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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A nun in Uganda is consumed by fear and doubt about her decision to take the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Her anguish intensifies night after night as she lies on a hard bed in her small room at the convent and listens to the rhythmic, beckoning drums of her village. Adapted from a short story by Alice Walker, the film was a deliberate first move by director Julie Dash toward narrative filmmaking, The work precedes and anticipates...
4) Dog City
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In the tough streets of DOG CITY, Ace inherits a saloon from his late Uncle Harry and is unwilling to pay the protection money. A puppet parody of classic gangster films directed by Jim Henson.
5) Nest
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Icelandic
Description
A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.
6) Eid Mubarak
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A six-year-old Pakistani girl embarks on a mission to save her beloved pet goat from being eaten on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Azha.
7) Pipes
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Bob is a plumber hired to fix a broken pipe. He lands, to his surprise, in a gay fetish club.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
When an asteroid hits the Earth, underwater volcanic eruptions risk submerging a riverside town and the inhabitants start to flee inland. The day before leaving, Nian says goodbye to a childhood friend but on her way she crosses paths with some of the town’s residents. Gradually, her memories of the town start to become clearer and clearer in her mind.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Drafthouse Films is pleased to present "CONFETTI OF THE MIND", the definitive compilation of Nacho Vigalondo's (Timecrimes, Open Windows) most brilliant shorts collected for the first time and personally curated by Nacho. Featuring such favorites as Choque, Sunday, and 2003's Academy Award nominated short film, "7:35 in the Morning".
10) Four Women
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
In this experimental short by Julie Dash -- which is one of the first experimental films by a Black woman filmmaker -- dancer Linda Martina Young interprets the same-titled ballad by Nina Simone and embodies the spirits of four women: Aunt Sarah, Saffronia, Sweet Thing and Peaches. These women represent common stereotypes of Black women attempting to survive in America.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Jakob has gone through something big. Something that changed everything. Well, actually, it was a lot of different things, and he can’t really tell them apart that well. It’s as is if everything happened at once. Some fragments stand out; a car, a gust of wind, sunshine reflecting off that building. Feet on the asphalt. And Mads, his intrusive, abusive friend, with some kind of grand plan to fix everything. And someone so perfect, you’ll always...
12) Marina's Ocean
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A group of students from the countryside are preparing for a special trip to the beach. Marina, a 15-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome, longs to visit the sea for the first time. Not allowed to travel with the other kids, Marina begins her own journey.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films, Manhatta (1921), The Enchanted City (1922), Return to Reason (1923), Ballet Mechanique (1924, 1931), The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1925), Eisenstein Mexican Footage (1930), Escape (1938), The Eclipse (1936-1949), Look Park (1973), and Tenga fe (2022)....
14) Baghdad Messi
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Kurdish
Description
Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona-Manchester United. The long awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down ...
15) La Ruta
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
A Guatemalan woman undertakes the journey to the U.S. border to seek asylum with her daughter, but first they must try and survive Mexico's infamous Route of Death.
16) Monster Maker
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
A boy dreams of working for his mentor, a creature-maker, and comes face to face with a giant creature.
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The inventive, self-reflexive films of independent trailblazer Cheryl Dunye (THE WATERMELON WOMAN) offer multilayered, sharply funny commentaries on the intersections of black and queer identity. Over the course of six provocative, sardonic shorts, Dunye honed a unique, quasi-documentary style she dubbed “Dunyementary.”
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
A young man named Zeb Norman comes to a small strange town to look for a gift for his fiancée Rosalie. He finds a pair of silver slippers in a local antique shop run by a witch, who forces Zeb to help her obtain a mysterious pearl that was stolen from her by an ancient rival. Little does she know that Zeb's own motivations are as mysterious and surprising as her own.
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