Blink is a documentary film from National Geographic, which follows a Montreal family with four children, three of whom have retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition causing gradual loss of vision and probable blindness. They decide to set out on a trip around the world, in order to fill their children’s visual memories, so that they can at least recall the world and its wonders.

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Souleymane’s Story is a social-realist film in the tradition of Mike Leigh or Ken Loach, offering a more personal glimpse behind the headlines into the life of an asylum seeker in France.

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An expedition to one of several glacier-fed lakes on the upper slopes of the Ojos del Salado volcano in Argentina’s Atacama Desert, by Frédéric Swierczynski, a cave diver, and Sébastien Devrient, a mountain guide and the film’s director.

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Free Writing Event on Saturday, March 11! Hosted by the Geist Writer-In-Residence, Christine Lai.

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Corner Office is a gentle black comedy about office culture, with the slightly surreal feel of an extended episode of Black Mirror.

A documentary by Ana Sofia Fonseca, on the life of the beloved Cape Verdean singer, who many knew as the Barefoot Diva.

Free Event on Sunday, November 6! Hosted by the Geist Writer-In-Residence, Luca Cara Seccafien and joined by co-facilitator, Masha Leung.

An extremely dark film directed by Ali Abbasi and starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi, based on actual events: a serial killer who was active in the years 2000 to 2001 in the holy city of Mashhad, Iran.

A feature film about the fight for abortion rights, directed by Phyllis Nagy, dramatizing the inner workings of the Jane Collective, a feminist organization active in the Chicago area between 1969 and 1973.

Another take on George Simenon's classic French police detective, this film is a slow-paced, melancholic pleasure, directed by Patrice Leconte, with Gérard Depardieu as Jules Maigret.

Ken Smith has lived in isolation for more than 40 years, on the shores of Loch Treig, in the Scottish Highlands.

Free Event on Sunday, October 9! Hosted by the Geist Writer-In-Residence, Luca Cara Seccafien.

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A Vantablack-dark comedy from Poland. A wedding ceremony doesn't go quite as planned, and the wedding reception that follows goes—slowly, but inevitably—off the rails.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s film is a kind of "meta movie." Set on the island of Farö in the Baltic Sea, it takes a playful and affectionate look at the legacy and the enduring influence of Ingmar Bergman and his films.

Terence Davies' first feature film in five years is a heartbreaking, and heartfelt, portrait of British poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Since 2016, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili has been buying up and relocating ancient trees to furnish a private park. This mournful and elegiac documentary illustrates how money, and political influence, can literally remake a world.

A quirky comedy from French actor (Avenue Montaigne) and director (9 Month Stretch) Albert Dupontel. A suicidal IT genius and a blind archivist help a dying woman trying to locate the child she gave up for adoption.

A bio-pic on Tove Jansson: artist, writer, free spirit, and creator of the beloved Moomins.

Proving that some good can come from a pandemic, this omnibus film from Spain features five delightfully dark tales "directed by five leading Spanish filmmakers under quarantine conditions."

In this forceful critique of contemporary Russia, director Natalya Nazarova shows a young woman's attempt to resist thuggery in an industrial town in northern Russia.

On a Danish farm, a young woman works alongside her uncle, who has been handicapped by a stroke. Though they rarely talk, and the routine of their days seems unlikely to change, a quiet drama slowly begins to unfold.