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17 itemsPride At Home
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What is today celebrated as Pride Month began in 1970, as a way of marking the one-year anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. This June, Metrograph At Home invites you to take the party from the streets to the screen with this cavalcade of proudly LGBTQ+ cinema, wherein films by canonical f...
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Directed by Tomás Gómez Bustillo | 84 mins | 2023
Can you scam your way into sainthood? This question underpins the first section of Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s wry but warming debut feature, wherein Rita, a devout Catholic with a competitive streak, contrives to convince the residents of her Argentin... -
A Vanishing Fog
Directed by Augusto Sandino | 77 mins | 2021
For Colombia’s Indigenous Muisca people, Sumapaz Páramo, a tropical plateau located high up in the Andes, was a sacred realm. It is here that Augusto Sandino sets his haunting, mystical debut—the first film to have ever been shot in this now-endangered... -
4 itemsStarring Moon So-ri
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While the renaissance in South Korean cinema that picked up speed through the 1990s is often discussed in terms of directors, it’s impossible to imagine without thespians of the caliber of Moon So-ri, whose career choices speak of an unusual daring and curatorial intelligence. Making her debut in...
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5 itemsFilms by Nina Menkes
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Leaving July 1
Formally spare but texturally and symbolically sumptuous, the films of Nina Menkes possess a strange magic. Their languorous and sometimes hallucinatory tableaux, ranging from the North African desert of "The Great Sadness of Zohara" (1983) to the gaudy Vegas casino of "Queen of D...
