A young couple check into a hotel room to make love for the very first time. The boy, Shun (Takahashi) is timid and gauche, hiding his face and retreating to the bathroom for a glass of water as the young girl Nanami (Ishii) undresses before him. She is less shy – she earns her living… Read more »

Acclaimed documentarian Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) takes the reins for this no-holds-barred look at one of the most unusual phenomena of early 21st century media. In 2006, an Iceland-based outfit called The Sunshine Press launched the website WikiLeaks.org. As run by Australian Internet activist Julian Assange, the site’s mandate involved regularly publishing top-secret… Read more »

It is the last day of the school year, and a group of Bronx high-schoolers board a city bus to make their way home. With the summer break ahead, and feeling more liberated than usual, this colorful crowd of kids– the cool ones, the outsiders, and everyone in between–act out as only teens can when… Read more »

A covert female operative infiltrates an anarchist faction that stages clandestine attacks on major corporations, and finds her mission compromised when she falls for the group’s charismatic leader in this tense and topical thriller from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij – the creative duo behind the indie hit The Sound of My Voice. When a mysterious group begins turning unsafe… Read more »

In this inspired new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to… Read more »

We are proud to be opening 2 of the most well-reviewed films of the summer at the Zinema on June 14. Before Midnight “Linklater may not have set out to make a decade-spanning triptych of poetic meditations on youth, young adulthood, and middle age, but he, Hawke, and Delpy have accomplished exactly that. The Before… Read more »