20 Days in Mariupol
(2023. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Mstyslav Chernov)
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.
Abigail
(2024. Fiction: Horror. Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Starring: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Giancarlo Esposito
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
Aftersun
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Charlotte Wells
Starring: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare times with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As the world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship. She tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t, in Charlotte Wells’s superb emotional debut film.
All That Breathes
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Shaunak Sen)
Starring: Salik Rehman, Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad
Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes reinvents the environmental documentary by portraying, in an incisive yet lyrical fashion, the reciprocal influence of animals and humans. For more than a year, Sen followed New Delhi brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad as they rescued birds of prey from the increasingly destructive effects of urban pollution. While charting the siblings’ daily struggles and successes, he also documented their poetic reflections on humankind’s relationship to the environment, the interaction of wildlife with the city, and India’s explosions of anti-Muslim violence. Suffused with beauteous, sobering, and contemplative imagery, All That Breathes ponders the delicate bonds of interconnectivity among humans and between species.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Laura Poitras)
Starring: Nan Goldin
Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras’s career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family’s integral role in the ongoing crisis of opioid overdoses with an intimate journey through Goldin’s life, from her rebellious adolescence and immersion in New York City’s thriving underground arts scene to her personal experiences of addiction and the AIDS epidemic. Through it all, her indelible photographs and candid reflections on memory and trauma reveal her unyielding solidarity with marginalized communities that refuse to remain silent.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Tim Burton)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Willem Dafoe, Jenna Ortega, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Burn Gorman
Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.
Blink Twice
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Zoe Kravitz)
Starring: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Geena Davis, Alia Shawkat
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.
Cinema Sabaya
(2023. Fiction: Foreign. Director: Orit Fouks Rotern)
Starring: Dana Ivgy, Joanna Said, Amal Murkus, Ruth Landau, Yulia Tagil
A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attends a video workshop at a small-town community center run by Rona, a young filmmaker from Tel Aviv, who teaches them to document their lives. As each student shares footage from her home life with the others, their beliefs and preconceptions are challenged and barriers are broken down. The group comes together as mothers, daughters, wives, and women, living in a world designed to keep them apart, and form an empowering and lasting bond as they learn more about each other…and themselves. In Arabic and Hebrew with optional English subtitles.
Corsage
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Marie Kreutzer)
Starring: Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Finnegan Oldfield, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Aaron Friesz
Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
Coup!
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Austin Stark, Joseph Schuman)
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Fisher Stevens
A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family’s new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. The servant becomes the master in this outrageous eat-the-rich comedy.
Crossings
(2023. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Deann Borshay)
A group of international women peacemakers sets out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
The Crow
(2024. Fiction: Action. Director: Rupert Sanders)
Starring: Bill Skarsgard, FKA Twigs, Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, Jordan Bolger, Isabella Wei
Bill Skarsgård takes on the iconic role of the Crow in this modern reimagining of the original graphic novel by James O’Barr. Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
The Crown Final Season
(2024. Fiction: Television Series)
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Elizabeth Debicki, Jonathan Pryce, Lesley Manville, Olivia Williams
A relationship blossoms between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences. Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother’s death as the monarchy must ride the wave of public opinion. As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a new royal fairytale in William and Kate.
Cuckoo
(2024. Fiction: Horror. Director: Tilman Singer)
Starring: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jan Bluthardt, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csokas, Greta Fernández, Kalin Morrow, Alma Sydney LaFaire
Gretchen leaves America to live with her father, who has moved to the German Alps with his new family. After arriving, Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret about her own family.
The Cure for Hate
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Peter Hutchison)
Award-winning filmmaker Peter Hutchison’s The Cure for Hate: Bearing Witness to Auschwitz documents the profoundly personal journey of atonement taken by Tony McAleer, a one-time skinhead and Holocaust denier, as he travels to the former Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau to explore the conditions that gave rise to fascism in 1030s Europe. McAleer, who cofounded the anti-hate activist group Life After Hate, shines unique light on how men get into and out of, violent extremist groups, and underscores the dangers of allowing the politics of hate and scapegoating to go unchecked.
Daliland
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Mary Harron)
Starring: Sir Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Ezra Miller, Christopher Briney, Rupert Graves, Andreja Pejic, Alexander Beyer, Mark McKenna
In 1974 a young gallery assistant is drawn into the wild, never-ending party that is artist Salvador Dalí’s life in New York City. As he helps the aging genius prepare for an important show, he discovers not everything is as it seems.
Dance First
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: James Marsh)
Starring: Robert Aramayo, Aidan Gillen, Bronagh Gallagher, Gabriel Byrne, Fionn O’Shea
Samuel Beckett lived many lives: WWII resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. Titled for his famous ethos “Dance first, think later,” the film is a sweeping account of Beckett’s life.
Decade of Fire
(2020. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Vivian Vazquez Irizarry, Gretchen Hildebran)
Bronx-born Vivian Vazquez exposes the truth about how her neighborhood was destroyed by fires and neglect in the 1970s and reveals how her maligned community chose to resist, remain, and rebuild.
Didi
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Sean Wang)
Starring: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
EO
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Jerzy Skolimowski)
Starring: Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Isabelle Huppert
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by Michał Dymek coupled with Paweł Mykietyn’s resonant score, EO presents the follies and triumphs of humankind from the perspective of its four-legged protagonist on a quest for freedom.
The Equalizer Season 4
(2024. Fiction: Television Series)
Starring: Queen Latifah, Tory Kittles, Adam Goldberg, Liza Lapira, Laya Deleon Hayes
Golden Globe, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Queen Latifah is Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills as a former CIA operative to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall presents to most as an average single mom quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is the Equalizer, an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden.
Ezra
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Tony Goldwyn)
Starring: Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, William A. Fitzgerald, Robert De Niro, Vera Farmiga, Whoopi Goldberg, Rainn Wilson, Tony Goldwyn
EZRA follows Max, a stand-up comedian living with his father while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra with his ex-wife. When forced to confront difficult decisions about the future, Max & Ezra embark on a cross-country road trip.
The Fabulous Four
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Jocelyn Moorehouse)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Lee Ralph
A comedy for grownups that follows a group of lifelong friends on an outrageous trip to Key West, Florida, to be bridesmaids in the surprise late-in-life wedding of their college girlfriend.
The First Omen
(2024. Fiction: Horror. Director: Arkasha Stevenson)
Starring: Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy, Charles Dance, Mia McGovern Zaini
When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
Fly me to the Moon
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Greg Berlanti)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Jim Rash, Ray Romano, Peter Jacobson, Colin Woodell
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star as a marketing maven and a by-the-book launch director who team up for a mission set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
Freud’s Last Session
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Matthew Brown)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Mathew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Orla Brady, Jeremy Northam, Stephen Campbell Moore, Rhys Mannion, Tarek Bishara
Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.
Godzilla Minus One
(2023. Fiction: Action. Director: Takashi Yamazaki)
Starring: Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Munetaka Aoki, Sakura Ando, Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki
In postwar Japan, a new terror rises; Godzilla. Will the devastated people be able to survive… let alone fight back?
Golda
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Guy Nattiv)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, Camille Cottin, Ellie Piercy, Rami Heuberger, Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, Dvir Benedek, Dominic Mafham, Ed Stoppard, Mark Fleischmann, Claudette Williams, Zed Josef
On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel’s holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel’s only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting of her all-male cabinet, with little hope of rescue, one woman is in a race against time to save millions of lives on both sides of the conflict.
Haunted Mansion
(2023. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Justin Simien)
Starring: Lakeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto
Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, this film is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
A House Made of Splinters
(2023. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Simon Leneng Wilmont)
Starring: Marharyta Burlutska, Olha Tronova
In this Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary, a group of strong-willed social workers at a war-worn orphanage in Eastern Ukraine work tirelessly to create a magical haven for children to live in while the state decides their futures.
Housekeeping for Beginners
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Goran Stolevski)
Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim, Vladimir Tintor, Mia Mustafa, Dzada Selim, Sara Klimoska, Rozafe Celaj, Ajse Useini
From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that must fight to stay together.
In the Shadow of Beirut
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Stephen Gerard Kelly, Garry Keane)
From the makers of Gaza, and executive produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, this documentary penetrates deep below the surface of Beirut, a still beautiful, yet deeply troubled city on the brink of financial collapse. Through intimate, character driven storytelling, the stark reality of life for the protagonists of the film is symbolic of the hundreds of thousands of others who fight for survival in the most diverse country in the Middle East.
I.S.S.
(2024. Fiction: Science Fiction. Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
Starring: Ariana Debose, John Gallagher Jr., Chris Messina, Maria Mashkova, Pilou Asbaek, Costa Ronin, Masha Mashkova
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
Incitement
(2019. Fiction: Thriller. Director: Yaron Ziberman)
Starring: Yehuda Nahari Halevi, Amitay Yaish Ben Ousilio, Anat Ravnitzki
In September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, which aim to achieve a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians decades of violence. Yigal Amir, a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, cannot believe that his country’s leader will cede territory that he and many others believe is rightfully, by the word of God, theirs. As the prospect of a peaceful compromise approaches, Amir turns from a hot-headed political activist to a dangerous extremist.
Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Alexandria Bornbach)
Starring: Simone Bucio, Amy Ray, Emily Saliers
Known for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk-rock duo Indigo Girls are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career.
IO Capitano
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Matteo Garrone)
Starring: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall
Nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards®, and from the acclaimed director of Gomorrah and Dogman, Io Capitano narrates the epic journey of a teenage boy and his cousin as they decide to leave Senegal for the promise of Europe. Throughout this compelling odyssey, the young man confronts a myriad of challenges, from the harsh realities of the desert to the harrowing experiences in Libyan detention centers and the risks of the open sea. Filmed over a span of 13 weeks in Senegal, Italy, and Morocco, with a cast of non-professional actors, this uplifting film ventures into the intricacies and contradictions of the human experience. Within the narrative, the aspirations, dreams, and ambitions of the main characters evolve into a gripping struggle for survival, reflecting the indomitable spirit of those who dare to seek a better life. Io Capitano stands as a powerful exploration of human resilience, navigating the delicate balance between hope and the unforgiving realities of the world.
It Ends with Us
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Justin Baldoni)
Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Amy Morton, Brandon Sklenar
It Ends With Us, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the story of Lily Bloom, a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall deeply in love, Lily begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents’ relationship. When Lily’s first love, Atlas Corrigan, suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with Ryle is upended, and Lily realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
It Lives Inside
(2023. Fiction: Horror. Director: Bishal Dutta)
Starring: Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan, Betty Gabriel, Vik Sahay, Gage Marsh, Siddhartha Minhas
Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.
Joan Baez I am a Noise
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, Karen O’Connor)
Starring: Joan Baez
Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and offstage, from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan. A searingly honest look at a living legend, this film is a compelling and deeply personal exploration of an iconic artist who has never told the full truth of her life, as she experienced it, until now.
Joyland
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Saim Sadiq)
Starring: Alina Khan, Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Sarwat Gilani
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes smitten with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
The Killer’s Game
(2024. Fiction: Action. Director: J.J. Perry)
Starring: Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Terry Crews, Scott Adkins, Pom Klementieff, Ben Kingsley, Marko Zaror, Lucy Cork
In the new action-comedy when top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands by taking a hit on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues and win back the love of his life before it’s too late.
Kneecap
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Rich Peppiatt)
Starring: Moglai Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Provai, Josie Walker, Michael Fassbender
When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome the police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic Kneecap play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.
La Chimera
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Alice Rohrwacher)
Starring: Josh O’Connor, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but can never find. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur searches for the door to the afterlife of which myths speak.
Let it be Morning
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Eran Kolirin)
Starring: Juna Suleiman, Salim Daw, Ehab Salami, Khalifa Natour, Alex Bakri
Sami lives in Jerusalem with his wife and child, and an invitation to his brother’s wedding forces him to return to the Arab village where he grew up. After the wedding, with no warning or explanation, the village is put under military lockdown by Israeli soldiers and cut off from the outside world. Chaos rises overnight amongst those stuck within the walls.
Little Richard: I am Everything
(2023. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Lisa Cortes)
Starring: Little Richard, Billy Porter, John Waters, Mick Jagger, Pat Boone, Paul McCartney
One-of-a-kind rock ‘n’ roll icon who shaped the world of music.
Lynch/Oz
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Alexandre Philippe)
Starring: David Lynch, John Waters, Karyn Kusama, David Lowery, Rodney Ascher
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography from his early short The Alphabet to his recent television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration consciously or unconsciously from a single work. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and communicates with that legendary fantasy? In turn, what do Lynch’s films have to say about the enduring resonance of one of America’s most beloved classics? Through six distinct perspectives, Alexandre O. Philippe’s Lynch/Oz helps us reexperience and reinterpret The Wizard of Oz through David Lynch, delivering new appreciations of both.
Nowhere Special
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Uberto Pasolini)
Starring: James Norton, Daniel Lamont, Eileen O’Higgins
John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation. As John struggles to find the right answer to his impossible task, he comes to accept the help of a young social worker, opening himself to solutions he would never have considered. And he finally comes to accept his anger at the injustice of his destiny, the need to share the truth with his son, and to follow the child’s instincts on the biggest decision of their lives.
The Old Oak
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Ken Loach)
Starring: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson, Trevor Fox
The Old Oak is a deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope. The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen through hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants. The formation of an unexpected friendship between TJ and a young Syrian woman named Yara opens up new possibilities for the divided village.
The Peasants
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman)
Starring: Kamila Urzedowska, Robert Gulaczyk, Miroslaw Baka, Sonia Mietielica, Ewa Kasprzyk
From the creators of Loving Vincent, Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village a hotbed of gossip, feuds, and deep-rooted patriarchy. When she finds herself caught between the desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other men of the village, her resistance puts her on a collision course with the community around her.
The People’s Joker
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: Vera Drew)
Starring: Phil Braun, Giffin Kramer, Christian Calloway, David Liebe Hart, Nathan Faustyn, Kane Distler, Lynn Downey, Vera Drew
An aspiring joker moves to Gotham City to make it big, but ends up grappling with her gender identity while forming an anti-comedy troupe and combatting a fascistic caped crusader. Helmed by writer/director/editor/star Vera Drew and using her own life experiences as a basis for the film, THE PEOPLE’S JOKER is a deeply personal journey that’s as much documentary as it is parody.
Perpetrator
(2023. Fiction: Horror. Director: Jennifer Reeder)
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Lowell, Kiah McKirnan, Melanie Liburd
Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing from her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
Remembering Gene Wilder
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Ron Frank)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Alan Alda, Mel Brooks, Harry Connick Jr., Carol Kane, Richard Pryor
The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen home movies, narration from Wilder’s audiobook memoir, and interviews with a roster of brilliant friends and collaborators like Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, and Carol Kane. It shines a light on an essential performer, writer, director, and all-around mensch.
Retribution
(2023. Fiction: Action. Director: Nimrod Antal)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Modine
In this ticking-clock thriller of redemption and revenge, Matt Turner begins a high-speed chase across Berlin to complete a specific series of tasks after a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat. With Matt’s kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger’s increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time to save his family.
Robot Dreams
(2024. Fiction: Animated. Director: Pablo Berger)
Starring: Ivan Labanda, Albert Trifol, Jose Garcia Tos, Luis Mediavilla
Dog lives in Manhattan and is tired of being alone, so he builds himself a robot. Their friendship blossoms to the rhythm of ’80s NYC until, one summer night, Dog is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
Saint Omer
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Alice Diop)
Starring: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurélia Petit
Bringing a documentarian’s sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.
Sanctuary
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Zachary Wigon)
Starring: Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, Danita Battle, Rene Calvo
In the wake of inheriting his father’s hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with a dominatrix. A battle of wills ensues to keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and forth.
Sasquatch Sunset
(2024. Fiction: Comedy. Director: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner)
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek, Nathan Zellner
In the North American wilderness, a family of Sasquatches embarks on an epic, hilarious, and poignant journey over the course of a year. The Zellner Bros. bring you the greatest Bigfoot story ever told.
Silent Night
(2023. Fiction: Action. Director: John Woo)
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kid Cudi, Harold Torres, Scott Mescudi
From legendary director John Woo and the producer of John Wick comes this gritty revenge tale of a tormented father who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son’s death. Full of Woo’s signature style, this film redefines the action genre with visceral, thrill-a-minute storytelling.
Slotherhouse
(2023. Fiction: Horror. Director: Matthew Goodhue)
Starring: Lisa Ambalavanar, Sydney Craven, Olivia Rouyre, Bianca Beckles-Rose, Andrew Horton, Sutter Nolan, Grace Patterson, Milica Vrzic, Annamaria Serda, Rudi Rok, Tiff Stevenson, Stefan Kapicic
A college student takes an adorable creature out of the jungle to gain popularity, only to discover it goes on a rampant killing spree. Will Emily and her sisters escape the house with their lives? Or is this death-sloth too quick for them?
Sorry/Not Sorry
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Caroline Suh, Cara Mones)
Starring: Louis C.K., Jen Kirkman, Cara Buckley, Jodi Kantor, Michael Ian Black
Through candor and surprising humor, Sorry/Not Sorry sheds new light on the nuanced experiences of three women who spoke up about comedian Louis C.K.’s sexual misconduct over the years. By reexamining Louis C.K.’s behavior and his unprecedented comeback, alongside the testimonies of these women, this documentary invites viewers to question whose stories and whose art we value, and at what cost.
Speak No Evil
(2024. Fiction: Horror. Director: James Watkins)
Starring: James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough, Scoot McNairy, Motaz Malhees
When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
Strange Darling
(2024. Fiction: Horror. Director: JT Mollner)
Starring: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, Ed Begley Jr., Steven Michael Quezada
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
A Symphony for a Common Man
(2024. Non-Fiction: Documentary. Director: Jose Joffily)
Starring: Jose Bustani
The US justification of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction has long been debunked. The US government wanted to bring about regime change and secure oil interests. Come what may, there was to be war. The US government crushed a potentially successful attempt to prevent the war. Negotiations led by José Bustani, director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), on Iraq’s membership in the multilateral organization were scuttled. Because Bustani refused to bow to US demands to stop the negotiations, the US government used fake news about mismanagement to pressure the participating countries in the OPCW to remove him from office. The smear campaign was successful. Nearly twenty years later, Bustani and others involved look back at the American abuse of power as a warning.
The Taste of Things
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Tran Anh Hung)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger, Patrick d’Assumçao, Sarah Adler
Cook Eugenie and her boss Dodin have grown fond of one another for over 20 years, and their romance gives rise to dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie’s reluctance to commit, he begins to cook for her.
The Teacher’s Lounge
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Iker Catak)
Starring: Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Lobau, Michael Klammer, Rafael Stachowiak, Sarah Bauerett, Kathrin Wehlisch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich
An idealistic middle school teacher who advocates for a student accused of stealing becomes embroiled in conflict when she becomes the target of a theft herself.
Tiger Stripes
(2024. Fiction: Fantasy. Director: Amanda Neil Eu)
Starring: Zafreen Zairizal, Deena Ezral, Piqa, Shaheizy Sam, June Lojong
Zaffan, 12, lives in a small rural community in Malaysia. In full puberty, she realizes that her body is changing at an alarming rate. Her friends turn away from her when a mass hysteria hits the school, and Zaffan experiences animalistic body changes. Fear spreads and a doctor intervenes to chase away the demon that haunts the girls. Like a tiger harassed and dislodged from its habitat, Zaffan decides to reveal its true nature, its fury, its rage and its beauty.
Touch
(2024. Fiction: Drama. Director: Baltasar Kormakur)
Starring: Egill Ólafsson, Koki, Palmi Kormakur, Masahiro Motoki, Yoko Narahashi
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents, Touch follows one man’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago before his time runs out.
Twisters
(2024. Fiction: Action. Director: Lee Isaac Chung)
Starring: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Maura Tierney, Kiernan Shipka, Katy O’Brian, David Corenswet, Anthony Ramos, Sasha Lane, Paul Scheer, Daryl McCormack
An update to the 1996 film ‘Twister’, which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system.
Walking Dead: Dead City Season 1
(2023. Fiction: Television Series)
Starring: Lauren Cohan, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, Zeljko Ivanek
Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
Zone of Interest
(2023. Fiction: Drama. Director: Jonathan Glazer)
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.