Public Screening RightsBest of the Decade Films

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Carol

Jim Jarmusch’s latest film focuses on a working-class poet (Adam Driver) in a small New Jersey town who practices his craft amidst the quiet magic of everyday life. Nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Set in 1950s New York, two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in the throes of love in CAROL. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. Nominated for six Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and nine BAFTA Awards. Winner of Best Actress and the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Winner of Best Cinematography at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

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Her Smell

Becky (Elisabeth Moss) is a ‘90s punk rock star who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio “Something She”. Now she plays smaller venues while grappling with motherhood, exhausted band mates, nervous record company executives, and a new generation of rising talent eager to usurp her stardom. Nominated for the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. Official Selection at the SXSW Film Festival.

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A Ghost Story

Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a young couple who -- after being separated by loss -- discover an eternal connection and a love that is infinite. A GHOST STORY was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Melancholia

Winner of the European Film Award for Best Film and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress (Kirsten Dunst), MELANCHOLIA is a beautiful film about the end of the world. Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. And as Claire tries to maintain the party’s celebratory spirit, Justine struggles against her own dark demons. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth. Film Independent Spirit Awards 2012 nominee, Best International Film. Cannes Film Festival 2011 Winner, Best Actress Kirsten Dunst, and nominee for Palme d’Or, Lars von Trier.https://www.kanopy.com/product/melancholia

A Quiet Passion

Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and transcended in her poetry. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Toni Erdman

This is Not Film

Winfried, the suddenly student-less music teacher decides to surprise her with a visit after the death of his old dog. It’s an awkward move because serious career woman Ines is working on an important project as a corporate strategist in Bucharest. Enter flashy ‘Toni Erdmann’, Winfried’s smooth-talking alter ego. Disguised in a tacky suit, wig and even weirder fake teeth, Toni barges into Ines’ professional life.In all the madness, Ines begins to understand that her eccentric father might deserve some place in her life after all. Nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award for Best Foreign Language Film. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Winner of Best European Film at the European Film Awards.https://www.kanopy.com/product/toni-erdmann

An effort by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb Jafar Panahi, the Iranian writer/director of internationally acclaimed films such as CRIMSON GOLD, THE CIRCLE and OFFSIDE, is under house arrest, and has been banned from filmmaking for 20 years. THIS IS NOT A FILM is a courageous effort by Panahi and his co-director Motjaba Mirtahmasb to fight against censorship and for human rights, not only for his colleagues in the Iranian film industry, but filmmakers everywhere. Filmed almost entirely inside his apartment in Tehran, as he creatively expresses his frustration of not being allowed to do what comes so naturally to this passionate writer and filmmaker: make films.https://www.kanopy.com/product/not-film

Certified Copy

In this playful and provocative romantic drama, Juliette Binoche plays a gallery owner living in a Tuscan village. After attending a lecture on authenticity and fakery in art, she invites the author on a tour of the picturesque Tuscan countryside. When he is mistaken for her husband, they keep up the pretense, increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. Are they play-acting on a whim or is there more to their relationship than meets the eye? Winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, including Best Actress (Juliette Binoche).

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Stories We Tell

STORIES WE TELL explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

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Frances Ha

Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver star in this fast, funny and flirty tale of a group of twenty-some-thing New Yorkers trying to find bliss in the Big Apple. This modern fable from acclaimed director Noah Baumbach explores youth, friendship, class, ambition, failure and redemption. Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress. Nominated for Best Feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

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Mustang

In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters innocently celebrate the end of the school year at the beach with some boys. The supposed debauchery of their actions causes their home to progressively transform into a prison; classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages are arranged. The five sisters, driven by the same desire for freedom, fight back against the limits imposed upon them. Academy Awards 2016 nominee, Best Foreign Language Film. Cannes Film Festival 2015 winner, Deniz Gamze Erguven.

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Leviathan

Kolia lives in a coastal village near the Barents Sea in Northern Russia, running an auto-repair shop from the garage of his childhood home, shared with young wife Lilya and his teenage son from a previous marriage. The family’s world is under threat: Vadim Sergeyich, the town Mayor, has slapped a compulsory acquisition order on Kolia’s prime land, earmarking the site for a development. To Sergeyich’s great surprise, Kolia enlists the help of ex-army friend Dmitri, now a hotshot lawyer from Moscow. Soon tempers and passions are inflamed, events spiral out of control, and lives are placed at stake. Nominated for an Oscar and winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.https://www.kanopy.com/product/leviathan

The Act of Killing

In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) and Errol Morris (The Fog of War), the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to re-enact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love.

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Phoenix

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust. Winner of Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role at the German Film Awards.

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Only Lovers Left Alive

Jim Jarmusch’s ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE tells the tale of two fragile and sensitive vampires, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), who have been lovers for centuries. Both are cultured intellectuals with an all-embracing passion for music, literature and science, who have evolved to a level where they no longer kill for sustenance, but still retain their innate wildness. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Female Lead at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Festival Favorites nominee at the SXSW Film Festival.

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Camera Person

A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Sundance selection CAMERAPERSON, a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson.Winner of Best Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Nominated for Best Documentary at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for the Gamechanger Award at the SXSW Film Festival.

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Zama

Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When ZAMA notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. Official Selection at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form.Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave -- the birthplace of his first life...

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The Babadook

Where there is imagination, there is darkness and from within that darkness lurks a being of unfathomable terror ...close to home. Amelia (AFI Award-winner Essie Davis) is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called ‘The Babadook’ turns up at her house she is forced to battle with her son’s deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her... A chilling tale of the unseen and otherworldly, Jennifer Kent’s visceral journey into the heart of fear itself is as terrifying as it is believable. Winner of Best Film and Best Director at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards and Australian Film Critics Association Awards.https://www.kanopy.com/product/babadook

The Look of Silence

Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother’s murder -- something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power.

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Miss Bala

Miss Bala tells the story of Laura, a young woman whose aspirations of becoming a beauty queen turn against her, delivering her into the hands of a gang that’s terrorizing northern Mexico. Although Laura succeeds in winning the beauty queen crown, her experiences as an unwilling participant in Mexico’s violent war leave her shaken and transformed.

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Tabu

A love story told in two unique parts, TABU is, quite simply, a film unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Deftly moving between contemporary Portugal, colonial Africa and the landscape of dreams, director Miguel Gomes conjures an enthralling story of obsession, memory and dangerous forbidden romance. Part one, “Paradise Lost”, follows the seemingly ordinary daily life of a devout Lisbon woman, Pilar, and her attempts to support and console her extravagant and bitter neighbour Aurora, who spends her day gambling at the local casino and whose grip on reality is becoming less firm.

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Meek’s Cutoff

In 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, a wagon train of three families hires mountain man Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert. Over the coming days, lost in the heat, the settlers face hunger, thirst and a lack of faith in each person’s instincts for survival. Four-time Oscar nominee, Michelle Williams leads a strong cast in this dramatic western. Winner of the Producer’s Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for Best Feature at the Gotham Awards. Winner of the SIGNIS Award and nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.https://www.kanopy.com/product/meeks-cutoff-0