For the fifth year running, OVID is hosting the internationally renowned LA-based film festival Dance Camera West, presenting their 2025 edition exploring dance in the context of experimental cinema and documentary. Showcasing a curated selection of short films from 20 countries, each making its World, US, or LA premiere, these films represent the pinnacle of dance film creativity.
This June, OVID presents 27 new films and 12 exclusives.
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This May, OVID presents 20 new films and 15 exclusives, plus an exclusive dance festival program comprising 13 short experimental films and docs.
This April OVID presents 25 new films and 16 exclusives.
This March OVID presents 19 new films and seven exclusives.
This February OVID presents 22 new films and 16 exclusives.
Welcome to the sixth installment of OVID’s Author Selects series, where we invite an author to pick a film in OVID’s collection and tell you why they think you should watch it.
This January OVID presents 18 new films and 13 exclusives. OVID will start the year with a vacation-in-paradise gone wrong (to make you feel better about your return to the office) with Holiday by Isabella Eklöf (starring The Girl with the Needle's Vic Carmen Sonne), plus a twisty noir Three Monkeys by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director of About Dry Grasses.
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A companion to the Animated Features Collection, this collection brings together an array of filmmakers working across varied styles. From…
Alongside our Animated Shorts, this collection of animated feature films introduces a selection of international filmmakers working across diverse animation…
A reference to Japanese Kamikaze pilots (on ‘God’s wind’) – is the story of an American-born young man of mixed parentage, whose father was part of a bombing mission that destroyed his Japanese mother’s village and killed her entire family during World War II. Although his father discovers this horrible coincidence when he meets his wife after the war, he keeps this realization secret until he has a breakdown.
Piolo Pascual portrays two characters in this fractured tale exposing the seedy underbelly of the city that surrounds him. William, a drug addict, tries to reconnect his ties with people close to him. Slowly, as night falls, he learns that there is no one left to trust, not even himself. Philip, who works as a bodyguard for a mayor’s son, thinks his boss considers him family. After a shooting incident, he discovers his real worth to his boss.
Adela, a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday alone in the slums of Manila, longing for her family and the stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela gauges her life against those of the sea of humanity.
A family man’s encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination, where fantasy coalesces with reality.
1983's Dressed in Blue offers a remarkable insight into the experiences of six transwomen in Madrid, as the nation completed its transition to democracy. Having been considered "monsters" and "dangerous", and subject to arrest and imprisonment under the regime of Francisco Franco (and subsequently found themselves languishing in prison even after his death, as political prisoners whose issues were more popularly embraced were released first), with same-sex intercourse only made legal again in 1979, the transwomen in the documentary* are…
This remarkable documentary about trans women in post-Franco Spain has been rescued from nearly 40 years of obscurity and released on a very nice Blu-Ray. The film is structured around conversations between the women, as well as individual profiles. All of them do some kind of sex work, but they have varying experiences and perspectives: they vary in age; some but not all are accepted by their families; some but not all served in Franco's military; some but not all…
I don't know if trans women have ever been filmed as beautifully or with as much care as they are in this film. It is major.
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