Jackals and Arabs
February Arrivals
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10m
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 Straub’s “Kammerspiel comedy about the Middle East quagmire… an epic staged in a living room.” (Film Comment)
Up Next in February Arrivals
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Kaili Blues
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... -
Los Conductos
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 ... -
Minamata Mandala Pt. I
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...
