Mayor
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1h 29m
Leaving May 1
Directed by David Osit | 89 mins | 2020
Winner of a 2022 Peabody Award, this gripping and surprisingly droll portrait of Musa Hadid during his second term as the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital, is equally a portal into the Israel-Palestine conflict just prior to the genocidal escalation of the last few years. Director David Osit (2025’s "Predators") elucidates the vagaries of everyday bureaucracy as permuted by the extraordinary circumstances of occupation with great skill and sensitivity.
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The Great Canadian Puberty Rite
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Directed by Mary Stephen | 20 mins | 1974
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The Image Book
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Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 84 mins | 2019
A cinematic collage, an esoteric essay film, a wide-reaching, freewheeling ontological history of the moving image, and a sorrowful survey of the fallen world at the beginning of the 21st century, Special Palme d’Or winner The Image Book...
