Milla (2018) | May 27, 8:15 pm

Milla and Leo live clandestinely, their meager furnishings and sustenance countered by a love for which there is neither a logic nor substitute. But such an existence will only last until forces of nature take hold. – Kanopy

Director: Valérie Massadian

Cast: Severine Jonckeere, Luc Chessel, Ethan Jonckeere, Élisabeth Cabart

Country: France, Portugal

Distributor: Topic Studios

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes

Platform: Kanopy

Crystal Swan (2018) | May 27, 6:00 pm

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)

Until the Birds Return (2017) | May 27, 3:45 pm

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

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The Wedding Party (2016) | May 27, 1:30 pm

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

Dragon Inn (1967) | May 27, 11:00 am

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

Inner Demon (2014) | May 27, 1:00 am

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

DAU. Brave People (2020) | May 26, 9:45 pm

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

DAU. Three Days (2020) | May 26, 7:45 pm

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

DAU. Nora Mother (2020) | May 26, 5:45 pm

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

DAU. Degeneration (2020) | May 26, 11:00 am

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