OVID’s June lineup includes the Juneteenth premiere of With Peter Bradley, a charming portrait about the until now overlooked artist and former art dealer that captures his experience as an outsider, in filmmaker Charles Burnett’s words, “with eloquent understatement and warmth.”

OVID’s May lineup is filled with resplendent restorations and monumental new releases.

OVID’s April is set to present a week of environmental films for Earth Week, culminating with Walking on Water Wasn’t Built in a Day, shot on the first Earth Day in 1970, featuring Allen Ginsberg reflecting on the state of American culture and society; alongside The Edge of Nature, a “startling and profound” (The Guardian) doc about a filmmaker who, suffering from Long COVID, isolates himself in a one-room cabin in his beloved Pennsylvania forest.

We invited the team at Narrow Margin to curate their own selection of films from OVID’s vast collection, and they found gems even we forgot we had!

OVID is bursting with docs of the highest caliber for March, with 21 new films and 14 exclusives!

The team at OR Books are so impressed with OVID’s unique and alternative curation that they accepted our request to share their staff picks for your viewing pleasure! Hidden in the cavernous back room of the Francis Kite Club in Manhattan’s East Village, OR Books amplifies dissident, progressive voices.

For February, OVID presents 16 new films and nine exclusives! To mark Black History Month, OVID will exclusively premiere The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti, which weaves personal narrative with political history to trace how American racial practices extended beyond U.S. borders during the brutal occupation of Haiti in the early 20th century.

This month, OVID presents 27 new films and 20 exclusives, including The Divine Sarah Bernhardt (pictured above), a romantic biopic about the world’s first diva and “intimate window onto the fine, paroxysmic line between the person and the celebrity.” (Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa)

This month, OVID and Several Futures conspire to bring you Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s The Temple Woods Gang, an original take on the heist genre named one of the 10 best films of 2023 by Cahiers du Cinéma. Plus, new restorations of Heiny Srour’s The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984), both key works of feminist filmmaking in the Middle East. The first Arab woman to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival, Srour’s The Hour “remains the most striking visual record of the Dhofar Rebellion” (Bidoun),…