An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online. – JustWatch
Director: Eliza Hittman
Cast: Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, Neal Huff, Nicole Flyus
Country: United States
Distributor: Neon
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Platform: Hulu
Special Events: Filmmaker Retrospectives
Set over the course of a languid South Brooklyn summer, this unflinchingly honest, refreshingly unsentimental tale of sexual exploration and awakening centers on Lila (Gina Piersanti, in a remarkable debut), a lonely 14-year-old girl who pushes herself into frightening and dangerous new territory in a quest to experience love. – The Criterion Channel
Director: Eliza Hittman
Cast: Gina Piersanti, Jesse Cordasco, Giovanna Salimeni
Country: United States
Distributor: Variance Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Platform: The Criterion Channel
Special Events: Filmmaker Retrospectives, Shorts Included
Also included are Eliza Hittman’s two earlier short films, Second Cousins Once Removed, and Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight. Both films are available to watch on The Criterion Channel.
Escaping war, a young girl finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son. – IMDb.com
Director: Mari Okada
Cast: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Tomokazu Sugita, Yoshimasa Hosoya
Country: Japan
Distributor: Eleven Arts Anime Studio
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Platform: Hoopla
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. – Telescope Film
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Cast: Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aïssa Maïga, Lily Banda
Country: United Kingdom
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Special Programming: Family Films
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility when they are attacked by real zombies. – Telescope Film
Director: Shinichiro Ueda
Cast: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Harumi Shuhama
Country: Japan
Distributor: Shudder
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Platform: Shudder
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced – especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity. – Telescope Film
Director: Jessica Hausner
Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor
Country: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Platform: Hulu
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position. – JustWatch
Director: Kitty Green
Cast: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Dagmara Domińczyk, Kristine Froseth, Makenzie Leigh
Country: United States
Distributor: Bleecker Street Media
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
The portrait of a father as seen through the eyes of his daughter by means of a photo album. A travel diary from the 1970s, starting in Japan and around the world: Father and daughter cross views on the memories of the old images and words. – MUBI
Director: Aya Koretzky
Cast: Davi Cabeça Pra Baixo, Aya Koretzky, Jiro Koretzky
Country: Portugal
Distributor: C.R.I.M.
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Platform: MUBI
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
“Bird talk” is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive, raucous majority: the history teacher tormented by his students, a recently-fired language teacher, a leprous composer, a woman who cleans the house of a banker, a deformed florist and a student fascinated by the cinema. – MUBI
Director: Xawery Żuławski
Cast: Sebastian Fabijański, Eryk Kulm, Andrzej Chyra, Jaśmina Polak
Country: Poland
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)
Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands… – Telescope Film
Director: Naomi Kawase
Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Country: Japan, France, Germany
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Platform: Hoopla
