OPENS JUNE 26. After 30 years of Taliban and wartime rule, pop culture is creeping back into Afghanistan in the form of Afghan Star, an enormously popular American Idol–type contest. Filmmaker Havana Marking follows the dramatic stories of four of the contestants over three months, from regional auditions to the finals in Kabul, giving us a new, and more human, look at this troubled part of the world. More...

COMING SOON. From the director of Manufactured Landscapes. Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. More...

NOW PLAYING. After his critically acclaimed mood pieces Distant and Climates, Turkey’s leading filmmaker moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience and nuance. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys tells a twisty, noirish tale set in motion by a hit-and-run accident. More...

NOW PLAYING. Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy’s first narrative feature is a gorgeous mélange of tender comedy, ethnographic drama and wildlife extravaganza. More...

NOW PLAYING. A ravishing fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). More...

NOW PLAYING. Filmmaker Astra Taylor (ZIZEK!) accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. More...

NOW ON DVD. One of the greatest survival stories of all time is finally told by the survivors themselves, brilliantly crafted by their childhood friend and master filmmaker, Gonzalo Arijon. If this is a story that you think you know, think again. More...

COMING TO DVD AUGUST 25. Academy Award nominee and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, TROUBLE THE WATER 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 who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. More...

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

NOW ON DVD. 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...

NOW ON DVD. The award-winning 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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NOW ON DVD. 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...

NOW ON DVD. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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