Trouble the Water
Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

NOW PLAYING. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tell the story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband, trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. More...


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Billy the Kid
Jennifer Venditti

COMING TO DVD OCTOBER 28. Jennifer Venditti's award-winning documentary is a provocative coming-of-age story—an odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. More...


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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
Amei Wallach, Marion Cajori

NOW IN THEATERS. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE is a film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. More...


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Up The Yangtze
Yung Chang

NOW IN THEATERS. A feature-length documentary in which the Three Gorges Dam forms an unsettling backdrop to a richly detailed narrative of life inside contemporary China.
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Chris & Don. A Love Story
Guido Santi, Tina Mascara

NOW PLAYING! A documentary portrait of one of the most extraordinary and unconventional relationships of the past century, between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait artist Don Bachardy. More...


Jellyfish
Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret

NOW IN THEATERS. Winner of the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. More...


Manufactured Landscapes
Jennifer Baichwal

NOW ON DVD. An award-winning feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. More...


Into Great Silence
Philip Gröning

NOW ON DVD. An impressionistic and meditative chronicle of a year in and around the Grand Chartreuse, a monastery in the French Alps. Working alone without crew or artificial lighting, director Philip Gröning records the monks’ daily lives, prayers, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. A tranquil contemplation about the possibility of transcendence for all. More...


Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
Peter Sutherland, Jack Youngelson

NOW ON DVD, TIERNEY GEARON: THE MOTHER PROJECT is a moving and complex portrait of an artist, her inspirations and unconventional family relationships. The mixture of art and family can almost be too close for comfort, but like much of Gearon‘s photographs there is subversive beauty that arises out of the incongruity between ordinary moments and madness. More...


Climates
Nuri Bilge Ceylan

NOW ON DVD. Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. More...


The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Quay Brothers

NOW ON DVD. The breathtakingly beautiful, long-awaited second feature by the Quay Brothers, master animators turned manipulators of live actors in uncanny puppet-show environments. In a world of minutely artificed trompe l’oeil, opera singer Malvina is spirited away to a remote island by her menacing admirer Dr. Droz. More...


Lunacy
Jan Svankmajer

NOW ON DVD. The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (LITTLE OTIK) is a “philosophical horror film,” loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. More...


My Country, My Country
Laura Poitras

NOW ON DVD. Oscar nominee-Best Documentary Feature. An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation, principally Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. Unfolding like a narrative drama, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY follows the agonizing predicament of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spread democracy in the Middle East. More...


Sophie Scholl-The Final Days
Marc Rothemund

NOW ON DVD. The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. More...


Ballets Russes
Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller

NOW ON DVD. This entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupes known collectively as the Ballets Russes treats modern audiences to a rare glimpse of the singularly remarkable merger of performers, choreographers, composers and designers who transformed the art of dance for generations to come. More...


Zizek!
Astra Taylor

NOW ON DVD. The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important--and outrageous--cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been called “the Elvis of cultural theory”. More...


The World
Jia Zhangke

NOW ON DVD. This stunning film by Jia Zhangke (called “the world's greatest filmmaker under 40” by The Village Voice) is set in a Beijing theme park where lavish shows are performed amid scaled-down replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark’s Square, the Pyramids and even the Twin Towers. More...


Short Cut to Nirvana
Maurizio Benazzo, Nick Day

NOW ON DVD. This enthralling, insightful, uplifting and often hilarious documentary journeys to the heart of the largest gathering of humanity on Earth: the Kumbh Mela. More...


Travellers & Magicians
Khyentse Norbu

NOW ON DVD. One of Himalayan Buddhism’s most revered lamas, Khyentse Norbu weaves parallel fable-like tales about two men who seek to escape their mundane lives. This is the first feature film ever shot in the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan. More...


The Corporation
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar

Now on DVD, THE CORPORATION is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. More...


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Divan
Pearl Gluck

NOW ON DVD.
Everyone has a couch. Not everyone has a couch with a story like this. More...


Since Otar Left...
Julie Bertuccelli

Now on DVD, Julie Bertuccelli's exquisite SINCE OTAR LEFT (winner of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) is a bittersweet tale of deception and affection. More...


James' Journey to Jerusalem
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

Now on DVD, this cannily droll mix of social commentary and modern fable follows the adventures of young James, a devout wide-eyed Christian attempting a pilgrimage from his African village to the Holy Land. More...


Nowhere in Africa
Caroline Link

Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is now available on DVD. More...




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