Spring 2026 Releases

Weaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems and songs, The Seasons is a magical journey through the real history and the tales of a region in southern Portugal, Alentejo, and a portrait of the people who have lived there. Directed by Maureen Fazendeiro, whose previous film was the acclaimed The Tsugua Diaries, co-directed with Miguel Gomes (Grand Tour, Tabu)

MILITANTROPOS

Militantropos captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war—those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight—tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness. Amid devastation and atrocity, the human is absorbed into war—and war, in turn, becomes part of the human.

ELEMENTAL

Directed by award-winning and emerging filmmakers from around the world, Elemental is a thought-provoking series of short documentaries that explore our lives through the elements of the periodic table. There are as many stories about how the elements touch our lives as there are creative ways to portray them, and the collection champions films from across the wide spectrum of creative documentary approaches.

MARE'S NEST

Mare's Nest unfolds in a world without adults, where Moon wanders through unfamiliar landscapes, encountering solitary figures who reveal alternative ways of living. Guided by a sage and his translator in a remote mountain hut, she seeks meaning amid uncertainty. Blurring documentary and fiction, the film reflects director Ben Rivers’s ongoing fascination with lives lived apart from mainstream society, following Moon’s quiet observations as she moves through this enigmatic realm toward an open, unknowable future.

NADJA (4K RESTORATION)

Merging elements from Dracula's Daughter (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing. Edgar’s private nurse, Van Helsing’s nephew Jim, and Jim's wife are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania. Executive produced by David Lynch.

YOU NEED THIS

You Need This explores how consumerism emerged from the unbridled optimism of 1950s America and evolved into a global system shaping our desires, identities, and behaviors. Conditioning the population to find meaning and status through endless consumption, this insatiable machine depletes our environment, strains our social bonds, and damages our well-being. Produced by Academy Award winner Adam McKay.

WAYUMI

Wayumi is a cinematic journey across continents and generations, exploring what it means to belong. The film follows David Good and his Indigenous mother, Yarima, as they attempt to reunite a family separated for thirty years. Set against breathtaking landscapes and Venezuelan bureaucracy, their story becomes a meditation on resilience, cultural survival, and enduring ties. Drawing from hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, Wayumi weaves an intimate family portrait spanning the jungles of Venezuela and the suburbs of New Jersey.

SAVING THE GREAT SWAMP: BATTLE TO DEFEAT THE JETPORT

Saving The Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport chronicles the events, people, and politics behind the 1959–1968 struggle to preserve a little-known rural area of New Jersey known as the Great Swamp after the Port of New York Authority announced plans to build a 10,000-acre jetport that would have obliterated entire towns, destroyed the aquifer and wildlife destroyed, and a threatened a way of life for thousands.

RIVER OF GRASS

River of Grass is an ode to the Florida Everglades, past and present, told through the prescient writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and those who call the region home. After a hurricane, Douglas appears in a dream, guiding filmmaker Sasha Wortzel into a layered exploration of the Everglades as ecosystem, history, and site of resistance amid climate collapse through encounters with Indigenous educators, activists, and multigenerational residents.

MAINTENANCE ARTIST

After motherhood disrupted her art career, Mierle Laderman Ukeles issued a radical manifesto declaring childcare and housework as performance art. Entering the male-dominated 1960s avant-garde, she challenged art’s scorn for maintenance and care. Expanding her vision, Ukeles collaborated with overlooked museum workers and, in 1977, became artist-in-residence at NYC Sanitation, honoring essential labor. Using newly digitized archives, Maintenance Artist traces her transformation of maintenance into a powerful force in contemporary art.

ECCE MOLE

Heinz Emigholz’s brilliant short documentary, Ecce Mole juxtaposes two buildings by Alessandro Antonelli in Turin, 500 metres apart: the private Casa Scaccabarozzi (1840) and the monumental Mole Antonelliana (1889). Originally planned as a synagogue, the Mole became a symbol of national unity in Turin, now housing the National Museum of Cinema. A concise study of opposites—public and private, interior and exterior—Ecce Mole is the first of five short films commissioned for the Mole's 25th anniversary.

FLICKERING LIGHTS

In Tora, a remote village on the India-Myanmar border with minimal infrastructure and few economic opportunities, residents receive a glimmer of hope when they learn that electricity may at last be coming to the region—a promise they have heard before, only to be let down. Over the course of three years, Flickering Lights, from the acclaimed filmmakers of Nocturnes, follows Tora’s residents as they look with a mix of cautious optimism and uncertainty toward a future that may or may not come.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHASING STORMS

The tornado is both a destructive event and a uniquely American icon, one often fraught with collective tragedy. With wit and humour, this film unfolds like an episodic road movie, raising questions of memory, inequality, colonization, climate change, and disaster capitalism as it examines legacies of weather within this area of the United States dubbed “tornado alley."

CLEMENTE

From executive producers Lebron James and Richard Linklater, Clemente is the definitive documentary on the extraordinary life, career, and enduring legacy of Major League Baseball icon Roberto Clemente. Told through stunning archival footage, never-before-heard recordings, and unprecedented interviews, the film reveals the story of a man who lived by his own uncompromising code.

SOUND SPRING

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring questions the history of Yellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its residents: one interviewee rollerblades and reads the village's water meters, another stands on his head in a breakdancing freeze. The villagers describe American history: their ancestors' settlements after slavery, a friendship with Coretta Scott King, and Ohio's Trail of Tears-among other more personal details of village life. Through performing their own previously recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time.