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Wanda (1970) | May 29, 11:00 am

Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. – The Criterion Channel

Director: Barbara Loden

Cast: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins

Country: United States

Distributor: Janus Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Platform: The Criterion Channel

Special Programming: Classic Cinema

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Berlin Syndrome (2017) | May 29, 12:00 am

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

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Beanpole (2019) | May 28, 8:30 pm

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

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Chez Jolie Coiffure (2018) | May 28, 6:45 pm

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

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The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman (2016) | May 28, 5:30 pm

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

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My Happy Family (2017) | May 28, 3:15 pm

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

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The Stopover (2016) | May 28, 12:45 pm

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

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Diamonds of the Night (1964) | May 28, 11:00 am

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

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Blood Quantum (2019) | May 28, 1:00 am

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

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Greener Grass (2019) | May 27, 10:45 pm

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

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