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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®

When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards®

From visionary director Harmony Korine comes a bold 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.

Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, holding court at Sardi’s on the historic night of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) greatest triumph: the premiere of Oklahoma!

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!

An unconventional work in every way, now in its 40th anniversary year KOYAANISQATSI wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere, in an astonishing collage created by director Godfrey Reggio, cinematographer Ron Fricke and composer Philip Glass.

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.

During a mission to Mars, American astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. But he’s still alive. Against all odds, Watney must find a way to contact Earth in the hope that scientists can devise a rescue plan to bring him home.