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
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
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
In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home. Without her family and her husband, Manana embarks on a kind of journey that she has never experienced before: a journey on her own. – Telescope Film
Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili , Simon Groß
Cast: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava, Tsisia Qumsashvili
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 hour, 59 minutes
Platform: Netflix
On their way home from Afghanistan, a band of French soldiers stop in Cyprus for decompression: three days at a sun-splashed resort, where they will undergo intense psychological debriefing. There, amidst the crystal-blue waters and hordes of vacationing tourists, Marine (Soko) and Aurore (Ariane Labed) – two of only three women in their male-dominated unit – confront rage, trauma, and army sexism as they struggle to readjust to “normal” life. – OVID
Director: Delphine Coulin
Cast: Soko, Ariane Labed, Ginger Romàn, Karim Leklou
Country: France, Greece
Distributor: First Run Features
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Platform: OVID
Adapted from a novel by Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual poetry. – The Criterion Channel
Director: Jan Němec
Cast: Ladislav Janský, Antonín Kumbera
Country: Czechoslovakia
Distributor: Janus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 8 minutes
Platform: The Criterion Channel
Special Programming: Classic Cinema
The dead are coming back to life outside. But in the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, the indigenous inhabitants are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the tribal sheriff, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees and reserve riffraff from the hordes of walking white corpses. – Shudder
Director: Jeff Barnaby
Cast: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon
Country: Canada
Distributor: Shudder
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Platform: Shudder
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
Suburbia has never been so hilariously absurd as it is in Greener Grass – where one eccentric housewife is driven mad by her eagerness to please. – Hulu
Director: Dawn Luebbe, Jocelyn DeBoer
Cast: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland
Country: United States
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Platform: Hulu
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
Milla and Leo live clandestinely, their meager furnishings and sustenance countered by a love for which there is neither a logic nor substitute. But such an existence will only last until forces of nature take hold. – Kanopy
Director: Valérie Massadian
Cast: Severine Jonckeere, Luc Chessel, Ethan Jonckeere, Élisabeth Cabart
Country: France, Portugal
Distributor: Topic Studios
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes
Platform: Kanopy
