Icarus Films

05/01/2025

May 1st is International Workers' Day, a day to stand in solidarity with the international labor movement. The date chosen to commemorate the 1886 United States general strike for the eight-hour workday, International Workers' Day is recognized globally—except in the U.S.

But here at Icarus Films, we are still choosing to mark the occasion! To honor the day, we are offering a 50% discount on a curated selection of documentaries and fiction films that courageously delve into workers' issues and labor rights and imagine different economic futures 🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-icarusmayday2025

Including:

YOUTH (SPRING)
LA COMMUNE
BITTER MONEY
NO GODS NO MASTERS: A HISTORY OF ANARCHISM
AN INJURY TO ONE
MARX RELOADED
ON STRIKE! CHRIS MARKER AND THE MEDVEDKIN GROUP
and more.

Consider these films your revolutionary starter park...

Sale starts now.
50% off select Home Video DVDs & Box Sets.
May 1st, 2025, through May 8th, 2025.
Use promo code MAYDAY2025 at check out.

🔗 mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-icarusmayday2025

04/28/2025

“A comprehensive glimpse into the multifaceted experiences and struggles faced by young people in Nigeria, prompting reflection and dialogue on societal issues… thought-provoking and memorable.” —Africa Studies Review

Alain Kassanda's COCONUT HEAD GENERATION is now available to rent and buy on Vimeo on Demand ▶️ vimeo.com/ondemand/coconutheadgeneration

04/28/2025

Just announced! Acclaimed filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi is on the 2025 Cannes Jury!

Icarus Films is proud to represent 3 of Hamadi's feature length documentaries, including DOWNSTREAM TO KINSHASA - the first Congolese film to be an official selection at Festival de Cannes.

DOWNSTREAM TO KINSHASA, MAMA COLONEL, and NATIONAL DIPLOMA are all available to rent via Icarus Films On Demand. Also available to are 2 shorts films from Hamadi, LADIES IN WAITING and ZERO TOLERANCE, both included in collection CONGO IN FOUR ACTS.

Learn more 🔗 icarusfilms.com/filmmakers?id=25

Cannes Unveils 2025 Jury Members For Main Competition

04/26/2025

On this day in history, April 26, 1937, Spanish nationalists called on N**i and Italian Fascist forces to bomb the Basque town of Guernica. The horrors of the bombing led Pablo Picasso to create perhaps his greatest work, “Guernica”: a massive painting powerfully representing the horrors of war.

Restored and digitized, GUERNICA, a short film by Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens, spotlights details of the painting over a frenzied and disturbing score.

Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand ▶️ icarusfilms.com/if-guer

04/24/2025

04/24/2025

04/22/2025

April 22, 1969: a small group of Black & Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the campus, classes being canceled, students being arrested, and the resignation of the college president.

The Five Demands Film is the riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. Watch now on Icarus Films On Demand ▶️ icarusfilms.com/if-fived

04/21/2025

“Critics' Pick! Remarkable… throbs with jubilant energy. —Devika Girish, The New York Times

THE FIRST YEAR is a jubilant record of the 12 months following the election of Chile’s first socialist president, Salvador Allende. Director Patricio Guzmán travels the country, meeting workers who no longer have to answer to the caprices of bosses, fishermen hoping to be freed from predatory capitalist middlemen, and Indigenous people rising up to reclaim their land.

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

04/18/2025

Happiness Road Friday everyone! The streaming premiere for WANG BING's complete YOUTH TRILOGY starts today on OVID...

04/17/2025

04/16/2025

“A tremendously powerful work on emancipation, freedom and opportunity for women in Afghanistan.” —Cineuropa

Icarus Films is pleased to announce the acquisition of exclusive North American distribution rights in all markets for WRITING HAWA by Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori. Honored with the prestigious FIPRESCI Award and one of five IDA grantee projects premiering at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, details of a fall season theatrical release will be announced at a later date.

40 YEARS after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa is eager to finally begin an independent life and to be literate. However, with the return of the Taliban to power her dreams, and those of her daughter and granddaughter are shattered. —IDA

https://icarusfilms.com/if-whawa

04/15/2025

Icarus Films is pleased to announce the acquisition of exclusive North American distribution rights for : THE HELL OF AUSCHWITZ: MAUS BY ART SPIEGELMAN, directed by Pauline Horovitz.

With humor and finesse, the film explores Art Spiegelman's comic book masterpiece, MAUS, and its accomplishment of a double revolution: bringing the Holocaust into comics and, with it, mainstream culture, without betraying historical rigor; and establishing comics as an art of reality. He also gave a voice to the "second generation" of children of Holocaust survivors, who were buckling under the weight of a tragedy they had not experienced directly. First a bookstore phenomenon with a whiff of scandal, then an international bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, MAUS quickly became a classic. Horovitz discovered in this seminal work at the age of 13 the truth that her own family kept from her, along with its "before" and "after" in the light of her journey as a granddaughter of survivors. (Text adapted from Arte France)

Featuring: Art Spiegelman, historians Annette Wieviorka and Tal Bruttmann, Joann Sfar, Ole Frahm, Tania de Montaigne, and Emmanuel Guibert.