BLACK ZOMBIE Director Maya Annik Bedward delves dramatically into how Westerners misunderstood, misused & fused with racism into horror Haiti’s anti-slavery anti-colonial spiritual & revolutionary resources @QuadCinema with Q&As @NuartTheatre via @kinolorber.com kinolorber.com/film/black-z...

Bolivia’s Oscar entry CONDOR DAUGHTER wr/dir Alvaro Olmos Torrico touching portrait of generation change for crucial indigenous midwives as young women pressured to cities @cinema_village 9/18 @laemmle +cities thru Nat’l Hispanic Heritage Mth @OutsiderPics www.outsiderpictures.us/movie/thecon...

MIGHTY MARY Director/Olympian Mary Mazzio soars to 1990’s when 1st female, upstart sailing team competed in grueling prestigious America’s Cup races, with feisty interviews, archival footage & lessons learned for men & women 9/11 @amctheatres.bsky.social Republic Pictures www.mightymaryfilm.com

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Mighty Mary, narrated by Elizabeth Banks and Hugh Jackman, directed and produced by Mary Mazzio, chronicles the first all-women's America's Cup team in history.

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@Tribeca Fest award winner ON A STRING’s Director/Writer/Star Isabel Hagen personifies the plight of NYC’s professional musicians racing from amusing to frustrating gigs like a Manhattan road movie. 9/11 @quadcinema w/Q&As More cities @jokezerocomedy jokezero.com/on-a-string

9/11 @ifccenter.bsky.social SERPENT’S PATH (2024) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (mostly) French language re-make of his own 1998 film – with violent noir elements that are scarily relevant if conspiracy-laden disinformation were true. But is FICTION @KimStimFilms More cities www.kimstim.com/film/serpent...

9/11: RECLAIMING GROUND ZERO – Free on Amazon Prime from 9/11 – Director J.B. Sabey usefully documents the citizen participation process in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. My Review: mavensnest.net/WTC.html#rec... @FreestyleDigitalMedia mattersmedia.org/project/9-11...

BARBARA FOREVER Debut doc dir Brydie O'Connor immerses audience in images & words of pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer as archive moves @filmforumnyc.bsky.social 9/11 LA 9/18 SF, Chicago more @strandreleasing filmforum.org/film/barbara... strandreleasing.com/films/barbar...

Film Forum · BARBARA FOREVER

BARBARA FOREVER Opens Friday, September 4

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MAYA & SAMAR Canadian Writer Tamara Faith Berger & Director Anita Doron explore fluid female ethics-free zone where always video-ing online writer intersects with illegal migrant under pressure Rated NC-17 for lust fulfilled Now Digital/VOD @QuiverDistrib www.quiverdistribution.com/slate/maya-s...

Maya & Samar | Quiver

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Writer Justine Waddell & Director Tina Gharavi take clues & a few sentences in VIRGINIA WOOLF'S satirical pre-WWI Britain rom-com NIGHT & DAY to make a rousing feminist STEM anthem @QuiverDistrib @kanopy.com Now in 43 US theaters @QuadCinema @laemmle www.quiverdistribution.com/slate/virgin...

Virginia Woolf's Night & Day | Quiver

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SARA BAREILLES: GOOD GRIEF – now rolling out in theaters – Her 1st studio recording in 7 yrs is one of the most impactful album experiences re: grief since Springsteen’s “The Rising”. Dir Josh Alexander, DP: Jenna Rosher My review: mavensnest.net/TFF2026Women... sarabmusic.com/pages/goodgr...

1. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for.

Burkina Faso director Idrissa Ouédraogo’s SAMBA TRAORÉ (1992) 4K restoration Exemplar of African authenticity, empathy for city dreamers return w/guilt to village family & friends @filmlinc.bsky.social 9/8 L.A. +cities @fm_classics filmmovement.com/samba-traore www.filmlinc.org/films/samba-...

Theatrical: Samba Traore :: Film Movement

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SUN NEVER SETS: Wr/Dir Joe Swanberg teams 4th time w/Jake Johnson as older boyfriend w/kids in not unpredictable male POV romantic triangle w/Dakota Fanning & her Ex in Alaska NYC previews w/Q&A 8/31 & 9/1 Opens 9/4 @ifccenter.bsky.social U.S. @IndieFilmCom www.independentfilmco.com/films/the-su...

The Sun Never Sets | Championing Independent Movies | Independent Film Company

Wendy’s life is thrown into chaos when her older boyfriend insists they take space to evaluate the relationship.

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THE DEB: Debut Director/co-star Rebel Wilson: “It’s always been my dream to create a movie like” PRISCILLA & MURIEL’s WEDDING. She did it! With Aussie story/writers/lyrics/music by Meg Washington & Hannah Reilly, sung & danced by new stars. Now Digital & VOD in U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_G...

The Deb - Official UK Trailer (2026) | On Digital 24th August

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SALT PATH Debut director Marianne Elliott, adapter Rebecca Lenkiewicz, DP Hélène Louvart take us on UK’s longest Nat’l Trail 634 miles up/down hills, moors, sea, emotions in Cornwall SW Coast Path to renew Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs @AngelikaFilmNY +via Rialto www.thesaltpathmovie.com/tickets/

The Salt Path | Official Website | August 28 2026

Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for The Salt Path on the official site. In theaters August 28 2026 brought to you by Rialto Distribution. Directed by: Marianne Elliott. Starring: Gil...

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CYCLE OF LOVE Director Orlando Von Einsiedel follows extraordinary memories & improvises touching reenactments of 1970s Hippie Trail where Indian "Untouchable" fatefully meets Swede through the kindness of strangers. Now @AngelikaFilmNY More weeks & theaters thecycleoflovefilm.com/buy-tickets/

FRANZ Agnieszka Holland brilliantly interprets life, context, inspirations, writings, impact of Kafka as Kafkaesque w/flashbacks, flashforwards, resonant images My review: mavensnest.net/Franz.html @CohenMediaGroup Now @quadcinema @filmlinc.bsky.social more theaters cohenmedia.net/product/franz

10 KILOS @10kilosofficial Action Director Doron Eran brings Sharon Yitzhaki’s unusual memoir to vivid life thru portrayal by Daniella Kertesz & other Israelis with Guatemalan cast: “Framed. Imprisoned. Unbroken. All true.” @breakingglasspics.bsky.social Now NYC 8/28 LA 10kilosthemovie.com

10 Kilos of Cocaine Movie | Official Film & True Story

10 Kilos of Cocaine is a drama inspired by the true story of Sharon Yitzhaky. Discover the film, cast, trailer, filmmaker, and US premiere on August 21, 2026.

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THE BRINK OF WAR debut writer/director Michael Russell Gunn dramatizes worthy nostalgia for 1986 when direct talks bt adversarial world leaders could lead to legacy of arms reduction My review: mavensnest.net/Brink.html 8/14 in theaters via @angelstudio.bsky.social www.angel.com/movies/brink...

See Willem Dafoe dominate (& sing & dance) international cast in THE BIRTHDAY PARTY by Spanish director Miguel Angel Jiménez adapting (hard-to-get) Panos Karnezis novel, as Onassis/Zorba oligarch vs his family on Corfu Theaters & VOD via Quiver Distribution www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duj...

The Birthday Party | Official Trailer

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UNION COUNTY debut wr/dir Adam Meeks brings Will Poulter & Noah Centineo to his Ohio roots representing struggling participants in Adult Recovery Court that too few communities offer addicts 8/14 @ifccenter.bsky.social Landmark Nuart Theatre + cities Via Oscilloscope unioncounty.oscilloscope.net

UNION COUNTY

A film by Adam Meeks

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Gogol’s 1842 social satire is acutely reborn as noir American Western in DEAD SOULS as "last film" of dir/star Alex Cox (Repo Man) /co-writer Gianni Garko (spaghetti w'erns) 8/14 NY Roxy Cinema 8/15 Q &A www.roxycinemanewyork.com/events/qa-wi... via @kinolorber.com kinolorber.com/film/dead-so...

Q&A with Alex Cox

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8/14 Robb Moss's THE BEND IN THE RIVER w/2 other docs in his trilogy of his fellow aging Baby Boomer friends - from youth - RIVER DOGS (1982) @metrographnyc.bsky.social h to middle-age THE SAME RIVER TWICE (2003) @filmforumnyc.bsky.social with Q&As My review: mavensnest.net/BendInRiver....

LAST PICTURE SHOWS: Rustin Thompson’s investigative W’ern U.S. small town-road trip of “10 states, 10,825 miles, 123 theaters” finds there are still cinephiles running ones (despite distributor rules) like the one I grew up in. @AngelikaFilm_NY Then more: rustinthompson.com/last-picture...

The Last Picture Shows | Rustin Thompson

A feature documentary.

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LATE FAME Writer Samy Burch aptly adapts Schnitzler’s 1894 Vienna to Greenwich Village as Willem Dafoe’s poet faces same age, class & sensual issues w/Greta Lee swinging “Surabaya Johnny” Now @filmforumnyc.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social + @magnoliapics.bsky.social www.magpictures.com/latefame/

Late Fame | Official Movie Site

Watch the official trailer and explore the cast of Kent Jones' acclaimed drama starring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee.

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THE BIG CHEESE Director Sara Joe Wolansky entertainingly follows cheese promoter/importer Adam “Mr Moo” Moskowitz as he guides diverse American cheesemongers to Le Mondial du Fromage competition to get world recognition for Team USA Now NYC 8/14 LA ObscuredPics obscuredreleasing.com/films/the-bi...

SHADOW OF THE SUN: w/all Venezuelan crew & cast (including deaf actors) in rural area, director Miguel Angel Ferrer celebrates cultural & social resilience of his native country, despite poverty & prejudices On VOD via Outsider Pictures www.outsiderpictures.us/movie_cat/dr...

COOKIE QUEENS Dir Alysa Nahmias Eds: Kim Roberts, Jeanne Applegate, Fatima de los Santos- 1st observational lk at 6 wk Girl Scout Cookie season where capitalism/entrepreneurs cross w/4 diverse American girls & families: Cuteness Sells In theaters via Roadside Attractions youtu.be/nnSQS43Eil8?...

EVERYBODY CALLS ME MIKE: French debut writer/director Guillaume Bonnier tensely clashes Western vs African family, travel, values & goals in a small sailboat on the high seas: “Why didn’t you tell me you’re Somali?” Now streaming @indiepix.bsky.social Trailer at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqXp...

EveryoneCallsMeMike trailer

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TIME AND WATER Director Sara Dosa w/Lucy Munger animate folk tales & history beautifully adapt Andri Snær Magnason’s writing, personal & work archives into creative “polytemporal” edit of family’s & Iceland’s love of glaciers as they die @natgeodocs.bsky.social Streaming @DisneyPlus @hulu