Explore our collection of films from 2021 to 2030. New additions weekly. Arthouse, cult, erotic, and independent cinema.
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 looms near, William Basinski contemplates the enduring legacy of “The Disintegration Loops” (his elegy to the 2001 Attacks), while quarantined in the midst of COVID-19. All of the interviews are shot on Zoom, interspersed with dramatically eerie shots of an almost empty NYC at the outset of the pandemic, and loaded with amazing archival footage of William growing up and becoming the true visionary he was always meant to be.Read More »
What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? Golden Jubilee takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region. A tool for extraction and exploitation becomes a method for preservation. The father, sparked by a memory of an encounter as a child, inhabits the voice of a spirit known locally as Devchar, whose task is to protect the workers, farmers, and the once communal lands of Goa.Read More »
2000s. Anna is thirteen years old. For the first time, she stays at home alone under the supervision of her neighbor – punk Ars, with whom she has long been in love. Anya forces Ars to take her to his youth company with the mysterious name “Avako” in order to spend the whole night with them and finally get Ars’s attention.Read More »
A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogota, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.Read More »
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.Read More »
Summer in Corsica. In a Corsican village nestled in the mountains everyone experiences summer in his or her own way: children play, teenagers flirt, and the elders comment on the passage of time at their local bar. In the August heat, it doesn’t take long for tensions to rise as one family struggles to keep grudges from bubbling to the surface. Sometimes a spark is all that is needed to set the maquis alight.Read More »
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A single mother, Julie gets her children ready and drops them off at their nanny’s as the first step in her hectic daily routine in Paris. Between household chores, and her job as a housekeeper in a luxury hotel, she receives an offer to interview for a position as marketing manager.Read More »
In a cinema letter to French director Jean Vigo, Lynne Sachs ponders the delicate resonances of his 1933 classic “Zero for Conduct” in which a group of school boys wages an anarchist rebellion against their authoritarian teachers. Thinking about the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the United States Capitol by thousands of right-wing activists, Sachs wonders how innocent play or calculated protest can turn so quickly into chaos and violence.Read More »
In an ordinary abandoned house – On what could be your ordinary street – A gang of desperate criminals have found something – or has it found them.Read More »