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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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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

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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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The housekeeping team of a luxury Italian hotel — these are the migrant workers who keep the tourist machinery running.

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 self-portrait by experimental narrative and feminist Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

Chantal Akerman | 2001 | 64 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles

President Jacobo Arbenz had led the successful 1944 revolt against the military dictatorship in Guatemala. Ten year later, he was overthrown by a CIA-sponsored coup.

Andreas Hoessli | 1997 | 90 minutes | Color | English subtitles

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An innovative independent thriller, shot in New York City, which centers on a revolutionary group plotting to attack a fascistic political regime.

Robert Kramer | 2011 | 128 minutes | Color | English

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

A lilting, free-associative masterpiece that follows dozens of characters as they try to reconcile their ideals with the realities of American life.

Robert Kramer and John Douglas | 2011 | 195 minutes | Color | English

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

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

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Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Julia Haslett | 2003 | 47 minutes | Color | English

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