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Far From Vietnam (Loin du vietnam) + Now!

Unclassified 18+
Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda, 115 mins, France, 1967, 35mm. Source: Consulat Général de France. Courtesy: Sofracima.

Far From Vietnam (Loin du vietnam)

Lovingly restored for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Far From Vietnam was produced in the midst of the bloody Vietnam conflict.

A searing anti-war portmanteau crafted by some of film's great auteurs, this rarely seen work remains one of the most powerful records of protest crafted during a time of war.


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Now!
Santiago Alverez, 5 mins, Cuba, 1965, Courtesy of Relaciones Internacionales

Groundbreaking and revolutionary, legendary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alverez crafts a blazing Civil Rights call to arms in this classic found footage filmic machine-gun.