MARCH 2022 - all watched films.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.

Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".

In spring, a young girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo.

While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.

Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get aquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo beats his pregnant wife, Louise, which is a VERY bad idea, as her brother, Louis, is a violent racist.

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.

Featuring rare film footage and interviews with scholars and directors such as Youssef Chahine, WOMEN WHO LOVED CINEMA, PART ONE chronicles the achievements of women filmmakers whose adventurous spirits changed the face of the Egyptian film industry in the 1920s and 30s. At a time when their country was steeped in conservative tradition, these strong-willed women broke cultural taboos and dismissed conventional wisdom to pursue their passion for filmmaking. WOMEN WHO LOVED CINEMA, PART ONE begins by unearthing the works of Aziza Amir, an actor/producer who starred in LEILA (1927), considered the very first Egyptian feature film. Director Marianne Khoury next focuses on the lives and careers of headstrong actress Fatma Roushdi, who was married to director Aziz Eid, and Bahidja Hafez, who produced, directed, acted, edited and composed music for her films.

Featuring rare film footage and interviews with director Youssef Chahine, legendary film star Amina Rizk and others, WOMEN WHO LOVED CINEMA, PART TWO chronicles the achievements of women filmmakers who helped shape the face of the Egyptian film industry from the 1930s to the 1960s. At a time when their country was steeped in conservative tradition, these strong-willed women broke cultural taboos and dismissed conventional wisdom to pursue their passion for filmmaking. WOMEN WHO LOVED CINEMA, PART TWO explores the work of Amina Mohamed, the independent director and star of TITA WONG (1937), an unusual film that chronicles the plight of a Chinese family living in Egypt. The documentary continues by examining the contributions of actress Marie Queenie as well as Assia Dagher, a Lebanese actress who gained Egyptian citizenship in 1933. Dagher then went on to produce over fifty Egyptian films, becoming one of the country's most influential producers.

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

On June 21, 2004, equipped with a camera and a dream, the director assembled friends and family to shoot the first scene of "Ithaki" by the Nile River. Shooting began with no script or budget, just characters whose real-life stories became blurred with the director's imagination as they were captured by his camera in the months that followed. Two months prior, the director began drafting the film's characters and outlining their relationships. Subsequently, he created several scenes that conveyed certain attributes of the characters' lives he wanted to feature in the film. As each scene was scheduled for shooting, the director met with a screenwriter who wrote the dialogue. Usually the dialogue was given to the actors on the day of shooting and oftentimes it was modified on the spot to better express the actors' feelings and natural way of speaking. In a few scenes the dialogue was entirely improvised by the actors. Unintentionally, the process of making "Ithaki" paralleled the legendary story of the Odyssey the film drew upon. Although shooting was conducted in 28 days, these prolonged over eight months. As none of the actors were paid, scheduling depended entirely on their availability. No artificial sets or props were used, partly for budgetary reasons and partly because natural settings further conveyed the director's attempt to blur reality and fiction.

A young gym teacher tries to commit suicide after a series of failures through his life, only to meet a voodoo man who gives him the power to read minds.

An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

Yusuf, who goes to town for his mother's funeral, meets his mother's friend Ayla. Ayla pressures Yusuf to fulfill her mother's vow.

Alejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister.

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife barreling towards a shattering climax.

A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.