Directed by Dan Sallitt | 64 mins | 2004
Loosely inspired by William James’s "The Varieties of Religious Experience," Sallitt’s scintillating sophomore feature revolves around the verbal joustings of two siblings—one a defector from a New Age cult, the other a Catholic theologian—on the topics of...

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub | 21 mins | 2011
Drawing again on a 1903 work by right-wing nationalist author Maurice Barrès—and on his own memories of growing up in the contested city of Metz—Straub’s discourse-based film concerns a French Alsatian country doctor whose soul is torn between French...

Directed by Zhao Liang | 90 mins | 2015
Shot in the coal mines of Inner Mongolia, Zhao’s nonfiction symphony of industrial rapacity is a mythic-realist work of harrowing close-ups and infernal long shots beggaring belief, evoking Dante and Bosch en route to a haunting climax in an ultramodern pre...

Directed by Dan Sallitt | 17 mins | 2019
A sensitive, intimate, episodic character study in miniature, as perfect as a cameo brooch, of the title’s Caterina, played by Agustina Muñoz: an Argentinian quietly observing the rush of life in her adoptive home of New York, her gradual decision to cut t...

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub | 27 mins | 2009
Verses from Pierre Corneille’s Horace and Othon and from Bertholt Brecht’s 1939 radio play The Trial of Lucullus are given melodic recitation by Cornelia Geiser in Straub’s film, creating a network of connections between the despots of ancient Rome, ...

Directed by Dan Sallitt | 94 mins | 2019
A lovingly detailed, bittersweet depiction of female friendship, Fourteen tracks several years in the lives of teacher’s aide Mara (Tallie Medel) and social worker Jo (Norma Kuhling), through the vicissitudes of dating in their twenties and into choppier w...

Directed by Dan Sallit | 90 mins | 1998
A film about the inconvenient mystery of sexual chemistry, Sallitt’s provocative sophomore feature focuses on a pair of long-time friends who decide on a whim to get married—only to discover that their compatibility doesn’t extend to what happens in the bed...

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Daniéle Huillet | 11 mins | 2011
Kafka’s 1917 short story of the same name, written on the eve of the British Government’s Balfour Declaration, which announced support for the creation of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, is the source of Stra...

Directed by Bi Gan | 113 mins | 2015
Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s audacious directorial debut announced a major new talent. Shot in the mining village Kaili, the director’s birthplace, the film follows a country doctor who enters a dreamlike world where the boundaries between past, present, and fut...

Directed by Camilo Restrepo | 70 mins | 2020
On the mean streets of Medellín, Colombia, a recent refugee from a religious cult struggles with his crisis of faith and his memories of traumatic violence in between brutalizing shifts at a T-shirt factory and long nights in his squat house home. “An ...

Directed by Kazuo Hara | 119 mins | 2020
An epic group portrait of the elderly victims of Minamata disease who have spent nearly 60 years in Japanese courts fighting for recognition and compensation for their suffering from methyl mercury poisoning caused by corporate chemical dumping around thei...

Directed by Kazuo Hara | 138 mins | 2020
An epic group portrait of the elderly victims of Minamata disease who have spent nearly 60 years in Japanese courts fighting for recognition and compensation for their suffering from methyl mercury poisoning caused by corporate chemical dumping around thei...

Directed by Kazuo Hara | 115 mins | 2020
An epic group portrait of the elderly victims of Minamata disease who have spent nearly 60 years in Japanese courts fighting for recognition and compensation for their suffering from methyl mercury poisoning caused by corporate chemical dumping around thei...

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub | 15 mins | 2011
Orpheus, returned from the underworld, explains to Bacchante that the gaze he cast upon wife Eurydice, condemning her to Hades, was an act of free will, not fate, in Straub’s agonized declamatory study of bereavement, based on a dialogue by Cesare Pa...

Directed by Bi Gan | 22 mins | 2012
Before bounding to international prominence with his sui generis debut feature Kaili Blues, Bi Gan announced himself as a figure to watch with this lyric non-linear short, which tells the story of a small-town murder, and utilizes meticulous and utterly immersi...