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February 2021 Releases
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 Downstream to Kinshasa - People in the Democratic Republic of Congo travel via boat to the capital to demand reparations for their injuries incurred during the Six-Day War.
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January 2021 Releases
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All the World's Memory - An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris by French New Wave director Alain Resnais. Newly restored!
 Bamako - Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, BAMAKO is both a courtroom drama and portrait of everyday Mali life.
Fool's Mate - An early short from French New Wave director, Jacques Rivette. Newly restored!
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Lost Course - In the village of Wukan, corrupt officials illegally sell villagers’ land. An unprecedented experiment in local democracy.
 Six in Paris (Paris vu par) - Six short films about Paris by filmmakers including Godard, Rohmer and Chabrol.
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 The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book.
Van Gogh - Alain Resnais charts the life and spiritual odyssey of one of the great modern painters purely through use of his paintings. Newly restored!
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Fall 2020 Releases
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Egg Cream - The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans.
 Lemebel - Writer, artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up Chilean society during Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Markie in Milwaukee - Markie, a 7-foot-tall Midwestern evangelical minister, struggles with her transgender identity.
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Outcry and Whisper - A political manifesto for the resistance of women, be they workers, intellectuals or militants, in China and Hong Kong.
Prison for Profit - Whistleblowers, former prisoners and an investigative journalist paint a shocking picture of South Africa’s first privatized prison.
 Softie - Daring and audacious, Softie is one of Kenya's most accomplished photojournalists. But running for office could be his most difficult assignment yet.
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Xu Bing: Phoenix - Documents the process of creating Xu Bing's monumental bird sculpture through to its installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
 Yiddish - Seven young scholars share their love for Yiddish, and for the avant-garde Yiddish poetry written between the World Wars.
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Spring 2020 Releases
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The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street - An emotional piece of experimental historiography which focuses on French children whose lives were upended by World War II.
How to Steal a Country - The story of the Gupta family’s spectacular rise from flea market shoe salesmen to establishing a massive black owned business empire in South Africa.
In Mansourah, You Separated Us - The director returns to Algeria with her father to learn about how his village was destroyed during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) and his family relocated by force.
 Marius Petipa: The French Master of Russian Ballet - Tells the extraordinary story of Marius Petipa, the groundbreaking French choreographer who went on to create Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.
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Propaganda: The Manufacture of Consent - Tells the history of how public relations and propaganda are used to control democratic nations.
Route One/USA - Two men (director Robert Kramer and Paul McIsaac) return to the U.S. after years abroad where they follow Route 1 from Maine to Miami and encounter a tapestry of American life.
Space Dogs - Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being sent into space. The adventures of her descendants, living on the streets of Moscow today.
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Suspension - Deep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia, between treacherously steep mountain slopes, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly. It’s as if there’s a conspiracy between nature, politicians and foolish arrogance.
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own
- An artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture.
With André Gide - A highly personal portrait of André Gide — a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951.
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