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Seasonal Picks

Thanksgiving

At the Table

Films about what happens when families come home and sit down together.

Holiday Season

Merry & Bright

Warm, funny films for the long nights between Christmas and New Year.

Curated Themes

Pioneers

The earliest women to direct features across Asia and its diasporas, from a 1916 silent to a 1978 debut.

Mothers & Daughters

Mothers raising daughters, daughters reckoning with mothers, and what passes between them.

Cinema Across Borders

Films shaped by migration, diaspora, adoption, exile, and lives lived between cultures.

Queer Lives, Up Close

First love, coming out, lasting partnerships, and the families people make for themselves.

Activist Cinema

Films and documentaries centered on social justice, collective action, and real-world impact.

Box Office Hits

Record breakers, franchise hits, and sleepers that found their crowds at home and abroad.

Growing Up

Friendship, rebellion, first desire, and the uneven work of becoming yourself.

A Life’s Work

Artists, journalists, organisers, and the lifetimes they gave to a single pursuit.

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