Theatrical starts May 24, 2024
2023 - FRANCE - 70 MINUTES
An anthology of four Man Ray short films, with original music by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan)
Return To Reason celebrates the 100th anniversary of Man Ray’s cinematic Œuvre, restored for the first time in 4K. Il reveals the unique dialogue between two multitalented artists, and creates an undefinable object, a piece of visual music that resonates through its modernity and poetry.
Theatrical Starts May 17, 2024
2023 - 90 MINUTES - UNITED KINGDOM
A FILM BY PAUL SNG
A moving portrait of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha, who dedicated her life to documenting the lives of working-class communities in North East England.
Theatrical Starts May 10, 2024
(Aku wa Sonzai Shinai (悪は存在しない))
JAPAN - 2023 - 106 MINUTES
A FILM BY RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house; offering city residents a comfortable ‘escape’ to nature. When two company representatives from Tokyo arrive in the village to hold a meeting, it becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the local water supply, causing unrest. The agency’s mismatched intentions endanger both the ecological balance of the nature plateau and their way of life, with an aftermath that affects Takumi’s life deeply.
Theatrical Starts April 26, 2024
2023 - 262 MINUTES - NETHERLANDS/ UNITED KINGDOM
A FILM BY STEVE MCQUEEN
The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
Theatrical Starts April 19, 2024
2023 - 163 MINUTES - ROMAINIA, LUXEMBOURG - IN ROMAINIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY RADU JUDE
An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-inventthe whole story.
Theatrical Starts March 28, 2025
114 MINUTES - USA - IN COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE
A FILM BY VARDA BAR-KAR
In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a tiny teenage Jewish singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scores a controversial hit single called “Society’s Child,” about an interracial love relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin—only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit, “At Seventeen,” a song ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying.
Theatrical Starts May 2025
2024 - CHINA - COLOUR - IN MANDARIN (WITH ENGLISH/ FRENCH SUBTITLES)
A FILM BY JIA ZHANG-KE
An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s to the present day. One day, a restless Guao Bin leaves without any notice to try his luck in another province. Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him.
In chronicling the romantic destiny of Qiao Qiao, his perennial heroine, Jia Zhangke delivers an unprecedented cinematic epic. A story that traverses all of his past films and spans 25 years of a country experiencing profound transformation.
Theatrical Starts TBD
2025 - NORTH MACEDONIA/CZECH REPUBLIC/SERBIA/CROATIA - COMEDY/DRAMA - 99 MIN - LANGUAGES: TURKISH , MACEDONIAN
A FILM BY GEORGI M. UNKOVSKI
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
Theatrical Starts March 29, 2024
2023 - JAPAN - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 102 MINUTES
A FILM BY NEO SORA
FEATURING: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
On March 28th, 2023, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away after his struggle against cancer. In the years leading up to his death, Sakamoto could no longer perform live. Single concerts, not to mention sprawling global tours, were too taxing. Despite this, in late 2022, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave the world with one final performance: a concert film, featuring just him and his piano.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
90 MINUTES - SWITZERLAND - 2024
A FILM BY BEATRICE MINGER & CHRISTOPH SCHAUB
A cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. The Irish designer builds a refuge on the Côte d'Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day. A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
A FILM BY JOANNA RUDNICK
Story & Pictures By is a captivating documentary exploring the vibrant world of children’s picture books. It spotlights Christian Robinson, Yuyi Morales, and Mac Barnett, pioneers of a new “golden age” in children’s literature, who create groundbreaking works reflecting childhood’s wonders and complexities. The film also revisits classics like Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Snowy Day, and Where the Wild Things Are, uncovering their enduring legacy through rare archives and mesmerizing stop-motion animation.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
USA - 2023 - 108 MINUTES
A FILM BY MAUREEN GOSLING
Barbara Dane: Folk, blues and jazz singer, international social justice activist and recording star, wife, mother of three, feminist, record producer, unwavering maverick and general troublemaker on the road at 90. THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is a sonic boom, an explosion of music and passion, a celebration of one woman’s groundbreaking artistry and moral leadership. Standing strong with her singular confidence, Dane emanated the people-powered connectivity of folk, the defiance of blues and the elemental cool of jazz while propelling major historic events with boldness and subversion that cut through commercial artifice and earned her a 5” FBI file.THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is an underground history of a singer-agitator whoseunbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.
Theatrical 2025
2024 - AUSTRIA/U.S. GERMAN AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 121 MINUTESA FILM BY JEM COHEN
Karl and his physicist wife explore the vastness of the universe and humanity's existential crisis while reckoning with scientific truth.
Theatrical Starts March 15, 2024
UNITED KINGDOM - 2023 - 117 MINUTES
A FILM BY KEVIN MACDONALD
FEATURING: JOHN GALLIANO
Kevin Macdonald’s film investigates the career of fashion designer John Galliano, and the context, including decades of industry pressure and drug and alcohol addiction, that surrounded his downfall in 2011.
Theatrical Starts February 23, 2024
BHUTAN, FRANCE, USA, TAIWAN - 2023 - 107 MINUTES
A FILM BY PAWO CHOYNING DORJI
In this gentle fable from Bhutan, an American gun collector and a young monk match wits over what will happen to an antique gun, against the backdrop of the country’s first modernizing election in 2006.
Theatrical Starts February 2, 2024
2023 - MEXICO, DENMARK, FRANCE - IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 4K - 95 Min - 4:3 - 5.1
A FILM BY LILA AVILÉS
Seven-year-old Sol gets caught up in the whirlwind of preparations for her father Tona's birthday party in a bustling Mexican household. As the day unfolds, she grasps the significance of the celebration and observes her family doing the same.
Theatrical Starts February 2, 2024
(AVANT QUE LES FLAMMES NE S'ÉTEIGNENT)
FRANCE - 2023 - 96 MINUTES - FRENCH (WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
A FILM BY MEHDI FIKRI
Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place. However, her quest for truth jeopardizes the stability of her family.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
2024 - 41 MINUTES - FRANCE
A FILM BY LEOS CARAX
For an exhibition, that in the end never took place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to reply, in pictures, to the question : Where are you at, Leos Carax? He attempts an answer - full of questions. About himself and “his” world: I don’t know, but if I did, I’d reply that…
Theatrical Starts January 19, 2024
(LOS COLONOS) CHILE - 2023 - 97 MINUTES - ENGLISH, SPANISH (With English and French Subtitles)
A FILM BY FILIPE GÁLVEZ HABERLE
Chile, beginning of the 20th century. A wealthy landowner hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean half-blood, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid.
Theatrical Starts January 12, 2023
112 MINUTES - FRANCE/ BELGIUM- 2023 - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY DELPHINE DELOGET
WITH VIRGINIE EFIRA, ARIEH WORTHALTER, CAMILLE FONTAINE, FÉLIX LEFEBVRE
Sylvie and her boys adore each other, but when one son is injury after she leaves them home alone go to work, the boys are taken into foster care. Sylvie is determined to fight the administrative and legal battle to get them back.
