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Sad Vacation is an up close and personal account of the tumultuous and stormy relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and how it ended in Room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel. This films pulls no punches and reveals the facts through personal friends, insiders and witnesses. Includes interviews with Sylvain Sylvain (New York Dolls), Bob Gruen, Walter Lure and many more.

Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy. Mr. Pig is the first title in the French Blood series, combining hyper-designed aesthetics with chilling horror stories.

One night, a strange clone of Hitler comes to Fendika- a grassroots tavern in Addis Ababa. Frustrations, dancing and comic touches ensue.

Two lovers look to spice up their relationship by feeding into their addiction to kill, in hopes of adding a sense of danger to their bizarre relationship. Things become difficult as nothing’s enough for one partner’s pursuit.

A bold vérité documentary and feel-good portrait of a sprightly 75-year-old priest who tends to 20+ villages in the idyllic French Pyrénées. "Leisurely but engrossing, often touching, and in the end surprising." -Video Librarian

A carefree young Rastafarian is prompted to go on a search for his father, who he never met, in Cape Verde, and finds his roots. FIPRESCI and Sophia Award Winner.

A reporter, her cameraman and some thieves must work together to finally put an end to this legendary man-eater, but that won't be easy as this aquatic serial killer has emerged to exact it's own brand of revenge on them.

Kimmi, Sally and Nancy are best friends 4ever, secretly hanging out overnight at their high school. Only Kimmi’s a vampire who’s in love with Sally, and it’s going to be one hell of a queer neon night.

All hell is about to break loose when a food delivery goes wrong. Inspired by a real life tweet, this horror comedy short combines werewolf mythology with the most terrifying monster of all - the pandemic-variety Karen.

Davis and Bennett wander in and out of stranger's lives performing 'The Procedure'. However, when the duo arrive at a remote family home, they face a challenge unlike anything they've seen before.

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A documentary that exposes the rich growing subculture of hip-hop that was developed in New York City in late 70s and early 80s, specifically focusing on graffiti art and breakdancing

Antonio has spent his whole life away from Italy, his home country. He crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad. The old man and the young woman's destinies mirror each other. Memories from the past are awoken and end up offering a more peaceful future to the both of them.

France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer.

Producer Tony Newton presents a stomach turning collection of the most disturbing faux snuff short films ever found on the internet, not for the easily disturbed or triggered.

Davis and Bennett wander in and out of stranger's lives performing 'The Procedure'. However, when the duo arrive at a remote family home, they face a challenge unlike anything they've seen before.

After being exposed to a near-fatal dose of radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself transformed into a reptile whenever the sun hits his skin; only when he's out of its gaze can he return to human form. His aides try to cure him however they can, but they neglect to consider the mental toll it takes on their scientist boss.

A girl living alone in a post apocalyptic wasteland finds herself hunted down by marauders who want her to fight in their fighting pit for their entertainment.

A wholesome Long Island family struggles to make ends meet after Hurricane Sandy. Then their world really gets turned upside-down when a deranged Olympic-hopeful rents a room in their house and refuses to leave.

A sci-fi thriller/dark comedy in which a scientist invents time travel and is zapped 6 months into the future. But that future is one where he is a hunted man for murder. He needs to travel back in time to solve the mystery.

A beautiful and erotic cabaret dancer Moira is hired to impersonate another woman who turns out to be a secret agent and must receive an important message in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Idling afternoons and psychedelic moods immersed in music provide an adrenaline rush for drifting youth in Lisbon. "A strong and mysterious homage to youth." -Cineuropa

Newly arrived to New York City and deserted by her husband Gabriel, Mariana must find a way, in a strange city where she barely speaks the language, to provide for her family, financially and emotionally.

Sexy Frenchy (Marie-Pascale Elfman) falls into an insane underworld ruled by a horny little king (Hervé Villechaize, "Fantasy Island") and his jealous queen (Susan Tyrell, Angel). Chicken-boy comes to the rescue, only to have his head cut off by a soul-singing Satan himself (played by Danny Elfman), along with The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. Frog butlers, topless princesses and rioting school kids all sing and dance in unforgettable musical numbers performed by Danny Elfman, Cab Calloway, Josephine Baker and more in this timeless cult classic comedy-musical-fantasy of epic proportions!

WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter. "A profound meditation on art and an excellent dual-biopic." -Hammer to Nail

An epic tale of slashing swords, cutting betrayal, and bloody revenge, Samurai Vendetta is justly hailed as one of the best samurai films ever made!

One day, Soumaya is fired from her job. She then sees on TV that news outlets are linking her to jihadist circles, days after her apartment is raided by police...

A bumbling young film crew, shooting a low-budget horror in an abandoned orphanage, discovers that a family of sadistic killers has rewritten their script.

A girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon finds herself on the trail of a reclusive genius. But her work takes a series of unforeseen twists, and she plunges into a dark world of earth-shattering cosmological secrets. "A mesmerizing and sexy head trip." -Geek Monthly

A fast-paced, quirky, laugh-out-loud unpredictable sexy comedy about a young husband's desperate attempts to get a cable box for his wife. Set in the dark, snow covered landscape of northern Finland.

A man is imprisoned by a psychotic doctor, who tortures him an increasingly gruesome ways in order to extract chemicals from his bloodstream. Along the way, he develops a relationship with a female prisoner.

A young woman is murdered, her body dismembered, its parts dumped across Vienna. Based on a true story. "Confidently balances between emotional immersion and reporting from outside." -Kino Zeit

After investigating a neighbor's attic, two high school friends, known for making prank videos, are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing, supernatural events involving a creepy, vintage doll named Heidi - but no one will take their claims seriously...

A race of human-looking aliens attempts to save Earth from its inhabitants - by resurrecting the dead to exterminate the living in order to stop the construction of a doomsday weapon. Hailed as the Worst Movie of All Time.

When Danny and Zoe decide to buy an old haunted attraction, they think they'll have fun and make money. After meeting with the groundskeeper, they learn the property has a bloody past. They hire a full cast of haunt actors who work together to bring the haunt back from the dead. On opening night, no one stands a chance as Teddy returns to his old stomping ground for more blood!

Sad Vacation is an up close and personal account of the tumultuous and stormy relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and how it ended in Room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel. This films pulls no punches and reveals the facts through personal friends, insiders and witnesses. Includes interviews with Sylvain Sylvain (New York Dolls), Bob Gruen, Walter Lure and many more.

Former Miss Bahamas Josephine Jacqueline Jones sparked an international firestorm with her debut starring role as Venus, the stunning ebony seductress whom no man - or woman - can possibly resist.

In Rome, a drug-addicted courtesan falls in love with a man who insists that she gives up her lavish, orgiastic lifestyle for fidelity, but tragedy soon ensures.

In a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.

Baron Frankenstein’s daughter and his assistant/her lover continue his experiments in an attempt to rebuild his legacy after he is killed by his psychotic, murderous first monster.

Three Australian telephone workers find themselves trapped during the onset of a zombie apocalypse. Comedians Jim Jefferies and Alex Williamson star in this hilarious take on Zombie movies.

Henning, a fashion photographer, is driven by visions of artistic glory. Encouraged by a literary agent to produce a volume of erotic nudes, he takes aim at the perfect layout with his favorite model, Leslie. All seems to be going well until the mysterious Joyce appears.

When one of sex therapist extraordinaire Linda's patients turns out to be harboring the plans to a top-secret government computer, both the KGB and the CIA attempt to enlist Linda in their efforts to steal the data.

Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.

A freak accident sends a crew of scientists hurtling into Mars instead of landing on the moon. After surviving the crash, they decide to explore and find evidence of a demolished civilization. Considered a defining film of the mid-century space-exploration genre.

From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes the horrific Heavy Metal splatter film classic, DEMONS! A strange masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at the mysterious Metropol cinema. When a patron is accidentally scratched by a prop displayed in the lobby, she transforms into a flesh-ripping demon!

In 2072 Rome, Italy, the ruthless CEO of a TV networks plots to stage a modern series of gladiator games for ratings while one ‘contestant’ learns of a conspiracy behind the true nature of the results.

The life of an obsessive social media influencer unravels when her boyfriend introduces her to a strange fruit.

Home is where the hurt is. Lily finds herself in the living room, staring at four dead bodies. "Brilliant, and highlights how people can hide who they are and the lies that photos can tell." -Bloody Disgusting

Three teenagers go to a historical farmhouse for the weekend and are caught up in the midst of a war between violent, mysterious and ancient forces. Whichever side wins, they lose.

A modern horror omnibus inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century Theatre du Grand Guignol, including six bizarre tales from seven of horror's most transgressive filmmakers. "One of the best horror anthologies of all time." -Paste

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman who performs as a mermaid at the local carnival. In time, he suspects the girl might be a real mermaid - drawing men to a watery death whenever there's a full moon.

It's New Year's Eve, and everyone thinks that Marta and Jorge are the perfect couple. Too perfect. "Some of the most beautiful sequences in recent Portuguese cinema." -c7nema

We are all part of the same story. A feature-length documentary about the complexity of human migration and how this affects two friends in their day-to-day lives. "A heart-driven, superlatively human tale." -The Sound View

In 1988, South African filmmaker Cedric Sundström took a group of skilled actors to a disused railway warehouse in Pretoria to shoot the story of an unorthodox asylum for the sexually insane. With a semi-improvised script, a Roeg-meets-Argento style palette, and startling bursts of graphic violence and nudity, it was immediately banned by the government. It has remained virtually unseen until now.

Experience the hallucinatory debut by director Jeremy Kasten (THE WIZARD OF GORE) about a young amnesiac committed to an asylum where madness and murder may rip apart his mind forever. Starring Andras Jones (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4), Seth Green (ROBOT CHICKEN), Jeffrey Combs (RE-ANIMATOR), Wendy Robie (TWIN PEAKS), Ted Raimi (SKINNER), and Alice Cooper.

In the most lavish of penthouses, visible only through keyholes, there exists an erotic and dangerous world. Highly-paid sex workers specialize in high-stakes games, and the richer the client, the wilder the ride. When a fantasy gets too rough for one call-girl, escaping becomes her reality.

A new documentary about the painful and poignant final days of the tragic couple Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen

Odile, a young woman looking for adventure, is seduced by her neighbors, but the titillating new game turns dangerous when two unsavory players enter the mix.

After her mother's sudden death, ten year old Moja becomes the unexpected grown-up of her fragmented family, trying to bring her troubled older sister, Vesna, and distant father together.

What happens to art in the Internet age? A documentary on the evolving relationship between contemporary art, audience and digital technology. "Puts together two opposing thoughts, leading to new thoughts." -art4d

In a snowy mountain village, a beautiful woman is found dead. The group who found her considered the woman "Yuki Onna", a beautiful snow woman ghost. However, the "snow woman" turns out to be very much alive, She begins a sensual affair with one of the travelers who had tried to saver her. However, the villagers still believe her to be a monster, and lead an attack on the cabin where she's hiding.

Caligula's four-year reign and descent into madness are revisited through slanderous vignettes and blunt historical facts.

Depressed 17-year-old Sally is locked up in a pink, prison-like institution for teens who are so emotionally fµ¢ked that they’ve developed supernatural powers. The rebellion begins when Sally meets power-sociopath Ting-e-ling.

Haunted by memories and divine visions, a young woman struggles with trauma, rape and pregnancy in this poetic reimagining of the Greek Myth

A wealthy New York playboy prone to eccentricity and mischief dies unexpectedly, and his socialite friends are summoned for a viewing of his video will. "A tone-deaf riff on social manners and class mores." Screen Space

A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

From Berlin and Vienna in the 1930s; from New York to Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1950’s, ‘60s and ‘70s; on the grew women Beat post, ruth weiss, has written, performed, painted, and filmed the fact that her, ‘one more step west is the sea…” Thomas Anotnic traces her pioneering art and her world without boundaries.

The psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.

That twisted producer Tony Newton presents another vomit-bag worthy collection of the most sickening short films ever found on the internet, which are not recommended for those easily offended or triggered and will get under your skin and into the pit of your stomach.

In the mythical city of Leisure, a sexually-liberated husband and wife seduce a younger, staid couple in to experimenting with bisexuality and group sex.

Three young women encounter car trouble during a rainstorm on the way to a concert from their favorite band, Dragonsclaw. When they venture into the woods to find help, they stumble upon the lair of a flesh-masked maniac whose killing instrument of choice is a meathook. No one will survive and nothing will be left of them!

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll... and Dracula. Then You Die! Leila, a lonely young teen, parties with her friends in a warehouse. As the social barriers between the sexes crumble, she hides from the boys, but senses there is someone else who wants her who is not of this world.

In the true spirit of Christmas the girls put their rivalry and self preservation instincts aside and invite everyone to a big holiday bash. Mysteriously people at the party start disappearing to death. Who could be killing them' It could be anybody at the party! Who will live' Who will die' Who's top's will come off' and most importantly, who will win the epic eggnog wrestling match'

Mary Blackwell travels to her hometown of Maiden Hollow to clear out her deceased father's house. The villagers are hostile, while a local priest takes an unhealthy interest in Mary's daughter Alice, sparking a series of surreal fantasies on the brink of insanity.

Two women embark on a love affair. Iva is desperately in love, then her father appears. Hedi feels strongly attached. Winner of a Bavarian Film Prize, Best New Director, and other awards.

When Chris Rhymer, and her young son Jeremy, are forced to relocate to a small, rural community, they have no idea of the past terror that their presence re-awakens.

Based on Erich Von Daniken's book purporting to prove that throughout history aliens have visited earth.

Martin is on his way up the coast for a quiet weekend. Out of nowhere an attractive teenage girl appears on the side of the road. He drives past, but when he stops at a scenic spot up the road, she knocks on his window and asks him for a ride. His decision to drive her home turns into a nightmare when she coerces him inside.

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a love relationship and Iva is desperately in love. Suddenly Iva's father appears, to whom Hedi feels strongly attached. It seems that only one world exists for Hedi: her own.

Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad. "Both haunting and haunted, a palpably realized fever dream of a film." -Caribbean Beat

A mother (Dee Wallace) must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell-bent on tearing them apart.

Love hurts! After bonding over their mutual dislike of grapes, a manicurist and a strip club owner discover another commonality: they're both bloodthirsty serial killers.

A Sex & Psycho Suspense Mystery thriller. Susan lives in an idyllic farmhouse, along with the sex-loving youngsters Sandra, Olga and Julie, and the unstable voyeur Albert. A number of killings take place by the sex-vampires.

A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters straight out of Texas Chainsaw Massacre are serving up grisly fare in Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's fascinating arthouse horror film.

James is a young, successful, handsome exec surrounded by adoring friends and family. On the eve of his wedding night, he must overcome a bedazzling temptress and a particularly cruel father-in-law with a knack for torture. Will love win out or will James give in?

Following the worldwide smashes Emmanuelle (1974) and The Story of O (1975), influential French filmmaker Just Jaeckin returned in 1977 with the sensual real-life drama Madame Claude. Starring French New Wave icon Françoise Fabian in the title role along with a sinister Klaus Kinski and lovely Dayle Haddon.

On their last day of high school seven gorgeous girls have a slumber party to celebrate their going away to college. Across town, a maniacal chef goes on a killing spree. Can their gym coach (Debbie Rochon) come to the rescue of the bikini clad group' No', but when Chef Death (Rob Cosgrove) shows up at the party, hilarity ensues and the bloodbath begins.

A kinky retelling of DIABOLIQUE featuring lush Paris locations, trippy flashbacks, a swinging score by Riz Ortolani and an all-star EuroCult cast.

The peaceful life of a middle aged architect Francis turns upside down after the street attack.

From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes DEMONS 2, the sequel to the surprise horror hit, DEMONS! There's a scary movie on television and the residents of a luxury high-rise building have their eyes glued to their sets. Unfortunately for a young birthday girl, a demonic evil is released through her TV and partygoers soon find themselves fighting an army of murderous monsters!

An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.

Waking up on a stage, Sayaka and Tsuda find themselves confined by evil mastermind Ando working with Sayaka's husband, Yamazaki. Discovering the adultery of his young wife and his secretary, Yamazaki asks Ando to use "Kinbaku" (bondage) as punishment for his wife's betrayal - but Sayaka's reaction gradually changes by Ando's skilled and erotic bondage technique.

An organized gang terrorizes their victims, forcing them to perform humiliating acts on camera which are then released online. Anna and Sam's lives are forever altered after becoming involved in this world of crime.

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A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters straight out of Texas Chainsaw Massacre are serving up grisly fare in Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's fascinating arthouse horror film.

A Manhattan composer is consumed by grief after his wife and daughter are killed in a shocking accident. But when he moves to a secluded Victorian mansion, he finds himself haunted by a paranormal entity that may unleash an even more disturbing secret. Based on actual events.

The psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.

Two boys are released from prison on their eighteenth birthdays after killing a three-year old when they were ten.

A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman who performs as a mermaid at the local carnival. In time, he suspects the girl might be a real mermaid - drawing men to a watery death whenever there's a full moon.

Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

When three young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a French industrialist accused of murdering his family, they are confronted by supernatural forces engaged in a war for the very soul of the land.

An American writer in Rome is talked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book.

In 1995, legendary director Bruno Mattei stunned the civilized world with the ultimate sharksploitation saga. Released in some countries as JAWS 5. "A level of cinematic thievery never experienced before." -B-Movie Film Vault

When four women arrive at a deserted resort, they unlock a perverse netherworld of lesbianism, sadism and unholy violation by a zombie religious sect.

Two young women working the night shift at a secluded gas station unwittingly become the stars of a terrifying livestream show on the dark web. "Horror in its rawest form." -Nerdly

A race of human-looking aliens attempts to save Earth from its inhabitants - by resurrecting the dead to exterminate the living in order to stop the construction of a doomsday weapon. Hailed as the Worst Movie of All Time.

Jenny (Rachael Robbins) a freshman at Community College University earns her tuition by working at Miss Johnson's (Debbie Rochon) Bikini Carwash along with her seven gorgeous classmates. After work, Jenny and friends accidentally resurrect the infamous Chef Death during a seance. Chef Death finds the bikini-clad girls at Miss Johnson's year end party and the bloodbath begins.

Three teenagers go to a historical farmhouse for the weekend and are caught up in the midst of a war between violent, mysterious and ancient forces. Whichever side wins, they lose.

On their last day of high school seven gorgeous girls have a slumber party to celebrate their going away to college. Across town, a maniacal chef goes on a killing spree. Can their gym coach (Debbie Rochon) come to the rescue of the bikini clad group' No', but when Chef Death (Rob Cosgrove) shows up at the party, hilarity ensues and the bloodbath begins.

Four nurses career minded to the point go neglecting their families, were relentless even at their jobs, They breached most of the medical ethics regarding the treatment they gave their patients and many lives had to pay...

Lukas is a researcher who volunteers for a sensory deprivation experiment attempting to communicate with a young comatose woman. The experiment takes a twist when the two meet in altered forms of consciousness.

A family-owned meat shop struggling to survive stumbles onto the secret of success - and is obliged to keep up with a newly-discovered and insatiable customer demand.

Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy. Mr. Rabbit is the second installment in the French Blood series, combining hyper-designed aesthetics with chilling horror stories.

In a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll... and Dracula. Then You Die! Leila, a lonely young teen, parties with her friends in a warehouse. As the social barriers between the sexes crumble, she hides from the boys, but senses there is someone else who wants her who is not of this world.

Michelle is one part sexual nymph, one part man-hating psycho, and one part 12-year-old child. When she catches the eye of Andy, it turns his life upside down and their relationship becomes the formula for passion, pleasure, and pain.

A troubled private investigator embarks on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment. As he witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, he begins to feel and see a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.

The peaceful life of a middle aged architect Francis turns upside down after the street attack.

When Danny and Zoe decide to buy an old haunted attraction, they think they'll have fun and make money. After meeting with the groundskeeper, they learn the property has a bloody past. They hire a full cast of haunt actors who work together to bring the haunt back from the dead. On opening night, no one stands a chance as Teddy returns to his old stomping ground for more blood!

After suffering a brutal attack and a miscarriage, Juana starts hearing mysterious noises and seeing things- objects changing places, shadows that follow her through her house. Or is she haunted by ghosts, losing her mind, or still somebody’s victim?

Tired of being pestered by all of the men around her, Sarah, enacts the best kind of Polanski – ask revenge on her would-be mansplainers.

A married couple decides to spend a weekend in a remote cabin, but their romantic getaway takes a turn for the worst, when a seething suspicion turns into pure madness. "A twist that shocks the senses." –HorrorTalk

Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.

A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

A mind-bending portrait of Mexico City, reflected in a series of dark, grotesque, sordid, and violent misfit characters. "A Dante’s Inferno of a retro-horror fantasy" -B&S About Movies

A romantic young writer, struggling financially in London, escapes to his birthplace, the rural mountain town of Siatista, where his imaginative father died under mysterious circumstances. If houses dreamt, who would wake them?

In a snowy mountain village, a beautiful woman is found dead. The group who found her considered the woman "Yuki Onna", a beautiful snow woman ghost. However, the "snow woman" turns out to be very much alive, She begins a sensual affair with one of the travelers who had tried to saver her. However, the villagers still believe her to be a monster, and lead an attack on the cabin where she's hiding.

Mark leaves his girlfriend to be with Natasha, the girl he truly loves, but her brother Andrew comes with the relationship. Willing to sacrifice all, he adheres to Andrew's manipulations while keeping Natasha ignorant of their deeds, which takes him through a series of violent and necromantic events leading to his purpose in a much darker scheme.

Terry is a life coach and motivational speaker for the meek and afraid, and his methods are very effective. When his students start to become aware of the “wolf” inside of them, their transformations take a dangerous turn.

Mary Blackwell travels to her hometown of Maiden Hollow to clear out her deceased father's house. The villagers are hostile, while a local priest takes an unhealthy interest in Mary's daughter Alice, sparking a series of surreal fantasies on the brink of insanity.

From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes DEMONS 2, the sequel to the surprise horror hit, DEMONS! There's a scary movie on television and the residents of a luxury high-rise building have their eyes glued to their sets. Unfortunately for a young birthday girl, a demonic evil is released through her TV and partygoers soon find themselves fighting an army of murderous monsters!

Deep in the rural English countryside, two tempting daughters of Erebus, the woeful wraith-like phantoms Fran and Miriam, prey on the innocent and the foolishly brave to tread alone.

An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.

A man is imprisoned by a psychotic doctor, who tortures him an increasingly gruesome ways in order to extract chemicals from his bloodstream. Along the way, he develops a relationship with a female prisoner.

The girls of Lincoln High are planning a party... a slumber party! Pillow fights, pizza and a marathon of horror movies. What started as the best night of the year slowly becomes their worst nightmare as a real-life maniac crashes the party and decides to make a few victims of his own.

An Unknown Entity terrorizes the people of a small town. Young men are murdered, Young women driven into madness, all while local farmers and huntsmen report that there is something RED out there.

A late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them.

A mother (Dee Wallace) must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell-bent on tearing them apart.

Elena and Andrea, a young married couple, arrive at their newly bought country house. A disturbing atmosphere pervades the old mansion: something is lurking under the ancient foundations, something that will affect them more than they could ever imagine...

A holiday craft fair is ground zero for a coven of Satan worshipers who stalk and kidnap a group of locals in their attempt to create a 'Satanic Nativity' with occult spells and grisly slayings. The first horror movie in decades from legendary genre director Max Raven (a/k/a Bret McCormick) (The Abomination, Tabloid, Repligator).

The screenwriter of classics that include THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK and TORSO, Ernesto Gastaldi made his directorial debut with one of the most groundbreaking yet underseen gialli of them all: When a boy witnesses his father kill a woman during an S&M session, he'll grow into a disturbed young man tormented by images of violence, perversion, madness and murder.

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

Love hurts! After bonding over their mutual dislike of grapes, a manicurist and a strip club owner discover another commonality: they're both bloodthirsty serial killers.

A Sex & Psycho Suspense Mystery thriller. Susan lives in an idyllic farmhouse, along with the sex-loving youngsters Sandra, Olga and Julie, and the unstable voyeur Albert. A number of killings take place by the sex-vampires.

Three young women encounter car trouble during a rainstorm on the way to a concert from their favorite band, Dragonsclaw. When they venture into the woods to find help, they stumble upon the lair of a flesh-masked maniac whose killing instrument of choice is a meathook. No one will survive and nothing will be left of them!

A bizarre tale of government skullduggery, satanic killings, zodiacal mayhem and messianic horror! Also known as SUICIDE CULT and once labelled a UK "Video Nasty." Starring Playboy centerfold Monica Tidwell.

A young woman is murdered, her body dismembered, its parts dumped across Vienna. Based on a true story. "Confidently balances between emotional immersion and reporting from outside." -Kino Zeit

When Chris Rhymer, and her young son Jeremy, are forced to relocate to a small, rural community, they have no idea of the past terror that their presence re-awakens.

An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result.

Haunted by memories and divine visions, a young woman struggles with trauma, rape and pregnancy in this poetic reimagining of the Greek Myth

When a bullied student at a New England girls school becomes comatose after a prank gone wrong, tormenters will suffer graphic telepathic punishment.

That twisted producer Tony Newton presents another vomit-bag worthy collection of the most sickening short films ever found on the internet, which are not recommended for those easily offended or triggered and will get under your skin and into the pit of your stomach.

A defrocked priest turned hooker-slashing psychopath escapes from an asylum and kills people in God's name, prowling the streets of Paris in a fever of violence, voyeurism, rampant nudity and S&M depravity. A cult classic from legendary writer/director Jesús Franco.

Waking up on a stage, Sayaka and Tsuda find themselves confined by evil mastermind Ando working with Sayaka's husband, Yamazaki. Discovering the adultery of his young wife and his secretary, Yamazaki asks Ando to use "Kinbaku" (bondage) as punishment for his wife's betrayal - but Sayaka's reaction gradually changes by Ando's skilled and erotic bondage technique.

After investigating a neighbor's attic, two high school friends, known for making prank videos, are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing, supernatural events involving a creepy, vintage doll named Heidi - but no one will take their claims seriously...

A body builder must save himself and his friends from a demonic ghost.

A reporter, her cameraman and some thieves must work together to finally put an end to this legendary man-eater, but that won't be easy as this aquatic serial killer has emerged to exact it's own brand of revenge on them.

Many years ago in the Acadian forest, a local sheriff and his oldest friend are forced to perform an exorcism in a remote cabin in the woods.

From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes the horrific Heavy Metal splatter film classic, DEMONS! A strange masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at the mysterious Metropol cinema. When a patron is accidentally scratched by a prop displayed in the lobby, she transforms into a flesh-ripping demon!

In the true spirit of Christmas the girls put their rivalry and self preservation instincts aside and invite everyone to a big holiday bash. Mysteriously people at the party start disappearing to death. Who could be killing them' It could be anybody at the party! Who will live' Who will die' Who's top's will come off' and most importantly, who will win the epic eggnog wrestling match'

Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy. Mr. Pig is the first title in the French Blood series, combining hyper-designed aesthetics with chilling horror stories.

When a trio of beautiful young women journey to their ancestral home to claim an inheritance, they fall prey to a coven of witches intent on reincarnating their deceased vampire leader.

An organized gang terrorizes their victims, forcing them to perform humiliating acts on camera which are then released online. Anna and Sam's lives are forever altered after becoming involved in this world of crime.

Baron Frankenstein’s daughter and his assistant/her lover continue his experiments in an attempt to rebuild his legacy after he is killed by his psychotic, murderous first monster.

Three friends must discover what's behind the killing of local children, the victims drew the same picture before they die. They uncover the evil spirit of a circus clown and must send it back to hell before more children are murdered.

Twenty-five years after the "Camp Murder" massacre, Tommy Heller has escaped from the mental institution to return to the camp where it all started. From cult legend Mark Polonia.

In this 80s monster flick, Laverne comes home after a hot and sweaty aerobics workout with one thing on her mind - a nice relaxing bath. Unbeknownst to poor Laverne, she's got a killer clog in her pipes! You'll never bathe again.

After a mysterious mold starts spreading across the surface of an abandoned mattress, a sentient creature begins to take shape from within. Feasting on its unsuspecting victims' vertebrae while they rest, the creature grows stronger, finding nourishment not only in the bones and sinew it assimilates but also in the hopes, fears, and emotions of all those it encounters.

A psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.

A modern horror omnibus inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century Theatre du Grand Guignol, including six bizarre tales from seven of horror's most transgressive filmmakers. "One of the best horror anthologies of all time." -Paste

A provocative filmmaker gathers a handful of young and successful creatives for the unveiling of his newest and mysterious project.

Producer Tony Newton presents a stomach turning collection of the most disturbing faux snuff short films ever found on the internet, not for the easily disturbed or triggered.

All hell is about to break loose when a food delivery goes wrong. Inspired by a real life tweet, this horror comedy short combines werewolf mythology with the most terrifying monster of all - the pandemic-variety Karen.

A group of six friends from around the world descend upon an old abandoned house in the French countryside.

Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of 30 French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy.

Strange things are happening in Druid Hills, Kentucky. People say there are "large Great White sharks swimming in the corn stalks!" Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose.

Two lovers look to spice up their relationship by feeding into their addiction to kill, in hopes of adding a sense of danger to their bizarre relationship. Things become difficult as nothing’s enough for one partner’s pursuit.

After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a prostitute convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.

A bumbling young film crew, shooting a low-budget horror in an abandoned orphanage, discovers that a family of sadistic killers has rewritten their script.

Mary witnesses the brutal suicide of her Father. The End of Days is upon the world; famine, drought, looting, and chaos are ripping the world apart, but what is the Holy Church actually doing? "Better than The Exorcist." -House of Tortured Souls

Experience the hallucinatory debut by director Jeremy Kasten (THE WIZARD OF GORE) about a young amnesiac committed to an asylum where madness and murder may rip apart his mind forever. Starring Andras Jones (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4), Seth Green (ROBOT CHICKEN), Jeffrey Combs (RE-ANIMATOR), Wendy Robie (TWIN PEAKS), Ted Raimi (SKINNER), and Alice Cooper.

Caligula's four-year reign and descent into madness are revisited through slanderous vignettes and blunt historical facts.

A student becomes entangled in the bizarre dramas of his landlord's family.

An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.

Home is where the hurt is. Lily finds herself in the living room, staring at four dead bodies. "Brilliant, and highlights how people can hide who they are and the lies that photos can tell." -Bloody Disgusting

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Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales delves deeply into the unique relationship between humans and whales as told by renowned whale biologist and activist Dr. Roger Payne.

When Mama Peace is diagnosed with breast cancer, she struggles to raise funds for treatment, make ends meet, and hold onto her Christian faith. "A powerful and one-of-a-kind story." -eelive

You Are Here is a smartly-crafted commentary on our modern day existence. Comprised of interconnected mini-narratives, the film’s characters find themselves trapped in bizarre social experiments of their own making.

When a bullied student at a New England girls school becomes comatose after a prank gone wrong, tormenters will suffer graphic telepathic punishment.

THERE WERE ALWAYS DOGS, NEVER KIDS is a documentary ode to legendary New York City video store Alan's Alley, where bizarrely arranged movies enticed clientele from cinephile to celebrity to local prison inmate. Charismatic owner Alan Sklar sifts through the nuance of his neon-flickering livelihood, in his store’s last days as a fixture in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

What happens to art in the Internet age? A documentary on the evolving relationship between contemporary art, audience and digital technology. "Puts together two opposing thoughts, leading to new thoughts." -art4d

A bold vérité documentary and feel-good portrait of a sprightly 75-year-old priest who tends to 20+ villages in the idyllic French Pyrénées. "Leisurely but engrossing, often touching, and in the end surprising." -Video Librarian

When an idealistic grade school teacher finds out that children in her school are going hungry - thanks to federal cutbacks - it compels her to do things she wouldn't have thought she could do. "Hungry is a little gem, and so important" - Artemis Women In Action Film Festival

A new documentary about the painful and poignant final days of the tragic couple Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen

The man is Henry Miller and the room is his bathroom, where the author soliloquizes about life, writing, sex, spirituality, nightmares, and New York. "An intimate portrayal of a man who lived openly." -Quotes Yes

An experiential introduction to Shakespeare Award-winning poet Mandy Kahn and the process behind her immersive, performative, peace-building poems. "A sun-powered X-ray into the process of a great artist." - PEN Award-winning author Mitch Horowitz

Brian Scott Pfeifle changes his name to Felix, enters psychoanalysis and sets out to befriend Archduke Otto von Habsburg. "An eccentric character study that is as colourful and personable as its subject is." -Cinemablographer

A creative documentary on writing history to solidify peace in a post-civil war society. "Casts a cool eye on the oddly surreal social landscape of the country after years of civil war." -The Progressive Magazine

Lola believes there's more to life than just volleyball and investigates the possibility of attending university after school. Made during Apartheid in South Africa

A young Japanese woman in London, where she moves to study painting, becomes passionately entwined with an artist, an older British man. Their age difference brings on the judgment of family and friends, while their bond continues to strengthen. Then secrets emerge…

A former star footballer turned social justice campaigner returns to his home town, befriends a young wannabe filmmaker who recently lost his father and is persuaded, despite opposition, into coaching the town's struggling footy team. He recruits refugees to make up the numbers with hilarious results, taking the community on a journey of change.

An incredible and moving portrait of three family members and their connection to the activist Plowshares movement. Ellen Grady shares the story of meeting her partner, Peter De Mott, and raising a family alongside their abnormal life, protesting nuclear weapons and war.

Iranian-American artist Moosa Harooni transforms seashells into heartfelt miniature sculptures of legendary characters, kings and poets, and ordinary people.

The fight for Lithuanian independence in 1991 gave a group of young men the chance to be heroes. "Perfect for any child that loves war games." -BB Reviews

A carefree young Rastafarian is prompted to go on a search for his father, who he never met, in Cape Verde, and finds his roots. FIPRESCI and Sophia Award Winner.

Unresolved conflicts force Juana to revisit long-kept emotions after she runs into her ex-boyfriend during her annual religious pilgrimage. "A minimalist tale in a seldom-filmed setting." -Roger's Movie Nation

A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad. "Both haunting and haunted, a palpably realized fever dream of a film." -Caribbean Beat

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980.

A girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon finds herself on the trail of a reclusive genius. But her work takes a series of unforeseen twists, and she plunges into a dark world of earth-shattering cosmological secrets. "A mesmerizing and sexy head trip." -Geek Monthly

A special glimpse of legendary Nate Wiley and his jazz trio, the original Crowd Pleasers, at the iconic Bob and Barbara's Lounge on South Street, Philadelphia. Nate Wiley on tenor, Cliff Lamar on drums and Howard Candie on the Hammond B3 set the scene.

Little Frunz is a disaster waiting to happen. He leaves Paris for Yerevan, where he lectures on good design and his unremitting love of cement. Revolution is in the air. Based on a book by Veken Berberian.

When one of sex therapist extraordinaire Linda's patients turns out to be harboring the plans to a top-secret government computer, both the KGB and the CIA attempt to enlist Linda in their efforts to steal the data.

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The story of a generation's disillusionment and radicalization, set in the fervent years of the Greek economy's collapse. "Punchy, difficult, allegorically urgent Greek tragedy." -Indiewire

Iranian-American artist Moosa Harooni transforms seashells into heartfelt miniature sculptures of legendary characters, kings and poets, and ordinary people.

A mind-bending portrait of Mexico City, reflected in a series of dark, grotesque, sordid, and violent misfit characters. "A Dante’s Inferno of a retro-horror fantasy" -B&S About Movies

A psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.

Antonio has spent his whole life away from Italy, his home country. He crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad. The old man and the young woman's destinies mirror each other. Memories from the past are awoken and end up offering a more peaceful future to the both of them.

The São Marcos river in the state of Goiás flows between the cities of Catalão and Campo Alegre. This region once had many farms, built and farmed by members of the same family. In some parts, only ruins remain, insistent reminders that someone once lived there. The remaining inhabitants lose more land, everyday, to soybean fields and the Serra do Facão hydroelectric dam; these are their lives.

MY MEXICAN BRETZEL uses home movies and moments of sound to tell the story of Vivian Barrett, a wealthy Swiss woman and her husband, Léon, a WWII pilot-turned-entrepreneur whose hearing was partly lost in a plane accident. Years of their lives are chronicled from the 40s through 60s, from Le Mans to Hawaïi. Vulnerability, loss, and belief are explored in an indulgently cinematic fashion.

It was his destiny that young Mouton would live his simple life as a seaside restaurant employee for three years and that he would be torn away from this life after a tragic night at the Sainte-Anne ball.

A documentary essay on memory, loss, expectation, and an imagined Armenia. A young woman's journey to her homeland is interwoven with photographs and the reflections of actress Arsinée Khanjian, resulting in an elegiac and sensory investigation into the concepts of home, identity and place.

Inspired by Pirandello's l'Innesto, THE GRAFT tells a story of sexual violence, love, sexism, and marriage. Laura and Giorgio have been married for 7 years, unable to conceive a child. Away on a seaside painting retreat, Laura is raped and becomes pregnant. Personal dramas conflict between husband and wife, magnifying the question of whether to keep the child.

A modern horror omnibus inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century Theatre du Grand Guignol, including six bizarre tales from seven of horror's most transgressive filmmakers. "One of the best horror anthologies of all time." -Paste

While out on a cross-country run, two friends stumble upon an illegal drug ring in the woods. Taken hostage by a notorious drug lord, they face the threat of becoming drug slaves themselves. Forced to work the plantation for “Cobra,” the two friends will have to rely on their wits if they wish to defeat the armed guards holding them captive.

Unresolved conflicts force Juana to revisit long-kept emotions after she runs into her ex-boyfriend during her annual religious pilgrimage. "A minimalist tale in a seldom-filmed setting." -Roger's Movie Nation

LOOSE ETHICS highlights the home as the child's first classroom for ethics, and asks if a lack of value-based teaching is nurturing crime in society. Does connecting children with elders help children learn how to empathize? Whose responsibility is it to introduce children to spirituality? Filmed in Mumbai, India.

In the most lavish of penthouses, visible only through keyholes, there exists an erotic and dangerous world. Highly-paid sex workers specialize in high-stakes games, and the richer the client, the wilder the ride. When a fantasy gets too rough for one call-girl, escaping becomes her reality.

When four women arrive at a deserted resort, they unlock a perverse netherworld of lesbianism, sadism and unholy violation by a zombie religious sect.

A girl living alone in a post apocalyptic wasteland finds herself hunted down by marauders who want her to fight in their fighting pit for their entertainment.

A young Japanese woman in London, where she moves to study painting, becomes passionately entwined with an artist, an older British man. Their age difference brings on the judgment of family and friends, while their bond continues to strengthen. Then secrets emerge…

A down on his luck western writer is presented with a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a film director's invitation: he wants Eugênio to write a film script. However, to write this script, Eugênio must spend three months isolated in a luxury hotel, without being able to go out or have contact with the world he know

One family. One weekend. One hell of a home video. A slice-of-life comedy about life, death, existential crises, and everything in between. Set mid-90s New Zealand.

Based on the voyages of 16th-century explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, one of the first Europeans to sail to the Orient.

Two young adults in Shanghai, living separate lives, do what they can to break out of their postmodern loneliness. "You might call this Still Life with Cell Phones.” -Video Librarian

Lola believes there's more to life than just volleyball and investigates the possibility of attending university after school. Made during Apartheid in South Africa

Kathy, a secretive and rebellious teenager, wants only one thing: to escape from the psychiatric facility in which she’s been locked up. Only her father can free her from this prison.

Odile, a young woman looking for adventure, is seduced by her neighbors, but the titillating new game turns dangerous when two unsavory players enter the mix.

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a love relationship and Iva is desperately in love. Suddenly Iva's father appears, to whom Hedi feels strongly attached. It seems that only one world exists for Hedi: her own.

After five years in prison, an ex-con returns to a society where total sexual freedom is now the norm. Michael yearns for sex, and becomes fascinated by the amorous life of an attractive woman next door eventually organizing a series of sordid orgies with her and the neighbors...

An astounding palette of image processing techniques that address the artistic process of film as art in both subject and form.

After being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago, an illegal Chinese immigrant discovers the true cost of her passage. "Offers a focused look at the lives of people who would otherwise go unnoticed. -Keeping it Reel

A portrait of neoliberal ideology imposing its dictates throughout the world. Behind the smokescreen, what's really going on? "It’s not the conservative part of neoconservative that's scary— it’s the neo." -The Georgia Straight

Three teenagers go to a historical farmhouse for the weekend and are caught up in the midst of a war between violent, mysterious and ancient forces. Whichever side wins, they lose.

Kimmi, Sally and Nancy are best friends 4ever, secretly hanging out overnight at their high school. Only Kimmi’s a vampire who’s in love with Sally, and it’s going to be one hell of a queer neon night.

The story is very freely based on the Cambridge Analytica affair, the theft of 80 millions Facebook users datas for electoral purposes (Donald Trump's election and vote on Brexit). Frédéric Poiret, journalist at Le Nouveau Courrier is told by Laura Bilinski, executive assistant at social network Profile, of a scandal she discovered by accident.

Andrzej and Michal are two young teenagers who come together every summer in the small tourist village

In 2072 Rome, Italy, the ruthless CEO of a TV networks plots to stage a modern series of gladiator games for ratings while one ‘contestant’ learns of a conspiracy behind the true nature of the results.

A day at the lake. Andrej's ex-girlfriend Nadia pays him a visit. Nadia and Andrej's former best mate Claudius are a couple now. Nadia's request for help confronts Andrej with a shared dark secret.

Seductive Messalina will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome.

In an inhospitable rural area in northwestern Argentina, the machismo, misery, and repression of the last military dictatorship frames the tragedy of Bumbún, the daughter of an alcoholic and violent axman who forces her to assume the identity of a man from birth. Her life will be torn between resigning herself to his destiny for her or fighting to change it.

Following the worldwide smashes Emmanuelle (1974) and The Story of O (1975), influential French filmmaker Just Jaeckin returned in 1977 with the sensual real-life drama Madame Claude. Starring French New Wave icon Françoise Fabian in the title role along with a sinister Klaus Kinski and lovely Dayle Haddon.

A film about Realization and Acceptance. Kumar, a bachelor in his thirties leaves his corporate job in Kochi to become a graphic novelist. He embarks on a new life as an Uber driver in Kochi while working on his graphic novel titled ‘Pixelia’. One day a transgender named Mandakini gets into his cab and that day changes Kumar’s life forever.

Waking up on a stage, Sayaka and Tsuda find themselves confined by evil mastermind Ando working with Sayaka's husband, Yamazaki. Discovering the adultery of his young wife and his secretary, Yamazaki asks Ando to use "Kinbaku" (bondage) as punishment for his wife's betrayal - but Sayaka's reaction gradually changes by Ando's skilled and erotic bondage technique.

We are all part of the same story. A feature-length documentary about the complexity of human migration and how this affects two friends in their day-to-day lives. "A heart-driven, superlatively human tale." -The Sound View

One day, Pasquale decides to change his name to Tony. In the mid-60’s, at the age of 9, he crossed the ocean from Italy to the United States and grew up as a real American. Now a taxi driver in Yuma, Arizona, he's arrested on account of his side hustle - smuggling illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. He is therefore forced to make a choice: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy.

"Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous" films the roads to creation of a feminist legend, a 1968 activist, a famous playwright and poet who shares all the "wars of liberation" of our time. "Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous" is a dream of liberation

Akiko stands in an endless, black and empty space. As if she wakes up to find herself in a new and unfamiliar state of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings: the road, the grass, the streetlights. It's as if she's never seen the world before, and has no concept of existence. Everything seems… less real.

Davis and Bennett wander in and out of stranger's lives performing 'The Procedure'. However, when the duo arrive at a remote family home, they face a challenge unlike anything they've seen before.

Five young Zulu women gear up and go backpacking in the iMfolozi game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. They learn of the plight of this primordial wilderness, threatened by rhino poaching and an opencast coal mine. The group's journey of self-discovery, growth and healing serves as a reminder of how we all are intimately linked to nature; what we do to nature, we do to ourselves.

Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of 30 French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy.

A serial rapist relishes his attacks on women, but are they only fantasy? A debauched classic of the 1960s "roughie" genre.

Newly arrived to New York City and deserted by her husband Gabriel, Mariana must find a way, in a strange city where she barely speaks the language, to provide for her family, financially and emotionally.

An Italian student enrolls at Oxford and disrupts the orderly pattern of undergraduate life by refusing to conform to the university's staid traditions and code behavior.

The psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.

Little Frunz is a disaster waiting to happen. He leaves Paris for Yerevan, where he lectures on good design and his unremitting love of cement. Revolution is in the air. Based on a book by Veken Berberian.

Depressed 17-year-old Sally is locked up in a pink, prison-like institution for teens who are so emotionally fµ¢ked that they’ve developed supernatural powers. The rebellion begins when Sally meets power-sociopath Ting-e-ling.

An American writer in Rome is talked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book.

A man's search for his biological mother takes him through an intense physical and emotional journey through deepest Brazil. Little by little, her past is revealed to him, challenging him to break taboos, and changing their lives forever.

One day, Soumaya is fired from her job. She then sees on TV that news outlets are linking her to jihadist circles, days after her apartment is raided by police...

A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.

A defrocked priest turned hooker-slashing psychopath escapes from an asylum and kills people in God's name, prowling the streets of Paris in a fever of violence, voyeurism, rampant nudity and S&M depravity. A cult classic from legendary writer/director Jesús Franco.

Victor and Agathe are both drawn to Niagara Falls. Strangers, the two Parisians meet and connect over their shared citizenship. Soon, they are ensorcelled, not just by the power of the falls but by the scarlet blaze of their nouveau love.

Icelandic politicians and businesses try to lure aluminum production to the island country. "Offers impassioned visual and rhetorical arguments [and] historical perspective." -Variety

France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer.

A girl lives in an isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never traveled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamed of leaving forever for a perfect world called Abroad.

A bold vérité documentary and feel-good portrait of a sprightly 75-year-old priest who tends to 20+ villages in the idyllic French Pyrénées. "Leisurely but engrossing, often touching, and in the end surprising." -Video Librarian

Half-visible images are abstracted through a process of visual degradation, suggesting memory and nostalgia, mystified through collage. Inspired by the song of the same name by the band Sparklehorse.

Vidhan (Writ), a romantic drama, is a take on relationships. A casual conversation on the use of appropriate language sets off a whirlwind romance between Pranay and Akshar (Abhishek). They start meeting regularly and the romance blossoms. However, there is one issue - Akshar is a sex worker. The film takes us through the vicissitudes of their romantic journey.

Gu (Shota Matsuda), a cocky young Korean-Japanese hoodlum, is targeted by a rival thug after he is blamed for a murder.

The joy of a family seeing the Super Eagles of Nigeria win "Gold" against big teams in Atlanta '96 Olympics despite the odds stacked against them would seem like the long-awaited hope that the country needs.

Beneath heaven, dreams are hidden in hallways and fears live in the walls. When his best friend's secret is revealed, a teenager follows a path that will transform his life. That's how kids grow up.

The morose Konrad (85) pushes everyone away, but little Thurba (12) manages to break through his wall.

As orphanage-residence and teenage sisters, Anastasia and Diana get to know that I American family is ready to adopt them, their biological mother returns to the picture.

Lukas is a researcher who volunteers for a sensory deprivation experiment attempting to communicate with a young comatose woman. The experiment takes a twist when the two meet in altered forms of consciousness.

Bullet Collector follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin.

Paulistas, a rural region in the state of Goiás, is struggling to survive in the Brazilian savannah. Its young people have left in a rural exodus; since 2014, no young people live in the region. Monoculture farming and the exploitation of water resources have left Paulistas’ countryside cracked. In July, it’s vacation time. Children return from cities to visit their parents and life on the farm.

A narrative of addiction and redemption is woven from the turbulent lives of young adults attending AA meetings and the relationships that Aaron, a rent boy, shares with his clients.

A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters straight out of Texas Chainsaw Massacre are serving up grisly fare in Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's fascinating arthouse horror film.

Idling afternoons and psychedelic moods immersed in music provide an adrenaline rush for drifting youth in Lisbon. "A strong and mysterious homage to youth." -Cineuropa

A former star footballer turned social justice campaigner returns to his home town, befriends a young wannabe filmmaker who recently lost his father and is persuaded, despite opposition, into coaching the town's struggling footy team. He recruits refugees to make up the numbers with hilarious results, taking the community on a journey of change.

Elena and Andrea, a young married couple, arrive at their newly bought country house. A disturbing atmosphere pervades the old mansion: something is lurking under the ancient foundations, something that will affect them more than they could ever imagine...

The peaceful life of a middle aged architect Francis turns upside down after the street attack.

Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy. Mr. Rabbit is the second installment in the French Blood series, combining hyper-designed aesthetics with chilling horror stories.

It's the future, and humanity’s but a memory, existing only in scattered pieces. That is: until a pillow's needlepoint rendering of three individuals, collectively known as the Clothespin Freaks, finds the spark of life and surfaces towards freaky destiny. Aware of a purpose, the group begins assembling the remains of humanity.

A journey deep into the oldest music in the Western world - Greek music - guided by an eccentric musicologist who has dedicated his life to understanding and preserving it. An immersive sonic and visual feast that leaves the viewer feeling they've looked into a way of life that the 21st century has left behind. A call to arms for a different way of listening to music and understanding humanity.

Petals of flowers are arranged in a dish with a candle, as if a cake. Love creates wonderful things, but these can hide boundaries and differences, for a while. A couple can be physically close and yet worlds apart, with manias poised at the surface, to latch onto triggers. Sometimes we do everything to get what we want, sometimes not.

What happens to art in the Internet age? A documentary on the evolving relationship between contemporary art, audience and digital technology. "Puts together two opposing thoughts, leading to new thoughts." -art4d

12-year-old Daimi rattles around a decrepit house with her Christmastime companion, a magical piglet. A painful truth hides in the murky water of the bathtub, seamlessly blending reality with fantasy.

A fast-paced, quirky, laugh-out-loud unpredictable sexy comedy about a young husband's desperate attempts to get a cable box for his wife. Set in the dark, snow covered landscape of northern Finland.

Martin is on his way up the coast for a quiet weekend. Out of nowhere an attractive teenage girl appears on the side of the road. He drives past, but when he stops at a scenic spot up the road, she knocks on his window and asks him for a ride. His decision to drive her home turns into a nightmare when she coerces him inside.

Lina Romay - at her most lushly exposed and naturally comedic - stars in this oddball meta-spoof of carnal cabaret, alien breeding, group marriage, spy dramas, satanic cults, the 'Clasificada S' genre and more, all wrapped in Jess Franco's Godardian take on his own inimitable oeuvre.

In training for a long distance relationship, Mina and Enzo book rooms at an experimental B & B where each room represents a different city and time zone. Couples who commit to the course must adhere to its strict rules: no entering your partner’s room, no cell phones, only meeting for up to two hours a day, etc. The arrival of the proprietor’s niece, Gaia, dismantles all sense of reality.

Fanni has had enough of money and Anna has had enough of pigs. They embark on a Marxist adventure. "Any allegorical interpretations are as open-ended as Bettina Köster’s slamming techno-pop score is emphatic." -Variety

Although Frank is always cheating on her, Eva still cannot bring herself to leave him. But Frank objects when Eva becomes pregnant, as well as when she takes a lover of her own.

A film-within-a-film exploring the body in motion, frame by frame. The sensation one gets is of tension... expectation... shock, while the glorious, trenchant music of R. Murray Schafer further adds to the intense "high" of the film.

A poetic montage of the filmmaker’s journey through her subconscious Armenia. It is not an Armenia based in reality, but one which appears like the mythical city of Shangri La, when one closes one's eyes.

Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real and unreal, the past and present are tightly woven into emotionally visual experience. In Armenian, Hokees literally means "soul" or "spirit."

A group of ronin (masterless samurai) patiently plan and execute an assault on a rival Lord's estate, exacting revenge after their master was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official. Set during the Tokugawa shogunate in 1701, based on a true story.

Three friends must discover what's behind the killing of local children, the victims drew the same picture before they die. They uncover the evil spirit of a circus clown and must send it back to hell before more children are murdered.

In an age devoid of memory and truth, a man encounters his soulmate in the BLUE DESERT. Winner of multiple awards and based on Yoko Ono's first art book, Grapefruit.

This frantic, music-infused indie Indian tale looks at one young man and his dreams of becoming a rap star. Gandu is a startlingly bold and wildly entertaining example of new Indian filmmaking- which, ironically, is banned in India.

A Sex & Psycho Suspense Mystery thriller. Susan lives in an idyllic farmhouse, along with the sex-loving youngsters Sandra, Olga and Julie, and the unstable voyeur Albert. A number of killings take place by the sex-vampires.

After suffering a brutal attack and a miscarriage, Juana starts hearing mysterious noises and seeing things- objects changing places, shadows that follow her through her house. Or is she haunted by ghosts, losing her mind, or still somebody’s victim?

A body builder must save himself and his friends from a demonic ghost.

Dreams are the sturdiest vessels for twenty-somethings Ali and Eda, landlocked in the shipyards of Istanbul. "Lovingly crafted with excellent direction and editing." -DVD Compare

Two women embark on a love affair. Iva is desperately in love, then her father appears. Hedi feels strongly attached. Winner of a Bavarian Film Prize, Best New Director, and other awards.

Sorting out her mother's estate, Sarah uncovers dark family secrets- and evidence that the cause of her sister’s death 20 years earlier was an attack by a mutant, brain-eating jellyfish that had infiltrated the water supply.

Pilar and Felipe are two lonely beings who haven't found love. At the start of their friendship, Felipe decides not to waste any time and, surprisingly, proposes marriage. With an outright refusal, their relationship spins into a desperate, if adventurous, new direction. A hypnotic speech from an archaic seventies cassette introduces Pilar to Felipe's most intimate mantra.

Former Miss Bahamas Josephine Jacqueline Jones sparked an international firestorm with her debut starring role as Venus, the stunning ebony seductress whom no man - or woman - can possibly resist.

November 1870. Spanish Courts elect Amadeo de Savoy as the King of Spain. Much to popular dismay, he is a reluctant King who prefers beauty to power and passion over duty. Amidst of a crumbling empire, Amadeo gets lost in wine, fruit, sex and melancholia. His reign will be short.

When Mama Peace is diagnosed with breast cancer, she struggles to raise funds for treatment, make ends meet, and hold onto her Christian faith. "A powerful and one-of-a-kind story." -eelive

A dispossessed drug dealer and his derelict companions are part of a cool generation that confronts cultural decay in the back alleys of a city in Colombia. "A uniquely beautiful and soulful study of a small part of the underbelly of the underworld in Medellin." -Indiewire

Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.

The fight for Lithuanian independence in 1991 gave a group of young men the chance to be heroes. "Perfect for any child that loves war games." -BB Reviews

On a Caribbean island, completely cut off from modern technology, Moises is determined to save his dying mother. So he embarks into the wilderness in search of a magic blue mango that has the power to cure her. A beautiful blue-haired young woman transforms his journey along the way.

One night, a strange clone of Hitler comes to Fendika- a grassroots tavern in Addis Ababa. Frustrations, dancing and comic touches ensue.

An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result.

It's New Year's Eve, and everyone thinks that Marta and Jorge are the perfect couple. Too perfect. "Some of the most beautiful sequences in recent Portuguese cinema." -c7nema

When Danny and Zoe decide to buy an old haunted attraction, they think they'll have fun and make money. After meeting with the groundskeeper, they learn the property has a bloody past. They hire a full cast of haunt actors who work together to bring the haunt back from the dead. On opening night, no one stands a chance as Teddy returns to his old stomping ground for more blood!

Two estranged brothers find themselves on the run from two hitmen through the majestic landscape of the Lake District in this exuberant comedy, made over ten days with a budget of only £1000.

A mysterious young woman is obsessed with Armenia and the archeology of the mental layers that represent identity. She documents her obsession through interviews with various individuals about their encounters with the protagonist, blurring the lines between truth and fiction.

Philippe, a twenty-five year old who lives with his parents, is woken at dawn by two police inspectors. He is brought to the station to be interrogated about his father's murder.

Home is where the hurt is. Lily finds herself in the living room, staring at four dead bodies. "Brilliant, and highlights how people can hide who they are and the lies that photos can tell." -Bloody Disgusting

Alistair and June randomly meet on a park bench at lunchtime. She's not aware, at first, that he's blind but when he misses the handkerchief she passes to him, she realizes. He charms her with an acute appreciation for the scent of roses. On a blindfolded walk through a garden, her face comes into focus with a caress.

A filmmaker explores the cultural traditions and contradictions across the sexually conservative land of the Kama Sutra.

Originally released in 1970, Dinah East tells the story of a glamourous 1950s movie starlet who is later revealed to be a trans woman. Marketed at the time as "Hollywood's strangest story," the film is problematic in many respects and far ahead of its time in others. Seen today, it's an undeniably fascinating cult classic curio of a bygone era.

This is the story of a tall 10-year-old girl. She is working on a school project that aims to explain how the world works to her class. She is faced with difficult social and political questions that even adults struggle to answer.

(Persian with English subtitles) The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953; a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history when an American led, British backed coup d'état brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah to power.

Two aboriginal adolescents discover that life isn't fair in this thrilling teenage story of survival, set in the Australian desert. Hungry, hurt, rejected and aimed at escape, together Samson & Delilah follow the signs of true love.

Set in the fake news era of present day St. Petersburg, THREE COMRADES is a politically incorrect drama about three mid-level sales managers, 20-somethings, socializing after hours. Friday night bar-hopping gives way to a range of contemporary topics, from the inhumanity of capitalism to sexism. Only one comrade will survive. The romantic, the cynic, or the indifferent?

A romantic young writer, struggling financially in London, escapes to his birthplace, the rural mountain town of Siatista, where his imaginative father died under mysterious circumstances. If houses dreamt, who would wake them?

A boy, a girl, a space-alien and fried chicken.

A young woman is murdered, her body dismembered, its parts dumped across Vienna. Based on a true story. "Confidently balances between emotional immersion and reporting from outside." -Kino Zeit

Metallic sounds mixed with rain are the background for the exploitation of two women held as prisoners in an abandoned cinema. They are pimped for pennies by a crude tormentor. Sometimes sharing bad luck can unite, while it can't preclude loneliness. Sometimes the only obstacle to freedom is ourselves.

Elder manages the hotel inherited from his father throughout his life. In his hands the hotel went from a luxury resort to a hotel on the verge of bankruptcy. Now he faces the consequences both professionally and privately from his alcohol and cocaine addiction. At the limit of his emotional balance, Elder puts everything at risk when facing his demons and the consequences of their decisions.

At a daycare center in Stolin, Belarus, young people with disabilities are directed and participate as actors in theatrical productions. Their perceived limitations evaporate on stage, revealing depths of character and capabilities that are seldom explored.

The Safe House, is a tale of a University teacher, who has been brought to a detention center where he meets a young Hindu boy who falls prey to severe military interrogation and torture.

Nineteen-year-old Poppy Simpson refuses to be defined by Down syndrome and is determined to take charge of her own life.

WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter. "A profound meditation on art and an excellent dual-biopic." -Hammer to Nail

Critically acclaimed DO PAHAR recounts the unlikely and fascinating friendship that forms between Sudha, an elderly abused woman and Bilal, a young hit man who she observes one day planning to murder her neighbor. He becomes her hero and savior; she becomes his most improbable partner-in-crime.

An uninspired filmmaker crosses paths with the fascinating and beautiful student Ritsuko, and they begin an erotic relationship as she becomes his new muse. But when he puts her in his new film, his life starts to unravel and his reality turns delusional as he begins to lose his sanity.

The forbidden-love story The Debut (1977) the first full-length feature from pioneering filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel. Following the theme of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Michael Powell's Age of Consent (1969) - this time told from a female perspective - van Brakel's The Debut (1977) tells the delicate story off the impossible love between a teenage girl and a middle-aged married man.

After a mysterious mold starts spreading across the surface of an abandoned mattress, a sentient creature begins to take shape from within. Feasting on its unsuspecting victims' vertebrae while they rest, the creature grows stronger, finding nourishment not only in the bones and sinew it assimilates but also in the hopes, fears, and emotions of all those it encounters.

Through short stories linked together by a bloody red thread, a collective of French directors is experimenting with a new approach to the anthology of horror and fantasy. Mr. Pig is the first title in the French Blood series, combining hyper-designed aesthetics with chilling horror stories.

Eric Green, an agoraphobic, lives in seclusion with his wife Virginie and everything seems to be going well. One morning, Eric wakes up seven years earlier, sleeping with a woman who is not his wife. All the events of the day before repeat themselves, and will repeat each day to come. And outside, a killer roams. Each complication only brings on more questions.

A carefree young Rastafarian is prompted to go on a search for his father, who he never met, in Cape Verde, and finds his roots. FIPRESCI and Sophia Award Winner.

A late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them.

Two dim-witted thieves escape from jail and ransack Mandla’s house, leaving the young boy’s parents to believe he and his friend are to blame. Determined to prove their innocence, Mandla and his pal set off in search of the culprits.

A film shot and released on VHS in 1989. A mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about its creator, Manuel Lamas. The documentary sets out to unveil the enigma that exists about Lamas and his work. Along the way, the director becomes involved in a spiral that dissolves the boundaries between reality and fiction.

Horsemouth is a reggae drummer. He earns precious little from his music, so he sets himself up hustling records on the side. Things get nasty when mafia types steal his motorbike, and his friends want to help. An cult classic, ROCKERS was filmed in the late-70s on the real reggae scene of Kingston, Jamaica.

A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad. "Both haunting and haunted, a palpably realized fever dream of a film." -Caribbean Beat

Following the death of his best friend, 17-year-old Shelby struggles to readjust at boarding school until a popular girl decides to take him under her wing. With the aid of a reckless and spoiled group of friends, Shelby finds a lot more than he bargained for in a fast-paced world of parties, drugs, and sex.

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SOCIALLY DARING CINEMA

Iranian-American artist Moosa Harooni transforms seashells into heartfelt miniature sculptures of legendary characters, kings and poets, and ordinary people.

A student becomes entangled in the bizarre dramas of his landlord's family.

Two young adults in Shanghai, living separate lives, do what they can to break out of their postmodern loneliness. "You might call this Still Life with Cell Phones.” -Video Librarian

When heavily armed campus police broke into the University of Florida campus apartment of disabled and unarmed Ghanaian doctoral student Kofi Adu-Brempong and, within a minute of entry, shot him in the face, his life was forever changed.

Inspired by Pirandello's l'Innesto, THE GRAFT tells a story of sexual violence, love, sexism, and marriage. Laura and Giorgio have been married for 7 years, unable to conceive a child. Away on a seaside painting retreat, Laura is raped and becomes pregnant. Personal dramas conflict between husband and wife, magnifying the question of whether to keep the child.

A super-freckled, self-hating virgin descends into a dark, depressive, lethal insanity due to low self esteem caused by social beauty standards.

In the mythical city of Leisure, a sexually-liberated husband and wife seduce a younger, staid couple in to experimenting with bisexuality and group sex.

Sirena's Gallery follows a Salvadoran-American woman's struggle as an art gallery owner during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently widowed, Sirena adapts to self-isolation, grief-induced visions, and the world of e-commerce.

A successful photographer is living the life of her dreams with the love of her life in New York City. Their idyllic happiness is shattered unexpectedly, and she struggles to accept the reality of her loss.

A filmmaker explores the cultural traditions and contradictions across the sexually conservative land of the Kama Sutra.

A psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.

Inga, a 17 year-old, is sent to live with a scheming aunt who wants her to become mistress of her rich neighbour. She falls for a common young man instead.

In the most lavish of penthouses, visible only through keyholes, there exists an erotic and dangerous world. Highly-paid sex workers specialize in high-stakes games, and the richer the client, the wilder the ride. When a fantasy gets too rough for one call-girl, escaping becomes her reality.

Dreams are the sturdiest vessels for twenty-somethings Ali and Eda, landlocked in the shipyards of Istanbul. "Lovingly crafted with excellent direction and editing." -DVD Compare

Newly arrived to New York City and deserted by her husband Gabriel, Mariana must find a way, in a strange city where she barely speaks the language, to provide for her family, financially and emotionally.

Documentary about environmental racism, Army radiation testing & government conspiracy during the Cold War, Jim Crow era.

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a love relationship and Iva is desperately in love. Suddenly Iva's father appears, to whom Hedi feels strongly attached. It seems that only one world exists for Hedi: her own.

A bold vérité documentary and feel-good portrait of a sprightly 75-year-old priest who tends to 20+ villages in the idyllic French Pyrénées. "Leisurely but engrossing, often touching, and in the end surprising." -Video Librarian

Alfie needs to find the meaning of life. His life. Through a haze of half remembered thoughts and earnest intentions, he struggles to see that the truth he is looking for is in the beauty that is all around him.

Alistair and June randomly meet on a park bench at lunchtime. She's not aware, at first, that he's blind but when he misses the handkerchief she passes to him, she realizes. He charms her with an acute appreciation for the scent of roses. On a blindfolded walk through a garden, her face comes into focus with a caress.

Disgruntled housewife, Joan revamps her stenography service into a thriving prostitution ring made up of the neighborhood women. Auteur, Joseph Sarno creates a hotbed of titilating fun.

(Persian with English subtitles) The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953; a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history when an American led, British backed coup d'état brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah to power.

A young Frederick is secretly taught to read and write by his master’s wife. Using only the air as their blackboard, this act provided an education that paved the way from slavery to freedom

A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad. "Both haunting and haunted, a palpably realized fever dream of a film." -Caribbean Beat

Home is where the hurt is. Lily finds herself in the living room, staring at four dead bodies. "Brilliant, and highlights how people can hide who they are and the lies that photos can tell." -Bloody Disgusting

WHITE SHADOW is the story of Alias, a young albino boy on the run. After witnessing his father's murder, his mother sends him away to find refuge in the city. Executive Producer Ryan Gosling.

Critically acclaimed DO PAHAR recounts the unlikely and fascinating friendship that forms between Sudha, an elderly abused woman and Bilal, a young hit man who she observes one day planning to murder her neighbor. He becomes her hero and savior; she becomes his most improbable partner-in-crime.

To win back his girlfriend, Paul decides to make a film about his love life, job, and all the funny things that happen behind the scenes at the casting agency! "Bold, progressive and brave." -SPL!NG

A group of ronin (masterless samurai) patiently plan and execute an assault on a rival Lord's estate, exacting revenge after their master was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official. Set during the Tokugawa shogunate in 1701, based on a true story.

Two boys are released from prison on their eighteenth birthdays after killing a three-year old when they were ten.

A raw, gritty, uncompromising and heavily stylised independent feature production, based on the ancient Greek narrative, Homer's: 'The Odyssey'.

In a Bronx dispatch the aspirations and misdeeds of cab drivers, call-girls and low level thugs collide in one wild night.

Two women embark on a love affair. Iva is desperately in love, then her father appears. Hedi feels strongly attached. Winner of a Bavarian Film Prize, Best New Director, and other awards.

Sexy, sharp, and a straight-up hustler, Stormy Mattinson is one of the world's most successful madams, running a multi-million dollar escort agency, Companions, in California and Utah. A MADAM’S HEAVEN AND HELL gives a firsthand, behind-the-scenes look at her tumultuous life at the top of the industry, baring witness to all the personal and professional dramas at play.

Idling afternoons and psychedelic moods immersed in music provide an adrenaline rush for drifting youth in Lisbon. "A strong and mysterious homage to youth." -Cineuropa

A girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon finds herself on the trail of a reclusive genius. But her work takes a series of unforeseen twists, and she plunges into a dark world of earth-shattering cosmological secrets. "A mesmerizing and sexy head trip." -Geek Monthly

Plínio is a ten year old boy who goes to live with his grandmother in the countryside. Bored with the place, his life begins to change when he gains a doll named Frank from his grandmother.

Two aboriginal adolescents discover that life isn't fair in this thrilling teenage story of survival, set in the Australian desert. Hungry, hurt, rejected and aimed at escape, together Samson & Delilah follow the signs of true love.

In training for a long distance relationship, Mina and Enzo book rooms at an experimental B & B where each room represents a different city and time zone. Couples who commit to the course must adhere to its strict rules: no entering your partner’s room, no cell phones, only meeting for up to two hours a day, etc. The arrival of the proprietor’s niece, Gaia, dismantles all sense of reality.

Davis and Bennett wander in and out of stranger's lives performing 'The Procedure'. However, when the duo arrive at a remote family home, they face a challenge unlike anything they've seen before.

The peaceful life of a middle aged architect Francis turns upside down after the street attack.

It's hard to tell human and robot apart in the technology-infused, computer-controlled planet Earth of the year 2060. What does it mean to be human? Or robot or neither or both? Existentially driven vignettes form a hypnotic arc in this experimental feature.

Five young Zulu women gear up and go backpacking in the iMfolozi game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. They learn of the plight of this primordial wilderness, threatened by rhino poaching and an opencast coal mine. The group's journey of self-discovery, growth and healing serves as a reminder of how we all are intimately linked to nature; what we do to nature, we do to ourselves.

In an age devoid of memory and truth, a man encounters his soulmate in the BLUE DESERT. Winner of multiple awards and based on Yoko Ono's first art book, Grapefruit.

A disgraced ex-soldier travels to New York City to become the first American born-and-raised suicide bomber, but an unexpected relationship complicates his plan.

Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, is pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real and unreal, the past and present are tightly woven into emotionally visual experience. In Armenian, Hokees literally means "soul" or "spirit."

Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales delves deeply into the unique relationship between humans and whales as told by renowned whale biologist and activist Dr. Roger Payne.

A troubled private investigator embarks on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment. As he witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, he begins to feel and see a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.

Tabitha's obsession with fish has displaced all of her human relationships with the exception of her mother, Eloise. When her pet fish Peter and her mother both die unexpectedly, after contacting Tabitha's hands, she concludes that her touch is lethal and begins wearing latex gloves. Only when working in a new job in taxidermy does she venture to remove her gloves and touch once more.

THERE WERE ALWAYS DOGS, NEVER KIDS is a documentary ode to legendary New York City video store Alan's Alley, where bizarrely arranged movies enticed clientele from cinephile to celebrity to local prison inmate. Charismatic owner Alan Sklar sifts through the nuance of his neon-flickering livelihood, in his store’s last days as a fixture in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

Fanni has had enough of money and Anna has had enough of pigs. They embark on a Marxist adventure. "Any allegorical interpretations are as open-ended as Bettina Köster’s slamming techno-pop score is emphatic." -Variety

A washed-up movie monster relives his halcyon days, in an age where computer graphics are all too prevalent. BYGONE BEHEMOTH is a short and sweet stop-motion tribute to beloved cinema icons and methodologies.

Say hello to Hollywood outcast, best-selling author and chronicler of the rich and famous, Dominick Dunne. "Demonstrates... how the creative urge is something that refuses to age along with the body." -The Age

Hundreds of pictures scattered all over the floor of a dark and solitary room. Monika, an East-German woman, has lost her memory and can only fantasize of a forgotten past and an impossible future. A message from her friend Kirsten, on a voice recorder, pushes her to remember her life and friends, in a lost Berlin, against a forgotten wall.

This frantic, music-infused indie Indian tale looks at one young man and his dreams of becoming a rap star. Gandu is a startlingly bold and wildly entertaining example of new Indian filmmaking- which, ironically, is banned in India.

Based on the voyages of 16th-century explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, one of the first Europeans to sail to the Orient.

What happens to art in the Internet age? A documentary on the evolving relationship between contemporary art, audience and digital technology. "Puts together two opposing thoughts, leading to new thoughts." -art4d

"Shooting Star(s)" follows Johnny Nunez, who was abandoned as a child, as he overcomes the obstacles imposed by his humble upbringings in Brooklyn, New York to become today's most prominent Hip Hop celebrity photographer.

Set in the fake news era of present day St. Petersburg, THREE COMRADES is a politically incorrect drama about three mid-level sales managers, 20-somethings, socializing after hours. Friday night bar-hopping gives way to a range of contemporary topics, from the inhumanity of capitalism to sexism. Only one comrade will survive. The romantic, the cynic, or the indifferent?

At a daycare center in Stolin, Belarus, young people with disabilities are directed and participate as actors in theatrical productions. Their perceived limitations evaporate on stage, revealing depths of character and capabilities that are seldom explored.

CAPTURE THE FLAG portrays a tenuous relationship between a teenage daughter and her father in the socially turbulent 70s. As Annie and her father, Luke, join their friends for an annual game of Capture the Flag, her parents are on the verge of divorce, and this is the first time she and her father participate in the weekend-long game without Annie's mother. A lot more is at stake than winning.

A carefree young Rastafarian is prompted to go on a search for his father, who he never met, in Cape Verde, and finds his roots. FIPRESCI and Sophia Award Winner.

A young woman is murdered, her body dismembered, its parts dumped across Vienna. Based on a true story. "Confidently balances between emotional immersion and reporting from outside." -Kino Zeit

After Ivan was diagnosed with ALS, his relationship with Lucas is challenged when he starts to lose control of his own body.

It's New Year's Eve, and everyone thinks that Marta and Jorge are the perfect couple. Too perfect. "Some of the most beautiful sequences in recent Portuguese cinema." -c7nema

One family. One weekend. One hell of a home video. A slice-of-life comedy about life, death, existential crises, and everything in between. Set mid-90s New Zealand.

Vidhan (Writ), a romantic drama, is a take on relationships. A casual conversation on the use of appropriate language sets off a whirlwind romance between Pranay and Akshar (Abhishek). They start meeting regularly and the romance blossoms. However, there is one issue - Akshar is a sex worker. The film takes us through the vicissitudes of their romantic journey.

Victor and Agathe are both drawn to Niagara Falls. Strangers, the two Parisians meet and connect over their shared citizenship. Soon, they are ensorcelled, not just by the power of the falls but by the scarlet blaze of their nouveau love.

In an inhospitable rural area in northwestern Argentina, the machismo, misery, and repression of the last military dictatorship frames the tragedy of Bumbún, the daughter of an alcoholic and violent axman who forces her to assume the identity of a man from birth. Her life will be torn between resigning herself to his destiny for her or fighting to change it.

Haunted by memories and divine visions, a young woman struggles with trauma, rape and pregnancy in this poetic reimagining of the Greek Myth

You Are Here is a smartly-crafted commentary on our modern day existence. Comprised of interconnected mini-narratives, the film’s characters find themselves trapped in bizarre social experiments of their own making.

Bullet Collector follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin.

An Italian student enrolls at Oxford and disrupts the orderly pattern of undergraduate life by refusing to conform to the university's staid traditions and code behavior.

TERFSLURRED explores the perceived misogyny of trans identity politics and the intellectual cat-fights fomenting from claims to true womanhood. Carefully making use of already-existing content on subjects of biology, feminism, trans-activism, and more, this found-footage doc is a new introduction to gender and the LGBTQ+ rainbow- like it's never appeared before.

When an idealistic grade school teacher finds out that children in her school are going hungry - thanks to federal cutbacks - it compels her to do things she wouldn't have thought she could do. "Hungry is a little gem, and so important" - Artemis Women In Action Film Festival

Icelandic politicians and businesses try to lure aluminum production to the island country. "Offers impassioned visual and rhetorical arguments [and] historical perspective." -Variety

When Mama Peace is diagnosed with breast cancer, she struggles to raise funds for treatment, make ends meet, and hold onto her Christian faith. "A powerful and one-of-a-kind story." -eelive

A romantic young writer, struggling financially in London, escapes to his birthplace, the rural mountain town of Siatista, where his imaginative father died under mysterious circumstances. If houses dreamt, who would wake them?

A dispossessed drug dealer and his derelict companions are part of a cool generation that confronts cultural decay in the back alleys of a city in Colombia. "A uniquely beautiful and soulful study of a small part of the underbelly of the underworld in Medellin." -Indiewire

Pilar and Felipe are two lonely beings who haven't found love. At the start of their friendship, Felipe decides not to waste any time and, surprisingly, proposes marriage. With an outright refusal, their relationship spins into a desperate, if adventurous, new direction. A hypnotic speech from an archaic seventies cassette introduces Pilar to Felipe's most intimate mantra.

The story is very freely based on the Cambridge Analytica affair, the theft of 80 millions Facebook users datas for electoral purposes (Donald Trump's election and vote on Brexit). Frédéric Poiret, journalist at Le Nouveau Courrier is told by Laura Bilinski, executive assistant at social network Profile, of a scandal she discovered by accident.

Michelle is one part sexual nymph, one part man-hating psycho, and one part 12-year-old child. When she catches the eye of Andy, it turns his life upside down and their relationship becomes the formula for passion, pleasure, and pain.

Originally released in 1970, Dinah East tells the story of a glamourous 1950s movie starlet who is later revealed to be a trans woman. Marketed at the time as "Hollywood's strangest story," the film is problematic in many respects and far ahead of its time in others. Seen today, it's an undeniably fascinating cult classic curio of a bygone era.

Following the worldwide smashes Emmanuelle (1974) and The Story of O (1975), influential French filmmaker Just Jaeckin returned in 1977 with the sensual real-life drama Madame Claude. Starring French New Wave icon Françoise Fabian in the title role along with a sinister Klaus Kinski and lovely Dayle Haddon.

Henning, a fashion photographer, is driven by visions of artistic glory. Encouraged by a literary agent to produce a volume of erotic nudes, he takes aim at the perfect layout with his favorite model, Leslie. All seems to be going well until the mysterious Joyce appears.

A former star footballer turned social justice campaigner returns to his home town, befriends a young wannabe filmmaker who recently lost his father and is persuaded, despite opposition, into coaching the town's struggling footy team. He recruits refugees to make up the numbers with hilarious results, taking the community on a journey of change.

Philippe, a twenty-five year old who lives with his parents, is woken at dawn by two police inspectors. He is brought to the station to be interrogated about his father's murder.

Martin is on his way up the coast for a quiet weekend. Out of nowhere an attractive teenage girl appears on the side of the road. He drives past, but when he stops at a scenic spot up the road, she knocks on his window and asks him for a ride. His decision to drive her home turns into a nightmare when she coerces him inside.

Gu (Shota Matsuda), a cocky young Korean-Japanese hoodlum, is targeted by a rival thug after he is blamed for a murder.

One day, Soumaya is fired from her job. She then sees on TV that news outlets are linking her to jihadist circles, days after her apartment is raided by police...

An uninspired filmmaker crosses paths with the fascinating and beautiful student Ritsuko, and they begin an erotic relationship as she becomes his new muse. But when he puts her in his new film, his life starts to unravel and his reality turns delusional as he begins to lose his sanity.

An epic tale of slashing swords, cutting betrayal, and bloody revenge, Samurai Vendetta is justly hailed as one of the best samurai films ever made!

Metallic sounds mixed with rain are the background for the exploitation of two women held as prisoners in an abandoned cinema. They are pimped for pennies by a crude tormentor. Sometimes sharing bad luck can unite, while it can't preclude loneliness. Sometimes the only obstacle to freedom is ourselves.

"Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous" films the roads to creation of a feminist legend, a 1968 activist, a famous playwright and poet who shares all the "wars of liberation" of our time. "Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous" is a dream of liberation

The story of a generation's disillusionment and radicalization, set in the fervent years of the Greek economy's collapse. "Punchy, difficult, allegorically urgent Greek tragedy." -Indiewire

After being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago, an illegal Chinese immigrant discovers the true cost of her passage. "Offers a focused look at the lives of people who would otherwise go unnoticed. -Keeping it Reel

KELP is an allegorically hilarious love story about a married man who becomes infatuated with the eponymous seaweed. Exploring relationship themes and the all-too-human delusion of something better on the other side of the horizon, notions of entanglement and escape are cleverly brought to the fore.

A documentary that exposes the rich growing subculture of hip-hop that was developed in New York City in late 70s and early 80s, specifically focusing on graffiti art and breakdancing

We are all part of the same story. A feature-length documentary about the complexity of human migration and how this affects two friends in their day-to-day lives. "A heart-driven, superlatively human tale." -The Sound View

Seductive Messalina will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome.

John Daly, an ex-Neo Nazi, fled to Israel when his gang tried to kill him for being Jewish. An old Skinhead friend finds John 25 years later and suggests they visit concentration camps in an effort to make amends for their past.

A dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.

A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.

An experiential introduction to Shakespeare Award-winning poet Mandy Kahn and the process behind her immersive, performative, peace-building poems. "A sun-powered X-ray into the process of a great artist." - PEN Award-winning author Mitch Horowitz

A wealthy New York playboy prone to eccentricity and mischief dies unexpectedly, and his socialite friends are summoned for a viewing of his video will. "A tone-deaf riff on social manners and class mores." Screen Space

A sci-fi thriller/dark comedy in which a scientist invents time travel and is zapped 6 months into the future. But that future is one where he is a hunted man for murder. He needs to travel back in time to solve the mystery.

Four nurses career minded to the point go neglecting their families, were relentless even at their jobs, They breached most of the medical ethics regarding the treatment they gave their patients and many lives had to pay...

A serial rapist relishes his attacks on women, but are they only fantasy? A debauched classic of the 1960s "roughie" genre.

It was his destiny that young Mouton would live his simple life as a seaside restaurant employee for three years and that he would be torn away from this life after a tragic night at the Sainte-Anne ball.

A woman's journey to and across the soul-destroying chasm between veterans and others. Endorsed by the Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Returning Veterans Project, and other organizations.

Beneath heaven, dreams are hidden in hallways and fears live in the walls. When his best friend's secret is revealed, a teenager follows a path that will transform his life. That's how kids grow up.

The forbidden-love story The Debut (1977) the first full-length feature from pioneering filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel. Following the theme of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Michael Powell's Age of Consent (1969) - this time told from a female perspective - van Brakel's The Debut (1977) tells the delicate story off the impossible love between a teenage girl and a middle-aged married man.

Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.

A fast-paced, quirky, laugh-out-loud unpredictable sexy comedy about a young husband's desperate attempts to get a cable box for his wife. Set in the dark, snow covered landscape of northern Finland.

Following the death of his best friend, 17-year-old Shelby struggles to readjust at boarding school until a popular girl decides to take him under her wing. With the aid of a reckless and spoiled group of friends, Shelby finds a lot more than he bargained for in a fast-paced world of parties, drugs, and sex.

This is the story of a tall 10-year-old girl. She is working on a school project that aims to explain how the world works to her class. She is faced with difficult social and political questions that even adults struggle to answer.

A narrative of addiction and redemption is woven from the turbulent lives of young adults attending AA meetings and the relationships that Aaron, a rent boy, shares with his clients.

A film about Realization and Acceptance. Kumar, a bachelor in his thirties leaves his corporate job in Kochi to become a graphic novelist. He embarks on a new life as an Uber driver in Kochi while working on his graphic novel titled ‘Pixelia’. One day a transgender named Mandakini gets into his cab and that day changes Kumar’s life forever.

12-year-old Daimi rattles around a decrepit house with her Christmastime companion, a magical piglet. A painful truth hides in the murky water of the bathtub, seamlessly blending reality with fantasy.

An encounter between two lovers pushes the boundaries of narrative filmmaking through the use of long takes and explicit sexual imagery.

Nineteen-year-old Poppy Simpson refuses to be defined by Down syndrome and is determined to take charge of her own life.

Two enemy soldiers get locked up in a tunnel below the World War I front. Sharing the same fate, they need each other to survive.

WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter. "A profound meditation on art and an excellent dual-biopic." -Hammer to Nail

A day at the lake. Andrej's ex-girlfriend Nadia pays him a visit. Nadia and Andrej's former best mate Claudius are a couple now. Nadia's request for help confronts Andrej with a shared dark secret.

Eva, a young reserved girl, arrives at the Refuge, a woman's aid center run by Mrs Kane. There she is introduced to the other girls who greet her with mistrust and distance. The Refuge is threatened by government cuts in funding that would leave the girls, homeless. Until they unite in a final act of protest.

Unresolved conflicts force Juana to revisit long-kept emotions after she runs into her ex-boyfriend during her annual religious pilgrimage. "A minimalist tale in a seldom-filmed setting." -Roger's Movie Nation

A weary young drug addict clings to a once hopeful life, amidst the sweat and unforgiving heat of Jacksonville, Florida.

Baldrick, an offensive, inappropriate, politically incorrect, sexist, narcissistic, boss, has created a new reality TV show about, well, himself. Apart from meeting his employees, Baldrick also has some interviews lined up fro his first pilot episode.

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EYE-OPENING DOCUMENTARIES

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980.

A film shot and released on VHS in 1989. A mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about its creator, Manuel Lamas. The documentary sets out to unveil the enigma that exists about Lamas and his work. Along the way, the director becomes involved in a spiral that dissolves the boundaries between reality and fiction.

Iranian-American artist Moosa Harooni transforms seashells into heartfelt miniature sculptures of legendary characters, kings and poets, and ordinary people.

Director Christopher Felver has crafted an incisive, sharply-wrought portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti that explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and other significant figures reveal a rich melange of characters and events that came together in postwar America

"Shooting Star(s)" follows Johnny Nunez, who was abandoned as a child, as he overcomes the obstacles imposed by his humble upbringings in Brooklyn, New York to become today's most prominent Hip Hop celebrity photographer.

Based on Erich Von Daniken's book purporting to prove that throughout history aliens have visited earth.

A special glimpse of legendary Nate Wiley and his jazz trio, the original Crowd Pleasers, at the iconic Bob and Barbara's Lounge on South Street, Philadelphia. Nate Wiley on tenor, Cliff Lamar on drums and Howard Candie on the Hammond B3 set the scene.

Marinara sauce runs red through the streets of New Haven in this surprising, delectable documentary which profiles three pizza restaurants -- Pepe, Sally's & Modern -- that together stand as the cornerstone of the town's Italian-American heritage and connoisseurs of the tastiest incarnations of America's favorite comfort food. This mouth watering documentary will make you laugh & leave you hungry.

From Berlin and Vienna in the 1930s; from New York to Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1950’s, ‘60s and ‘70s; on the grew women Beat post, ruth weiss, has written, performed, painted, and filmed the fact that her, ‘one more step west is the sea…” Thomas Anotnic traces her pioneering art and her world without boundaries.

What happens to art in the Internet age? A documentary on the evolving relationship between contemporary art, audience and digital technology. "Puts together two opposing thoughts, leading to new thoughts." -art4d

Documentary about environmental racism, Army radiation testing & government conspiracy during the Cold War, Jim Crow era.

Following the everyday life of 21-year-old Samira from Zanzibar for 7 years, NDOTO YA SAMIRA depicts the quiet victories of a determined young woman.

A woman's journey to and across the soul-destroying chasm between veterans and others. Endorsed by the Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Returning Veterans Project, and other organizations.

One day, Pasquale decides to change his name to Tony. In the mid-60’s, at the age of 9, he crossed the ocean from Italy to the United States and grew up as a real American. Now a taxi driver in Yuma, Arizona, he's arrested on account of his side hustle - smuggling illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. He is therefore forced to make a choice: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy.

A creative documentary on writing history to solidify peace in a post-civil war society. "Casts a cool eye on the oddly surreal social landscape of the country after years of civil war." -The Progressive Magazine

From producers of Jesus Christ Superstar, "Superstars", a feature length documentary about the making of the original "Jesus Christ Superstar" theatrical movie. This 90 minute documentary features making of footage and original "on set" interviews with cast members and Norman Jewison.

THE FIFTH QUESTION examines the Persian Passover tradition, reflecting on inter-generational continuity through the eyes of three generations. Parents born and raised in pre-revolution Iran and young adults who grew up in LA share memories and experiences through candid interviews and intimate moments preparing symbolic foods and participating in the Seder ritual.

Sad Vacation is an up close and personal account of the tumultuous and stormy relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and how it ended in Room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel. This films pulls no punches and reveals the facts through personal friends, insiders and witnesses. Includes interviews with Sylvain Sylvain (New York Dolls), Bob Gruen, Walter Lure and many more.

A stunning celebration of Black Creole music and the spirit of fierce competition. Legendary musicians Boozoo Chavis and Beau Jocque stake their claims, onstage and off, each one as a new self-proclaimed King of Zydeco. Expertly captured by filmmaker Robert Mugge in early-90s Southwest Louisiana

THERE WERE ALWAYS DOGS, NEVER KIDS is a documentary ode to legendary New York City video store Alan's Alley, where bizarrely arranged movies enticed clientele from cinephile to celebrity to local prison inmate. Charismatic owner Alan Sklar sifts through the nuance of his neon-flickering livelihood, in his store’s last days as a fixture in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

Brian Scott Pfeifle changes his name to Felix, enters psychoanalysis and sets out to befriend Archduke Otto von Habsburg. "An eccentric character study that is as colourful and personable as its subject is." -Cinemablographer

A filmmaker explores the cultural traditions and contradictions across the sexually conservative land of the Kama Sutra.

LOOSE ETHICS highlights the home as the child's first classroom for ethics, and asks if a lack of value-based teaching is nurturing crime in society. Does connecting children with elders help children learn how to empathize? Whose responsibility is it to introduce children to spirituality? Filmed in Mumbai, India.

When heavily armed campus police broke into the University of Florida campus apartment of disabled and unarmed Ghanaian doctoral student Kofi Adu-Brempong and, within a minute of entry, shot him in the face, his life was forever changed.

New York City is currently undergoing a period of Hyper-Gentrification. This is a portrait of the communities fighting back.

The man is Henry Miller and the room is his bathroom, where the author soliloquizes about life, writing, sex, spirituality, nightmares, and New York. "An intimate portrayal of a man who lived openly." -Quotes Yes

A definitive look at one of the greatest visionaries of the Gilded Age, Edith Wharton. Includes the only known film footage of Wharton in existence. "An obscure but fascinating documentary." -The Arts Fuse

At a daycare center in Stolin, Belarus, young people with disabilities are directed and participate as actors in theatrical productions. Their perceived limitations evaporate on stage, revealing depths of character and capabilities that are seldom explored.

A 2022 EMMY winner for Best Historical Documentary, this is the true story of the Neiger family's miraculous escape from certain death by the Nazis during World War II. A story of endurance, unity and hope.

"Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous" films the roads to creation of a feminist legend, a 1968 activist, a famous playwright and poet who shares all the "wars of liberation" of our time. "Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous" is a dream of liberation

A group of Texas women band together to resurrect roller derby for the 21st century. Join their revolution. "Adrenaline-fueled highs, heartbreaking lows, and lots of chicks in short skirts kicking the shit out of each other." -The Onion A/V Club

MY MEXICAN BRETZEL uses home movies and moments of sound to tell the story of Vivian Barrett, a wealthy Swiss woman and her husband, Léon, a WWII pilot-turned-entrepreneur whose hearing was partly lost in a plane accident. Years of their lives are chronicled from the 40s through 60s, from Le Mans to Hawaïi. Vulnerability, loss, and belief are explored in an indulgently cinematic fashion.

Five young Zulu women gear up and go backpacking in the iMfolozi game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. They learn of the plight of this primordial wilderness, threatened by rhino poaching and an opencast coal mine. The group's journey of self-discovery, growth and healing serves as a reminder of how we all are intimately linked to nature; what we do to nature, we do to ourselves.

A documentary essay on memory, loss, expectation, and an imagined Armenia. A young woman's journey to her homeland is interwoven with photographs and the reflections of actress Arsinée Khanjian, resulting in an elegiac and sensory investigation into the concepts of home, identity and place.

An experiential introduction to Shakespeare Award-winning poet Mandy Kahn and the process behind her immersive, performative, peace-building poems. "A sun-powered X-ray into the process of a great artist." - PEN Award-winning author Mitch Horowitz

The fight for Lithuanian independence in 1991 gave a group of young men the chance to be heroes. "Perfect for any child that loves war games." -BB Reviews

Sexy, sharp, and a straight-up hustler, Stormy Mattinson is one of the world's most successful madams, running a multi-million dollar escort agency, Companions, in California and Utah. A MADAM’S HEAVEN AND HELL gives a firsthand, behind-the-scenes look at her tumultuous life at the top of the industry, baring witness to all the personal and professional dramas at play.

A bold vérité documentary and feel-good portrait of a sprightly 75-year-old priest who tends to 20+ villages in the idyllic French Pyrénées. "Leisurely but engrossing, often touching, and in the end surprising." -Video Librarian

Through the eyes of local kids playing with pebbles to the perspective of Dominican major league stars David Ortiz and Vladimir Guerrero, this documentary reveals a side of 'America's Game' that few have ever seen before.

WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter. "A profound meditation on art and an excellent dual-biopic." -Hammer to Nail

A portrait of neoliberal ideology imposing its dictates throughout the world. Behind the smokescreen, what's really going on? "It’s not the conservative part of neoconservative that's scary— it’s the neo." -The Georgia Straight

We are all part of the same story. A feature-length documentary about the complexity of human migration and how this affects two friends in their day-to-day lives. "A heart-driven, superlatively human tale." -The Sound View

Say hello to Hollywood outcast, best-selling author and chronicler of the rich and famous, Dominick Dunne. "Demonstrates... how the creative urge is something that refuses to age along with the body." -The Age

The São Marcos river in the state of Goiás flows between the cities of Catalão and Campo Alegre. This region once had many farms, built and farmed by members of the same family. In some parts, only ruins remain, insistent reminders that someone once lived there. The remaining inhabitants lose more land, everyday, to soybean fields and the Serra do Facão hydroelectric dam; these are their lives.

A documentary that exposes the rich growing subculture of hip-hop that was developed in New York City in late 70s and early 80s, specifically focusing on graffiti art and breakdancing

John Daly, an ex-Neo Nazi, fled to Israel when his gang tried to kill him for being Jewish. An old Skinhead friend finds John 25 years later and suggests they visit concentration camps in an effort to make amends for their past.

Known as the “Lower East Side Minster of Information,” Manhattan resident John King gives us a tour of his unique universe: from his roach-infested apartment, illuminated by only one lightbulb (a place once awarded “Grossest Apartment in NYC”) to Andy Warhol’s Factory on Union Square, where King recalls his experiences with Warhol there. A fun-loving portrait of a true Lower East Side legend.

Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales delves deeply into the unique relationship between humans and whales as told by renowned whale biologist and activist Dr. Roger Payne.

Paulistas, a rural region in the state of Goiás, is struggling to survive in the Brazilian savannah. Its young people have left in a rural exodus; since 2014, no young people live in the region. Monoculture farming and the exploitation of water resources have left Paulistas’ countryside cracked. In July, it’s vacation time. Children return from cities to visit their parents and life on the farm.

Icelandic politicians and businesses try to lure aluminum production to the island country. "Offers impassioned visual and rhetorical arguments [and] historical perspective." -Variety

A journey deep into the oldest music in the Western world - Greek music - guided by an eccentric musicologist who has dedicated his life to understanding and preserving it. An immersive sonic and visual feast that leaves the viewer feeling they've looked into a way of life that the 21st century has left behind. A call to arms for a different way of listening to music and understanding humanity.

There are more than eighty different nationalities and cultures spread all along the mountains, deserts and forests of Ethiopia. In order to unveil the music universe and keep a record of the incredibly endangered music traditions, ROARING ABYSS filmmaker Quino Piñero spent two years performing field recordings around every corner of Ethiopia, documenting this audiovisual poem.

TERFSLURRED explores the perceived misogyny of trans identity politics and the intellectual cat-fights fomenting from claims to true womanhood. Carefully making use of already-existing content on subjects of biology, feminism, trans-activism, and more, this found-footage doc is a new introduction to gender and the LGBTQ+ rainbow- like it's never appeared before.

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AWARD-WINNING SHORTS

James is a young, successful, handsome exec surrounded by adoring friends and family. On the eve of his wedding night, he must overcome a bedazzling temptress and a particularly cruel father-in-law with a knack for torture. Will love win out or will James give in?

THERE WERE ALWAYS DOGS, NEVER KIDS is a documentary ode to legendary New York City video store Alan's Alley, where bizarrely arranged movies enticed clientele from cinephile to celebrity to local prison inmate. Charismatic owner Alan Sklar sifts through the nuance of his neon-flickering livelihood, in his store’s last days as a fixture in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

Little Frunz is a disaster waiting to happen. He leaves Paris for Yerevan, where he lectures on good design and his unremitting love of cement. Revolution is in the air. Based on a book by Veken Berberian.

The joy of a family seeing the Super Eagles of Nigeria win "Gold" against big teams in Atlanta '96 Olympics despite the odds stacked against them would seem like the long-awaited hope that the country needs.

Depressed 17-year-old Sally is locked up in a pink, prison-like institution for teens who are so emotionally fµ¢ked that they’ve developed supernatural powers. The rebellion begins when Sally meets power-sociopath Ting-e-ling.

Martin is on his way up the coast for a quiet weekend. Out of nowhere an attractive teenage girl appears on the side of the road. He drives past, but when he stops at a scenic spot up the road, she knocks on his window and asks him for a ride. His decision to drive her home turns into a nightmare when she coerces him inside.

All hell is about to break loose when a food delivery goes wrong. Inspired by a real life tweet, this horror comedy short combines werewolf mythology with the most terrifying monster of all - the pandemic-variety Karen.

Elena and Andrea, a young married couple, arrive at their newly bought country house. A disturbing atmosphere pervades the old mansion: something is lurking under the ancient foundations, something that will affect them more than they could ever imagine...

Eva, a young reserved girl, arrives at the Refuge, a woman's aid center run by Mrs Kane. There she is introduced to the other girls who greet her with mistrust and distance. The Refuge is threatened by government cuts in funding that would leave the girls, homeless. Until they unite in a final act of protest.

THE FIFTH QUESTION examines the Persian Passover tradition, reflecting on inter-generational continuity through the eyes of three generations. Parents born and raised in pre-revolution Iran and young adults who grew up in LA share memories and experiences through candid interviews and intimate moments preparing symbolic foods and participating in the Seder ritual.

Half-visible images are abstracted through a process of visual degradation, suggesting memory and nostalgia, mystified through collage. Inspired by the song of the same name by the band Sparklehorse.

A girl lives in an isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never traveled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamed of leaving forever for a perfect world called Abroad.

A young Frederick is secretly taught to read and write by his master’s wife. Using only the air as their blackboard, this act provided an education that paved the way from slavery to freedom

That twisted producer Tony Newton presents another vomit-bag worthy collection of the most sickening short films ever found on the internet, which are not recommended for those easily offended or triggered and will get under your skin and into the pit of your stomach.

Andrzej and Michal are two young teenagers who come together every summer in the small tourist village

Plínio is a ten year old boy who goes to live with his grandmother in the countryside. Bored with the place, his life begins to change when he gains a doll named Frank from his grandmother.

Akiko stands in an endless, black and empty space. As if she wakes up to find herself in a new and unfamiliar state of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings: the road, the grass, the streetlights. It's as if she's never seen the world before, and has no concept of existence. Everything seems… less real.

Known as the “Lower East Side Minster of Information,” Manhattan resident John King gives us a tour of his unique universe: from his roach-infested apartment, illuminated by only one lightbulb (a place once awarded “Grossest Apartment in NYC”) to Andy Warhol’s Factory on Union Square, where King recalls his experiences with Warhol there. A fun-loving portrait of a true Lower East Side legend.

It's the future, and humanity’s but a memory, existing only in scattered pieces. That is: until a pillow's needlepoint rendering of three individuals, collectively known as the Clothespin Freaks, finds the spark of life and surfaces towards freaky destiny. Aware of a purpose, the group begins assembling the remains of humanity.

Alfie needs to find the meaning of life. His life. Through a haze of half remembered thoughts and earnest intentions, he struggles to see that the truth he is looking for is in the beauty that is all around him.

After Ivan was diagnosed with ALS, his relationship with Lucas is challenged when he starts to lose control of his own body.

The life of an obsessive social media influencer unravels when her boyfriend introduces her to a strange fruit.

A successful photographer is living the life of her dreams with the love of her life in New York City. Their idyllic happiness is shattered unexpectedly, and she struggles to accept the reality of her loss.

In this 80s monster flick, Laverne comes home after a hot and sweaty aerobics workout with one thing on her mind - a nice relaxing bath. Unbeknownst to poor Laverne, she's got a killer clog in her pipes! You'll never bathe again.

Two enemy soldiers get locked up in a tunnel below the World War I front. Sharing the same fate, they need each other to survive.

A super-freckled, self-hating virgin descends into a dark, depressive, lethal insanity due to low self esteem caused by social beauty standards.

Critically acclaimed DO PAHAR recounts the unlikely and fascinating friendship that forms between Sudha, an elderly abused woman and Bilal, a young hit man who she observes one day planning to murder her neighbor. He becomes her hero and savior; she becomes his most improbable partner-in-crime.

The Safe House, is a tale of a University teacher, who has been brought to a detention center where he meets a young Hindu boy who falls prey to severe military interrogation and torture.

A boy, a girl, a space-alien and fried chicken.

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