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
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
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
At a lycée on the Ivory coast, Jean Rouch meets with white colonial French high school students and their black African classmates (all non-actors) and persuades them to improvise a drama.
Jean Rouch | 2017 | 93 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
The definitive cinematic account of the background to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through unique and immersive footage, long buried in the vaults of the Swedish Television archives.
Göran Hugo Olsson | 2025 | 206 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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
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
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
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
Tells the story of 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
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
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
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
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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A self-portrait by experimental narrative and feminist Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
Chantal Akerman | 2001 | 64 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
A playful and candid portrait of Donna Haraway, one of the most important living thinkers in the field of science and technology.
Fabrizio Terranova | 2017 | 81 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
In Geneva, Switzerland, film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard meet for a surprisingly intimate and sometimes contentious dialogue.
Frederic Choffat and Vincent Lowy | 2011 | 44 minutes | Color | French | 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
A Cuban mother educates her son about the harsh realities of discrimination.
Gretel Marin | 2024 | 28 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
Critic and writer John Berger and photographer Sebastião Salgado lead this searing examination of imagery and images, the abyss, hope, and globalization.
Paul Carlin | 2012 | 52 minutes | Color | English
A series on cross-cultural healthcare. Four films raise awareness about how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Julia Haslett | 2003 | 47 minutes | Color | English
