In his feature-length debut, Ephraim Asili drew inspiration from his own life experience as a member of the radical Black group MOVE to direct an impressive ensemble piece almost entirely set in a house in West Philadelphia. Described alternately as a “speculative re-enactment”, or as an experimental hybrid genre, that blends scripted drama with archive news footage, voice-overs, and interviews, The Inheritance could not be a timelier work to reflect with intelligence and heart on building radical grass-roots political movements. MOVE was the victim of a notorious and tragic police bombing in 1985.
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Directed & Written by: Luis Argueta, Justo Chang; The Silence of Neto is set in the six months that followed the CIA-staged coup that overthrew Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán in 1954. As a nation loses its innocence, an asthmatic 12-year-old boy, Neto Yepes (Óscar Javier Almengor) begins to discover his identity and sexuality while navigating love and death.
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This fantastic new Japanese crime thriller follows Masaya a university students who receives letters from a serial killer he knew from childhood. Convicted of nine murders, the imprisoned killer insists he only committed eight. Can Masaya solve the mystery of the last murder, or is he just a pawn in a serial killers’ sick and twisted game?
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We’re opening the 2023 Pittsburgh Japanese Film Festival with this wildly fun, comic-book style cult classic. A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha…. which is pretty much all you need to know about why this movie rules.
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Akira Kurosawa contemplates life through mortality of one man in this gripping and accomplished film. Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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When an ambiguously intentioned man in a bear-mask kidnaps a doped-up punk singer, a media circus ensues.
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A man assumes the identity of a dead author to flee Nazi-occupied France in this modern existentialist noir. He soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria — a young woman searching for her missing husband.
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In this new restoration of Alain Resnais’s rarely screened fourth film, a chief of the Spanish Communist Party struggles to find his place as a political activist between two generations of revolutionaries and his lover in Paris who wants him to settle down.
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French New Wave’s founder Jean-Luc Godard’s quiet and poetic film follows a man who leaves his family with their beautiful au pair and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean. When they are persued by Algerian hitmen, he discovers his new love is not who he thought.
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Melville’s classic WWII thriller follows a Frenchman betrayed by an informant and trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. He escapes to rejoin the Resistance and exacts his revenge amidst the atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust of occupied France.
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