A film by Derek Jarman

COMING TO THEATERS MAY 28

Made in 1990 and unavailable in the US for almost 20 years, Derek Jarman's late masterpiece The Garden is a visually stunning, deeply personal film about homosexuality, Christianity and persecution filmed at Jarman’s coastal home in the shadow of a nuclear power station. Starring a young Tilda Swinton and featuring a sublime score by Simon Fisher Turner. See More >

A film by Pamela B. Green

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Pamela B. Green’s energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.

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A film by Michal Aviad

NOW IN THEATERS

This timely and devastating story about a young mother who experiences sexual harassment when she tries to return to work is expertly told by long time Israeli feminist filmmaker Michal Aviad. See More >

A film by Astra Taylor

NOW IN THEATERS

Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated philosophers, trauma surgeons, factory workers, refugees, and politicians—What Is Democracy? connects past and present, emotion and the intellect, the personal and the political, to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.

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A film by Werner Penzel

COMING TO THEATERS SOON

A masterly immersion into life at a Japanese Zen monastery over three seasons. Simple and beautifully filmed, this is Into Great Silence meets Enlightenment Guaranteed, with composer Fred Frith performing the eclectic, elegant score. See More >