Hot screenings to watch now (Top 20)

Mary Phillips is a 60-year-old divorcee exploring her pleasure, freedom, and power. Her avenue of exploration: the bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism community. This observational portrait of her life unfolds through intimate vignettes and glimpses into the community that whipped Mary’s life back into shape. (ch)

The nuclear power industry is desperate to keep their gravy train going with small modular reactors – learn the truth as activists speak truth to power!

In a town erased from the maps where there's not even electricity, a girl dreams of boxing. When she learns her uncle will box for the world title and it will be broadcast live on tv, she and the community will do everything to watch the fight, while battling oblivion.

After two decades in a Belarusian Orthodox monastery, Vera reflects on her unexpected path to nunhood, rooted in a history of addiction. Facing her lingering guilt, she finds herself at a crossroads between her monastic sanctuary and an uncertain future. Directors Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson’s stark black and white observational approach reveal Vera's quiet journey of self-examination, offering an intimate glimpse into the complexities of faith, recovery, and personal transformation within cloistered walls.

1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED A CULTURE is a new documentary film that investigates the grave consequences of an erroneous biblical translation of the word “homosexual;" chronicling the effect on culture, politics, religion, and the LGBTQIA+ community over the last century.

With artists Basma AlSharif, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka, Emily Jacir, Joe Namy, and Oraib Toukan, ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING is a program of video works that unfold a politics of image-making, reviewing and recounting social and cultural histories as they are explored through contemporary frameworks. The program is prompted by a work from the ArteArchive—Toukan’s performance video, Remind me to Remember to Forget (2006), after Mahmoud Darwish’s 1982 prose poem, “Memory for Forgetfulness.” The artist proposes to reverse the act of writing and the will to remember, consequently dispersing the written word and suspending it in memory and reimagination.

A follow-up to the groundbreaking Visual Communications documentary OMAI FA'ATASI: SAMOA MO SAMOA, this fictionalized account of Vaitafe Futu, a gifted Samoan youth who travels from Pago Pago to pursue an education in Los Angeles offers a wholistic portrait of a newer Asian Pacific American community. Vaitafe's struggle to succeed at earning an advanced education is complicated by government cutbacks in education support, as well as various family crises. Only when his family and friends come together in the Samoan tradition of "fa'alavelaves" (family concerns) to help one of their best and brightest does Vaitafe learn the true meaning of "community."

The story of America and Britain overthrowing democracy in Iran in 1953, told in extraordinary detail using never seen before footage and documents. Brought to life with a unique and mesmerizing performance by Ralph Fiennes.

Laboratoire de création de courts métrages dédié exclusivement au cinéma de genre. En collaboration avec le Festival SPASM.