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Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act.

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Whatever you do, don't grow up.

I don't give a shit what you think!

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Ed, visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

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So the people know what the future's going to bring if they're not careful.

People were going about their business in an ordinary way!

How dare they go about their business in an ordinary way?!

Did they not realize that history had been changed?!

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1. The Place Without Limits
2. A Woman Like Eve
3. This Is Not Berlin
4. Crossing
5. The Wedding Banquet
6. In a Glass Cage
7. Joyland
8. Polyester
9. Southern Comfort
10. What Have I Done to Deserve This?

• Hard Truths
• Universal Language
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
• The Room Next Door
• The Last Showgirl
• Babygirl
• Green Border
• Oddity
• Flow
• The Shrouds

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Encampments
• Cutting Through Rocks
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• Witches
• Death Without Mercy
• Black Box Diaries
• Pavements
• Secret Mall Apartment
• Union
• SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All of these would be topped by Julio Torres's Fantasmas

1. Mrs. Davis
2. Ripley
3. The Sympathizer
4. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
5. Under the Bridge
6. Expats
7. Baby Reindeer
8. Disclaimer
9. Shōgun
10. Love & Death

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
2. Close Your Eyes
3. The Taste of Things
4. How to Have Sex
5. Monster
6. Problemista
7. Dune: Part Two
8. The Boy and the Heron
9. Challengers
10. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. No Other Land
2. Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros
3. Four Daughters
4. You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack
5. Dahomey
6. 20 Days in Mariupol
7. Queendom
8. Pictures of Ghosts
9. Daughters
10. Bye Bye Tiberias

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• La Dolce Vita
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Godfather
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Barry Lyndon
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Malcolm X
• Breaking the Waves
• Amores Perros
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

• God Save Texas
• Savior Complex
• The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult?
• Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal
• Raël: The Alien Prophet
• Breath of Fire
• Hunting a Monster
• Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
• Telemarketers
• American Nightmare

Inspired by the article Weird Nonfiction by Clayton Purdom in the LA Review of Books

• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
• F for Fake
• The Falls
• Sans Soleil
• Level Five
• Demonlover
• Adaptation.
• Caché
• Banned from Broadcast: The Movie - Saiko! The Large Family
• Room 237

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
• The Great Muppet Caper
• The Secret of NIMH
• Avalon
• A Little Princess
• MouseHunt
• The Wild Thornberrys Movie
• Because of Winn-Dixie
• Still Walking
• Kedi

• 12 Angry Men
• The Swimming Pool
• Sorcerer
• Apocalypse Now
• Body Heat
• Do the Right Thing
• Whiplash
• Revenge
• Climax
• Challengers

1. Notorious
2. The Third Man
3. The French Connection
4. Bound
5. Live Flesh
6. Run Lola Run
7. Sexy Beast
8. Eastern Promises
9. Gravity
10. Green Room

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Evil Does Not Exist
2. ages
3. Joyland
4. Past Lives
5. The Beast
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. The Zone of Interest
8. Tótem
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. Rye Lane

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Sambizanga
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't
• The Debut
• Daughters of the Dust
• Antonia's Line
• Sicily!
• I Am Not a Witch
• Identifying Features
• Prayers for the Stolen
• Tótem

• Freaks
• The Hitch-Hiker
• Hardcore
• Christine
• Body Double
• Matador
• Jackie Brown
• Fight Club
• Oldboy
• Timecrimes

• The Fabelmans
• Shiva Baby
• Uncut Gems
• Disobedience
• Ida
• A Serious Man
• Nora's Will
• Waltz with Bashir
• You Don't Mess with the Zohan
• Life Is Beautiful

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Y Tu Mamá También
• The Dreamers
• ages
• Broadcast News
• L'Avventura
• The Graduate
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Cabaret
• Jules and Jim
• Fight Club

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Godzilla
• Solaris
• The Day After Trinity
• Threads
• Saving Private Ryan
• Following
• Red Eye
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Imitation Game
• Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Wizard of Oz
• A Matter of Life and Death
• The Red Shoes
• Singin' in the Rain
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• The Young Girls of Rochefort
• Mean Girls
• La La Land
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
• White Noise

• Meshes of the Afternoon
• La Jetée
• Total Recall
• Run Lola Run
• Sliding Doors
• eXistenZ
• The Matrix
• Mulholland Drive
• Spirited Away
• Donnie Darko

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 34th year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films nationwide in the United States, from May 31 to June 11, 2023. The New York festival will be back with a full program of in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center, with in-depth discussions with filmmakers, film participants, journalists, activists and Human Rights Watch researchers. The festival will continue to offer the opportunity to watch all 10 new films online nationwide across the United States with a full digital edition of the film festival from June 5 to June 11.

This year’s edition highlights a broad diversity of themes and topics, including the Ukraine conflict, climate gentrification and justice, women’s rights, transgender rights, freedom of the press, and access to health care in the United States.

John Biaggi, Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, said, “We are extraordinarily proud to present our program of 10 powerful films and conversations in person at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center. This year’s selection covers expansive global ground, spotlighting urgent and timely human rights issues like the war in Ukraine, women’s rights and bodily autonomy, transgender rights, health and human rights, environmental gentrification, and freedom of the press.” He continues, “The festival is also committed to expanding inclusivity for audience to enjoy the events together and is working to create features that more people can access. The majority of the festival films this year will be audio-described and play with captions, with live transcription for the conversations to follow.”

The full 2023 lineup is as follows:

—Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom, Nada Riyadh, Belgium, , Luxembourg, The Netherlands
—The Etilaat Roz, Abbas Rezaie, Afghanistan
—Into My Name (Nel Mio Nome), Nicolò Bassetti, Italy
—Koromousso, Big Sister, Habibata Ouarme and Jim Donovan, Canada
—Pay or Die, Closing Night Film, Rachael Dyer and Scott Alexander Ruderman, USA
—Razing Liberty Square, Katja Esson, USA
—Seven Winters in Tehran, Opening Night Film, Steffi Niederzoll, ,
—Theatre of Violence, Centerpiece Screening, Lukasz Konopa and Emil Langballe, Denmark,
—We Are Guardians, Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, Brazil, USA
—When Spring Came to Bucha, Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz, , Ukraine

The Opening Night film, Seven Winters in Tehran, is a haunting documentary about Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 19-year-old Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing the man who tried to rape her. The film focuses on the misogyny entrenched in the justice system, where men are in charge and women’s voices are often silenced.

In the Centerpiece film, Theatre of Violence, viewers follow the modern history of Uganda with a charismatic Ugandan lawyer who is defending a former child soldier, Dominic Ongwen, as he faces trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. It becomes clear that this is a trial not just of one man, a victim-turned-perpetrator, but also of a European form of justice imposed on an African country.

The festival takes a close look at Ukraine with When Spring Came to Bucha by the renowned photographer Mila Teshaieva, which powerfully profiles the citizens of Bucha, Ukraine, after the Russian army has left, as they work to rebuild their lives and community while ing one another and finding moments of joy.

The Etilaat Roz, explores the importance of a free press as a courageous Afghan journalist records his team at Kabul’s largest newspaper while the Taliban takes over Afghanistan in 2021. Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom highlights the daily struggles of one of the most prominent cartoonists of the Arab world, Doaa el-Adl, who faces censorship, intimidation and death threats as she takes on the patriarchy through her art.

Three films in this year’s festival delve into issues of health and human rights. The Closing Night Film, Pay or Die, follows three families struggling with the crushing financial reality of living with type 1 diabetes in the U.S. It looks at how pharmaceutical companies, bolstered by the government’s lack of regulation, push the price of insulin to exorbitant levels, with devastating impact on millions of Americans. Koromousso, Big Sister introduces viewers to three ionate activists and survivors of female genital mutilation as they discover a wealth of strength, joy and love—both for their own bodies and for one another—while they work to remove stigma and to challenge cultural taboos surrounding female sexuality, reconstructive surgery and, ultimately, ownership of their bodies. In Nicolò Bassetti’s tender documentary Into My Name, executive produced by Elliot Page, we meet four young transgender men in Italy as they seek to determine their own gender identities while dealing with society’s often rigid boundaries and navigating the labyrinthine medical system.

Two films focus on environmental justice and the effects of climate change. Razing Liberty Square profiles a historically Black neighborhood in Miami that was the first segregated public housing project in the South. As rising sea levels cause widespread damage to wealthy oceanfront neighborhoods in the city, Liberty Square draws the attention of developers, and a “revitalization” project begins that threatens to dismantle this thriving and close-knit community.

We Are Guardians expertly weaves together multiple threads to help paint a picture of the complexity of what is happening to the Amazon from the perspectives of Indigenous forest guardians, illegal loggers, cattle ranchers and a landowner struggling to preserve the rich ecosystem within his land from encroaching settlers.

As always, the festival strives to prioritize making space for a wide variety of identities, viewpoints and forms of expertise and experiences either silenced or marginalized in the film industry, news and media. The festival is also committed to expanding inclusivity for audience to enjoy the events together and is working to create features that more people can access. The majority of the festival films this year will be audio-described and play with captions, with live transcription for the conversations to follow.

Audio description is a narrated description of a film’s main visual elements, such as settings and body language. This audio track is provided on headsets for audience who request them. Captions are descriptions of all audio in the film and/or discussion—whether spoken or unspoken.

A limited number of free tickets are available both in-cinema and online for of the public for whom the cost of a ticket would be a barrier to participation. To access free tickets, audience can simply send an email to [email protected] to receive the ticket codes or instructions. (First come, first served.) See the website for accessibility specifications for each film in the lineup.

To View the Films

Tickets will be available for sale beginning May 2 for of IFC Center, Film at Lincoln Center and Human Rights Watch and May 3 to the general public. Audiences will be able to purchase in-theater tickets online or at the Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center box offices. For ticket prices and more, please visit ff.hrw.org/newyork, www.filmlinc.org, or www.ifccenter.com. Virtual tickets can be purchased online for each film for $9 for the general public and $6 for , or a digital festival that will provide access to all 10 films online can be purchased for $70. Further discount information is available on ff.hrw.org. The full festival will be available to rent on the festival streaming site from 9 a.m. EST June 5 until 11:59 p.m. EST June 11, 2023. Please visit ff.hrw.org for details and accessibility options for each digital presentation.

• Seven Winters in Tehran

  U.S. Premiere
  Wednesday, May 31, 7:00pm
  Film at Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater

  Wednesday, June 7, 8:45pm
  IFC Center

  Discussion to follow May 31 screening with filmmaker, Tara Sepehri Far, Senior Researcher, Middle East and North Africa division, Human Rights Watch, and special guests. Discussion to follow June 7 screening with participants to be confirmed.

• Etilaat Roz

  U.S. Premiere

  Thursday, June 1, 6:30pm
  Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

  Discussion to follow with Fatima Faizi, freelance journalist and special guests. Moderated by John Sifton, Advocacy Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch.

• Razing Liberty Square

  N.Y. Premiere
  Friday, June 2, 6:30pm
  Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

  Tuesday, June 6, 6:30pm
  IFC Center

  Discussion to follow both screenings with filmmaker and Valencia Gunder, activist, organizer and film participant (June 2 only) and Juanita O. Lewis, Executive Director, Community Voices Heard (June 6 only).

• Into My Name

  N.Y. Premiere

  Saturday, June 3, 5:00pm
  Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

  Discussion to follow with filmmaker, film guest, and Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project. Moderated by Felix Endara, filmmaker, programmer and arts .

• Theatre of Violence

  U.S. Premiere
  Sunday, June 4, 2:00pm
  Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

  Discussion to follow with filmmaker and special guests. Moderated by Elise Keppler, Associate Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch.

• We Are Guardians

  U.S. Premiere
  Sunday, June 4, 8:00pm
  Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

  Monday, June 5, 6:30pm
  IFC Center

  Discussion to follow both screenings with filmmaker Edivan Guajajara and special guests.

• When Spring Came to Bucha

  U.S. Premiere
  Tuesday, June 6, 6:30pm
  Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

  Wednesday, June 7, 6:30pm
  IFC Center

  Discussion to follow both screenings with filmmaker Mila Teshaieva and Masha Gessen, Russian-American journalist, author, translator, activist (June 6 only) and Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch (June 7 only)

• Pay or Die

  N.Y. Premiere
  Thursday, June 8, 7:00pm
  IFC Center

  Discussion to follow with filmmakers, Matt McConnell, Researcher, Economic Justice and Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, and special guests.

New York, NY — Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, the leading comprehensive U.S. festival dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the best in Romanian contemporary cinema, returns for its 17th edition with in-person screenings across a network of New York City cinemas. The festival will run from March 30 to April 2, 2023 at Metrograph, Roxy Cinema New York and DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema who will co-present a surprising selection of recent Romanian productions, with many U.S. premieres.

Making Waves President Corina Șuteu, states, “For its 17th edition the festival is reborn. With new partners like Metrograph, Roxy Cinema New York and DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, we are building a new constellation of homes in New York for Romanian cinema, while returning the festival to its roots in downtown New York, where it started in 2006 at Tribeca Cinemas.”

Continuing the tradition of bringing Romanian classics to U.S. audiences, Making Waves has partnered with Film Forum on the U.S. theatrical release of newly restored Romanian classic, Lucian Pintilie’s iconic The Oak (1992), now in a new 4K digital restoration. The Oak will screen at Film Forum from April 28 to May 4.

“First-time filmmakers dominate this year’s offering of Making Waves, proving once again that the New Romanian Cinema is alive and thriving, complementing an already impressive gallery of celebrated auteurs with an exciting line-up of fresh and promising voices,” writes Mihai Chirilov, Artistic Director of Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema.

Highlights of this year’s edition include Cristian Mungiu’s latest entry in his signature brand of moral thrillers, R.M.N., as well as Paul Negoescu’s fourth feature, the Coenesque Men of Deeds, which follows his surprise hit Two Lottery Tickets.

The program also features debuts from gifted directors awaiting discovery. These include Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark with Immaculate, a harrowing of a young woman’s drug addiction, and director Mihai Mincan with his visually impressive migrant story To the North. New talent in this year’s edition also includes director and anthropologist Cătălina Tesăr with her absorbing portrait of the marriage rituals in a secluded Roma community The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters, co-directed with reputed editor and sound designer Dana Bunescu.

The line up also includes emerging filmmakers Sebastian Mihăilescu with You Are Ceaușescu to Me, his playful take on Romania’s infamous dictator, and Victor Canache with The Goat and Her Three Kids, his rendition of a famous Romanian folktale. Most of these titles stem either from true stories or from the directors’ own experience.

Guests of this year’s festival include screenwriter and director Monica Stan, (Immaculate), director Paul Negoescu and director of photography Ana Drăghici, (Men of Deeds), editor and sound designer Dana Bunescu (The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters), while The Oak‘s release will be celebrated with renowned actress Maia Morgenstern on April 28-29.

The 17th Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema festival is presented by Insula 42, formerly Film ETC, in partnership with Metrograph, Roxy Cinema New York, DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema and Film Forum. Corina Șuteu is the Making Waves President, with Mihai Chirilov as Artistic Director and Oana Radu as Festival Manager.

Lead for the 17th edition of Making Waves is provided by The Trust for Mutual Understanding, with additional funding from Dacin Sara, the Romanian Filmmakers Union, Blue Heron Foundation, Mastercard, the Romanian National Film Center, and individual donors.

• The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters

  Thursday, March 30, 6:30 pm, Firehouse Cinema
  Q&A with co-director, editor and sound designer Dana Bunescu

  
  Sunday, April 2, 3:00 pm, Firehouse Cinema

• R.M.N.

  Thursday, March 30, 9:15 pm, Roxy Cinema

• You Are Ceaușescu to Me

  Friday, March 31, 7:00 pm, Firehouse Cinema

  Saturday, April 1, 3:00 pm, Firehouse Cinema

• The Goat and Her Three Kids

  Friday, March 31, 7:15 pm, Metrograph

  Sunday, April 2, 5:30 pm, Metrograph

• To the North

  Saturday, April 1, 7:30 pm, Roxy Cinema

• Immaculate

  Saturday, April 1, 8:15 pm, Metrograph
  Q&A with director Monica Stan

  Sunday, April 2, 1:00 pm, Metrograph

• Men of Deeds

  Sunday, April 2, 7:15 pm, Roxy Cinema
  Q&A with director Paul Negoescu and DP Ana Drăghici

• The Oak

  Screening at Film Forum from April 28 to May 4.

• Diary of a Fleeting Affair
• The Worst Ones
• Winter Boy
• The Plough
• Smoking Causes Coughing
• Forever Young
• The Origin of Evil
• The Night of the 12th
• The Innocent
• The Five Devils

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Blues Brothers

   The Blues Brothers

2. This Is Spinal Tap

   Spinal Tap

3. Almost Famous

   Stillwater

4. Inside Llewyn Davis

   Jim and Jean

5. Rock Star

   Steel Dragon

6. High Fidelity

   Barry Jive and the Uptown Five

7. The Rocker

   A.D.D.

8. Heathers

   Big Fun

9. Coming to America

   Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate

10. Deathgasm

    DEATHGASM