Whether you take your computer into the cool oasis of your bathroom or you opt for an air-conditioned theater, watching movies is an ideal way to shield yourself from the impending heatwave. See our picks for this week below, from Teona Strugar Mitevska’s rebellious God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya to the literary doc Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation to the Twitter-thread-inspired Zola. For more options, check out our on-demand calendar or our guide to drive-in movies.
Newly Streaming: Local Connection
The American Sector
Filmmakers Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme) and Pacho Velez (Manakamana) travel across the United States seeking out the scattered fragments of the Berlin Wall, and the people they talk to along the way (at a Chicago subway station, at a Seattle food court, on a famous street in Los Angeles) offer different versions of the wall’s history through their own experiences. “For each person, the wall means something explicit about freedom, democracy, and patriotism, but implicit in these descriptions are ideas about propaganda, indoctrination, our intergenerational relationships with history, and the broken promises of capitalism,” writes The Nation.
Northwest Film Forum
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