How to Build a Library
2025 · Documentary · Chris King and Maia Lekow · 1h 43m
Two Kenyan women quit their jobs to restore a grand old library in the middle of Nairobi, and run into city politics and the country's colonial past. A documentary that stays with the two of them throughout.
- Strongly realistic
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2026 · Documentary
A documentary on jaripeo, the Mexican rodeo of Michoacan, and the displays of machismo around it, watched from a queer point of view. It leans on memory and longing rather than on one story.
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2025 · Crime
In 1970 Massachusetts an out-of-work carpenter hires three men to steal four paintings from the local museum, while the country argues about Vietnam. A quiet heist film that stays with him afterwards.
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2026 · Documentary
In 1972 William Greaves filmed a party at Duke Ellington's Harlem townhouse, gathering every surviving figure of the Harlem Renaissance he could find. It sat unfinished for fifty years, until his son cut it together.
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