Opens Friday:

Pleasure
A critical look at the adult entertainment industry through the lens of first-time performer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel), who anchors an ensemble of adult industry actors.

"I wanted to look at **** from a perspective that doesn't see women as victims. How do they profit and how might they feel empowered?" - Ninja Tjhyberg, the film's screenwriter and director, to the NY Times. You can read this great review here.

"The film fiercely homes in at the moral perversity of an industry at a particular intersection of capitalism, patriarchy, and digital-age spectacle."

- Slant Magazine

“A portrait of a business in which men use women for their own ends, and then convince those same women that this is how things operate—and, as a result, that they should behave likewise.” – The Daily Beast

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Hit the Road

Director Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this comic drama. A family of four drives across the Iranian countryside, bonds over memories of the past and grapples with fears of the unknown.

"After the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, new guidelines were established by the state apparatus to ensure that films produced in Iran were made according to the logic of an Islamic “system of modesty” (hejab in its broadest sense). Paradoxically, these censorship guidelines forced Iranian filmmakers to develop a new filmic grammar, which in a constant negotiation with state censors, contributed to a new visual and aural film form that is distinctive to Iranian cinema." - Oxford Bibliographies

In Persian with English subtitles.

92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

"The acting is note perfect across the board: six-year-old Rayan Sarlak is an effervescent explosion of rascally energy, while Madjooni is funny, laconic and pissed-off -- often all at once." - Time Out

“To be a passenger alongside these nervous voyagers, as they clash, tease and cherish each other on the way to this strange and terrible fork in their lives, is to be a very fortunate moviegoer indeed.” – Los Angeles Times

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Petite Maman

Directed by Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, My Life as a Zucchini)

In French with English subtitles.
97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

"It’s perfect." - NY Times
"Spellbinding. A moving jewel of a film." - The Guardian

"Enchanting. Joyous. Like nothing you've ever seen before." - Empire

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