Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has been offering victims and offenders the opportunity to engage in dialogues within secure environments.
Jeanne Herry | 2024 | 118 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Newly restored, and on Blu-ray 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
French actress Bernadette Lafont was a multi-faceted performer, who refused to be boxed into one role.
Esther Hoffenberg | 2024 | 66 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
In Nigeria, a group of students from the University of Ibadan organize a film club and transform a small classroom into a space for conversation and impassioned debate.
Alain Kassanda | 2023 | 89 minutes | Color | English; French; Yoruba | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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
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
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
An unflinching look at the brutal methods used by the Abidjan police chief to investigate the murder of a police officer.
Mosco Boucault | 2024 | 86 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Captures the uncertainty of a young woman living in the Uyghur region, who is at a personal crossroads.
Bastien Ehouzan and Mukaddas Mijit | 2022 | 56 minutes | Color | Uygur | English subtitles
A box set of films by acclaimed filmmaker Natalia Almada.
Natalia Almada | 2023 | Color | Spanish; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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
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 this latest 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. The third installment of Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers.
Wang Bing | 2024 | 160 minutes | Color | Mandarin | 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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Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out in The Wealth of Nations. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade.
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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
What it would have been like if television had covered the ratification process of the US Constitution in 1781.
Muffie Meyer and Ellen Hovde | 1998 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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
The definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its deadly suppression, the days of torture that ensued, and the almost 30 year legal case that followed.
Brad Lichtenstein | 2001 | 90 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Named to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress and preserved by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Madeline Anderson’s essential work brings viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.
Madeline Anderson | 1970 | 30 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
Kidnapped from South Africa in 1810 and "exhibited" around Great Britain, Sara Baartman was treated as a scientific curiosity.
Zola Maseko | 1999 | 53 minutes | Color | English
How the best-selling, unsightly plastic chair took the world by storm.
Hauke Wendler | 2022 | 90 minutes | Color | Portuguese; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political emancipation was constituted by the cinematic image.
Mila Turajlić | 2023 | 100 minutes | Color | Serbian; English; French; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Follows World Bank and International Monetary Fund decision-makers in Uganda, showing how top-level decisions are made in the field. (released April, 1998)
Peter Chappell | 1998 | 85 minutes | Color | English
An amusing but informative look at the psychological, social and economic issues surrounding the modern American obsession with straight, white teeth.
Alice Arnold | 2007 | 26 minutes | Color | English
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 story of a simple fruit... upon which a global empire was built.
Mathilde Damoisel | 2018 | 52 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
