Icarus Films

02/14/2025

02/14/2025

Charleston ‼️ Tomorrow 2/15 at the International African American Museum: Madeline Anderson's seminal labor doc I AM SOMEBODY. In 1969, Black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard. Learn more & get tickets 🎟️

The first known documentary directed by an African American woman. In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard.

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine's Day from Icarus Films! 💕 Our recommended Valentine's Day watch? Marc Allegret's JULIETTA, starring Dany Robin, Jean Marais, and Jeanne Moreau! A romantic comedy with the whimsical energy of a hummingbird, Dany Robin stars as the eponymous demoiselle.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand 💕 icarusfilms.com/if-juliet

02/11/2025

Brigitte Bardot stars in Marc Allégret's SCHOOL OF LOVE, a simmering pre-French New Wave tale of two young women at the Conservatory of Vienna vying for the affection of their teacher.

Now available to rent and buy on Vimeo on Demand ▶️ vimeo.com/ondemand/schoolforlove

02/08/2025

New release from Icarus Films! MY WORST ENEMY (2025)
Learn more 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-mywor

Filmmaker Mehran Tamadon is an Iranian in exile, living in France. For years, he was able to travel back and forth between the two countries. Then, in 2012, he was warned that coming back would mean prison, torture — or worse.

Seeking to understand the mindset of the torturers, and the experience of Iranians who have suffered at their hands, Tamadon comes up with a plan: He’ll ask a fellow Iranian emigrant to interrogate him, pushing him to the limit. Ultimately, Mehran hopes to return to Iran with his film, and show it to real torturers as a way to spark recognition of how far they have drifted from their basic humanity.

Celebrated actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi (awarded Best Actress at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Ali Abbasi's Holy Spider) takes up the offer, interrogating Mehran over two intense days. But as MY WORST ENEMY progresses, it raises uncomfortable questions for everyone involved.

Explore all of our new releases 🔗 icarusfilms.com/search/new_releases

02/07/2025

Rehad Desai's TIME OF PANDEMICS is "a powerful call to action!" (The New Context).

As the Trump administration purges U.S. government websites of federal health data, and the CDC pulls back from new research, the dangers of denying science and repeating history cannot be understated.

When COVID-19 first appeared, South African filmmaker Rehad Desai was in the midst of making a film about a clinical trial for a vaccine that could end new AIDS infections. South Africa’s initial HIV response was slowed by science-denying politicians, along with global trade rules and corporate pharmaceutical greed that prevented those most in need from getting treatment. In Desai's film TIME OF PANDEMICS, he argues that the world has repeated many of these same mistakes with COVID-19.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-timeof

02/06/2025

BAM Film series The Black Worker opens tomorrow night - see FINALLY GOT THE NEWS, Rosine Mbakam's CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE, and Madeline Anderson's I AM SOMEBODY on the big screen as part of this series programmed by Yasmina Price.

Films made between the 60s and 2020s explore negotiations with race, class, and gender.

02/06/2025

Per ASALH: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the theme for Black History Month 2025 is African Americans and Labor. Documentary FINALLY GOT THE NEWS reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit, documenting their efforts to build an independent Black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's problems.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-fin

02/05/2025

Surrealist artist H.R.Giger, in 1940, terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's ALIEN. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fe**sh art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and s*x.

Both a mesmerizing introduction to H. R. Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary DARK STAR: H. R. GIGER'S WORLD shares the intimate last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-dk

02/04/2025

Happy Birthday El Anatsui! A powerful portrait of the widely acclaimed Ghanaian artist, in 1944, FOLD CRUMPLE CRUSH: THE ART OF EL ANATSUI gives an insider's view of the artist's practice, the ingenious steps, and the thousands of hours of labor that convert used bottle tops into huge, opulent wall hangings.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-fold

02/04/2025

"An idiosyncratic homage to Brazil's most beloved poet. A lovely film!" —Village Voice

O AMOR NATURAL explores the enduring legacy and erotic poetry of one of the greatest Latin American poets of the 20th century, Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Now available to rent and buy on Vimeo on Demand ▶️ vimeo.com/ondemand/oamornatural

01/31/2025

Series COMPASSIONATE LIGHT: STORIES OF TIBET BY PEMA TSEDEN opens tonight at TIFF Lightbox. The complete retrospective series by Shelly Kraicer continues through February 23rd and will include Tseden films from the dGenerate Films Collection 🎟️ https://tiff.net/calendar?series=pema-tseden&list

"[Pema Tseden's] ability to speak eloquently of individual despair and the emergency of cultural obliteration is masterful; his ability to do this in films of such eloquent, quiet beauty is nothing short of astonishing." —Cinema Scope

01/31/2025

Now with a whopping eight nominations to its name, Bob Dylan biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows Dylan's early folk music success and involvement with the Newport Folk Festival - including a tense relationship with American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, in 1915.

Documentary LOMAX THE SONGHUNTER is insight into Lomax's legacy, telling the story of a man who devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. The film includes interviews with Lomax's friends such as Pete Seeger, archival recordings of music greats Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, and footage of the cotton fields, rock quarries and prisons where captured America's quintessential music.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 https://icarusfilms.com/if-lox

01/30/2025

From directors Robert Kramer and John Douglas, MILESTONES, a profound reflection on idealism, loss, and the enduring quest for personal and collective transformation.

"As sad and compassionate a movie as I have ever seen... An attempt to keep alive one of the noble, impossible promises of its time." —A.O.Scott, The New York Times

See it Saturday, February 1, 8:20 pm. From Icarus Films.

https://cinematheque.cia.edu/movies/milestones/

01/30/2025

The documentary NO HOME MOVIE (2015) has been released on Blu-ray