Upon his father’s sudden death, a talented medical student returns to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family’s survival. – Telescope Film
Director: T.W. Pittman , Kelly Daniela Norris
Cast: Jacob Ayanaba, Grace Ayariga, Justina Kulidu
Country: Ghana, United States
Distributor: Corinth Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
In 1969 at a strict English girls’ school, best friends Abbie and Lydia are just starting to explore their sexualities. Yet, one fateful night, Lydia suffers from a frightful fainting episode. Suddenly, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out at the school, threatening the stability of all involved. – Telescope Film
Director: Carol Morley
Cast: Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, Monica Dolan, Greta Scacchi
Country: United Kingdom
Distributor: Cinedigm Entertainment Group
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes
Platform: Hoopla
Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today’s America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads. – Telescope Film
Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Cast: Andrew Bleechington, Regina Williams, Robert Williams, Ry’nesia Chambers
Country: Spain, United States
Distributor: CFI Releasing
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career; Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together. – Telescope Film
Note: The English-language track of Ernest & Celestine appears to be the only version available on most streaming services.
Director: Benjamin Renner , Stéphane Aubier , Vincent Patar
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Distributor: GKIDS
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1 hour, 18 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Programming: Family Films
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them. – JustWatch
Director: Richard Stanley
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight
Country: Portugal, United States, Malaysia
Distributor: RLJE Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes
Platform: Hoopla
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
Sinan, an aspiring writer, returns home after university hoping to scrape together enough money to publish his first novel. He wanders the town encountering old flames and obstinate gatekeepers and finds his youthful ambition increasingly at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling-addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, Sinan grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is. – Kanopy
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast: Aydın Doğu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yıldırımlar, Hazar Ergüçlü
Country: Turkey, Republic of Macedonia, France
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 3 hours, 8 minutes
Platform: Kanopy
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
Inseparable mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for a fresh start in a new town. However, things don’t start out well. As a result, Iona decides to branch out — becoming “best friends” with some girls at school. In response, Lyn tries to branch out herself, but, for both of them, change doesn’t come so easily… – Telescope Film
Director: Deborah Haywood
Cast: Joanna Scanlan, Lily Newmark, John Henshaw, Chanel Cresswell
Country: United Kingdom
Distributor: Cleopatra Entertainment
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 22 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm… – JustWatch
Director: Sunao Katabuchi
Cast: Non, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Mayumi Shintani
Country: Japan
Distributor: Shout! Factory
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father’s research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. – Telescope Film
Director: André Catoto Dias
Cast: Pedro Henrique, Mateus Solano, Denise Fraga, Matheus Nachtergaele
Country: Brazil
Distributor: Shout! Factory
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 13 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Programming: Family Films
