Fresh arrivals, theater releases, and newly added cinema
June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said to be his soulmate through music. A residency at New York’s Village Vanguard culminates in the live taping of two of the greatest jazz records of all time in one night. Ten days later, LaFaro dies in a car crash. Numb with grief, Evans stops playing.
WHITE LIGHTNING is a gritty, funny, and uniquely American story about second chances, legacy, and what it takes to outrun your past. This feature-length documentary follows 18-year-old sprinter King Combest as he attempts to break his father’s 25-year-old national high school record–and the cycle of drugs, jail, and poverty that has shaped his Kentucky family for generations. King’s father Casey (aka “White Lightning”) was once an elite sprinter destined for Olympic greatness before a marijuana arrest derailed his career and left him working as a janitor on the margins of society. As King chases his father’s iconic record, it becomes clear that the real stakes are far greater: becoming the first man in the Combest family to earn a college degree and forging a path beyond a legacy of crime and addiction.
The steady, uneventful life of Roma, a lonely ninth-grader, is disrupted by Polina—a rebellious older student who is constantly getting into wild escapades. Together, they attempt to unravel the mystery of a mystical VHS tape—number seven—rented from a local video store. Drawn into a dangerous adventure and growing genuinely close, they have no idea what kind of choice the investigation’s conclusion will force them to make.
The MANDAL Man debut half hour stand up comedy program recorded in Brooklyn, NY.
Fed up with her inability to orgasm, Fran seeks out a local porn star hoping he'll finally get her rocks off. The only problem...he's gay. However, his will to help leads Fran to finally discover pleasure in the most unexpected of places.
Andrés is a veteran of the Malvinas War. He works at the family transportation company. News arrives that the EAAF?the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team?has identified the remains of his friend Damián, who fell in battle. He has started smoking again. A delegation is being organized to travel to the Islands and attend the ceremony. An old pang of guilt torments him: when Damián fell, he was a few meters behind him, firing his weapon. He always knew it wasn?t him, but the specter of friendly fire casts a shadow over his memory.
When Caenis sees Caeneus on a punk stage, they know they want his body. Desire, envy and pain intertwine as Caenis obsessively hunts for Caeneus - and their true self.
Ondřej Šálek’s time-lapse documentary captures an escalating street battle between pro-Russian activists at a petition stall in Prague’s Klárov district and a group of liberal-minded citizens who have decided to take justice into their own hands. Footage from live streams and first-hand observations reveal verbal and physical altercations and the growing radicalisation of both camps. This unsettling account of the forms taken by civil resistance in a sharply polarised society does not adopt the perspective of either side. An impartial observation of the actions and counter-actions shows how easily a sense of threat and the desire to belong to a particular community can escalate into aggression.
After being arrested and having his medical practice shut down, an Iranian doctor loses faith in the future and resolves to end his life - but one final day among his family begins to unsettle his decision.
Madrid, Spring 1992. Pepe, owner of a Catalan tavern in Chueca, faces the worst streak of his life: his bar is in ruin, his wife leaves him and the debts drown him. When he thinks all is lost, his friends propose a twist as unexpected as brilliant: turn the tavern into a gay pub! What happens from there is an unstoppable succession of entanglements, crazy situations and endearing characters, in a politically incorrect comedy, current, and absolutely smarty.
Pretentious filmmaker Arthur and entitled high-profile actress Clara find themselves at the same rural farmhouse, to escape from their individual pressures. As they reluctantly start to connect, their shared vulnerability leads them on an accidental journey of self-discovery, revealing what it truly means to be seen.
A highly calculated gubernatorial candidate finds his meticulously engineered political campaign and public persona thrown into absolute disarray when a maternal curse renders him entirely incapable of deception, forcing him to navigate the political arena with unfiltered, absolute honesty.
Edith is a curiosity-driven journalist and single mother. Solo parenting proves to be complicated, but when the identity of the man who donated the sperm that got her pregnant surfaces, she seeks him out under the false pretext of interviewing him about his company.
Nico, a young man from the outskirts trapped in the drug dealing world, unexpectedly finds a way out when he retrieves a bag abandoned by two guys fleeing from the police.
To win back the family he lost through a lifetime of infidelity, an aging scrap dealer leads his estranged children on a bizarre quest to sell a sacred relic left by a dead friend. Along the way—from weddings to funerals—they find something far more precious than money.
Reeve LeClaire is still haunted by when she was held captive as a teenager by a sadistic man, but when her psychiatrist asks her to mentor a newly rescued survivor, she’s pulled into a chilling game of cat-and-mouse—one that threatens to drag her back into the nightmare she barely escaped.
A revealing documentary that explores the vibrant life, work, and flamboyant personality of portrait artist Don Bachardy, focusing on his lifelong romantic partnership with novelist Christopher Isherwood. From their Santa Monica home, Bachardy spills vivid details on his sitters: how he got to touch Ginger Rogers' face, how Henry Fonda—who famously hated queers—eventually came around to pose for him, and how Governor Jerry Brown actually sat for his portrait 40 years ago, unlike Ronnie and Arnold. Bachardy's unique philosophy allows him to enter his sitters' lives, discern their personalities, and see straight into their souls. Yet, the emotional core and pinnacle of the documentary is his profound bond with Isherwood. During Isherwood's final six months, as he lay bedridden and dying right in front of him, Bachardy produced 448 black-paint portraits. Explaining that his paintbrush was in mourning, Bachardy offers a breathtaking, devastatingly pure expression of love and loss.
A girl from Stockton, Gabriella, breaks up with her long-term boyfriend and decides to help her best friend move to Los Angeles as a short getaway. At the biggest night market in LA, she meets a boy who was born and raised in SoCal, Jayson, and he shows her iconic and sentimental places within every area code of the greater LA area.
