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Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival, The Ascent tells the harrowing story of Sotnikov and Rybak, Soviet partisans who venture deep into the snowy backwoods of Nazi-occupied Belarus. Seeking food and shelter, the pair soon find their spiritual and moral resolve tested. Shepitko—who was at the time of the film's release one of the highest profile female directors in the world—combined stark realism with Christian allegory for a tough but transcendental story of heroism and sacrifice.

Damaged Goods is a digital series centered around the messy and complex lives of four millennials of color attempting to thrive and survive in Chicago. Caleb (Chufue Yang) is a genderqueer club kid who struggles to find his self worth in the nightlife scene. Sanavi (Aashvi Patel) is a confident professional who discovers discrimination in her white-dominated workplace while trying to dismantle the “boys club.” Marlo (Abena Boamah) is a wellness social media influencer who finds it easier to care for others than for herself. Ezra (Nosakhere Cash-O' Bannon) is an aspiring artist, selling weed to support himself. 

Hong Kong's prolific Shaw Brothers studio churned out dozens of beloved kung fu classics, but The Boxer's Omen, one of their few forays into the horror genre is a true original. Simply put, it's one of the weirdest and wildest movies ever made. A Chinese boxer travels to Thailand and stumbles upon a mysterious Buddhist temple where he becomes a monk and gets enlisted in a truly epic battle with the forces of evil. Witchcraft collides with Buddhist mysticism in an onslaught of killer bats, crocodiles, spiders and statues come to life. Delightfully surreal and outrageously gory, The Boxer's Omen is cinema as drug trip—the kung fu freakout Jodorowsky never made.