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In his unorthodox queer romance, Harry Lighton crafts a film about a sadomasochistic relationship that is both transgressive and disarming, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in fearless performances as a mild young man and his leather-clad dom lover.

After a riot erupts following the brutal arrest and beating of a young Arab man, three friends from different marginalized populations wander the streets and come to grips with their grim reality in this gritty, unsettling and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility.

A winner of this year’s Cannes Competition Jury Prize, SIRÂT is at once a visceral and metaphysical excursion, in which a man desperately searches for his missing daughter amid a roving raver community in the harsh southern deserts of Morocco. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards®

Cyber-bodied agent Batou and his still human partner Togusa embark on a journey through a technological dystopia to uncover the shocking truth behind a string of murders perpetrated by a prototype android model in this follow-up to the beloved anime classic.

A middle-aged banker, dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life — but finds that starting over in America is not as easy as it sounds in this cautionary sci-fi tale from director John Frankenheimer.

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

Bandmates and best friends Josie, Valerie and Melody find themselves in the midst of massive, multibranded success — as well as a fiendish plot to remake the minds of the world’s youth into zombielike consumers. A candy-colored skeptical musical adventure for everyone!

Live at the Belcourt: How Music Helped Us Rebuild traces the return of live music to our historic stage during our early, uncertain years as a nonprofit arts center. As we worked to rebuild audiences and stabilize the organization, local organizers, promoters and artists stepped forward, bringing concerts back to the theatre and restoring energy and community engagement. In the process, the 1925 Hall’s stage became an early home for a rising movement of artists who reshaped the city’s musical identity for a new century.