What is Democracy?
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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Working Woman
A film by Michal Aviad
COMING TO THEATERS MARCH 27
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 >
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
A film by Pamela B. Green
OPENS IN LOS ANGELES APRIL 19 AND NEW YORK APRIL 26
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.
Zen for Nothing
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 >
The Garden
A film by Derek Jarman
COMING TO THEATERS SOON
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 >