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  • Flyer Boys
    Movie + 1 extra

    Flyer Boys

    Movie + 1 extra

    Canada Shorts Film Festival
    San Jose International Short Film Festival
    Roma Short Film Festival

    Flyer Boys is the story of a Ukrainian grandfather and his Canadian-born grandson who find themselves at both generational and cultural odds as they spend long summer days working together delivering ...

  • Scheme Birds
    Movie + 1 extra

    Scheme Birds

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin announce themselves as docmakers to watch with this piercing chronicle of a Scottish teen's drastic coming of age." Variety

    Tribeca Film Festival
    Hot Docs
    Edinburgh International Film Festival

    A winner of multiple awards across the festival circuit, including Be...

  • Mater (Matriarch)
    Movie + 1 extra

    Mater (Matriarch)

    Movie + 1 extra

    Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
    Belgrade Film Festival
    Pula Film Festival

    When Jasna (Daria Lorenci-Flatz) returns to her childhood home in Croatia in order to care for her mother, Anka (Neva Rosic), who is in ill health, she is forced to confront the complex, damaging relationship she has wi...

  • Didi's Dreams
    Movie + 1 extra

    Didi's Dreams

    Movie + 1 extra

    Seattle International Film Festival

    In this one-of-a-kind comedy, Didi (Dee Hsu) is an aspiring actress trying to prove herself to her superstar sister. She keeps having the same dream about the love affairs of a woman named Xu Chunmei (also Dee Hsu), who owns a spaceship restaurant known for a ...

  • Obscuro Barroco

    Movie

    "a dreamy acid trip through Rio de Janeiro’s queer nightlife." Now Magazine

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
    Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival

    In her dreamlike, essayistic film Obscuro Barroco, Greek director Evangelia ...

  • Manu
    Movie + 1 extra

    Manu

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa

    IDFA
    Docville
    Munich Dok Fest

    The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...

  • Home Games
    Movie + 1 extra

    Home Games

    Movie + 1 extra

    Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
    Sheffield Doc/Fest
    Cleveland International Film Festival

    Alisa Kovalenko’s documentary focusses on a crucial period in the life of Alina, a gifted 20-year-old footballer from Kyiv, whose passion for the sport has a chance of saving her from pover...

  • Freedom Or Death
    Movie + 2 extras

    Freedom Or Death

    Movie + 2 extras

    Ukrainian-born filmmaker Damien Kolodiy travelled to his homeland in 2014 to document the violent insurrection from the streets, chronicling the extreme chaos engulfing Ukraine in a remarkable and intense narrative. Told from the point of view of Kolodiy, with exhaustive research and incredible u...

  • Recovery Room
    Movie + 1 extra

    Recovery Room

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Adriana Luhovy, Recovery Room is a feature documentary that tells the story of several humanitarian Canadian Medical Missions to Ukraine. Plastic surgeons with their specialized team of 25 Canadian health professionals arrive at the Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kyiv during 2014 ...

  • Our Body

    Movie

    "one of the year’s most notable Korean independent features.” Screendaily

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Busan International Film Festival

    After dedicating years of her life studying for the public official exam, Ja-young (Moon Choi) suddenly loses interest and makes the difficult decision...

  • Since I Been Down
    Movie + 1 extra

    Since I Been Down

    Movie + 1 extra

    "In a nation crying for change, Since I Been Down is not only timely but a vital piece to an ever-growing picture that needs to be seen." Film Inquiry

    Directed by Dr. Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down tells the dramatic story of how an American community, held captive by 1990’s punitive policies...

  • Liyana
    Movie + 1 extra

    Liyana

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter

    Dublin International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Palm Springs Films Festival

    A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...

  • Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

    Movie + 1 extra

    “Compelling… ‘Transmissions After Zero’ chronicles Brainiac’s unlikely rise and subsequent fall with intelligence and humor.” -Variety

    SXSW Film Festival
    Cleveland Film Festival
    Cork Film Festival

    In the mid 90’s the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz for the inf...

  • The Swing
    Movie + 1 extra

    The Swing

    Movie + 1 extra

    "...the kind of intimate portrait that captivates purely on the basis of what it reveals about the pain and the complexity of the human experience." Hollywood Reporter

    Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
    Open City Docs Fest
    El Gouna Film Festival

    Filmmaker Cyril Aris' directs his camera to...

  • Silence Is A Falling Body

    Movie + 1 extra

    International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
    Filmfest Hamburg
    Brooklyn Film Festival

    Silence Is A Falling Body follows filmmaker Agustina Comedi as she explores hundreds of hours of footage from the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded throughout his life. Her search to learn more abou...

  • Rival
    Movie + 1 extra

    Rival

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A superb performance from Yelizar Nazarenko propels this drama about a nine-year-old boy in increasingly dire straits." Screen Daily

    Busan International Film Festival
    AFI Fest
    Camerimage

    After being smuggled across the border from Ukraine into Germany, nine-year-old Roman (Yelizar Nazarenko) i...

  • While We Are Here
    Movie + 1 extra

    While We Are Here

    Movie + 1 extra

    Rotterdam International Film Festival
    Art of the Real
    Montreal International Documentary Festival

    A hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes for a compelling film diary in While We Are Here. The film focuses on Lamis, a Lebanese woman, who has just moved to New York and...

  • The Cost of Freedom: Refugee Journalists in Canada

    Movie + 2 extras

    The latest film from award-winning Canadian filmmaker, historian, and journalist James Cullingham (Searching For Blind For Death) focuses on the lives of three journalists - Abdulrahman Matar from Syria, Luis Nájera of México and Arzu Yildiz from Turkey - exploring the reasons that each person fl...

  • Microhabitat
    Movie + 1 extra

    Microhabitat

    Movie + 1 extra

    Busan International Film Festival
    Göteborg Film Festival
    Los Angeles Film Festival

    Miso (Esom) is a young woman struggling to get by as a housekeeper in Seoul, earning barely enough to cover rent and her two indulgences - whiskey and cigarettes. When she finds herself having to choose between re...

  • Maggie
    Movie + 1 extra

    Maggie

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Exuberantly nonsensical debut from South Korea’s Yi Okseop"

    Busan International Film Festival
    International Film Festival Rotterdam
    Fantasia International Film Festival

    Stylish and surreal, Yi Okseop's bold debut feature is part relationship drama, part sci-fi, part comedic satire, and a lot m...

  • Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band)

    Movie + 1 extra

    Rotterdam International Film Festival
    Mar del Plata Film Festival
    FRAMELINE, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival

    Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band) sees former punk band bassist, Marilina Giménez, documenting women's bands from across Argentina, showing their struggles and achieveme...

  • Luisita Photo Studio

    Movie + 1 extra

    Buenos Aires Int’l Independent Film Festival
    Havana Film Festival
    Brooklyn Film Festival

    At the crowded Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires City, among all the theatres, you can find Estudio Luisita. From 1958 to 2009, the photographic studio produced iconic images of the stars of Buenos Aires sho...

  • Summer Rebels
    Movie + 1 extra

    Summer Rebels

    Movie + 1 extra

    Thessaloniki International Film Festival
    Cinekid Film Festival
    Goa International Film Festival

    11-year-old Jonas (Eliás Vyskocil) longs to spend summer shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his mother has already made alternate vacation plans...

  • 180 Degree Rule
    Movie + 1 extra

    180 Degree Rule

    Movie + 1 extra

    Toronto International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Fajr Film Festival

    Based on real events, director Farnoosh Samadi's provocative debut feature is an incise and powerful examination of Iranian patriarchal society. Sahar Dolatshahi plays Sara, a school teacher from Tehran who is prepar...