An "insider's" perspective on filmmakers & People responsible for films appearing on arthouse screens across USA. Hosts: Raphael Sbarge & Greg Laemmle

Joined June 2024
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Filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour reflects on the power of women’s stories and the importance of creating space for dialogue through cinema. UNIDENTIFIED continues her exploration of women navigating identity, silence in modern Saudi Arabia @sonyclassics youtu.be/S-pjXe2pqrE?si=2Zam…
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Director Haifaa Al Mansour, the groundbreaking filmmaker behind UNIDENTIFIED, reflects on her journey as a woman filmmaker in Saudi Arabia — and the changing landscape of Saudi cinema @sonyclassics @haifaamansour #unidentifiedMovie youtu.be/ltzzVtwZHuU
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In UNIDENTIFIED, director Haifaa Al Mansour uses the structure of a mystery thriller to explore something deeper: the untold stories, hidden truths, and silences surrounding women’s lives in modern Saudi Arabia. @sonyclassics @HaifaaMansour #unidentified youtube.com/shorts/i7Rzs3S1q…
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In THE CURRENTS, director Milagros Mumenthaler creates a psychological drama that resists simple explanations. She discusses the emotional ambiguity at the heart of the film — a story about identity, memory, exile. @KinoLorber youtube.com/shorts/K2s5xrUzp…
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In this clip from INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE, director Milagros Mumenthaler discusses THE CURRENTS, a haunting psychological drama about a woman whose life begins to unravel after a mysterious plunge into icy water @KinoLorber youtu.be/QP9TJozNvjg
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youtu.be/VCsPzyny3BA In THE CURRENTS, acclaimed filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler explores the mystery of a woman whose life begins to unravel after a sudden act in Switzerland. What follows is a haunting psychological drama about identity, memory & motherhood @KinoLorber
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youtu.be/MuDq2OSv200 Oscar-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan reflects on the creative process behind his film — including the idea that every filmmaker needs a muse. @TheFullEgoyan #OscarStories @Inside_Arthouse
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MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN short clip explores how humor becomes more than entertainment under authoritarian systems — it becomes a form of resistance, sanity, and survival. we look at how ordinary people use jokes, irony, and absurdity to expose power. youtube.com/shorts/WDOOtSl5b…
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, reflects on how she chooses the stories she brings to the screen. In this clip, Ben Hania discusses t the moment when a story becomes impossible to ignore. #OscarStories youtube.com/shorts/uiA-4417y…
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, joins INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE for our 100th episode, Oscar Stories, to discuss the making of her urgent and deeply moving film. @Inside_Arthouse youtu.be/ySParBSAwmY
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Oscar-winning filmmaker David Borenstein, co-director of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, breaks down how nations use propaganda to shape what people see, believe, and remember. The secret weapon in China's propaganda machine #shorts #history #china youtu.be/qYN7NSNy2Ys?si=gOgl…
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan joins INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE for our 100th episode, Oscar Stories, to discuss his film Seven Veils and the layered relationship between memory, performance, trauma, and artistic interpretation. #atomEgoyan #sevenVeils youtu.be/CJkgtMEPSDo
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, director of 2000 Meters to Andrivka joins INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE for our 100th episode, Oscar Stories, to reflect on the power and responsibility of bearing witness through documentary film. youtu.be/PJ5sf4V5s-M
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For our 100th episode of INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE, we begin where the show began: with the belief that movies matter most when they are shared. This special milestone episode celebrates Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmakers. youtu.be/Y21M-fMTcaQ
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Director Sara Dosa reflects on her new film Time and Water. She speaks to the film’s fluid sense of temporality, where past, present & future move less like a straight line & more like a current — inviting us to experience cinema as something immersive. youtube.com/shorts/Xo9hMcQZ1…
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“There’s something so baffling and inspiring about the documentary process.” Oscar-nominated director Sara Dosa discusses the magic of nonfiction filmmaking, and the unpredictable beauty of discovering a story in real time @natgeodocs youtu.be/zajc8DAed44
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Can a film hold the past and future at the same time? Oscar-nominated director Sara Dosa explains TIME AND WATER -- a “polytemporal” film where memory, glaciers, family archives, the future all speak @natgeodocs #TimeAndWater #SaraDosa youtube.com/watch?v=SIFIKB3Y…
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sara Dosa, director of Fire of Love, discusses her new National Geographic Documentary Films documentary TIME AND WATER — and the film’s polytemporal approach to storytelling youtu.be/aOo6JLq1zAs @natgeodocs
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Leonard Bernstein believed art could do more than entertain. He believed it could reach people, challenge them, and maybe even change the world. INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE conversation with BERNSTEIN’S WALL director Douglas Tirola. @bernsteinfilm youtube.com/shorts/YoJ7EbkgR…
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In this clip from our conversation with BERNSTEIN’S WALL director Douglas Tirola, we talk about Bernstein’s restless, brilliant, and often complicated relationship with music, fame, conscience, and public life. @bernsteinfilm youtube.com/shorts/B5xCvFYWx…
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