes | English subtitles

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Short films from the French New Wave — the earliest works of its most emblematic auteurs. Including Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Maurice Pialat, and more.

2023 | 348 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

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Focuses on Christians in Latin America who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith.

François-Xavier Drouet | 2024 | 116 minutes | Color | Spanish; French; Portuguese | English subtitles

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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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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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Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar, like many other people, have undergone interrogation in Iran. The director asks them to interrogate him as an agent of the Islamic Republic might do.

Mehran Tamadon | 2025 | 82 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles

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In her essential final feature, Chantal Akerman documents her relationship with her mother, a Holocaust survivor.

Chantal Akerman | 2016 | 115 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles

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PERSONALE follows the housekeeping team of a luxury Italian hotel — migrant workers who keep the tourist machinery running.

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

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Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released, this is the story of Eastern Europeans, mostly Jews, who fought the German occupation of Paris during World War II.

Mosco Levi Boucault | 2024 | 71 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

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An emotional follow up to Mosco Levi Boucault’s 1983 documentary Terrorists in Retirement.

Mosco Levi Boucault and Ruth Zylberman | 2024 | 38 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

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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

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Forty years after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa finally begins an independent life and to be literate. 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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Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming ever more dramatic as the seasons go by. The second installment of Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers.

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

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In the final installment of YOUTH, 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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The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king.

Joel Calmettes | 2011 | 84 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

Against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from the era of Stalin’s terror against his own people - until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony. Following Yuri closely, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens.

Jessica Gorter | 2024 | 96 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles

Profiles the home funeral movement, and the complex psychological, cultural, legal and financial issues surrounding families choosing to prepare loved ones at home for burial or cremation.

Elizabeth Westrate | 2003 | 56 minutes | Color | English

An inventively directed history of the lost Cambodian cinema.

Davy Chou | 2012 | 96 minutes | Color | English subtitles

Chantal Akerman follows choreographer Pina Bausch and her dance company on a European tour.

Chantal Akerman | 2013 | 57 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles

Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait of a working-class Chinese family.

LIU Jiayin | 2012 | 110 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles

Filmmaker and historian Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished - and confronts fundamental questions of his own identity in the process.

Kamal Hachkar | 2014 | 86 minutes | Color | English subtitles

The first installment of Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers.

Wang Bing | 2023 | 215 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles

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