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- DirectorAaron SorkinStarsEddie RedmayneAlex SharpSacha Baron CohenThe story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsTommy Lee JonesCate BlanchettEvan Rachel WoodIn 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.
- DirectorEdoardo PontiStarsSophia LorenIbrahima GueyeRenato CarpentieriIn seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
- DirectorKatsuhiro ÔtomoStarsMitsuo IwataNozomu SasakiMami KoyamaA secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
- DirectorAaron SorkinStarsJessica ChastainIdris ElbaKevin CostnerThe true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsEwan McGregorAlbert FinneyBilly CrudupA frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsRobert ArkinsMichael AherneAngeline BallJimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
- DirectorJason ReitmanStarsGeorge ClooneyVera FarmigaAnna KendrickRyan's job is to travel around the country firing off people. When his boss hires Natalie, who proposes firing people via video conference, he tries to convince her that her method is a mistake.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPierfrancesco FavinoMaria Fernanda CândidoFabrizio FerracaneThe real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
- DirectorGeorge C. WolfeStarsViola DavisChadwick BosemanGlynn TurmanTensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsTracy Camilla JohnsTommy Redmond HicksJohn Canada TerrellStory of a woman and her three lovers.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsLiam NeesonAidan QuinnJulia RobertsNeil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
- DirectorNatalie PortmanStarsNatalie PortmanGilad KahanaAmir TesslerThe story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroAl PacinoJoe PesciAn illustration of Frank Sheeran's life, from W.W.II veteran to hit-man for the Bufalino crime family and his alleged assassination of his close friend Jimmy Hoffa.
- DirectorPippa EhrlichJames ReedStarsCraig FosterTom FosterA filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
- DirectorRocco PapaleoStarsAlessandro GassmannPaolo BrigugliaMax GazzèA music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.
- DirectorSam VinalLA LUCHA SIGUE (The Struggle Continues) is a feature length documentary that combines breathtaking cinematography with intimate access and creative storytelling as it follows COPINH and OFRANEH, two grassroots Indigenous and Black organizations leading the struggle for justice in Honduras. The Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), co-founded by the assassinated leader Berta Cáceres, works with the Lenca Indigneous peoples of the mountains in the interior of Honduras. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) is the black people's social movement along the lush coast of Honduras led by Miriam Miranda. Together these groups are holding down the frontlines of resistance in the face of the US-backed military dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernandez as they work to dismantle interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and racism. COPINH and OFRANEH are the resistance. They are the water. They are the land itself. Bullets cannot kill their fight to protect the land and build a Honduras that is rooted in justice for everyone and guided by Ancestral knowledge. Four years after the brutal assassination of world-renowned Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in 2016, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, sheds light on the role of the Atala Zablah's, the Honduran oligarchic family, who with corporate actor David Castillo, are part of the Honduran oligarchy and are alleged to be intellectual authors behind the assassination of Berta Cáceres. Honduran resistance to colonial violence is led by Indigenous and Black women. One of those leaders is Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, the namesake daughter of Berta Cáceres and current leader of COPINH. Another major leader guiding the fight is Miriam Miranda, co-founder of OFRANEH. Both Miriam and Bertha Zúniga have survived assassination attempts and continue to see comrades of their organizations assassinated on a regular basis. While those losses are devastating, they are not frozen by the pain. Instead they harness the rage to stand up to deadly forces and reshape the imagination of a world dominated by the dehumanizing forces of capitalism while building a world of Indigenous and black sovereignty and justice for all. The film unfolds through Miriam and Bertha Zúniga's lived realities as they navigate colonial minefields and speak truth to imperial power. The film opens at Utopia, COPINH's Center for Gathering and Friendship, an autonomous training center that's a living example of the life-affirming alternative projects that can be built when people gather to plan political projects and construct strategies of resistance. It's called Utopia because it's a place to dream. Utopia is even home to organic agricultural projects meant to push back on the food insecurity experienced by so many Lenca communities due to colonization. Utopia is a model of sustainable systems of local food production while also generating autonomous income sources. Bertha Zúniga invites viewers into COPINH's revolutionary world through sharing glimpses of their historic gathering, The Peoples' Guancasco for Life and Autonomy. There, land defenders from across the country and continent share their resistance stories of fighting megaprojects invading their traditional territories and threatening their lives. Next, viewers are introduced to the world-renowned Indigenous leader, Berta Cáceres who was assassinated in 2016. Showing footage from 2013, Berta tells gathered Lenca people, "seventy-million Indigenous [people] were killed on this continent." She explains that the genocide was used to exploit the lands and the people and that the powerful countries in the North were built on that exploitation. Through Berta's countless visits to the community, thousands of Indigenous people were politicized and their strength fortified. Berta's fierce personality and relentless determination are revealed as we see her in action in communities building the political force that took on colonialism and imperialism so effectively that she was killed for it. From there we journey with COPINH to the street actions, grassroots campaigns, and legal tools they are employing to take on the most powerful families and forces in Honduras and around the world to demand justice in the case of Berta's assassination. Their voices cry out for justice for Berta and resound in the streets of Honduras. Their sharp political critiques of US backed colonial violence are broadcast on community radio stations in the most remote corners of Honduras as they build power and denounce David Castillo and the Atala Zablah family behind Berta's murder and the continued resource extraction on Indigenous lands. At the sentencing trial of the material authors of Berta's assassination, Bertha Zúniga fiercly reminds everyone that the State of Honduras is an accomplice in the crime. She affirms that COPINH's fight is "a fight for our country's democratization, for justice, for an end to corruption and impunity." And that despite attempts to sow fear with assassinations and silence voices through killing people, their determination will not waver. The first of three communities that viewers will meet is the Garífuna land of Vallecito. Vallecito is a revolutionary space that is the first territory to be freed from the hands of drug traffickers. This territory is home to the organizing hub of OFRANEH and comprises 2,965 acres of land titled to the Garífuna people. Vallecito is a Garífuna village strategically built inland so that it can take in the Garífuna refugees from along the coast that will be created as climate change continues to intensify. Vallecito, situated along the northeastern coast of Honduras, is filled with abundant natural resources and is an area of Honduras plagued by one of the principal drug trafficking routes to the United States. The coastal lands of the Garífuna are also a target of ferocious monoculture, tourism and extractive projects that drive displacement in the territories. These Honduran government-backed projects are land grabs forced on communities by strategies that include the fabrication of land titles to community territories, which are then sold and resource concessions are given to powerful foreign economic investors, displacing thousands of people from their ancestral lands and driving them into deeper misery. On top of this already precarious situation, free trade experiments in so-called "model cities" are violently thrust into the mix. These "model cities" are the more recent model used to bleed the territories and the people resisting within them. Miriam Miranda explains that the Garífuna people are fighting not just to exercise control over their territories but to create "a project to sustain life and food sovereignty." Reclaiming their territory has come at a high cost, Miriam notes. And assassinations are currently on the rise. Recently, in a 72 hour period, 5 Garífuna people were killed, says Miriam. Strategic displacement and assassinations are used to make way for megaprojects, especially destructive African palm-oil fields and hydroelectric dams. As viewers journey into the heart of Vallecito, they will understand what's at stake for Garífuna people. Land isn't just to build a house. Land is the basis to sow crops, to fish, to make drums, to make canoes and to do spiritual work with their ancestors. They need their territory to live as Garífuna. The language comes from the land, making their language school an essential piece of their revolutionary project. With shining determination in her eyes, Miriam shares the massive dream being cooked up in Vallecito -- an Indigenous Garífuna University rooted in the Garífuna principle "auya buni, amürü nuni" (me for you and you for me). There, Garífuna will learn all about the medicinal, regenerative and practical uses of coconut. The university project works hand in hand with their other main political project, the coconut production project. Drones, cinematic floating shots and traditional camera techniques capture the breath of their coconut production projects. Miriam also explains the importance of returning to traditional ways of using coconuts for washing dishes to push back on the world's reliance on disposability and plastics that are threatening the planet and our very existence. Viewers will understand the importance of cross community organizing as they hear powerful accounts of the historic relationship between OFRANEH and COPINH and see first hand how that relationship continues to be nourished by showing up for one another's struggles. In Vallecito, the people of the mountains (the Lenca) will learn how to cultivate coconuts alongside the people of the sea (the Garifuna). After Vallecito the film will travel to Guachipilín. Guachipilín is a Lenca community comprised of many COPINH members. Viewers will meet women pushing back on patriarchy and reclaiming their self-worth through their cooperative chicken project. The film will take viewers through the territory in Guachipilín to see how it's being threatened by mining interests. Community members Chico and Navidad will share their fears about their water being contaminated and why they are fighting. When Chico explains that a fight for their water will be a fight to the death, viewers will be exposed to the lengths the community will go to to protect their land and their way of life. Guachipilín stands out among COPINH communities in both their autonomy derived from diverse sustainable agricultural projects and in their widespread unity against the colonial mine that threatens to contaminate precious water sources. Bertha Zúniga foreshadows that the intensity of the fight in Guachipilín will reach the levels of Río Blanco, another formidable COPINH community. From Guachipilín viewers will journey to Río Blanco. Berta Cáceres was assassinated for the pivotal role that she played in Río Blanco to expel the Chinese company Sinohydro, the world's largest dam builder, and some of the most powerful international finance systems from Lenca territory. The Honduran company Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA) had a partnership with Sinohydro to build the Agua Zarca Dam. Viewers will meet Rosalina and her family who reveal the historic and present levels of violence that they've faced in their fight to protect their land from the Agua Zarca Dam. Bertha Zúniga and COPINH will face off with the Madrid family as they are blocked from accessing a public road and threatened with violence by the Madrid family if they pass. Historic levels of marginalization have entrenched poverty in rural Indigenous communities making many community members vulnerable to being bought off by the company with crumbs. Viewers will see this pattern unfold in Río Blanco as the Madrid family blocks the road, the only road leading to their corn farms --a staple in their diet. Rosalina and many other community leaders have been the targets of death threats. The community conflict stems from the dirty methods used by DESA to insert itself into the community by any means necessary. The audience will get an intimate look into the conflict when Freddy, Rosalina's son, recounts to his family how someone in the Madrid family tried to kill him. Rosalina has faced so much death in her life that she no longer fears it. She challenges those who are trying to kill her to come find her in her house. She'll be waiting, she says. As a mother it takes a toll knowing that her sons are some of the most threatened people in the community. Nevertheless, from the moment she wakes, she puts her warrior face on because she knows that showing any weakness could mean death for her, her family and her land. Selvin Milla, part of COPINH's community work team, explains how the dam began invading the community without permissions. He tells viewers that the going rate to hire an assassin is $25 USD, but it will cost more if you want the hitman to do any extras like digging up the body after it's buried. Assassination was one of the principal strategies used by DESA, the Honduran dam builder, to get rid of community opposition. "Violence in Honduras is daily. But the death with which one lives isn't normalized either" says Selvin. And that violence is used to justify the ongoing and increasing US-backed militarization of Honduran society. That intense militarization and the US role in fueling violence in Honduras comes to a head in the film when high school students take to the streets and face off with police. Fed up with the lack of state investment in schools, hospitals, food security and other social issues, students decide to block the entrance to La Esperanza, the town that Berta Cáceres grew up in. They decry the recent decision of the Juan Orlando Hernandez dictatorship to hand over the budget and management of the agricultural sector to the military as evidence that everyday the country is devolving more and more into a military dictatorship. "They're students who want a better country," says one of the student organizers on camera before the police start chasing the students while firing tear gas and live bullets. Bertha Zúniga tells us that each tear gas canister "costs between $140 to $241 USD. Here in a demonstration, they easily launch 150 tear gas canisters." Much of the tear gas and bullets are made in the US. In Honduras there is an active military on the streets and yet there's no openly declared war. Viewers will understand by the end of the film that in Honduras there is a war between the rich and the poor, with the US backing the rich. Berta Cáceres' assassination ignited national and international social movements that will not stop until colonialism and imperialism are dead. Meanwhile, the oligarchs in Honduras, with the backing of the biggest military power in the world, are doing everything they can to hold onto power. The work of COPINH and OFRANEH builds on a legacy of 500 years of fights for sovereignty. Their struggle to protect their ancestral territory and to defend humanity is for all of us. They are part of Indigenous and black resistance movements across Turtle Island and around the world that have never been silent, but whose voices can no longer be ignored by the dominant groups. The interconnected forces of racism, capitalism, global warming, and militarism have wreaked an untenable level of destruction whose harms can no longer be contained in the margins. Descendants of those who enslaved march along-side those whose ancestors were enslaved shouting Black Lives Matter. The unhoused are occupying empty homes, with support from the masses who feel the pressure of the collapsing capitalist economy--accelerated by COVID--pushing them closer to the streets. Heir's to fossil fuel fortunes are divesting and big oil companies are being forced to move toward renewable energy. Calls to abolish the police are rooted in an understanding that social problems can not be resolved through militarism. Bertha Zúniga reminds us that, "true justice is in our struggles, it's in our communities. It's in our [resistance] process, which does not waver despite numerous attacks. Or despite attempts to sow fear with these assassinations that try to silence the voices of the people. We know fighting for justice under a dictatorship is extremely complicated. But the battle of the peoples for justice for Berta Cáceres will be yet another reason to fight. It's a fight for our country's democratization, for justice, for an end to corruption and impunity." By transforming Honduras, COPINH and OFRANEH are transforming the world. In Howard Zinn's words, "you can't be neutral on a moving train." It's time to decide what side you're on.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsFranka PotenteMatt DamonChris CooperA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
- DirectorIsold UggadottirStarsKristín Þóra HaraldsdóttirBabetida SadjoPatrik Nökkvi PéturssonTwo women's lives will intersect while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
- DirectorJon WattsStarsTom HollandMichael KeatonRobert Downey Jr.Peter Parker tries to stop Adrian 'The Vulture' Toomes from selling weapons made with advanced Chitauri technology while trying to balance his life as an ordinary high school student.
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJennifer LawrenceMeryl StreepTwo low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsBenedict CumberbatchKirsten DunstJesse PlemonsCharismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.