The great names in cinema
FRANCE , Switzerland | 107 minutes | 2017
The insane rantings of a Buddhist monk who’s adept at riling up the crowds. A documentary that uses its source material to examine the roots of evil. In his latest work, the Swiss director, sworn enemy of hatemongering authority figures, points his camera at a prominent Burmese monk: a radical preacher who advocates violence toward the Muslim minority of Myanmar, a country rarely in the news in the West. Using its subject’s own words to condemn him, this skin-crawlingly terrifying documentary features some truly horrific acts of violence. Not for the faint of heart.
No biography
Moving portrait of a stubborn Congolese woman who, faced with setbacks, refuses to stay in the shadows. “On the count of ten, Félicité, you will be...
Feature film , Drama
FRANCE , Belgium , Senegal , Lebanon | 107 minutes | 2017
A cryptic police investigation is just part of the fun in this Noir punk expressionist post-apocalypse crime flick with its freewheeling plotline. Watch...
Feature film , Thriller
FRANCE , Portugal | 107 minutes | 2017
North Korea as you’ve never seen it in this gripping recollection by celebrated documentarist Claude Lanzmann (Shoah) of a love lost. In 1958, Lanzmann...
Feature film , Documentary
FRANCE | 107 minutes | 2017
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