Hottest August

  This complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is one city over […]

Museum Town

In 2017, MASS MoCA became the largest museum for contemporary art in the world — but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a […]

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific musical career spanning over four decades, first as a techno-pop star and later as an Oscar-winning composer. The evolution of his music has coincided […]

Acid Forest

A wispy stretch of land from Russia to Lithuania becomes an unlikely tourist attraction: a dying forest of leafless trees overtaken by thousands of ancient black birds ruining the area […]

Sacrifice

Alexander (Erland Josephson) is celebrating his birthday with family and friends when they receive some stunning news from the radio. World War III has erupted, and the end of the […]

Five Seasons

Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf is an immersion in the life and work of the most influential landscape designer of the last 50 years. Piet is responsible for […]

City of the Sun

The lives, dreams and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold amidst the ruins of a semi- abandoned mining town. Music teacher keeps demolishing the city to build a new life for […]

Long Way North

Set in 1892, this animated adventure follows 15-year-old aristocrat Sasha as she leaves behind her comfortable Saint Petersburg life in the hopes of tracking down and saving her beloved grandfather, […]

Letters from Baghdad

One of the most powerful figures to emerge in the Middle East before and during the First World War was a British spy, explorer, writer, and dynamo named Gertrude Bell—“the […]

Fort Ord: A Sense of Place

Fort Ord: A Sense of Place is a thought-provoking compilation of new student documentary and experimental shorts, centering on the ecology, community, and history of what was once the largest […]