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An unrated, director’s cut of Olivier Assayas’ masterpiece — Demonlover. A postmodern neonoir thriller and media critique in which nothing—not even the film itself—is what it appears to be.

In STRAY, a trio of canine outcasts roam the streets of Istanbul. Through their eyes and ears, we are shown an intimate portrait of the life of a city and its people. Director Elizabeth Lo’s award-winning film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

Part psychological horror, part realist drama, Test Pattern tackles the issues of sex, consent, and race within the American patriarchy

Winner of the Gotham Award for Best International Film and the Audience Award and Best Screenplay prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this debut feature is an austere, gorgeously shot parable of chaos and loss in modern Mexico.

Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Feature, Filippo Meneghetti’s intensely moving middle-aged queer romance casts Martine Chevallier and the legendary Barbara Sukowa as Madeleine and Nina, two women who live in the same apartment building and have been carrying on a love affair in secret for decades.

This sci-fi critique of the gig economy follows Ray, a low-tech delivery man in a high-tech world. When his brother gets sick with a mysterious disease, he decides to work as a cabler for the booming quantum computer industry. A great opportunity turns into a vast conspiracy filled with exploitation, robots, and a grassroots rebellion that is about to take off.

In this collection of six shorts, filmmakers gaze at themselves and their world, attempting to make sense of what they see reflected back. From gripping drama to heart-warming comedy, OUR RIGHT TO GAZE: BLACK FILM IDENTITIES features timely stories from Black artists that take us outside of the ordinary.

Look under the hood of existence—but only if you dare. Directed by the audacious Rodney Ascher (Room 237), this mind-bending documentary dives into science, philosophy, and conspiracy to uncover “simulation theory” and its believers.

This tender and sweeping story about what roots us follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream.

September 25, we will to throw a big ol’ red carpet gala to celebrate making it through a long pandemic and the joy of experiencing cinema in a crowd. It’s going to be SO MUCH FUN and we hope you’ll join us.