Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them... and then there are others. HARVEY KRUMPET tells the "inspirational" story of an ordinary man cursed with perpetual bad luck. From being born with Tourette syndrome to getting struck by lightning, Harvie's trouble...

While in a desperate fight for his life, a man stranded alone on the sea is surrounded by seven boats.

DIRECTED BY HLYNUR PALMASON
ICELAND, DENMARK | 2014 | NO DIALOGUE

While toiling away in the highly competitive kitchen of a top-rated restaurant, Marie (Joséphine Japy) inadvertently discovers a strange new ingredient that wins her the admiration of the chef but with frightening consequences.

DIRECTED BY MERRYL ROCHE
FRANCE | 2019 | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

A middle-aged Hasidic bookbinder gets more than he bargained for when he answers a Craigslist ad. Winner of the Film Movement Award at the 2021 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

DIRECTED BY ANIKA BENKOV
UNITED STATES | 2020 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A hilariously colorful satire of life and cinema in which a young woman finds herself caught in an existential and aesthetic crisis.

DIRECTED BY MARINA STEPANSKA
UKRAINE | 2019 | UKRAINIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

MIER follows two days in the lives of Oupa, a San hunter/gatherer who lives in the desert, and Boetie, a “colored” boy from a nearby settlement where his people have been relocated. Boetie is struggling with his own inner demons when he meets the older man, who shares his traditional values with ...

Salewa returns home to Lagos, a place where she once had to hide herself, for her mother's funeral. Once there, she runs into an important person from her past and is forced to go in search of her own peace.

EGÚNGÚN (MASQUERADE) is a meditation on home, memory, and identity – on the many versio...

A woman asleep begins to dream. It is a dream that distorts her perception of time and space in relation to her mundane daily tasks – an illusion that evokes a surreal experience of the self.

2022 NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION
DIRECTED BY HLUMELA MATIKA
SOUTH AFRICA | 2022 | NO DIALOGUE

Mbissine Thérèse Diop played the starring role in Ousmane Sembène’s landmark first feature, 1966’s Black Girl (La noire de...), which was one of the first African films to achieve international acclaim. Today, she looks back on her experience as a Black actress in the 1960s.

2022 NEW YORK AFRICA...

Shot in Dakar with the participation of leading Senegalese musicians, poets, and graffiti artists, ALGO-RHYTHM probes the rise in the algorithmic management of daily life and the insidious threats it poses to human rights and agency. Using hip-hop, drama, street art, and data-driven filmmaking, M...

Sara (Laura Galán) is mercilessly bullied by her peers for being overweight but a turn of events will soon change everyone's fates in a most alarming fashion.

The award-winning sophomore short film from Spanish writer/director Carlota Pereda, CERDITA (PIGGY) was remade as a 2022 feature film wit...

A lovely tableau of tranquil goings on in an enchanted London park slowly reveals that not all is at it may seem.

DIRECTED BY CHRISTINE MOLLOY & JOE LAWLOR
UNITED KINGDOM | 2004 | NO DIALOGUE

A shy high school student thinks no one listens to the science-fiction radio drama he produces daily until one day he starts to receive recorded responses from a mysterious female student.

DIRECTED BY TAKUYA CHISAKA
JAPAN | 2020 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

While performing at a wedding, Sarah has an unexpected encounter with someone from her past.

DIRECTED BY GUY LICHTENSTEIN
AUSTRIA | 2019 | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

On the last night of the siege on Beirut during the war of 1982, a young Palestinian poet strives to reach the kitchen in order to observe his everyday routine of coffee and cigarette, despite the plight of the war going on around. The film is inspired by the 1987 prose poem Memory of Forgetfulne...

In a border village, a Chinese teenager of Korean descent aspires to emigrate to the homeland.

DIRECTED BY WEI SHUJUN
CHINA | 2018 | CHINESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Sydney, a relapsed drug addict, agrees to go to a country cabin by her fiancé Tom, in order to clean up. Their plans for rehabilitation, however, are suddenly made moot when an avalanche buries them alive. Trapped in a small pocket of air, the two realize that any attempt to free Sydney will bury...

In this dark comedy, which was originally performed live onstage, two hard-bitten kindergartners--played by adult actors--share a "time out" in a remote corner of the school playground. Together they enter a world of anxiety, despair, revenge and cooties.

World War II, Serbia 1941. A young lieutenant must persuade a captive resistance fighter to betray his comrades, or enforce a law which states that for every German soldier killed, one hundred civilians have to be executed. Based on true events.

DIRECTED BY LUKA POPADIC
MONTENEGRO, SERBIA, SW...

In the modern-day Parisian neighborhood of Victor Hugo’s novel, a newly transferred cop learns abusive policing practices from two veterans. When a young boy records them going too far, the community threatens to explode.

This acclaimed César Award-nominated short was expanded by director Ladj L...

A pious Hasidic man (Adam Silver) living a secret double life misplaces his hat one night, causing his two separate worlds to collide in ways he could never imagine.

DIRECTED BY SARAH SMITH
UNITES STATES | 2019 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A young girl saves a pig’s life and incidentally changes her own.

DIRECTED BY ASH MAYFAIR
VIETNAM | 2012 | VIETNAMESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

A teacher and her student linger in an empty classroom. Through their looks and gestures, a strange confrontation begins.

DIRECTED BY VIRGINIA MORI
FRANCE, ITALY | 2014 | NO DIALOGUE

Hip-hop dancers form a "battle" to the music of the "Danse des sauvages" from Rameau's ballet Les Indes Galantes. The savagery of this dance, made of blows and threats, is a political message: it is Krump, a hip-hop dance style born in the 2000s in the heart of the poor neighborhoods of Los Angel...