Icarus Films: 2024 New Releases

Films & DVDs Released in 2024

Amore Mio - A young woman refuses to attend her husband's funeral and goes on a road trip with her son and sister instead.
Coconut Head Generation - A group of students from Nigeria's University of Ibadan organize a film club, transforming a small theater into a political gathering where they refine their vision and develop a critical voice.
Island in Between - A personal, poetic look at the uneasy peace on the frontline between Taiwan and China. Received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Film in 2023.
Lyd - Explores the Palestinian city, people who live there and the trauma left by the 1948 massacre and expulsion.
A Murder in Abidjan - An unflinching look at the brutal methods used by the Abidjan police chief to investigate the murder of a police officer.

Nikah - Captures the uncertainty of a young woman living in the Uyghur region, who is at a personal crossroads.
Ok Joe! - Explores the rape and murders committed by the US army against French civilians after WWII.
Roubaix, Police Department, Ordinary Business - Cops in Roubaix, France deal with ordinary and not-so ordinary business while trying to solve a murder.
The Shooting on Mole Street - A gripping documentary that follows two cops verité-style, while capturing the complex dynamics of a community where selling drugs is seen as the only option for many young men.

Spare Keys - This tender coming-of-age story follows a teenage girl who begins a relationship with her friend's brother.
Stories of A - Shot in Paris in 1973, this feminist film on the fight for abortion rights is both a fascinating historical document and a reminder of the critical importance of civil disobedience.
Terrorists in Retirement - Jewish French resistance fighters remember fighting the Nazis to bring their WWII struggle to light.
Togoland Projections - A film director shows long forgotten, historical footage of Togo to modern day audiences.
Toni - A single French mother (Call My Agent's Camille Cottin) explores how to live life once her children leave home.

Early Short Films of the French New Wave - Short films from the French New Wave.
Eastern Front - 6 months on the front lines of war with a Ukranian medical unit. Co-directed by Vitaly Mansky.
Education and Nationalism - Documents the Japanese government’s re-writing of textbooks and education to support their political point of view.
The First Year - Patricio Guzmán's previously unreleased documentary about the first twelve months of Salvador Allende's presidency. Released in French by Chris Marker.

Mambar Pierrette - The fiction debut by Rosine Mbakam. Premiered at Cannes 2023.
Personal and Political: The Films of Natalia Almada - A box set of films by acclaimed filmmaker Natalia Almada.
Rojek - Interviews members of the Islamic State who want to establish a caliphate.
Youth - Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers. Premiered at Cannes 2023.

The Two Lives of Eva - The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother, a well-off, Polish Lutheran before WWII, who afterwards married a Jewish Warsaw ghetto survivor.
Violette Leduc: In Pursuit of Love - A biography of French author and memoirist Violette Leduc.
My Father - A short film in memory of Esther Hoffenberg's father, who was a Polish Holocaust survivor.
Welcome to Nuclear Land - Hoffenberg travels through Normandy to reveal the frightening reality of what it means to live with nuclear power.
As if It Were Yesterday - Traces how thousands of Jewish Belgian children were saved during the Holocaust.