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BRUNO DUMONT, L’EMPIRE (2024)

Witches

ELIZABETH SANKEY (2024)

Director Elizabeth Sankey explores the connections between postpartum mental health and the portrayal of witches in Western society and popular culture. Sankey intertwines her personal experiences with historical and cinematic footage—while creating a new coven of women to reclaim their stories.

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The Empire

BRUNO DUMONT (2024)

Starcruisers, aliens, lightsaber duels… in a Bruno Dumont film? Having found his funny bone in 2014 with P’tit Quinquin, the one-time heir to Bresson pivots again for a space opera set under grizzled French skies. Wacky, wild, and cosmically funny, The Empire is a sci-fi extravaganza like no other.

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Il paese delle spose infelici

PIPPO MEZZAPESA (2011)

A group of boys friends’ lives take an unexpected turn when a strange stray ‘madonna’, the lovely Annalisa, literally flies into their midst from the top of a church, dressed as a bride. Smitten, Zazà and Veleno awkwardly approach her and experience pure ecstasy…

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Double love

FRANÇOIS OZON (2017)

The stylish and immaculately crafted Double Lover attests to François Ozon’s reputation as a master of the erotic thriller. With daring performances from Marine Vacth and Jérémie Renier, this hallucinatory treat plays its psychosexual games of cat-and-mouse in the spirit of Hitchcock and De Palma.

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Persepolis

MARJANE SATRAPI, VINCENT PARONNAUD (2007)

This acclaimed coming-of-age feature chronicles a young girl during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Co-directed and adapted by Marjane Satrapi from her graphic autobiography into beautiful black-and-white animation, the film is voiced by mother-daughter duo Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve!

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Boléro

NANS LABORDE-JOURDÀA (2023)

Under the spell of dance, a drab public toilet transforms into an altar of ecstatic, revolutionary desire in Nans Laborde-Jourdà’s kinetic short, winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes. Using Maurice Ravel’s best-known composition as a call for erotic and personal liberation, Boléro lets the body talk.

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Orlando, my political biography

PAUL B. PRECIADO (2023)

Forgoing the path of faithful adaptation, Paul B. Preciado stitches new presents and futures into a classic of feminist literature in this glittering celebration of gender abolition. Casting binaries aside to dance to the call of the collective, this plural Orlando advocates for freedom with flair.

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Diary of an african nun

JULIE DASH (1977)

Temptation knocks at commitment’s door with sounds of men, fire, and dancing in this heady early work from Julie Dash. Dynamic use of montage contrasts an ascetic life with the seductive pleasures of our persistent flesh, as the titular sister narrates her dilemma in mesmerizing, poetic voice-over.

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Actual People

KIT ZAUHAR (2021)

Scrappy low-budget filmmaking has a new kid on the block in actor, director, and writer Kit Zauhar. Zeroing in on an Asian-American student’s premature case of postgraduate drift, she brings an altogether different charm to independent cinema with her wry, plucky, and perceptive first film.

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The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

LUIS BUÑUEL (1972)

What secrets lurk inside a group of wealthy sophisticates who only want a nice, pleasant dinner party? Luis Buñuel’s Oscar®-winning classic is one of his signature films: a fiendishly witty comedy bouncing through reality, dreams, faith, sex, and revolution with the lightest and cheekiest touch.

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