Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. – Telescope Film
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Cast: Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aïssa Maïga, Lily Banda
Country: United Kingdom
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Special Programming: Family Films
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility when they are attacked by real zombies. – Telescope Film
Director: Shinichiro Ueda
Cast: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Harumi Shuhama
Country: Japan
Distributor: Shudder
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Platform: Shudder
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced – especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity. – Telescope Film
Director: Jessica Hausner
Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor
Country: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Platform: Hulu
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position. – JustWatch
Director: Kitty Green
Cast: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Dagmara Domińczyk, Kristine Froseth, Makenzie Leigh
Country: United States
Distributor: Bleecker Street Media
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
The portrait of a father as seen through the eyes of his daughter by means of a photo album. A travel diary from the 1970s, starting in Japan and around the world: Father and daughter cross views on the memories of the old images and words. – MUBI
Director: Aya Koretzky
Cast: Davi Cabeça Pra Baixo, Aya Koretzky, Jiro Koretzky
Country: Portugal
Distributor: C.R.I.M.
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Platform: MUBI
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
“Bird talk” is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive, raucous majority: the history teacher tormented by his students, a recently-fired language teacher, a leprous composer, a woman who cleans the house of a banker, a deformed florist and a student fascinated by the cinema. – MUBI
Director: Xawery Żuławski
Cast: Sebastian Fabijański, Eryk Kulm, Andrzej Chyra, Jaśmina Polak
Country: Poland
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)
Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands… – Telescope Film
Director: Naomi Kawase
Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Country: Japan, France, Germany
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Platform: Hoopla
Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. – The Criterion Channel
Director: Barbara Loden
Cast: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
Country: United States
Distributor: Janus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes
Platform: The Criterion Channel
Special Programming: Classic Cinema
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave. – Telescope Film
Director: Cate Shortland
Cast: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Matthias Habich, Emma Bading
Country: Australia
Distributor: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins. – MUBI
Director: Kantemir Balagov
Cast: Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Konstantin Balakirev, Kseniya Kutepova
Country: Russia
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes
Platform: MUBI
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