2010s

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The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.Read More »

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In a village outside Dakar, the gods – or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Directed by Alain Gomis and starring multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams, “Tey” is a beautiful, sensual, humane tale with beautiful scenes that seek to show the elements of friendship, desire, sadness, affection and anger that are usually left unsaid.Read More »

About the cult of “The Day of the Beast”. Two decades after its premiere, Álex de la Iglesia’s movie continues to be the great go-to example if you want to mix the most brutal fantastic with the Spanish tradition of the grotesque.Read More »

One man’s desperation to save his dying wife sparks a chain of tragedies in the dark crime thriller Circle of Crime. The film offers a complex story that first depicts several seemingly unconnected incidents: the escape of a serial killer, a man being chased by loan sharks after taking the money to save his wife’s life, a taxi driver’s hit-and-run and a woman’s suicide attempt. As the plot unfolds, the connection between these incidents begins to become clear.Read More »

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance. He created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, using that forum to express his revolutionary political opinions against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. His influence helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria and promoted Pan Africanist politics to the world.Read More »

Fandry is a 2013 Indian Marathi language film, written and directed by Nagraj Manjule in a directorial debut. It stars Somnath Avghade and Rajshree Kharat as the film leads. The story focuses on a romance amidst caste-based discrimination. The film set in Akolner, a village near Ahmednagar is about a teenager from a Dalit (lower caste) family, who lives at the village fringe, and falls in love with an upper caste girl.Read More »

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Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old traditions and adapting to American values.Read More »

Plot: The adventures of Matt Farley as he spends a few weeks preparing for a big comedy show in Manchester, NH.Read More »

Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs.Read More »