In 1990s Belarus, young Evelina dreams of moving to Chicago where she can pursue her passion for house music. However, obtaining a US visa proves difficult and, determined to flee the country, she takes the risk of buying a letter of employment from the black market. – MUBI
Director: Darya Zhuk
Cast: Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Yuriy Borisov, Svetlana Anikej
Country: Belarus, USA, Germany
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)
A property developer is witness to random street violence. A pair of secret lovers make their way across the desert. A doctor is accused of having a criminal past. In these three interconnected tales, exciting newcomer Karim Moussaoui—whom critics at Cannes compared to Abbas Kiarostami and Leos Carax—takes the pulse of modern-day Algiers, a country once riven by colonial occupation and sectarian warfare yet still abundant in beauty and promise. – OVID
Director: Karim Moussaoui
Cast: Mohamed Djouhari, Aure Atika, Hania Amar, Sonia Mekkiou
Country: France, Algeria, Germany
Distributor: 1091 Media
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Platform: OVID
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
A lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu. – Telescope Film
Director: Kemi Adetiba
Cast: Adesua Etomi, Iretiola Doyle, Zainab Balogun, Richard Mofe-Damijo
Country: Nigeria
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Platform: Netflix
After having the emperor’s minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim’s children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent. – The Criterion Channel
Director: King Hu
Cast: Shih Chun, Pai Ying, Polly Shang-Kuan Ling-Feng, Miao Tien
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Distributor: Janus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes
Platform: The Criterion Channel
Special Channel: Classic Cinema
In Ursula Dabrowsky’s twist-filled thriller, a teenage girl must fight for survival when she’s kidnapped by an evil psychopath couple with a taste for torment. Samantha soon manages to escape into the woods where she stumbles into a secluded home. But Sam’s story, and her long night of terror, is far from over. This house belongs to someone she’s already met, and there may be another resident living there– one who’s not exactly flesh and blood. – Shudder
Director: Ursula Dabrowsky
Cast: Sue Jeavons, Kerry Ann Reid, Andreas Sobik
Country: Australia
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 24 minutes
Platform: Shudder
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
A tension-weary couple negotiate a path between defiance and compliance in a closed scientific Institute at the beginning of the Cold War. – Telescope Film
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Aleksey Slusarchuk
Cast: Andrey Losev, Alexey Blinov, Pavel Gordienko, Darya Berzhitskaya
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Russia
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hours, 32 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema
A beautiful actress and a troubled scientist rediscover each other in the secret Soviet Institute where he lives and works. – Telescope Film
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel
Cast: Maria Nafpliotou, Radmila Shchegoleva, Teodor Currentzis, Alexey Trifonov
Country: Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema
A lonely housewife invites her mother to visit her in the closed scientific Institute in which she lives, where they confront the struggles and scandals of their shared past. – Telescope Film
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel
Cast: Lydia Shchegoleva, Radmila Shchegoleva, Teodor Currentzis
Country: Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema
A secret Soviet Institute combines scientific and occult experiments aimed at creating an ideal human being. The research involves all the employees: privileged quantum physicists, KGB officers, kitchen staff marginals and politically radical test subjects. Finding themselves in the epicentre of a deep existential crisis the inhabitants of the Institute are pushed towards their tragic and violent end. – Telescope Film
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Ilya Permyakov
Cast: Vladimir Azhippo, Dmitry Kaledin, Olga Shkabarnya, Alexey Blinov
Country: Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 6 hours, 9 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema
Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: “Toby Dammit” features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. “Metzengerstein” features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion – who it turns out is really her dead lover. “William Wilson” tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills. – Telescope Film
Director: Federico Fellini , Roger Vadim , Louis Malle
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp
Country: France, Italy
Distributor: Janus Films
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Platform: The Criterion Channel
Special Programming: Classic Cinema, Midnight Movies
