Films


Monte Adentro
Nicolás Macario Alonso

Two brothers from a Colombian muleteer family personify the contrast between city and country, joining forces for one epic mule-driving expedition through the Andes.

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Morristown: In the Air and Sun
Anne Lewis

Morristown, Tennessee, and Juarez, Mexico, are being drawn closer together by the global economy, and the way their inhabitants live and work (or don’t) is a testament to how the dislocating effects of so-called free-trade agreements have cemented into place a permanent, migratory underclass within our borders, and within Mexico’s.

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Moscow Chechnya Bubble Gum
Inal Sherip

By juxtaposing modern Moscow opulence with the harsh, bitter results of a decade of war in Chechnya, Sherip produces an affecting protest. The movie is…

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The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories
Andrey Paounov

Along the Danube in northern Bulgaria lies the sleepy and mosquito-ridden town of Belene, home to a colorful cast of characters including a band of…

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Mossville: When Great Trees Fall
Alexander John Glustrom

Striking and urgent, this harrowing account of environmental racism follows Stacey Ryan, one of the last remaining residents of a historically African American community, as he fights an influx of petrochemical plants into his town.

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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith

The fascinating story of Daniel Ellsberg, the former Marine and State Department analyst who served as an architect of the Vietnam War while also protesting it—living two lives until he made the fateful and historic decision to smuggle the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.

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Mother Lidia
Juan Bautista Tagle, Joaquín Nercasseau

Mother Lidia is an immersive and unsettling portrait of Lidia Fuentes, a Chilean healer with a divine gift for breaking curses. In her home, we see her receiving patients seeking to be cured of ailments with dark origins. Between exorcisms and moments of daily life, a universe is revealed where a complex balance exists between the magical and the earthly.

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Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Anger and longing suffuse this searing, poetic, highly personal response to the legacies of colonialism. The filmmaker, currently exiled in Berlin, pairs experimental black-and-white footage from the streets of his native country, Lesotho, with lyrical, raw audio that speaks to the sorrow of separation.

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Motherland
Emily Mkrtichian, Jesse Soursourian

In this eloquently crafted film, women in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory between Azerbaijan and Armenia, courageously work to clear land mines in the wake of a brutal war, combating traditional gender roles and forming close bonds in the process.

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Motley’s Law
Nicole N. Horanyi

Kimberley Motley is a former beauty queen, other of three—and the only foreign lawyer licensed to litgate in Afghan courts.

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Motodrom
Joerg Wagner

In an isolated fairground, a monstrous barrel materializes from a heap of wooden planks. Inside, motorbikes and cars power around steep ovals in a dizzying…

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A Move
Elahe Esmaili

Elahe returns to her hometown in Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents move to a new place after 40 years. Influenced by the Woman-Life-Freedom movement, she’s also hoping for a bigger move beyond just a new apartment.

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Move Me
Kelsey Peterson, Daniel Klein

Taut muscles that ripple underneath skin, joints that move fluidly: The motions of the human body are so instinctual, until they aren’t. Dancer and director…

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Moving Midway
Godfrey Cheshire

Film critic and North Carolina native Godfrey Cheshire’s cousin Charlie (aka Pooh) decides to transport the family’s historic Midway Plantation. The monumental decision sparks an…

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Mo[nu]ment[um]
Peter Collis

Images of foamy breakers, of the changing seasons across meadow and linksland, of a monument to a 1928 sea rescue turned tragic—with these, filmmaker Collis…

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Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
S. Leo Chiang

This sobering political documentary follows Joseph Cao, the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress, during his 2010 long-shot reelection bid to represent Louisiana’s predominantly African…

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Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Julie Anderson

An icon of United States politics, Barry Goldwater is considered by some to have been the founder of contemporary conservatism. Unrestricted and brutally honest, Goldwater…

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Mr. Death: the Life and Times of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Errol Morris