100% Arabica

$23.95 | 85 minutes

Set in a predominantly North African housing project just outside of Paris, this prescient 1997 dramedy from director Mahmoud Zemmouri follows a group of friends who escape the poverty and prejudice of their daily lives by forming a band called Rap Oriental. Their rai music (an infectious fusion of rap and traditional North African tunes)&hellip…

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A Tickle in the Heart

$26.95 | 87 minutes

A TICKLE IN THE HEART is a touching and lively travelogue starring erstwhile klezmer giants the Epstein Brothers (Willie, Julie, and Max), who come out from retirement in Florida to hit the road on their big comeback tour&hellip…

Alice

$23.95 | 91 minutes

Disney + Buuel = Svankmajer's ALICE." An unusual dramatization of a classic children's story, from Czech master animator Jan Svankmajer. This loose retelling of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" dives headlong into the story's more sordid, psychological dimensions. Svankmajer's rabbit hole is deeper&hellip…

Angel on the Right

$21.95 | 88 minutes

A movie from Tajikistan director Jamshed Usmonov, ANGEL ON THE RIGHT follows the fortunes of Hamro (Maruf Pulodzoda) as he returns to his native country after 10 years spent living in Moscow. Having languished in a Russian jail for most of the time, the former criminal hopes to return to Tajikistan to help his ailing mother who is close&hellip…

Aristide and the Endless Revolution

$20.95 | 82 minutes

Thoughtful, probing, and politically charged, this documentary examines the 2004 coup, sanctioned by western leaders and especially George W. Bush, which overthrew Haiti's democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Directed by Nicolas Rossier, the film features footage of Aristide, Senator Maxine Waters, Noam Chomsky, and&hellip…

Ayurveda: The Art of Being

$26.95 | 102 minutes

AYURVEDA: THE ART OF BEING, written and directed by Pan Nalin, takes viewers on a documentary journey through the history of this holistic from of health care and natural well-being. Partially based in methods of healing that identify incongruence in the body's energy, Ayurveda has roots in India, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Tibet, China, Russia&hellip…

Bab El-Oued City

$26.95 | 93 minutes

Algiers, 1989. The working class neighborhood Bab el-Oued is still in shock after the bloody riots of October 1988. At night, young Boualem works in a bakery. By day, the amplified call to pray disturbs his sleep. In a fit of anger, he tears down the loudspeaker on his building’s terrace and throws it into the sea. A group of young Islamists&hellip…

Black and White in Color

$26.95 | 92 minutes

In 1914, some patriotic Frenchmen, living in a small town on the west coast of Africa, find out about the war with Germany, declaring: "I would have thought it would be with England." Immediately, the lazy sergeant organizes his little army of ill-trained natives, and marches on the neighboring German fort, accompanied by shopkeepers&hellip…

Conspirators of Pleasure

$26.95 | 83 minutes

Revered Czech animator Svankmajer's 1993 film is a virtually dialogue free exploration of the strange intimate workings of the lives of six common people. Through a disturbing mix of live action and the wondrous stop-motion animation that the director is famous for, the humdrum&hellip…

Dangerous Moves

$17.95 | 110 minutes

Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier. Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film&hellip…