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Films from independent producers worldwide.

"Since 1978, Icarus has offered a haven for nonfiction films that are at once socially conscious and supremely artful." —The New York Times

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SURPRISE! SALE STARTS NOW! Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday all rolled into one... starting right now! Get a 50% discount on select Blu-rays and Box Sets starting today, November 25th, 2025, through Monday, December 1st, 2025 ✨ bit.ly/icarusshopsm...
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Icarus Films announces the acquisition of Croatian Oscar Contender FIUME O MORTE! by Igor Bezinović.

** Winner of the Tiger Award + FIPRESCI prize - Rotterdam Film Festival
*** Best Film, Director, Screenplay - Adriatic Film & TV Awards

“Revelatory!” @newyorker.com
"Infectious!" @thefilmstage.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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“A moving portrait!” (POV Magazine). “A tremendously powerful work on emancipation, freedom and opportunity for women in Afghanistan” (Cineuropa)

Los Angeles! Najiba Noori's WRITING HAWA screens at Laemmle Theatres October 8th, 11th, & 12th 🎟️

laemmle.com/film/writing...
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Tomorrow 10/3! Filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger IN PERSON for PARIS CALLIGRAMMES. Part of Metrograph NYC series Ulrike Ottinger: From Paris to Berlin

🎟️ metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002553
October 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Jasmila Žbanić's film on the extraordinary Emerik BLUM: MASTERS OF THEIR OWN DESTINY is Bosnia and Herzegovina's official entry to the 98th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film!

"An important historical document...Inspiring!"
—Sarajevo Times

Playdates coming soon!
September 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958–1989 directed by archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape), comes to Film Forum NYC @filmforumnyc.bsky.social in Fall 2025, followed by theaters nationwide.

Visit icarusfilms.com/if-isrpal for more details!
July 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The "truly scandalous" (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice) SEVENTEEN screens tonight at the new LOW CINEMA in NYC. Curated by filmmaker Nellie Kluz as part of series DELLS NATION.

"Positively crucial to documentary film history."—Film Comment

Tickets 🎟️
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June 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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“Refreshingly raw.” @SensesofCinema

ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958–1989, directed by Göran Hugo Olsson, a monumental documentary filtering over 30 years of public service broadcasting, comes to Film Forum NYC in Fall, followed by theaters nationwide.

Stay tuned! icarusfilms.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Artist and activist Mona Saudi (1945 – 2022), on her vision for a future Palestine.

Excerpt from Göran Hugo Olsson's archival epic ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958–1989, coming to Film Forum NYC this Fall, followed by theaters nationwide.

Learn more at IcarusFilms.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Official poster for ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989

North American premiere theatrical engagement at
Film Forum Fall 2025, followed by cities nationwide. Learn more 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/...
May 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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“Unfolds in rhythm with the passage of time… Punctures all the simplistic arguments.” —Svenska Dagbladet

ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 comes to Film Forum NYC Fall 2025, followed by cities nationwide. Learn more🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/israel-palestine-on-swedish-tv-1958-1989-bookings
May 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Acclaimed Israeli novelist & peace advocate Amos Oz, one of many notable figures featured in Göran Hugo Olsson's ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989—coming to Film Forum in Fall 2025, followed by cities nationwide 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/israel-palestine-on-swedish-tv-1958-1989-bookings
May 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Acquisition News ‼️ Icarus Films is proud to announce the acquisition of ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 by Göran Hugo Olsson, coming to Film Forum in NYC this fall and followed by cities nationwide.

“A huge, historical document.” —Micropsia Cine

Stay tuned 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-isrpal
May 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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May 1st is International Workers' Day ‼️ To celebrate, Icarus Films is offering 50% OFF a curated selection of Home Video DVDs & Box Sets. Consider these films your revolutionary starter park... 5/1/25 — 5/8/25 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-icarusmayday2025
May 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Acclaimed filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi is on the 2025 #Cannes Jury!

Icarus Films is proud to represent 3 of Hamadi's feature length documentaries, including DOWNSTREAM TO KINSHASA - the first Congolese film to be an official selection at Cannes

🔗 icarusfilms.com/filmmakers?id=25
April 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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YOUTH (HARD TIMES) and YOUTH (HOMECOMING) of Wang Bing's YOUTH trilogy will be available to rent/buy on demand May 27th, 2025, including Prime Video, Apple TV, Vimeo On Demand, and Icarus Films On Demand. Learn more 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/vod-nr-youhthc-0422
April 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Plus: ✨ Rouch’s THE PUNISHMENT, a vérité portrait of youth culture in transition ✨ 12-page essay booklet

Now available for pre-order! Also check out the special limited-edition slipcover via @vinsyn.bsky.social 🔗 vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-human-pyramid-the-punishment?variant=42668409913386
April 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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NEW ON BLU-RAY ‼️ THE HUMAN PYRAMID and THE PUNISHMENT - TWO FILMS BY JEAN ROUCH

A leading figure in French cinema history and inspiration for the French New Wave, Jean Rouch revolutionized filmmaking, never more so than with THE HUMAN PYRAMID 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-pyrabd-04012025
April 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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In the stunning JAMILIA, contemporary women from Kyrgyzstan who, in talking about a literary heroine from a classic Kyrgyz novel, reveal their own private lives and desires, the social rules they chafe under, and their ideas of freedom.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand ▶️ icarusfilms.com/if-lia
March 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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French New Wave filmmaker Éric Rohmer was #BornOnThisDay in 1920! 🌷 For the occasion, watch Rohmer's short PLACE DE L'ETOILE concerning a haberdasher and his umbrella 🌂Part of restored anthology SIX IN PARIS, now on demand. Also available on Blu-ray and DVD🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-vu
March 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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THE NEW RESTORATION - NOW ON 2 DISC DVD SET! The restoration of THE BATTLE OF CHILE and Guzman's 1972 debut feature THE FIRST YEAR are now available on DVD for the first time ever!

Also on Blu-ray via OCN Distribution and on digital via Apple TV, Prime Video, & Vimeo 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-bocbd
March 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Alain Kassanda’s COCONUT HEAD GENERATION and Wang Bing’s YOUTH (SPRING) are semifinalists for the prestigious Henry Awards sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy! @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @shorensteinctr.bsky.social @ovidtv.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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"The kind of portrait of an intellectual which is very rare."—@sightsoundmag.bsky.social EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW screening at Maysles Documentary Center next Friday, 3/21 as part of program Under the Influence – Body Poetics. Tickets on sale now #NYC 🎟️ www.maysles.org/calendar/und...
March 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Alain Kassanda's COCONUT HEAD GENERATION is one of @nytimes.com Five International Movies to Stream Now! Streaming exclusively on OVID.tv. Also available to rent via Icarus Films or rent/buy via Vimeo ▶️ icarusfilms.com/if-cocohg 🔗 nytimes.com/2025/03/07/movies/international-movies-streaming.html
March 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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“Put[s] abortion into the wider context of social and economic change—of women’s control over not just their bodies but their lives.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker.
Shot in Paris in 1973, STORIES OF A, was banned as soon it was released. Watch now for #WomensHistoryMonth ▶️ icarusfilms.com/if-stofa
March 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM