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• Breathless (1960) | Kanopy

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  This classic of French New Wave follows a wandering criminal who accidentally kills a police officer. Now on the run, he hides out in his girlfriend's Paris apartment, but when she learns the police are after him, she begins to question her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hitch-hiker

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  In this 1953 thriller, two friends are taken hostage by a hitchhiker during a car ride to Mexico. The Hitch-Hiker is notable for being the only major classic film noir directed by a woman. It was selected for preservation in the National Film…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By the Time It Gets Dark (2016) | Kanopy

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  This 2016 experimental Thai drama follows a young filmmaker as she works on a documentary about the 1976 Thammasat University Massacre. Winner of numerous film festival awards. Thai with English subtitles. Selection for September 2022. Available to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chan Is Missing

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  This 1982 experimental comedy-mystery follows two cab drivers as they search San Francisco Chinatown for their friend who disappeared with their $4,000. It was the first wide release by and about Asian-Americans to gain critical acclaim. Selection…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clemency

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  Clemency stars Alfre Woodard as a prison warden overseeing executions and depicts the emotional impact the executions have on her. Clemency won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and earned three nominations, including Best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Murmur of Youth (1997) | Kanopy

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  This quiet slice-of-life drama depicts the relationship between two young women, both named Mei-Li, who meet selling tickets at a movie theater. As their friendship deepens, it develops into something more complicated. Mandarin and Taiwanese with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 幸運的奶奶

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  This dark comedy follows a newly widowed 80-year-old grandmother, who is eager to start her life as an independent woman in New York Chinatown. After an auspicious fortune sends her to the casino, she finds herself at the center of a Chinatown gang…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apu trilogy

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  Pather Panchali, the first film in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, is a slice-of-life coming-of-age story that follows a family in rural India. Inspired by Italian neorealism, it pioneered the India's Parallel Cinema movement and won numerous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) | Kanopy

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  In this classic of French cinema, a young singer walks the streets of Paris as she awaits the results of a biopsy. French with English subtitles. Selection for March 2022. Available to stream on Kanopy.

• Rashomon

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  In this highly influential psychological thriller, four people give contradicting accounts of a murder and rape. Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 1952 Academy Awards. Japanese with English subtitles. Selection for February 2022. Available…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bicycle thieves

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  In this Golden Globes-nominated romantic drama set in 18th century France, Marianne is hired to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, who resists her betrothal and so resists being painted. To complete her work, Marianne plays the role of Héloïse's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Portrait of a lady on fire

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  In this Golden Globes-nominated romantic drama set in 18th century France, Marianne is hired to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, who resists her betrothal and so resists being painted. To complete her work, Marianne plays the role of Héloïse's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) | Kanopy

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  In this silent film, the hypnotist Caligari arrives in the village of Holstenwall, and a series of murders arrive with him. This classic of German Expressionist cinema has been called "the first true horror film" (Roger Ebert) and continues to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shiva Baby

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  In this award-winning comedy, college student Danielle attends a Jewish funeral service with her family. There, she runs into her ex-girlfriend and her sugar daddy. Selection for September 2021. Available in Blu-Ray format. Available to stream on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parasite

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  This Academy Award-winning thriller follows an impoverished family as they maneuver themselves into the employment of a wealthy one. Korean with English subtitles. Selection for August 2021. Available in DVD and Blu-Ray formats. Available to stream…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boy

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  In this Maori coming-of-age film, the titular 11-year-old "Boy" is a dreamer whose heroic fantasies of his absent criminal father come crashing down when the man himself pays a visit. Selection for July 2021. Available in DVD format. Available to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moonlight

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  This coming-of-age drama depicts three chapters in the life of a young man, from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. He grapples with abuse, identity, sexuality and masculinity. Selection for June 2021. Available in DVD and Blu-Ray formats.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A girl walks home alone at night

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  In this genre-defying film, the Iranian ghost town of Bad City is stalked by a skateboard riding vampire, clad in a chador. Persian with English subtitles. Selection for May 2021. Available on DVD. Available to stream on Kanopy and hoopla.

• The Farewell

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  Billi, a young Chinese-American woman, learns her grandmother Nai Nai has only weeks to live. The family has chosen to keep this diagnosis from Nai Nai. As the family gathers in China, Billi struggles with this secret and the cultural divide between…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Motherland (2016) | Kanopy

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  This documentary brings us inside the world's busiest maternity hospital in the Philippines. Over the course of the film, new mothers, new fathers and hospital staff connect with one another over the harsh realities of family planning, money and…Read moreRead more of this annotation