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Fear of the dark is illuminated in Night Light.

The feature debut of the versatile Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) stars a young Dennis Hopper, and until now it has not been seen on 35mm for many years. Set in an amusement park, Harrington's film blends a romantic mystery story with elements of f...

Real men do embroider in Not Sacks.

In Number One, Leighton Pierce creates a digital video collage of trees, rocks, water, and fire to underscore the importance the natural elements play upon our human psyche.

Nearly 90, Bebo Valdés is one of the greatest living Cuban musicians. This joyful documentary celebrates the man who was a key figure in the development of mambo and whose life reflects the experiences of many Cubans since 1959. Co-hosted with Ins...

What is there to say except "restored at last." Sergio Leone's breathtakingly beautiful and unforgettable film, as much an opera as it is a Western, has been both adored and reviled since its initial release, but it has been almost impossible to s...

In this Colombian box office hit, a lovesick teen (Aldemar Correa) follows his seductive girlfriend as they illegally travel from Medellín to New York. When they are separated in Queens, he begins a desperate search to find her. Featuring John Leg...

One of Brazil's most respected documentary filmmakers invited two dozen women to be filmed as they told their life stories. Months later, he filmed a group of actresses as they reenacted the same stories. The result couldn't be simpler-or more ine...

True devotees of music's uniting power, Johnson and Walls hauled recording equipment around the world in search of great music and inspiration. The result is a rousing tribute to both music and the adventurous spirit.

In Polar, Scott Nyerges provides an abstract rendition of the melting of the polar ice caps.

After more than a decade of civil wars leading to more than 250,000 deaths and one million refugees, a group of courageous women rose up to force peace on their shattered Liberia and propel to victory the first female head of state on the African ...

Award winner Gianvito ferrets out the gravesites and monuments of American rebels and leftists embedded in long-forgotten landscapes, reviving America's rich history of progressive social protest. Playing with Hidden in Plain Sight as part of Prog...

"How to grieve" is the unexpressed question faced by Pietro, a Rome television executive (Nanni Moretti), after his wife's sudden death. This movingly understated film traces his spiritual rebirth. Co-hosted with Italian Cultural Institute of New...

Gorgeous colors enhance this tense tale, based on actual events, about a young Pakistani boy who, with his father, inadvertently crosses the border into India. Both wind up in jail for years, while mother (Nandita Das) is left bewildered and alone...

His boots weren't made for selling in Rattlesnakes (Skröltormar).

Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Jiu-jitsu teacher who has avoided the prizefighting circuit by operating a self-defense studio. An accident on a dark, rainy night changes Terry's life dramatically, introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky...

A 13-year-old Arab and an Israeli ex-soldier connect in Roads.

Without one eccentric Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist. Ehrlich's fun, loving, and inspirational tribute to the late Fred Lebow shows how one man's imagination and determination created one of th...

A daring dramatization of the disintegrating psyche of '60s socialite Barbara Baekeland, Savage Grace brilliantly showcases Julianne Moore at her most haunting. Insulated by wealth and abandoned by her husband, Baekeland falls into tragic dysfunct...