The institute has allocated funds to projects about Black motherhood, conversion therapy, and more.
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One of the Oldest Queer Film Festivals Returns for Pride
The Frameline Film Festival is bringing back its in-person events.
Werner Herzog’s Vampires, Mirages, and War Recreations
Check out these highlights of Metrograph’s new series “Whole Lotta Herzog,” collecting 16 of the eccentric director’s films.
Excavating Rare and Suppressed Footage of the Soviet Era
MUBI gets Back in the USSR with a streaming series featuring archival documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa.
When the Black Panthers and Young Lords Teamed Up to Fight Addiction with Acupuncture
The documentary Dope Is Death chronicles the history of a first-of-its-kind detox center in the Bronx.
Wong Kar-wai’s Classic Films, Newly Restored
After a yearlong delay, Film at Lincoln Center is finally able to present its retrospective World of Wong Kar Wai in theaters.
An Online Film Festival Commemorates the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Liberation75 is streaming movies about World War II and the Holocaust, including The Great Dictator and Schindler’s List, for free.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Gets the Netflix Treatment
The miniseries This Is a Robbery is at its best when working through the stranger details of the infamous, still-unsolved crime.
The Unexpected Cinematic Journeys of Ulrike Ottinger
Ottinger explores milieus often ignored in mainstream cinema.
Absurdist Scandinavian Musings on Loneliness
Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness presents a series of elaborate vignettes about isolated characters.
The Museum of the Moving Image Reopens With New Programming
If you’re comfortable sitting in a theater again, See It Big: The Return! presents movies that deserve to be watched on a big screen.
Jia Zhangke Looks at the Drastically Different Past and Present of Shanxi Province
Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of the poster and trailer for Jia’s upcoming documentary Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue.