Films


L’America a Roma
Gianfranco Pannone

The 1960’s Spaghetti Westerns celebrated the classic American Western genre with flattering mimicry—whether through dubbed Eastwood pictures or recreations using Italian actors. Director Pannone recalls…

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L’amour fou
Pierre Thoretton

Pierre Bergé, partner of Yves Saint Laurent, makes the fateful decision to auction the couple’s extensive art collection. A wistful look at the treasured pieces that shaped their world.

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La Chirola
Diego Mondaca

“That dog domesticated me,” says ex-con Pedro Cajias. In this powerful and poetic film, in which Cajias delivers a fragmented monologue as if he were…

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la Flor del Camino
Giorgi Parkosadze

A few dreamlike glimpses into the life of a young girl who is on her way to meet a beloved friend, and for whom nothing exists but the here and now.

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La isla — Archives of a Tragedy
Uli Stelzner

A sudden explosion in a police training barrack uncovers a secret archive housing thousands of records amassed by the Guatemalan police and army from the 1930s through the end of the civil war in 1996.

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La Jetée
Chris Marker

This work of science fiction unspools the mysterious story of a man haunted by an image from his childhood. Composed of black-and-white still photographs, La Jetée presents a dystopian future where scientists conduct time-travel experiments on prisoners.

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La Laguna
Aaron Schock

A Mayan boy faces the impending loss of the freedom of his childhood as family pressures and economic realities close in.

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La Laguna
Aaron Schock

In the rainforests of southern Mexico, a Mayan boy faces the impending loss of his childhood freedoms as family pressures and economic realities close in. Festival Year: 2016

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La Mami
Laura Herrero Garvin

In the Barba Azul Cabaret in Mexico City, “La Mami” reigns as the benevolent, calm center of the legendary nightclub. Night after night, she presides over the hard-working female dancers and hostesses in their communal haven—the bathroom—often silent but always watchful. Gradually, a beautiful friendship develops between La Mami and a new, hopeful hire.

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La Premiere Séance
Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

This program duplicates the very first show of films by the Lumière brothers, at the birth of cinema. (Before it was just another item on…

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La Tropical
David Turnley

Reminiscent of La Buena Vista Social Club, but even more sensuous. Here the rhythm of a country—a place—is refracted through the sights and sounds of…

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La Tropical
David Turnley

The music plays, the rhythms are electrifying, the bodies move, all drawn into the dance hall, La Tropical. This is where the working class Cubans…

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La Vie Commence Demain
Nicole Védrès

Jean-Pierre Aumont plays a young man, who at the instigation of a scientific journalist, meets Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Jean Rostand and…

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The Lab
Yotam Feldman

Israeli filmmaker Yotam Feldman points a chilling lens at his country’s defense industry, the fourth largest arms exporter in the world.

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Lady Kul el-Arab
Ibtisam Mara'ana

Duah, a beautiful Druze Arab girl from Jerusalem, is already a finalist for the local “Lady of the Arabs” beauty pageant for Israeli-Arab women when…

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Lake of Fire
Tony Kaye

Tony Kaye, best known for his dramatic feature American History X, has spent the last fifteen years working on what will likely become the definitive…

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Lakshmi and Me
Nishtha Jain

What begins as an unsentimental representation of a domestic worker by her privileged feminist employer soon becomes a double portrait of enormous emotional and political…

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LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, Albert Maysles

A profound, honest, and revealing depiction of the life and times of an indomitable Mississippi Delta matriarch and the extended family she loves and cares…

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