Directed by Mahmet-Saleh Haroun | 96 mins | 2017
Chadean filmmaker Haroun’s first film set in his long-time adoptive home of France is an understated but enormously affecting depiction of the travails faced by undocumented African immigrants in Europe, starring Eriq Ebouaney as a stubbornly pride...

Directed by Marin Marmitz | 89 mins | 1972
The last of mk2 founder Karmitz’s three features as a director was this fiery documentary-style fiction about overworked and underpaid female workers at a textile mill who, pushed to the breaking point by their boss, decide to take him hostage and occupy...

Directed by Carol Stein and Susan Wittenberg | 56 mins | 1980
Old Brooklyn lives again in Carol Stein and Susan Wittenberg’s good-humored 1980 time-capsule documentary about a melting-pot neighborhood of Jewish Soviet immigrants, Puerto Ricans, and other New Yorkers—right next to Coney Island’s a...

Directed by Harry Kümel | 87 mins | 1971
Profoundly inspired by the spirit of Belgian Surrealist and Symbolist painting, Kümel’s darkly poetic horror film begins with a young newlywed couple waylaid at a grand hotel en route to England, where they fall under the spell of the elegant Hungarian Cou...

Directed by Manoel de Oliveira | 63 mins | 2009
In Oliveira’s rueful romantic tale, an accountant grows obsessed with a formidable young woman he spots in a window across the street, and tries to court her despite his uncle’s snobby disapproval. Ricardo Trepa, who was both Oliveira’s go-to lead a...

Directed by Karim Aïnouz | 107 mins | 2014
In this reflective romance from Brazilian auteur Aïnouz, a lifeguard (Wagner Moura) throws himself into a torrid affair with a motorcycling war veteran whose friend disappears in the ocean, but then struggles to find himself after traveling with his brus...

Directed by Manoel de Oliveira | 95 mins | 2012
Oliveira’s triumphant swansong turns a family dinner into a percolating drama of mortality and morality as a bookkeeper and his wife reckon with their estranged son’s thievery. The cast is a roster of arthouse legends: Michael Lonsdale as the aging ...

Directed by Matthew Maffei | 17 mins
"Told through personal home movies intertwined with a fictional narrative, 'Home Videos' explores the complexities of parent-child relationships, the hardships of marriage, and how the two directly affect one another." - Matthew Maffei

Directed by Angela Schanelec | 95 mins | 2019
One of European art cinema’s most distinctive voices, Schanelec—Silver Bear winner for Best Director at this year's Berlinale—orchestrates a tense elliptical drama that’s part psychological close-up, part middle-class Berlin pastiche. Widowed mother-o...

Directed by Lucy Kerr | 19 mins | 2021
A stuntwoman’s recollection of plunging a car into the ocean is refracted into three segments that reflect upon image creation.

Directed by Morris Engel | 81 mins | 1953
A pioneering influence on the French New Wave, this New York independent classic follows a seven-year-old boy through the hustle and bustle of Coney Island after he runs away from home, spooked by a cruel prank. It’s filmed with close-up immediacy thanks ...

Directed by Sarah Abney | 6 mins
"A woman's mundane office job and work crush turn into a surreal exploration of her inner psyche as she grapples with her feelings and discovers deeper desires." - Sarah Abney

Directed by Lucy Kerr | 72 mins | 2023
Deploying masterful Steadicam and ominous sound design, Kerr’s enigmatic and disquieting feature debut takes place one summer day on an idyllic estate in Texas. A large family gathers to take a group picture, only for the matriarch to disappear and the rest ...

Directed by Lucy Kerr | 3 mins | 2018
This rarely presented early short explores what Kerr described as “the potential of a minimal gesture” in relation to its surrounding space.

Directed by Jeff Malmberg | 82 mins | 2010
In Malmberg’s mesmerizing, multi-award-winning portrait of healing and obsession, Mark Hogencamp recovers from a brutal assault and alcoholism by building and tending to a miniature plywood town in his backyard. Populating the diorama with dolls based on...

Directed by Lucy Kerr | 7 mins | 2018
Kerr’s three-channel installation turns rides on roller-coasters into something like lives of the saints, through Dreyer-esque close-ups on the emotive faces of passengers.

Directed by Lucy Kerr | 7 mins | 2022
Entering the realm of the teenage sleepover, Kerr stages the rituals and games of a group of teenage girls as unnerving choreographies of mystery and intention.

Directed by Basma Alsharif | 77 mins | 2017
Shot in Gaza, Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, and Brittany, Alsharif’s experimental “homage to the Gaza Strip”—her first film made with actors—is an elliptical, globe-trotting love story, a collection of beguiling reverse-motion imagery, and a tribute “...