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An immersive journey through 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon, marked by beauty, trauma, joy, and forgetting.

Lana Daher | 2026 | 75 minutes | Color | French; Arabic; English | English subtitles

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Filmmaker Lynne Sachs has saved every business card ever given to her. They are a reminder of how someone she met in person shifted her consciousness and left a residue of their being in hers.

Lynne Sachs | 2026 | 83 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned

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In Glasgow, an inspiring and profoundly moving portrait of what citizens are capable of in the face of injustice.

Felipe Bustos Sierra | 2026 | 99 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, "in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s." - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.

Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner | 2003 | 55 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned

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In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey.

Igor Bezinović | 2026 | 112 minutes | Color | Croatian; Italian | English subtitles

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Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.

Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra | 2017 | 135 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles

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Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's legendary portrait of Paris and Parisians at the close of the Algerian war.

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme | 2013 | 145 minutes | English; French | English subtitles

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A unique three-part series that looks at the deep roots of the “infinite roller-coaster” of conflict that has ensnared Israel, Iran and the United States.

Ilan Ziv | 2026 | 181 minutes | Color | Hebrew; Arabic; English; Farsi | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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After the fall of Assad’s regime, Tawfik Sabouni returns to Sednaya, the infamous Syrian prison, with fellow survivors. Within its walls, reenactment becomes a way to give voice to memory, absence, and survival.

Tawfik Sabouni | 2026 | 92 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles

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A woman’s quest to reconnect with her late father through a butterfly that becomes an unexpected guide into his past.

Rena Effendi | 2026 | 101 minutes | Color | English; Russian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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A feminist midwife in Burkina Faso opens a maternity clinic to provide healthcare access to women in rural areas.

Camille Varenne | 2026 | 66 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

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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

Snow and ice, as far as the eye can see - Nikolaus Geyrhalter's new film immerses audiences in a world of white. MELT explores these spectacular locations and the gradual disappearance of the ice that was once assumed to be eternal.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter | 2026 | 128 minutes | Color | English; German; French; Japanese | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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

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

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

Inviting viewers on a cinematic pilgrimage to her homeland of Morocco, Bitton explores her Jewish roots through the sphere of the Muslim guardians of the nation’s Jewish memory, centered around the tradition of "ziyara".

Simone Bitton | 2021 | 99 minutes | Color | Arabic; French; Hebrew; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned

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