Ever since she was discovered naked and near-dead decades ago, Mongia has been institutionalized, with a tendency to bite her nurses. Sent off with a documentary video assignment, three journalism students decide to interview Mongia, seeking new clues about the cold case. Dachra maintains a high level of suspense and sophistication with its carefully calibrated narrative, strong performances, and its genre-expanding ethereal dread.
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Sweet Thing centers around the lives of two children in contemporary New Bedford, Massachusetts in particular one eventful summer spent in a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend. The story is an intense but ultimately uplifting, poetic rendering of childhood that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever. The friendships, loyalties, and challenges of adolescent youth propel the story into a triumph of childhood hope and resilience.
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A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road.
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Helmed by one of Korea’s leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea’s Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon, plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again.
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Surprised to see this one on our list of 90s gems? We think it’s a classic! Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire play two ’90s teens who find themselves embedded in a 1950s sitcom where they add color and scandal to the monochrome world with their modern sensibilities.
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Leave the glamour of the City of Lights behind, and enter the seedy underworld of a poor suburban neighborhood of Paris. This black and white film follows three young men for 24 hours after a violent riot erupts in their community.
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Choose life. Easily one of the best films of the 1990s, this black comedy follows heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) as he stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends
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The surliest teens in a very 1990s Seattle high school find love in the style of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in this Heath Ledger and Julia Styles classic. The clothes, the music, the drama, and the cast make this maybe the quintessential teen romcom.
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Before Godzilla fought Kong or Mothra in 4K, he rose out of the sea and changed sci-fi films forever as an allegory for the follies of a nuclear world. We’re showing the very first film in the iconic franchise. See Ishirô Honda’s original smash hit classic that brought to life the unstoppable dinosaur-like creature hell-bent on destroying Tokyo.
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Who Will Start Another Fire is a collection of nine films by emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities around the world, presented by the new distribution initiative Dedza Films. Each of these stories is personal and distinctly told, but unified by themes of rebirth and growth. These films reject the idea of art for art’s sake and do not exist in self-designed aesthetic vacuums. Their creation represents a necessary reckoning for their makers and so perhaps, too, their viewers. These are growing films by growing filmmakers, made for the future and the past, presented for you to experience for the first time now and again and again afterward.
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