Icarus Films

10/30/2025

"A milestone in the portrayal of s*x in the cinema." —FrenchFilms.org

The restoration of Marc Allégret's LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER (1955) is OUT NOW on Blu-ray. Orders now shipping. A beautiful limited-edition slipcover version is only available via Vinegar Syndrome, OCN Distribution, and at select indie retailers ▶️ Also now available to rent on Icarus Films On Demand, rent/buy on Apple TV, Prime Video, Vimeo On Demand, and stream on OVID

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10/30/2025

10/29/2025

Happy 90th birthday to filmmaker Peter Watkins! "The most prescient, innovative, and accomplished of overlooked English-language movie masters." —Amy Taubin

In Geoff Bowie's THE UNIVERSAL CLOCK, we see Watkins in Paris shooting LA COMMUNE, his six-hour epic film on the bloody insurrection that shook the French capital in 1871. Rent both films now on Icarus Films On Demand, stream on OVID, or purchase on DVD box set 🔗 ▶️ https://icarusfilms.com/if-ladx

10/29/2025

60 years ago today, October 29th 1965, Moroccan revolutionary Ben Barka was abducted on a Paris street and murdered; his body was never found, nor were the culprits positively identified.

By documenting Barka's life, accomplishments, and dedication to his country and people, Simone Bitton's documentary BEN BARKA: THE MOROCCAN EQUATION unearths the story of one of Morocco's greatest and most controversial political figures—and answers the question, "Who wanted him dead?"

"This superb portrait of the anti-colonial militant Ben Barka serves to remind us of what the Morocco of today owes him." —Les Inrockuptibles

Watch now, exclusively on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 ▶️ https://icarusfilms.com/if-ben

10/28/2025

Acquisition news ‼️📣

Icarus Films proudly announces the acquisition of North American distribution rights for FIUME O MORTE! directed by Igor Bezinović, selected as Croatia’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, and shortlisted for the European Film Awards, Best Feature Documentary category. The deal was negotiated with Bojana Maric from Lightdox.

Winner of both the Tiger Award and the Fipresci prize at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, and also winner for best film, director, and screenplay at the Adriatic Film & TV Awards, Croatian director Igor Bezinović’s inventive hybrid film is a defiantly punk direct-action history lesson, deadly serious yet hilariously surreal.

In 1919, the Italian poet, dandy, and glorifier of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume (now Croatia’s Rijeka) retell and reinterpret the 16-month occupation of their city, regarded as one of the most bizarre military sieges of all time.

FIUME O MORTE! depicts D’Annunzio as a vain, image-obsessed trailblazer of political showmanship (which should ring a bell or two), adapting the performative propaganda employed during the siege to create a descent into chaos that is shockingly prescient.

“A novel approach to historical drama, realized with daring, skill, and sardonic wit.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker

10/23/2025

Seattle! ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958 – 1989 comes to Northwest Film Forum from October 25! Get your tickets!

“CRITIC’S PICK! AN EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY…This sprawling, continually engrossing assemblage from Göran Hugo Olsson (THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE) is built entirely from material shown on Swedish public television. Its subject is not only the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also how the news was mediated for Swedish viewers by a dominant broadcaster with a mandate for impartiality.” —Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times

Israel Palestine on Swedish Television 1958–1989 is the definitive cinematic account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through unique footage

10/21/2025

With former French president Nicolas Sarkozy heading off to prison, there's no better time to watch SARKOZY – GADDAFI: THE SCANDAL OF ALL SCANDALS, a riveting look at one of the most remarkable French political scandals in decades.

Now available to rent and buy on Vimeo on Demand ▶️ vimeo.com/ondemand/sarkozygaddafi

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, reported to a prison in Paris weeks after his conviction in a corruption trial.

10/19/2025

Comic heros Matamata and Pilipili, an African answer to Laurel and Hardy, delighted Congolese moviegoers. But not until filmmaker Tristan Bourland recovered the original negatives from archives in Belgium were the films viewed outside of Africa.

Watch Tristan Bourland's MATAMATA AND PILIPILI exclusively on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-mata

10/18/2025

From the director of BELOW THE CLOUDS,Gianfranco Rosi's EL SICARIO, ROOM 164 is set in an anonymous motel room on the U.S./Mexico border, as a Ciudad Juarez hitman speaks to the camera. With his face obscured by a black mesh hood, he tells us his story inside the very room he once used to hold andtorture kidnapped victims.

"His unadorned mixture of boastfulness, self-flagellation, and willingness to underline Mexican and U.S. bureaucrats' complicity with the bloodthirsty agenda of the "narcos" possesses a raw power that needs no embellishment."—Cineaste

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-sic

10/17/2025

10/16/2025

Philosopher, Marxist, professor, murderer. More than a quarter century after his death, Louis Althusser, in 1918, one of the most influential leftist thinkers of the 20th century, remains an enigmatic figure.

Watch ALTHUSSER, AN INTELLECTUAL ADVENTURE now on Icarus Films On Demand 🔗 icarusfilms.com/if-alt

10/16/2025

"The four decades that it does cover provide essential context for the ones that follow. There is no understanding 2025 without understanding what happened in 1965 and 1985... In tracing the roots of one of the preeminent humanitarian issues of our time — through the same intimate lens the filmmaker first encountered it — Olsson has produced one of the most complete cinematic documents about a political conflict in recent memory.” —Siddhant Adlakha on Göran Hugo Olsson’s ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958–1989 for Truthdig

ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958–1989 opens TOMORROW Oct 17th at Laemmle Royal Laemmle Royal + held over through to Oct 23rd at Film Forum NYC

Archival documentarian Göran Hugo Olsson tells the story of Israel and Palestine through decades of Swedish public television footage.