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
Sabine attaches a hair weave and gets to work. Her hands move quickly and precisely, as she tightly braids the hair in front of the sign in her salon promising African, European, and American-style coiffure. Sabine is a larger than-life personality crammed into a tiny, glassed-in shop in the largely immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, she and her employees fit extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about people back home in West Africa. – OVID
Director: Rosine Mftego Mbakam
Cast: Rosine Mbakam
Country: Belgium
Distributor: Icarus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Platform: OVID
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
Special Events: Filmmaker Retrospectives
Rosine Mbakam left Cameroon at 27 to live in Belgium. Seven years later—having studied film and married a European—she returns to make what she calls a journey into darkness—to the village of her birth, and later to the capital city of Yaoundé, where her mother now lives most of the year. – OVID
Director: Rosine Mftego Mbakam
Cast: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam, Tchana Cecile
Country: Belgium, Cameroon
Distributor: Icarus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 16 minutes
Platform: OVID
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
Special Events: Filmmaker Retrospectives
A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers. – JustWatch
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Margarethe von Trotta, Olivier Assayas, Daniel Bergman, Ingmar Bergman Jr.
Country: Germany, France
Distributor: Oscilloscope
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
Platform: Kanopy
Special Programming: Classic Cinema, Documentary Cinema
Atmospherically shot on 16mm film, Transnistra is an intimate and vital account of love and friendship in a complex, contradictory world. Award-winning director Anna Eborn (Pine Ridge) intimately follows a group of young people as they move from a sweltering, carefree summer through an unforgiving winter in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle. – Momento Film
Director: Anna Eborn
Cast: Tatyana Lipovskaya, Anatoly Nikolaevich, Alexander Stadnik
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
A groundbreaking summer camp galvanizes a group of teens with disabilities to help build a movement, forging a new path toward greater equality. – Netflix
Director: Nicole Newnham , James Lebrecht
Cast: Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James Lebrecht
Country: United States
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
Eva shares everything about her nomadic life online. Staging her private life on Tumblr and Instagram, she reinvents herself again and again: sex worker, model, feminist, queer writer? – MUBI
Director: Pia Hellenthal
Cast: Eva Collé
Country: Germany
Distributor: Torch Films
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available on the service)
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
In China’s popular live-streaming showrooms, three millennials – a karaoke singer, a migrant worker and a rags-to-riches comedian – seek fame, fortune and human connection. They quickly discover the same promises and perils online as in their real lives. – Telescope Film
Director: Hao Wu
Country: China
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
Actors, crew members and others who were there discuss the tumultuous creation of Orson Welles’s final, unfinished film, The Other Side of the Wind. – Netflix
Director: Morgan Neville
Cast: Orson Welles, Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar
Country: United States
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema, Classic Cinema
In Madagascar, after the municipality tears down his hair salon, Roméo has to leave Tamatave’s high street for the city’s popular districts. He moves into a small shabby shed where he dreams of building a proper salon. – MUBI
Director: Michaël Andrianaly
Country: France, Madagascar
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
