Mimosas
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Leaving July 1
Directed by Oliver Laxe | 96 mins | 2016
Laxe’s gorgeously composed film, winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes, follows a caravan transporting a dying sheikh to the village of his birth in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains—a journey his corpse will complete in the company of two strangers. A mysterious, majestic, and mystical Sufi Western.
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Directed by Miguel Gomes | 1 min | 2004
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Queen of Diamonds
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Directed by Nina Menkes | 77 mins | 1991
Set in a drab, grimly coruscating Las Vegas, "Queen of Diamonds" again situates Tinka Menkes, the filmmaker’s sister, as an icon of womankind’s profound estrangement under patriarchy. Her character, Firdaus—the name borrowed from the unrepe...
