The Babadook (2014) | May 22

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. – JustWatch.com

Director: Jennifer Kent

Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, Benjamin Winspear, Cathy Adamek

Country: Australia

Distributor: IFC Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes

Platform: Video-on-Demand

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) | May 22

A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him – and a forest fire threatening to consume them all. – JustWatch.com

Director: Taylor Sheridan

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen, Nicholas Hoult, Medina Senghore, Jon Bernthal. Tyler Perry

Country: United States

Distributor: New Line Cinema, Warner Bros.

Rating: R

Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Platform: HBO Max

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Ida (2013) | May 22

Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation. – JustWatch.com

Director: Paweł Pawlikowski

Cast: Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik, Joanna Kulig, Adam Szyszkowski

Country: Poland

Distributor: Music Box Films

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1 hour, 22 minutes

Platform: OVID, MUBI, Amazon Prime, Hoopla

Special Programming: Filmmaker Conversations

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Hooligan Sparrow (2016) | May 22

The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to Hainan Province in southern China to protest the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. Marked as enemies of the state, the activists are under constant government surveillance and face interrogation, harassment, and imprisonment. Sparrow, who gained notoriety with her advocacy work for sex workers’ rights, continues to champion girls’ and women’s rights and arms herself with the power and reach of social media. – JustWatch.com

Director: Nanfu Wang

Cast: Ye Haiyan

Country: China

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 24 minutes

Platform: Criterion Channel, Kanopy

Special Programming: Documentary Cinema

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017) | May 22

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems. – JustWatch.com

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Cast: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Amami, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hikari Mitsushima, Jiro Sato

Country: Japan

Distributor: GKIDS

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutes

Platform: Netflix

Special Programming: Family Films

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