What to Watch Right Now

A struggling Asian American Theater company decides to put on a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado.

A young woman's husband is mysteriously taken away from her at dawn. She tries to mourn by remembering him through objects and imitation but this leads to a destructive discovery of her desires towards the mysterious entities that took her husband away. She finds herself in a realistic limbo of unexpected desires.

After 15 years in the business, Stuart Beattie has learned a thing or two about how to make characters sing (or sting) on the page. Listen in as he describes how to stay hungry when you can't get anyone to read your scripts and how he came up with Pirates of the Caribbean and Collateral.

In 1985, Mark Craig bought an answer machine. He then kept every message it recorded - for 20 years.

MIT EIGENEN AUGEN takes a look behind the scenes of MONITOR's editorial work. The multi-award-winning ARD political magazine produced by WDR has been known for critical and investigative journalism since 1965. Director Miguel Müller-Frank observes the discussions and research in the WDR rooms in a concentrated and close-up way. In the process, it becomes clear under what pressure the journalists are in their daily work. A differentiated, unique insight into the reality of journalistic work. There can be no better plea for freedom of the press and fact-oriented journalism. A unique look into the work at MONITOR - against all propaganda of the lying press and FakeNews.

A film director agrees to a dark pact to help his career take off. When he summons the cast and crew to his house for a first-cut screening, they will have to survive a reality they never saw coming.

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh in 1971 now roams the streets, 30 years later, as a mad person.

In a blasted, post-apocalyptic wasteland two women try to survive a near future where the very colours which surround them have become corrupted by something alien, infectious - And deadly.

In 1970s Melbourne, Australia, a group of students made a stand for gay pride at a time when homosexuality was criminalised and discrimination and abuse was widespread.

The "I" and "S" of "Lives" are the smoothest area of resistance. A rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) navigates the letters on the pavement of Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C. on a summer afternoon, 2020.

Just out of jail, Fai finds a spot on a street corner where other homeless people welcome him. But he doesn't get much time to settle in. The police soon chase them away, and their possessions disappear into a garbage truck. Young social worker Ms Ho thinks it's time to fight this in court. In the meantime, Fai and his friends have other concerns.

On a desert ranch, Grant Wilson rules a made-up nation with his family as his only subjects. When his son takes the mission too far and his daughter questions everything, Grant fights for control in the face of family, country, and reality.

One evening in L.A., a group of womxn gather to learn how to take back the speculum.