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This November, OVID exclusively premieres MELT, a "fascinating, unsentimental love letter to snow and icy landscapes" @Cineuropa where director Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels the world of melting glaciers @IcarusFilms Check out the full lineup here! 🐧 metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/10/23/…

Happy Halloween Weekend! 🕸️ For you, two restored German horror gems: Henrik Galeen's ALRAUNE starring Brigitte Helm (Metropolis) + THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE, based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe with Conrad Veidt (Casablanca). Now screaming on OVID courtesy @DeafCrocodile

"A bleak, rough-hewn nightmare… entirely realistic yet as frightening as a horror movie." —FictionMachine Daisuke Miyazaki's techno-thriller VIDEOPHOBIA starring Sumire Ashina, Tomona Hirota and Shûgo Oshinari is now streaming on OVID courtesy Kani Releasing @kani_releasing

DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL 🕸️ Grigori Kromanov’s 1970s Euro giallo is based on a novel by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Stalker): "An enduring cult item and one of Estonian cinema’s towering peaks." @NickPinkerton @Metrograph Now streaming courtesy @DeafCrocodile

Rest in Peace Ursula von Rydingsvard (July 26, 1942 – Oct 27, 2026) 💐 Best known for her monumental sculptures influenced by nature, URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: INTO HER OWN is a fascinating glimpse into her life and process, streaming courtesy @IcarusFilms ovid.tv/videos/ursula-von-ry…

Rest in Peace Ursula von Rydingsvard (July 26, 1942 – Oct 27, 2026) 💐 Best known for her monumental sculptures influenced by nature, URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: INTO HER OWN is a fascinating glimpse into her life and process, streaming courtesy @IcarusFilms ovid.tv/videos/ursula-von-ry…

Leaving this week October 31st! Don't miss BALLETS RUSSES, Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine's dazzling archival ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe 🩰 ovid.tv/leaving-soon/videos/…

AGATHA'S ALMANAC by Amalie Atkins "Spun with care, love and passionate attention." @highonfilms__ "CHARMING…endearing, even inspiring… a compendium of [Agatha] Bock’s green-thumb wisdom." @nytimes ** Best Canadian Feature Doc @HotDocs Now on OVID courtesy @IcarusFilms 🌱

AGATHA'S ALMANAC by Amalie Atkins "CHARMING… endearing, even inspiring… in searing colors on 16-millimeter film… a compendium of [Agatha] Bock’s green-thumb wisdom." @nytimes ** Best Canadian Feature Doc @HotDocs Now streaming ONLY on OVID courtesy @IcarusFilms 🌱🍓

Will planting trees save the planet? If only it were that simple! In TREEWASHING: THE PLANTING ILLUSION, François-Xavier Drouet exposes what drives reforestation campaigns. "Fascinating!" @Telerama Now streaming on OVID courtesy @IcarusFilms

BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT "Wildly ambitious, wryly comic." @Screendaily The latest film from Iranian director Shahram Mokri is a mysterious M.C. Escher-like thriller: "Mokri has transformed the Möbius strip into a cinematic form of its own." @ScreenAnarchy Now on OVID ▶️

Critic’s Pick! "A brilliantly observed portrait of a young woman simmering with frustrations." —Nicolas Rapold @nytimes DESERT OF NAMIBIA joins our collection of New York Times Critic’s Picks. Streaming courtesy @kani_releasing ovid.tv/nyt-critic-s-pick

We're streaming three of five from Devika Girish's Intl Movies to Stream column @nytimes 🗞️ Check out "pitch-perfect physical comedy" THE ART OF NOTHING + Carmen Trocker’s "lively" humanity in PERSONALE + Houman Seyedi’s "utterly believable" WORLD WAR III nytimes.com/2026/10/16/movie…

BEIJING WATERMELON "A treasure of wry, telling observations… an eloquent commentary on the magic of the cinema itself." @latimes Based on true events, this restored 1989 gem is the fourth film by Nobuhiko Obayashi to join OVID. Now streaming courtesy @kani_releasing

DESERT OF NAMIBIA "Yuumi Kawai is immediately magnetic… Yamanaka’s work defies binaries… pulsating, alive!" @Variety "Intriguing because it’s so unusual." @voguemagazine "An ultra-melancholic slapstick comedy." @Slatefr #Nowstreaming on OVID courtesy @kani_releasing

KRAKATIT Otakar Vávra’s fever dream movie mixes noir, paranoid thriller and sci-fi: "Few films have more potently captured the distress of living in a time where mankind’s impulse for self-destruction was seemingly at its peak." @Slant_Magazine Streaming via @DeafCrocodile