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Genre: Political


14th

Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay investigates the 14th Amendment, exploring its many facets, from who gets to belong in America to the rights they’re entitled to.

Ana the Cleaner

Guy Bauer

True crime junkie Ana cleans the homes of Chicago’s elite. When one of her clients’ wives suddenly disappears, Ana believes she’s uncovered a murder.

Being Heumann

Siân Heder

In 1977, disability rights activist Judy Heumann leads a historic 28-day occupation, uniting protesters in a fight for accessibility laws and equal rights.

Ben’Imana

Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo

In this stunning, intimate portrait of defiance and forgiveness, a Rwandan genocide survivor’s convictions are tested by her daughter’s unexpected pregnancy.

A Bit of Light Kami Nour

Ali Asgari

After deciding to end it all, Arash spends a final day with his family in this moving expression of life’s mysterious beauty and its ability to puncture despair.

Citizen Osama Al mowaten Osama

Ahmed Hassouna

In this raw and affecting portrait of resilience, a Gazan photographer captures the devastation while protecting his newborn son and older parents.

A City in the Forest

Lev Omelchenko, Nolan Huber

After Atlanta officials move to destroy an urban forest to make way for a massive police training facility—aka “Cop City”—the people fight back.

Dao

Alain Gomis

Parallel timelines weave together a contemporary French wedding and an ancestral funeral in Guinea-Bissau for a West African diasporic family.

Edward Said: Between Worlds

Maiken Baird

This fascinating portrait traces the life of charismatic Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, celebrated as a prophet and vilified as a terrorist.

I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

Isabelle Stever

In this bold, empathic drama, a couple is pushed to the brink when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upends their lives, throwing their partnership into confusion.

I’ll Be Gone in June

Katharina Rivilis

An introspective German exchange student searches for meaning and kinship over a transformative year in newly post-9/11 New Mexico.

Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors Makikiraan Po

Lav Diaz

A 17th century Spanish priest brutally colonizing the Philippines orders his converts to transport a cartload of marble through a marauder-filled jungle.

Mariinka

Pieter-Jan De Pue

Spanning a decade, this sprawling yet intimate war-time epic follows several youth as their world is upended and they adapt to the crushing reality of life in Ukraine.

Minotaur

Andrey Zvyagintsev

A Russian businessman’s comfortable life is thrown into chaos when he begins to suspect his wife of infidelity in this dark, sardonic moral fable.

Musk

Alex Gibney

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney delivers the definitive portrait of one of the most controversial and unchecked figures of our time: Elon Musk.

Rehearsals for a Revolution

Pegah Ahangarani

Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani traces over 40 years of her country’s tumultuous history through five personal portraits of resistance.

Three Colors: Pan-African

Elijah Davis, Allison A. Waite, Tyler Holmes

Three stories connect across the Pan-African flag as an injured athlete, an evicted mother, and a sitcom star fight to survive modern Black America.

Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of Tricontinentale, lettre à ouvrir au cas où

Laura Cazador

This electrifying film essay tracks the short life of film critic Michèle Firk and the anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s that she joined.

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