Inc Kino Lorber

The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. As the titular protagonist, Nira, discovers that her young student, Yoav, has an otherworldly talent for language and poetry, she slowly and progressively becomes interested in cultivating the boy's gift. But when fascination morphs into obsession, Nira pushes the boundaries of her relationship with the boy and his...

A once popular summer resort existed along the Rockaway shore, consisting of wide beaches, a long boardwalk, honky tonk amusements, and bungalows, Interviews bring the former bungalow colonies to life, and vintage archivalfilm includes some Marx Brothers frolicking. But the film also tracks 100 years of Rockaway history: the story of the bungalow form; the effects of 1950s urban renewal on the peninsula; and, finally, the grassroots activism to preserve...

Playing Frisbee in North Korea is the first documentary produced and directed by an African-American female filmmaker from inside North Korea. The idea began at a conference on Korean Re-unification organized by General Colin L. Powell and the Colin Powell Center, where director Savanna Washington was a Graduate Fellow. Through verit ̌footage from inside North Korea, interviews with North Korean refugees, long time aid workers, scholars, and experts...

In season 5, JJA, Director of Internal Security, has taken over managing the Bureau as Marie-Jeanne is testing her fieldwork skills on the ground in Egypt. The DGSE will be shaken up by rumors published about Malotru₂s fate: is he really dead? What role did DGSE and the CIA play? In the end, Malotru, dead or alive, will never stop confronting each one of his own dead ends, in Sinai, in Jeddah, Phnom Penh, Moscow, Cairo, and in Paris.

In Season 4, Malotru is hiding out in Moscow while being relentlessly pursued by the CIA and DGSE (France's Directorate-General for External Security). In order to survive, he explores collaboration with the Russian secret service. Back in Paris, the 'Bureau of Legends,' the most confidential branch of the DGSE, is in the crosshairs of JJA, the new Director of Internal Security within the DGSE. JJA feels very strongly that The Bureau is due for a...

In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety). One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from...

There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. It's a five-borough journey that stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, with Matt amassing a surprisingly detailed knowledge of New York's history and people along the way. Something of a modern-day...

At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...

A happily married housing contractor falls in love with his son's teacher.