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- DirectorPratibha ParmarStarsAngela DavisFannie Lou HamerJune JordanThis celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power and feminist movements, the trio reassess how women such as Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society.
- DirectorElham EhsasStarsTom MachellA lonely man longs for the touch of his partner, finding increasingly creative ways to reach out
- DirectorElham EhsasStarsSiddiq BarmakAlex BrockdorffRobert Firth
- DirectorAzeem BhatiStarsHussina RajaBen TurnerAt the height of the pandemic, a junior doctor steps outside during her night shift to deliver news.
- DirectorElham EhsasStarsBen TurnerThe postman of Kabul pens a letter to a lost love.
- DirectorElham EhsasStarsElham EhsasEliza HarrisRuchika JainThe life of an aspiring actress unravels through her self-tape auditions.
- DirectorAzeem BhatiElham EhsasStarsAfsaneh DehrouyehElham EhsasLucy SheenSamira, an Afghan village girl, is on her first date in London.
- DirectorMina ShumStarsSandra OhStephen ChangClaudette CarracedoEast clashes with West and generations collide as a young Chinese woman struggles to appease her old-fashioned father, and at the same time pursue her modern dreams.
- DirectorRohit JugrajPareshkumar Bharatbhai PatelAlpeshkumar Keshavlal PrajapatiStarsSonam BajwaGurpreet BalPaul BarbaraA short-tempered farmer exiled in Australia must raise a large sum of money before he can return to his village.
- DirectorSylvina BoissonnasClaudine MulardStarsShahin AsadiMojgan K.Soghra MarandianIn 1979, Iranian Women invited the American feminist Kate Millett to celebrate March 8, the International Women's Day, in Tehran. On March 7, the religious leaders announced that women had to wear the Islamic veil. From March 7 to March 13, women demonstrated in the streets for their rights and against the mandatory veil. A team of four women from the French Women's Liberation Movement (group "politics and psychoanalysis") filmed these historical events, with a Beaulieu 16mm camera. The film and the sound were saved even though Khomeiny had prohibited all images from leaving the territory. The short documentary film was first shown at the Mutualité in Paris on March 22, 1979. It has never been distributed by its producers, but reappeared on the Internet around March 8, 2009, the year of the Green movement in Iran.
- DirectorBani KhoshnoudiStarsAva FarhangHabib SadatOn the road to England, Arya, a young Afghan boy, crosses Europe's borders with other exiles. Near Italy he is separated from the group and sent by smugglers towards Paris. In Paris, in a small "transit" room, Arya meets Khorshid, a young girl who has lost her family on the road and who now lives victim to the desires of the smugglers.
- DirectorTara Najd Ahmadi
- DirectorMaaman RezaeeMy father has been a prisoner of conscious in Iran since 2008 and will be for another 13 years. Having no means of communication with this man who has once been a major influence in my life, I'm trying to give life to my memories and objects sent to me from prison through Minuet.
- DirectorMaryam TafakoryUsing excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.
- DirectorSanaz AzariStarsBehrouz MajidiThe films director Sanaz Azari is learning how to write and read in Farsi, using books dating back to the Islamic revolution of 1979. The basics of language slowly turns into a meditation of Iranian history and culture.
- DirectorMitra TabrizianStarsVictoria Harwood
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsDenis MénochetIsabelle AdjaniKhalil Ben GharbiaPeter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means.
- DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe KeatonA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- A young couple move from Iran to the Netherlands. The woman tries to explore the new environment and adapt herself to it. However, the contrast between where they came from and where they now live, their isolation and being away from family and friends, made the woman dispirited and homesick. The memories and nostalgia for her country encourage the woman to abandon reality and instead to sleep and live in her dreams but a peculiar phenomenon threatens her life...
- DirectorOtto MessmerA starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along.
- DirectorSusan ThomsonThis is the first film in the Ghost Empire project series, which looks at British colonial laws dating from the 19th and early 20th century, which continue to criminalize homosexuality in over 40 countries worldwide. There have been numerous recent arrests of gay men in Northern Turkish occupied Cyprus, including even the former Finance Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, under a British colonial law which dates from 1889. The film looks at the internationally unrecognized North of Cyprus, the last divided capital of Europe and also the last place in Europe to criminalize homosexuality. Now, thanks to a case lodged in the European Court of Human Rights, the law is due to be repealed before the end of 2013.
- DirectorKamila AndiniStarsArawinda KiranaAsmara AbigailSekar SariIn her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsDennis BovellSaffron CoomberFrankie FoxA single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
- DirectorJohn BerryThis artful and beautifully conceived film mixes archival and dramatized images of the 1944 US presidential election into a sophisticated encoding of memes centering on fairness, democracy, and media as a benevolent force.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsMarion DaviesOrville CaldwellMarie DresslerAn awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
- DirectorRobert FloreySlavko VorkapichStarsJules RaucourtVoya GeorgeRobert FloreyA wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
- DirectorChris FernandezStarsMichael RatulowskiGuz KhanA young, careless teenager, working in a small delivery company, is on his final warning and has to fight through many obstacles to deliver his potentially final package.
- DirectorSophie HydeStarsEmma ThompsonDaryl McCormackIsabella LaughlandNancy Stokes, a retired school teacher, is yearning for some adventure, and some sex. And she has a plan, which involves hiring a young sex worker named Leo Grande.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsMarion DaviesWilliam HainesDell HendersonA young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsGary OldmanAmanda SeyfriedLily Collins1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsCharles ChaplinRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbucklePeggy PearceCharlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoStarsWilliam HainesChris AllenStockard ChanningChronicles the life of openly gay 1930s film actor William Haines, who sacrificed his Hollywood fame when he refused to end his relationship with another man.
- StarsMrs. M.F. LeeCarey WilsonHoward HawksA tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.
- DirectorPeter HortonStarsEllen PompeoSandra OhKatherine HeiglThe first shift for new surgical interns Meredith, Cristina, Izzie, George, and Alex proves eventful and backbreaking.
- DirectorJulie Anne RobinsonStarsAdjoa AndohLorraine AshbourneJonathan BaileyDaphne Bridgerton debuts on London's marriage market as a new gossip sheet sets high society atwitter and Simon, the eligible Duke of Hastings, returns to town.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergArthur RossonStarsGeorge BancroftClive BrookEvelyn BrentBoisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
- DirectorConstantine NasrStarsAlec BaldwinRudy BehlmerRobert BentonAn exploration into the invention of the crime genre in storytelling and the impact it would have during the infant years of cinema. Early Hollywood stars and directors are examined through their contributions to film history and their creations' influence on public society.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsElmer BoothLillian GishClara T. BracyA tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
- DirectorKaren HillhouseJohn RustStarsMartin ScorseseRobert SklarAlain SilverAn examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.
- DirectorJennie LivingstonStarsBrooke XtravaganzaAndré ChristianDorian CoreyA chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsEdward G. RobinsonDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Glenda FarrellA small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
- DirectorAlbert MagnoliStarsPrinceApollonia KoteroMorris DayA young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
- DirectorRay EnrightLucien HubbardStarsJoan BlondellChester MorrisAllen JenkinsThe story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
- DirectorThomas Allen HarrisStarsAnni CammettPaul EaddyVanessa EaddyThis essay style film focuses on three groups of black siblings (including the director himself and his brother) and the intersections of race, sexuality, and family dynamics.
- DirectorRemy BazerqueStarsBamshad Abedi-AminDeborah BlandTom BoningtonThings get wild at the 'VISA and immigration services' when Karim, a young Iranian father living in the UK is mistakenly threatened with deportation
- DirectorLouis Norton SelzerStarsJames HylandJordan A. NashAnthony ReddyA young boy braves a notorious fast food joint to find his missing brother.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsAlan LaddHelen WalkerSheldon LeonardA New York gangster is unwillingly drafted into the army and deserts but becomes patriotic when he stumbles upon foreign spies bent on stealing American military secrets.
- DirectorConstantine NasrStarsSteven SpielbergJack L. WarnerAdolf HitlerWarner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during World War II.
- DirectorNorm McCabeStarsMel BlancPorky and his bloodhound that has sneezing problems trying to track down a Nazi spy caricature in the form of a lynx. Their goal is to stop him from blowing up a critical railroad bridge.
- DirectorLouis De RochemontStarsCarole LombardWalt DisneyJohn FordA multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
- DirectorWilliam D. RussellStarsRobert BenchleyHumphrey BogartCarmen CavallaroA girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsClyde TurnerCarlton MossWilliam BroadusDocumentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.
- DirectorMarshall CurryStarsFritz KuhnArchival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II.
- DirectorOwen CrumpJohn HustonStarsJames StewartJean AmesLeah BairdInspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandJohn RawlinsStarsGeorge RaftVera ZorinaGrace McDonaldDuring World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
- DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
- DirectorJerry WaldStarsJerry WaldArthur JarrettHarry BarrisComing back from a Ocean trip to New York, Loyce Whiteman, Harry Barris and Art Jarrett decide to visit composer Burton Lane, who is also aboard to rehearse a little. Saxophonists Benny Krueger and Rudy Wiedhoeft meet and joke with their instruments, also commenting on prohibition. Songstress Sylvia Froos is singing at home while reading the paper. When she reads a story about a new scandal involving another young performer, she is glad that the press will never find out about her new pyjamas, but then a reporter shows up from under her bed.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsWarren WilliamJoan BlondellAline MacMahonA wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
- StarsDarryl F. ZanuckLeo CarrilloBette DavisThis short documents the send-off of Warner Bros. publicity campaign for 42nd Street (1933), a cross-country trip on a 7-car train dubbed "The 42nd. Street Special" ending in Washington, D.C. at the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsKen DarbyMarcellite GarnerThe King's MenAfter the last human has left the department store, the toys walk over to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department.
- DirectorBernard B. BrownTom PalmerStarsBernard B. BrownBud DuncanNoreen GammillA series of celebrity sketches set at a radio station. Some unorthodox calisthenics (including corset tightening, cradle rocking, and stock ticker reading) start the action. Bing Crosby (OK, Cros Bingsby according to the sign) sings from his bathtub to adoring women. A quick world tour shows us the Shanghai Police trying hard to sleep on the job, a cannibal tuning in a cooking show, an Eskimo hooking a whale, and a sultan changing the station from belly dancing music to Amos and Andy. A safe-cracker has an unexpected twist on the title song. He's followed up by Greta Garbo, Zasu Pitts, and Mae West. Throughout, Ed Wynn keeps announcing that it's 8 o'clock.
- DirectorBernard B. BrownStarsBernard B. BrownThe RhythmettesThe Varsity ThreeWhile at the park, a group of birds engage in a swimming contest.
- DirectorRoy MackStarsLita GreySammy Davis Jr.Carleton MacyThe owner of an unsuccessful greeting-card store attempts to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the form of records.
- DirectorTom KalinThis short film celebrates multiculturalism in the United States and served as a PSA calling for health care reforms in the country. Made in conjunction with a US-French co-production of a public art event titled "Trans-Voices."
- DirectorSara DriverA short ten-minute movie about the Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan. A street known for its derelict past.
- DirectorAlrick RileyStarsAngela Wynter
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsLouis SelwynBette BourneDerek Van WeenenA man sits at his computer and logs onto the interactive game "Caught Looking." He watches as he guides his virtual self through passages, in black and white. He considers but passes on opportunities with rough trade, a teen boy, a threesome, sex in a public toilet, and the kitsch of retro 50's muscle mystic in the Grotto of Tiberius. He sends his virtual self back to a pair of sailors, whom he films in 8mm. Then he meets a young man, a Tunisian named Karim. The man at the computer screen is interested. His ironic and self-mocking commentary ends; his tone changes. What will happen with Karim? Has our virtual voyeur been caught looking?
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsJoan FontaineMark StevensRosemary DeCampIncidents of a marriage are recalled in flashback.
- DirectorMargo HarkinStarsEmer McCourtMichael LiebmannCathy CaseyA pregnant Irish girl tries to contact her boyfriend in British prison but her letters are not allowed through to him because she writes in Irish.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsAlfred DrakeHarold RussellHarold Russell, an American soldier who lost his hands in a training accident, tells the story of his medical rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJohn HodiakNancy GuildLloyd NolanGeorge Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsLucille BallClifton WebbWilliam BendixA secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder.
- DirectorAbbey LustgartenStarsWilliam GreavesJames Earl JonesPaul RobesonA retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world.
- DirectorArchana PhadkeStarsAtul PhadkeManeesha PhadkeRohan PhadkeThree generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. Cruel and comic in equal measure, it shows the vagaries of affection across generations within this family, tied together by something stranger than love.
- DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben MiledAfter years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsMacha MérilPatrick JouanéBernard VerleyA young girl remembers her impossible love for a melancholic boy.
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsJean GabinMadeleine RenaudMichèle MorganThe captain of the tugboat Cyclone, André Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine aboard.
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsEdwige FeuillèreAnnie GirardotPatrick JouanéPierre Brumeu, a twenty-year-old young man, leads a drab life in Paris with his father, a man he does not understand very well, and his friends Michel and Sophie. Father and son live in the memory of Pierre's mother, who died too early. One day, Pierre decides to go to Tunisia, the sunny country where he was born...
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsYdessa HendelesYdessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the company of one or several teddy bears) had puzzled Agnès Varda so much that she decided to go to Toronto where the artist lives and interview her. In front of Agnes Varda's DV camera, Ydessa tells about the singularity of her artistic approach. She also expresses herself about the Holocaust, which both her parents survived.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsMasuo InoueAyako IijimaYoshie NakagawaA man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
- DirectorSaul J. TurellStarsSidney PoitierPaul RobesonMargaret WebsterThe life of actor and activist Paul Robeson.
- DirectorImtiaz AliStarsSaif Ali KhanDeepika PadukoneRishi KapoorAn old-fashioned romantic tells his personal love story to a modern man who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Has love really ever changed?
- DirectorDudley MurphyWilliam C. de MilleStarsPaul RobesonDudley DiggesFrank H. WilsonUnscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
- DirectorJohn CalvertMat SentulStarsJohn CalvertUdo OmarMat Sentul
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsHitoshi TakagiNoriko HidakaChika SakamotoWhen two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
- DirectorSiddharth AnandStarsShah Rukh KhanDeepika PadukoneJohn AbrahamAn Indian agent races against a doomsday clock as a ruthless mercenary, with a bitter vendetta, mounts an apocalyptic attack against the country.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsAlan LaddShelley WintersJ. Carrol NaishIn 1877 Western Canada, a police inspector revolts against his inept commander, taking a safer route to the U.S. border in order to stop invading hostile Indians.
- DirectorKevin Jerome EversonFe26 is a 16mm short film by Kevin Jerome Everson that follows two gentlemen around the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio and examines the tensions between illegal work -in this case, the stealing of manhole covers and copper piping--and the basic survival tactics that exist in areas of high unemployment.
- DirectorJanicza BravoStarsKelsey LuNatasha LyonnePedro PascalIn a striking modernist villa, Penn puts on her heels, puts on her sunglasses, and leaves instructions for Jean to take care of the house. Jean plays the cello and receives potential buyers for the villa, while a parrot sits in a cage and a turtle wanders around the backyard.
- DirectorJean-Pierre Dikongue-PipaStarsPhilippe AbiaArlette Din BeliGisèle Dikongue-PipaNgando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the tradition. Ndomé; is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé; should marry Ngando's uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.
- DirectorRoy MackStarsLeon ErrolJune MacCloyVernon DentIn this short musical comedy, Adam and Eve go on an adventure through time that leads them from the Garden of Eden, to the Roman Empire, King Arthur's court, and a beach resort in modern-day Florida.
- StarsLyle TalbotMartha MerrillBusby BerkeleyStudents at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934". Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934). During her search for Powell, she (and the audience) gets to see several scenes from that movie.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsSong Kang-hoGang Dong-wonBae DoonaWhen a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.
- DirectorNaïla GuiguetStarsDustin MuchuvitzFélix MaritaudRaya MartignyFollows the events of DJ Dustin over the course of one wild night at a warehouse party and the morning that follows.