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GIRLS FROM NOWOLIPKI GIRLS FROM NOWOLIPKI

A postwar film version of Pola Gojawiczynska's novel. A lively picture of turn-of-the-century Warsaw as experienced by four young girls. The film begins as the heroines finish...LEARN MORE.

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APPLE TREE OF PARADISE APPLE TREE OF PARADISE

The sequel to The Girls of Nowolipki is set in Warsaw after the First World War, when Poland regained her independence. Again, the film follows the lives of the young heroines...LEARN MORE.

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YERMA YERMA

Based on a book by Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, Yerma tells the story of woman who longs for a child, but is unable to conceive. Harboring a deep hatred...LEARN MORE.

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GREAT DAY IN HAVANA GREAT DAY IN HAVANA

The state of the arts in Cuba's capital city is examined in this documentary by American filmmakers Laurie Ann Schag and Casey Stoll. Cuban artists, filmmakers and musicians...LEARN MORE.

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ROY COHN / JACK SMITH ROY COHN / JACK SMITH

An intense cinematic translation of a theatre piece in which actor Ron Vawter interprets the dual roles of Roy Cohn--the racist, reactionary prosecutor of the Joe McCarthy era and beyond...LEARN MORE.

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WHAT'S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS? WHAT'S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS?

The complete, extraordinary "reperformance" by Ron Vawter of Jack Smith's 1981 performance piece, What's Underground About Marshmallows, in which Jack, strongly against the...LEARN MORE.

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INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES

"A winning combination of sexual frankness and visual wit," wrote J. Hoberman in The Village Voice; "Funny, violent, sexual...It makes you reconsider what you and everyone else is...LEARN MORE.

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PRACTICE OF LOVE, THE PRACTICE OF LOVE, THE

"A dazzling cinematic tour-de-force, combining a thriller narrative with experimental images" (National Film Theatre, London). Judith, an investigative journalist, begins to...LEARN MORE.

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MENSCHENFRAUEN MENSCHENFRAUEN

Valie Export's daring film about relationships, Menschenfrauen (loosely translated, "human women"), focuses on Franz S., a journalist, and his relationship with four...LEARN MORE.

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RICK OWENS AND OTHER FILMS BY JAN SHARP RICK OWENS AND OTHER FILMS BY JAN SHARP

In the touching portrait Rick, Michele and Scarlett, filmmaker Jan Sharp offers an inside look at the special relationship of cutting-edge fashion designer Rick Owens and fashion fixture...LEARN MORE.

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SCUM MANIFESTO SCUM MANIFESTO

Jill Godmilow (Far From Poland, Waiting for the Moon) in collaboration with Joanna Krakowska and Magda Mosiewicz pay homage to the original SCUM Manifesto, a French film made in...LEARN MORE.

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SHELTER SONG: ART FROM THE HOMELESS SHELTER SONG: ART FROM THE HOMELESS

There is a common misconception that art is too intangible or too impractical to create social change. Shelter Song: Art from the Homeless proves otherwise...LEARN MORE.

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SI SOS BRUJO: A STORY OF TANGO SI SOS BRUJO: A STORY OF TANGO

A heartfelt, inspiring film that could do for Argentine Tango what the Buena Vista Social Club did for the music of Cuba. This beautifully shot documentary captures the compelling story...LEARN MORE.

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A VILLAGE ROMANCE A VILLAGE ROMANCE

A documentary about two women who fall in love in a small Hungarian village, once a haven for the lesbian community. One lives in poverty, while the other is married to an abusive and...LEARN MORE.

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JUST SEX AND NOTHING ELSE JUST SEX AND NOTHING ELSE

In this "bright, snappy relationship comedy" (Variety), a well-educated, sophisticated woman gets fed up with men after she discovers her fiance is already married. Though she wants a child...LEARN MORE.

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CHICO CHICO

An ideological adventure movie, from the director of Bolshe Vita. Chico is half Hungarian and half Spanish, half Catholic and half Jewish. As a child he was steeped in the myths of Che...LEARN MORE.

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MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: TERRA INCOGNITA MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: TERRA INCOGNITA

Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of Dr. Jack Kessler, current chair of Northwestern University's Department of...LEARN MORE.

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EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE

Though shot in fascist Spain near the end of Franco's dictatorship, this West German television production from writer-director Helma Sanders-Brahms (Germany Pale Mother)...LEARN MORE.

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CAMILA CAMILA

A young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest. The two find temporary happiness in a small provincial village, but eventually, they are...LEARN MORE.

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NOBODY'S WIFE NOBODY'S WIFE

Maria Luisa Bemberg (Camila) directs this stirring film about a woman (Luisina Brando) undergoing a drastic life change after leaving her family due to her husband's extramarital affairs...LEARN MORE.

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BOLSHE VITA BOLSHE VITA

This acclaimed, multiple-award-winning film centers around a group of young people who meet in a rock pub in Budapest in the summer of 1989 during Hungary's fleeting celebration...LEARN MORE.

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OLD BELIEVERS: THREE FILMS BY JANA SEVCIKOVA OLD BELIEVERS: THREE FILMS BY JANA SEVCIKOVA

In the outlands of Eastern Europe, acclaimed filmmaker Jana Sevcikova spent years chronicling the descendants of immigrants and exiles. The resulting poetic, intimate...LEARN MORE.

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JOURNEY TO THE SUN JOURNEY TO THE SUN

Mehmet, a young man from western Turkey, and Berzan, a Kurdish rebel living in the underground, develop an unlikely friendship while living in Istanbul. When Mehmet is mistaken...LEARN MORE.

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ORIANA ORIANA

A taut, gothic, Latin American romance, winner of the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Marie returns to a rundown Venezuelan house in the jungle where she spent summers as a child...LEARN MORE.

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OUR TIMES OUR TIMES

A fascinating documentary from Rakshan Bani-Etemad (The May Lady), the most outspoken and respected female director working in Iran today. Bani-Etemad's film focuses on the...LEARN MORE.

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THE SHOE THE SHOE

Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from the sea. One morning, three Soviet patrolmen...LEARN MORE.

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MY NAME WAS SABINA SPIELREIN MY NAME WAS SABINA SPIELREIN

In 1977, a surprising find in Switzerland led to the re-discovery of one of the most important female figures in the early history of psychoanalysis. The found diaries and letters revealed...LEARN MORE.

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LABOR STORIES LABOR STORIES

From acclaimed Chicago filmmaking collective Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams) comes a collection of three important Labor Stories of the 1970s. These films not only allowed the workers...LEARN MORE.

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UNWANTED WOMAN UNWANTED WOMAN

From acclaimed director Tahmineh Milani (Two Women) comes this searing tale about the struggles of women in modern-day Iran. Poor Sima puts up with her philandering and abusive...LEARN MORE.

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WAITING FOR THE MOON WAITING FOR THE MOON

Jill Godmilow's meditation on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Linda Hunt plays Alice B. Toklas and Linda Bassett is Gertrude Stein, in a personal drama about the two remarkable...LEARN MORE.

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MONSTER IN THE FOREST: THE STORY OF THE CYCLOP MONSTER IN THE FOREST: THE STORY OF THE CYCLOP

In 1969, sculptor Jean Tinguely began an amazing artistic adventure with his wife, artist Niki de Saint Phalle. With help from a group of their artist friends, the pair started construction...LEARN MORE.

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IMMORAL STORY IMMORAL STORY

From Barbara Sass, the popular Polish director of The Girls of Nowolipki, comes this bittersweet tale of an aging actress in the twilight of her career. Once a significant stage performer, Ewa...LEARN MORE.

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20 FINGERS 20 FINGERS

First-time director Mania Akbari explores the heartbreak and joy of romantic relationships through the stories of seven couples searching for happiness. Comprising seven...LEARN MORE

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LOLA LOLA

The stunning feature debut of one of Mexico's leading female directors, Maria Novaro, offering a fresh perspective on motherhood, a prominent theme in Latin American cinema...LEARN MORE.

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5 GIRLS 5 GIRLS

For her ambitious debut, documentary filmmaker Maria Finitzo followed five adolescent girls for two years, resulting in this authentic portrait of young women at a pivotal point in their...LEARN MORE

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JAMES ELLROY: AMERICAN DOG JAMES ELLROY: AMERICAN DOG

"I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music," boasts James Ellroy, an American crime fiction writer who was both cursed and...LEARN MORE.

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TWO LAWS TWO LAWS

"A breakthrough of major significance in ethnographic film" (Film Quarterly), Two Laws is the story of an Aboriginal community from the remote Northern Territory of Australia told...LEARN MORE.

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FAR FROM POLAND FAR FROM POLAND

A brilliant film. Denied a visa to shoot in Poland, director Jill Godmilow constructs a film over the bare bones of documentary footage while in New York, resulting in a deft...LEARN MORE.

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GERMANY, PALE MOTHER GERMANY, PALE MOTHER

A beautiful, painfully moving account of writer-director Helma Sanders-Brahms' childhood, made to show her own daughter a vision of Germany beyond Hitler and the Holocaust...LEARN MORE.

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FUTURE OF EMILY, THE FUTURE OF EMILY, THE

Helma Sanders-Brahms (Germany, Pale Mother) wrote and directed this gripping family drama that focuses on three generations of women. Brigitte Fossey (Cinema Paradiso) is Isabelle...LEARN MORE.

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UNDER THE PAVEMENT LIES THE STRAND UNDER THE PAVEMENT LIES THE STRAND

The first feature from German filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahms, this potent black-and-white drama deals with the aftermath of the 1968 student rebellions in Germany as...LEARN MORE.

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NO MERCY, NO FUTURE NO MERCY, NO FUTURE

Based on a series of letters written by a schizophrenic woman named Rita G., No Mercy, No Future (Die Beruhrte) is Helma Sanders-Brahms' controversial film about the...LEARN MORE.

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MY HEART IS MINE ALONE MY HEART IS MINE ALONE

The story of the real-life love affair between Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schueler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn is told largely through their poetry in this experimental drama scored with...LEARN MORE.

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CAVALLO BEHIND BARS CAVALLO BEHIND BARS

In this real-life story of dictators, political agents, and secret identities, Argentine businessman Ricardo Miguel Cavallo used the code name "Serpico" as an officer of the...LEARN MORE.

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WITH JERZY GROTOWSKI, NIENADOWKA 1980 WITH JERZY GROTOWSKI, NIENADOWKA 1980

Jerzy Grotowski, a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, invited a film crew to travel with him to the small village of Nienadowka, Poland in 1980. It was there that he, his mother, and his...LEARN MORE.

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PERFECT DAY, A PERFECT DAY, A

Set in modern Beirut, A Perfect Day tells the "delicate but haunting" (Time Out New York) story of a family still scarred by the Lebanese Civil War that ended 15 years before. Claudia...LEARN MORE.

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TAMBOURINE TAMBOURINE

In this Iranian comedy from up-and-coming female filmmaker Parisa Bakhtavar, a pretty but poor girl (Baran Kosari) gets into a fender bender in her father's car. She solicits the help...LEARN MORE.

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WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS

For her third feature, acclaimed Turkish filmmaker Yesim Ustaoglu (Journey to the Sun) adapts Georgios Andreadis' moving tale about identity and alienation. Waiting for the Clouds... LEARN MORE.

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FOR FUN FOR FUN

The name says it all. The first film in director Ning Ying's "Beijing Trilogy" pays "unashamed tribute to the lighter side of life " (The Economist). The story centers around an old man forced...LEARN MORE.

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SUPERSTAR (DVD) SUPERSTAR (DVD)

Coming off the unprecedented box office success of Cease-Fire, acclaimed Iranian director Tahmineh Milani wrote and directed this light-hearted family drama. Shahab Hosseini offers an...LEARN MORE.

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THE POPOVICH BROTHERS OF SOUTH CHICAGO THE POPOVICH BROTHERS OF SOUTH CHICAGO

In a small community of steelworkers, truck drivers and teachers on the South Side of Chicago, a musical group called the Popovich Brothers maintained the traditional music and rich culture of...LEARN MORE.

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MAXWELL STREET BLUES MAXWELL STREET BLUES

Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street was home to an open-air market that thrived for decades. It was there that the Chicago blues was born as African-American street musicians, who had...LEARN MORE.

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DO NO HARM DO NO HARM

Do No Harm tells the incredible and often outrageous story of two men in a small, southern town who endured relentless attacks in order to draw national attention to the plight of the...LEARN MORE.

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DESIGN 2 DESIGN 2

The Bookworm, Concorde, Conica coffeemaker, Leica camera, Eames lounge chair, and Vespa scooter not only reflect the era that produced them but also anticipated the future. Design...LEARN MORE.

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ON THE BEAT ON THE BEAT

On the Beat offers a humorous look at the daily grind of a Beijing police station through the perspective of two mismatched partners. This is the second film in Ning Ying's "Beijing trilogy,"...LEARN MORE.

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I LOVE BEIJING I LOVE BEIJING

The third film in director Ning Ying's "Beijing Trilogy," this romantic drama follows the fortunes of a young cab driver who is depressed because of a recent divorce. He turns his...LEARN MORE.

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LEAR '87 ARCHIVE (CONDENSED) LEAR '87 ARCHIVE (CONDENSED)

Jill Godmilow's six-hour archive of the Mabou Mines ensemble's controversial 1990, gender-reversed production of Shakespeare's King Lear documents the first two-week workshop on...LEARN MORE.

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THE FILMS OF HELMA SANDERS-BRAHMS THE FILMS OF HELMA SANDERS-BRAHMS

From Helma Sanders-Brahms--"the fiery, dogged, despairing feminist voice of the New German Cinema" (Michael Atkinson, IFC.com)--comes this collection of six gripping dramas...LEARN MORE.

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