Genre: Drama
Above and Below
Directed by Nicholas Steiner
Nicolas Steiner’s sublime exploration of lives lived on the fringe is set in a seemingly apocalyptic world that happens to …
Adama
Directed by Simon Rouby
The year is 1916. Adama is 12-years-old and lives in a remote West African village. When his elder brother Samba …
Aferim!
Directed by Radu Jude
Jude won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for this visionary historical epic — a European “Eastern” to an …
After the Storm
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
In Kore-eda’s latest domestic drama, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a novelist who struck it big with his first tome, struggles to …
Agnès Varda Shorts Program One
Directed by Agnès Varda
A trio of shorts from Varda’s early career saw her expanding her cinematic palette after La Pointe Courte, her 1955 …
Agnès Varda Shorts Program Three
Directed by Agnès Varda
Six shorts from the mid-70s up through the early aughts, capturing Varda at her unpredictable and charming best. This program …
Agnès Varda Shorts Program Two
Directed by Agnès Varda
Four early-mid-career Varda shorts—two exploring varieties of love and two from her late-60s trip to California—craft unforgettable portraits of very …
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Directed by Werner Herzog
Championed by Roger Ebert as one of the top ten films of all time, Klaus Kinski plays the titular madman …
Akira
Directed by Katsuhiro Ohtomo
Ohtomo’s influential work reinvigorated Western interest in Japanese anime and still feels cutting-edge to this day. Adapting the voluminous cyberpunk …
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fassbinder, who in his own way was always examining social norms and systems, here takes on the twin issues of …
Alice Guy-Blaché Solax Shorts
Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy-Blaché, the first woman filmmaker, came up during the Belle Époque period in Paris around the turn of the …
Alice in the Cities
Directed by Wim Wenders
Alice in the Cities is technically Wenders’ fourth film, but he often refers to it as his first, because it …