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Directed by and nominated for five Oscars, LADY BIRD is a warm, affecting comedy about a high schooler (Saoirse Ronan) who must navigate a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother () over the course of her eventful and poignant senior year of high school. Golden Globe winner for Best Motion Picture - Lady Bird Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Film Independent Spirit Award winner for Best Screenplay.

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Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary parish pastor at a small church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. When a pregnant parishioner () asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past. From writer-director (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) comes a gripping drama about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, First Reformed political, and planetary. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Nominated for four Film Independent Spirit Awards including Best Feature and Best Male Lead. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the .

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A young couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed new filmmaker Maren Ade. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear blissfully in love while enjoying the sun and sand of Sardinia. But the more time they spend together, the more their silly games and playful teasing begin to unmask Everyone Else hidden fears and desires. When they accidentally run into another, seemingly happier and more successful couple, the tensions between them erupt. Winner of three prizes, including Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as 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 (House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close knit family A Quiet Passion 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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Join Monsieur Oscar () on his rollicking, soulful journey by limousine through the streets of as he transforms into multiple characters for a series of mysterious “appointment.” Director Leos Carax melds monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, and anime in his mirthful, mind-bending masterwork, featuring Holy Motors new original music performed by Kylie Minogue. One of the most acclaimed and beloved films of the year, HOLY MOTORS is a ravishing fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. Winner at the

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Thirteen-year-old Kayla () endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school--the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year--before she begins high school. Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy at the Golden Globes. Winner of the Best Eighth Grade First Screenplay Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Winner of a WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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Tim Heidecker stars as an aging hipster testing the limits of acceptable behavior with his like-minded friends in this provocative character study. Nominated for prizes at the and the SXSW Film Festival. The Comedy

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In this darkly comedic odyssey, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, Pacific Rim) stars as Kumiko, a frustrated office worker whose imagination transcends the confines of her mundane life. Kumiko becomes obsessed with a mysterious, battered VHS tape Kumiko of Fargo - fixating on a scene where a suitcase of stolen cash is buried in the desolate, frozen landscape of North Dakota. Believing this treasure to be real, she leaves behind The Treasure Hunter Tokyo and her beloved rabbit Bunzo to recover it - and finds herself on a dangerous adventure unlike anything she’s seen in the movies. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Audience Award at SXSW Film Festival. https://www.kanopy.com/product/kumiko-treasure-hunter-0

Set on a stretch of highway in a budget motel managed by Bobby (), just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, THE FLORIDA PROJECT follows six-year-old Moonee and her rebellious mother over the course of a single summer. Willem Dafoe was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for his performance. Nominated The Florida Project for Best Director and Best Feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Becky () 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 Her Smell at the Toronto International Film Festival. Official Selection at the SXSW Film Festival.

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In this Golden Globe-nominated psychological thriller, Oscar-winner plays Eva, the mother to her deeply disturbed son Kevin (Ezra Miller). Eva contends with her clueless husband (John C. Reilly) and her son’s malevolent ways as the narrative builds We Need to Talk to a chilling and unforgettable climax.Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film About Kevin Festival. Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (Tilda Swinton) at the Golden Globes. Nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Best Leading Actress (Tilda Swinton), and Best Director at the BAFTA Awards.

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Monte () and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. The crew--death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives--has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on High Life each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival.

https://www.kanopy.com/product/high-life When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie () begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more she discovers, the more he family finds themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Nominated for Best Female Lead and Best First Feature Hereditary at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival.

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From visionary director Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo) comes a bold new vision of the seasonal American ritual known as “spring break”--the bacchanalia of bikinis, beach parties and beer bongs that draws hordes of college students to the Florida coast and elsewhere each year. Brit, Faith, Candy and Cotty are best friends anxious to cut loose on Spring Breakers their own spring break adventure, but they lack sufficient funds. After holding up a restaurant for quick cash, the girls head to the shore in a stolen car for what they discover is the party of a lifetime. Nominated for Best Cinematography at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. https://www.kanopy.com/product/spring-breakers

The critically acclaimed, The Missing Picture, a 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film, is filmmaker Rithy Panh’s personal quest to re-imagine his childhood memories. From the time when the Khmer Rouge ruled over between 1975 and 1979, the only recorded artifacts that remain are propaganda footage. Panh uses The Missing Picture beautifully detailed sculpted clay figurines and elaborate dioramas to recreate the missing images from his memory. The Missing Picture is a unique documentary that manages to capture a historical moment that would never be told if not for the sheer creative mind of Panh and his innovative storytelling method. https://www.kanopy.com/product/missing-picture

A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn’t show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment, heads to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment.The next day goes very much The Day He Arrives like the last; Seongjun meets the actress, has drinks with friends, and falls for a woman who looks remarkably like his ex-girlfriend. Each new day plays out like a flimsy copy of the previous one, but only Seongjun knows why. Un Certain Regard Award nominee at the Cannes Film Festival. https://www.kanopy.com/product/day-he-arrives

An adolescent girl from a troubled home (, Hearts Beat Loud) runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door. Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year. Winner of two Special Jury Prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for six Film Independent American Honey Spirit Awards including Best Feature.

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In this dazzlingly beautiful romantic drama, a Nigerian woman living in must make a choice which could have dire consequences when she has failed to conceive a child a year after her glorious wedding. Winner of a Cinematography Award and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Winner of an AAFCA Award for Best Mother of George World Cinema from the African-American Film Critics Association.

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In July 1974, 29-year-old television host Christine Chubbuck went on air in Sarasota, Florida for her morning talk show “Suncoast Digest,” looked into the camera and shot herself on live TV. The incident became a national news story and is rumored to have been the inspiration for Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning film Network. Winner of a Special Kate Plays Christine Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Greene’s KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE follows a young actress named Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards) who is hired to portray Chubbuck in a new film.

https://www.kanopy.com/product/kate-plays-christine Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and 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 Inde- A Ghost Story pendent Spirit Awards and the Best of Next! Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

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After witnessing a shocking crime, a young rock band is unexpectedly thrust into a life-or-death battle to escape the clutches of a diabolical club owner and his ruthless henchmen in this white-knuckle thriller. Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival and the Green Room Toronto International Film Festival.

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This documentary follows the travails of a former soccer star and current local bureaucrat in a small Romanian town who dreams of revolutionizing the rules of the world’s most popular sport. Directed by the Corneliu Porumboiu (When Evening Falls on Bucharest, 12:08 East of Bucharest), this INFINITE FOOTBALL introduces us to an unforgettable individual, a self-proclaimed Superman, whose quixotic quest mirrors the pursuit of our Infinite Football own hopes and dreams.

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A deliciously intricate comedy of manners that exposes the fissures in male-female relationships and in cinema itself. Quite by mistake, art-film director Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist, Yoon Heejung. She’s never seen any of Right Now, Wrong Then his films, but knows he’s famous. Their romantically-charged chance meeting continues all the way to a brilliant and achingly funny end point, at which time... we begin again. But now some things appear different... Winner of the Golden Leopard and Best Actor (Jung Jae-young) at the Locarno International Film Festival. https://www.kanopy.com/product/right-now-wrong-then

A darkly comic fable from Yorgos Lanthimos (Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite), this acclaimed film centers on recently-divorced David () as he searches for a new love within 45 days--at which point, if he’s still single, he will be turned into a lobster. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Nominated for a Golden Globe for The Lobster Best Actor. Winner of three prizes at the Cannes Film Festival.

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In this exquisitely made and terrifying horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling. Winner of Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Winner of a Directing Award at The Witch the Sundance Film Festival.

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Based on the novel by Michel Faber, UNDER THE SKIN examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine () who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results. Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best British Film, Best International Film at the Film Independent Under the Skin Spirit Awards, and for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

https://www.kanopy.com/product/under-skin Adam, a 60-something former swimming champion, is a pool attendant at a hotel in . When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son, Abdel, leaving Adam humiliated and resentful. Meanwhile the country is in the throes of civil war. Rebel forces attack the government while the authorities demand the population A Screaming Man to contribute to the “war effort,” with money or volunteers old enough to fight. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son. In a moment of weakness, Adam makes a decision that he will forever regret.

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While her mom sees Madeline as a fragile, emotional teen, the director of her theater workshop sees her as a raw talent with a troubled history that can be exploited for her art. Before long, Madeline’s loyalties are torn between mother and mentor. Nominated for the Best of Next! Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection at the Madeline’s Madeline Berlin International Festival, nominated for Best Female Lead and Best Cinematography at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

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In 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, a wagon train of three families hire 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 Meek’s Cutoff 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