Three aliens travel to Earth on a mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being, leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake. – Hulu
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Mahiro Takasugi, Yuri Tsunematsu
Country: Japan
Distributor: Super LTD
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Platform: Hulu
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
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
Versailles, August 1715. Back from hunting, Louis XIV feels pain in his leg. A serious fever erupts, which marks the beginning of the agony of the greatest King of France. Surrounded by a horde of doctors and his closest counselors who come in turns at his bedside sensing the impending power vacuum, the Sun King struggles to run the country from his bed. – Kanopy
Director: Albert Serra
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick d’Assumçao, Marc Susini, Bernard Belin
Country: France, Spain, Portugal
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Platform: Kanopy
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women. However, their alliance suffers a major setback when Soni continues to get into violent situations while on duty, raising concerns about her temperament. – Telescope Film
Director: Ivan Ayr
Cast: Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra, Vikas Shukla, Himanshu Kohli
Country: India
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith, in Australia’s Northern Territory. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defense, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down. – Telescope Film
Director: Warwick Thornton
Cast: Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Thomas M. Wright
Country: Australia
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village. – JustWatch
Director: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy
Cast: Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe, Margo Martindale, June Squibb, Annette O’Toole, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Country: United States
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Two strangers dressed as minstrels (Arletty and Alain Cuny) arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities—and are revealed to be emissaries of the devil, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. – The Criterion Collection
Director: Marcel Carné
Cast: Arletty, Alain Cuny
Country: France
Distributor: Janus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Platform: The Criterion Channel
Special Programming: Classic Cinema
