Transnistra (2019) | May 22, 10:15 pm

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

The Death of Louis XIV (2016) | May 22, 8:00 pm

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

Filmmaker Conversations

Soni (2018) | May 22, 6:00 pm

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

Sweet Country (2018) | May 22, 3:30 pm

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

Filmmaker Conversations

Blow the Man Down (2019) | May 22, 1:30 pm

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

Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) | May 22, 11:00 am

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

Ever After (2019) | May 22, 12:00 am

Post apocalypse Europe, two years after zombies have overrun Earth, only two citadels of civilization remain in the East German towns of Weimar and Jena. In Weimar, newly infected zombies are shot on site without mercy. The Jena authorities take a more humane approach by trying to find a cure for plague victims. Vivi and Eva, in search of a more humane world are stranded in the no-mans land of the Black Forest where they have to rely on each other and nature in order to survive. But their survival has also unleashed demons from their past that they must confront. – Shudder

Director: Carolina Hellsgård

Cast: Swantje Kohlhof, Maja Lehrer, Trine Dyrholm, Yûho Yamashita

Country: Germany

Distributor: Juno Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

La Flor: Part 3 (2019) | May 21, 6:00 pm

A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a wildly entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits. – Film Society of Lincoln Center

Director: Mariano Llinás

Cast: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes

Country: Argentina

Distributor: Grasshopper Film

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 5 hours, 23 minutes

Platform: Video-On-Demand

Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) | May 21, 3:45 pm

A groundbreaking summer camp galvanizes a group of teens with disabilities to help build a movement, forging a new path toward greater equality. – Netflix

Director: Nicole Newnham , James Lebrecht

Cast: Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James Lebrecht

Country: United States

Distributor: Netflix

Rating: R

Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes

Platform: Netflix

Special Programming: Documentary Cinema

By the Time It Gets Dark (2016) | May 21, 1:30 pm

A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live loosely connected to each other by almost invisible threads. The narrative sheds its skin several times to reveal layer upon layer of the complexities that make up the characters’ lives. – Telescope Film

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong

Cast: Arak Amornsupasiri, Atchara Suwan, Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Intira Jaroenpura

Country: Thailand, France, Qatar

Distributor: Kimstim Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes

Platform: OVID