This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent PIONEERS OF QUEER CINEMA you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

These classics of early queer cinema, all way ahead of their time, come to Kino Marquee virtual cinemas for Pride Month in gorgeous new restorations.

Victor and Victoria (Reinhold Schünzel, 1933)
Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic, this dazzling, gender-bending musical romance about a female singer posing as a man performing in drag received limited exposure in the United States, and is today best known by Blake Edwards’s 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway production. Viewers will be delighted to discover that the original is every bit as charming and outrageous, reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.

Mädchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich, 1931)
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance. This artfully composed landmark of lesbian cinema – and an important anti-fascist film – was the first of just three films directed by Leontine Sagan.

Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1924)
Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer’s homoerotic classic is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time. Michael takes its place alongside Dreyer’s better known masterpieces as an unusually sensitive and decorous work of art and is one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history.

*Films are spoken in German with English subtitles.*

How to stream

For $15, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

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280 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time’s list of most influential people), this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future.

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

You will have to register for a free KinoNow account if you don’t already have one.

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103 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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Desperate for answers about the theft of her 2 paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls.

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For $4, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

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102 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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The Ghost of Peter Sellers is a feature length documentary directed by Peter Medak that tells the tale of his ill-fated Hollywood 17th Century pirate comedy shot in Cyprus, starring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan in 1973.

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For $10, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

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93 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent NYICFF KID FLICKS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the program

Bigger, brighter, bolder—change is in the air in NYICFF Kid Flicks 1, brimming with fun and clever stories of growth and transformation.

If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming KUAP. Catching up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils in the winning doc Pen Licence. Then little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.

These shorts and so much more await you!

6:1 – Russia, 3 min

Belly Flop – South Africa, 5 min

Brooklyn Breeze – Colombia, United States, 4 min

Flipped – United Kingdom, 5 min

KUAP – Switzerland, 8 min

Mi Abuelita – Guatemala, 2 min

Preschool Poets: Poem About All Different Things – United States, 2 min

Raccoon and the Light – United States, 4 min

Slurp – France, 4 min

Small Spark – France, 4 min

The Pen Licence – Australia, 9 min

The Pig on the Hill – United States, 6 min

All of the shorts in this program have been approved for children ages 3+.

A second KID FLICKS program is also available to rent and stream, with an additional hour-plus of shorts approved for children ages 8+.

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For $12, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

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56 MIN