Argot Pictures

03/10/2025

OCTOBER screenings!
Hey friends, BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SKY will be playing at various locations this month! Check out the schedule below:

10/5 - Enzian Theater, Enzian FL
10/9 - Port Jefferson Documentary Series, Port Jefferson NY
10/30 - Rialto Cinemas, Sebastopol CA

Excited to see you there!

19/09/2025

NY friends!
Starting today, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS will be screening at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY for a week!

👉 Mark your calendars for 9/21 for special guest Director Julia Loktev in person!

🎟 Follow the link for tickets

Julia Loktev, Russia, Journalism, Free speech, Authoritarianism, Ukraine,

14/09/2025

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW has been held over for a 5th and FINAL week at Film Forum!

Last day you'll be able to see it is September 18th, so make sure you get your tickets soon!

04/09/2025

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW has been held over for another week at Film Forum!

“it is BRILLIANT, RIVETING, VITAL, DEVASTATING…"
– Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times

Directed by Julia Loktev. Opens Friday, August 15 at Film Forum.

03/09/2025

TOMORROW New Orleans!
Don't miss your chance to see a special screening of Werner Herzog's THEATER OF THOUGHT, tomorrow 9/4 at The Broad Theater

👉 Live music with Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux & Colin Dempsey of The Amygdaloids after the film!

🎟 Visit our website for tickets

01/09/2025

BAY AREA screenings!
BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SKY is coming to the Bay Area!
A tale of love, resilience, and found family, directed by Jeremy Power Regimbal.

9/6 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, Berkeley - 4:00 PM
9/7 at California Film Institute, San Rafael - 4:30 PM

👉 Maggie Doyne and Jeremy Power Regimbal will both be in attendance for a live Q&A after the screenings!

30/08/2025

New Orleans friends!
Werner Herzog's THEATER OF THOUGHT is coming to NOLA on September 4th!

👉 For one night only - Thu 9/4 screening at The Broad Theater 7:00PM followed by live music with Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux & Colin Dempsey of The Amygdaloids

"A quintessentially Herzogian fusion of hope, horror, humor and heart." - The Hollywood Reporter

Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness, daring us to question whether […]

29/08/2025

Julia Loktev's newest documentary MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW

“A chilling portrait of how authoritarianism works. It looks eerily familiar right now."
– David Fear, Rolling Stone

27/08/2025

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
Directed by Julia Loktev, this story of independent journalists fighting Putin in the months leading up to the invasion of Ukraine is a front row seat to how authoritarianism works.

🎟 Now screening at Film Forum

23/08/2025

How do you fight for the truth when your country declares you an outlaw?
We're excited to share our newest acquisition MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS directed by Julia Loktev.

This documentary follows a group of independent journalists in Moscow as they navigate the escalating censorship of Putin’s regime in the months leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The film intimately documents their everyday lives, capturing both moments of normalcy and mounting dread, as these young reporters confront harassment and existential risks for simply telling the truth.

🎟 Currently playing at Film Forum

"Perhaps the most essential investment of time you can make in a movie theater this year... A shattering portrayal of an authoritarian government using misinformation, isolation and war to control its citizens.” - The New York Times

Directed by Julia Loktev. Opens Friday, August 15 at Film Forum.

22/08/2025

Sag Harbor friends!
BURDEN OF DREAMS will be playing at Sag Harbor Cinema for a week starting TODAY August 22nd!

Don't miss your chance to see this amazing 4K restoration that chronicles the chaotic and perilous production of Werner Herzog's epic film Fitzcarraldo in the Peruvian jungle.

🎟 Follow the link to get your tickets!

Burden of Dreams captures legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo, in which an entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle, one thousand miles away from civilization.

21/08/2025

Tomorrow!
THEATER OF THOUGHT is playing Thursday, August 21 at The Callicoon Theater 7:30PM!

👉Screening followed by a discussion and special performance by Joseph LeDoux and Colin Dempsey

See you there Callicoon!

"Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness, daring us to question whether we truly have autonomy over our thoughts, or if our brains will inevitably become infused with mind-controlling technology in the not so distant future."