First time watches august 2022

After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.

A love triangle forms among three adolescent girls who meet at a local pool over summer break and each desires the love of another.

A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.

A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop.

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father: Roberto Rossellini.

A short film in honor of Federico Fellini's centenary.

A young woman chronicles her childhood of neglect and isolation.

When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.

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

After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.

"The theater is about sex." At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. The Ontological Cowboy documents Foreman's invocation of the "manifest destiny" of the avant-garde theater, King Cowboy Rufus strolling down off San Juan Hill with a sigh, waving his handkerchief. Foreman plays himself, and the cast pantomimes his preoccupations. If "the cast and crew suffer alike," it's all for a good cause: the violent rebirth of the American theater, with Foreman as its midwife.

A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.

A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.

Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.

A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.

A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway, which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.

One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

This documentary examines the origins of the universe, including the beginning of life on Earth.

In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.

Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.

Cranky nurses, anxious doctors, and administrators wrestle with the darkly comic, honest, and compassionate realities of caring for the elderly in a rundown hospital.