OVID’s May Lineup: Russian patriots, Iranian cinema x 2, Souleymane Cissé, True Crime x 3, The Scandalous Life of Henry Miller, “educational sex” & more!
OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of films coming in May 2024.
Arab Women in Cinema
by Yasmina Tawil The Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) is a nonprofit organization founded by the team behind the largest and oldest Arab Film Festival in North America. Through film, education, mentorship, and new media, our mission is to enhance public understanding of Arab culture and provide insight into the beauty, complexity, and diversity […]
OVID’s April Lineup: Arab American Heritage Month, films from Jem Cohen, exclusive shorts by Wayne Koestenbaum + a film on controversial filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk…
OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of films coming in April 2024.
Women’s History Month, an A-Z Top Ten
To mark International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, OVID continues to expand and diversify our collection of films about women’s lives and ongoing struggles for liberation. This week, we thought to assemble a brief and comprehensive A-Z top ten here of some favorites from the collection to date… Chez Jolie Coiffure by Rosine Mbakam centers […]
The Slow Craft of Oxhide II
A review by Alex Fields. In Oxhide I & Oxhide II, filmmaker Liu Jiayin takes us into a cramped Beijing apartment, casting her parents and herself as fictionalized versions of themselves. In the following post, film critic Alex Fields pays particular attention to the second installment, wherein the director fixes her camera around the kitchen […]
Le swag est arrivé!!!
🐾starring Guillaume-en-Égypte🐾 OVID’s future depends on the support of those who know and value what we do. And with a reduced advertising budget this year, we need to be creative.So … voila!! OVID announces our new line of merchandise! The t-shirt is made of 100% ring-spun cotton and is soft and comfy. Our tee is […]
OVID’s March Lineup: Bas Devos’ Berlin Grand Prize-winner VIOLET, Palestinian perseverance, your favorite French spy, and Jim Finn on Paul the Apostle!
OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of films coming in March 2024.
A. S. Hamrah Selects
Ovid asked me to recommend a selection of films streaming on their channel. Initially attracted by the documentaries they offer about musicians I love, including Ornette Coleman, Pulp, Bill Callahan, and the Magnetic Fields, instead I picked ten features that are not music docs. Nevertheless, I do have to recommend Joe Angio’s Revenge of the […]