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Daily Stream: Wex virtual screenings as of June 12

Jun 11, 2020

The Porcher family in the 2019 documentary For They Know Not What They Do

Here's what the Wex Film/Video team has for you to watch this week. It's a mix of free exclusives and features presented in partnership with independent distributors that help support the work we do.

Premiering today: For They Know Not What They Do

A father and son pray together in a scene from the documentary They Know Not What They Do

Image courtesy First Run Features

"Has an emotional impact that not many docs can equal."—Hollywood Reporter

Commemorate Pride month by spending time with For They Know Not What They Do, a thoughtful documentary that looks at four families navigating the confluence of religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity in today’s America. The film is the latest release by Daniel Karslake, director of the acclaimed doc For the Bible Tells Us So.

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Holding: Cincinnati Goddamn

Two African American children participate in a protest, with one holding up a sign that reads No Justice No Peace, in a scene from the documentary Cincinnati Goddamn

Image courtesy of the filmmakers

“I wanted to tell a story that was as hard-hitting and effective as it could possibly be, and get an audience member enraged enough that he or she would want to take action.”—codirector and Wex Film/Video Studio Editor Paul Hill in Columbus Monthly 

Read more about the film and watch for free through June 18.

Holding: Papicha

A group of young women celebrating in a scene from the film Papicha

Images above and at top of page courtesy of Disturb Films US

"Fashion and female friendship become tools of resistance in “Papicha,” Mounia Meddour’s partly autobiographical feature whose extreme tonal flips — from gaiety to trauma, tenderness to tragedy — only make it all the more touching."—New York Times

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Holding: Yourself and Yours

Scene from the Hong Sang Soo film Yourself and Yours with a couple standing by one another

Image courtesy of Cinema Guild

"An inspired reversal of Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire, which had two different actresses playing the same woman, the film casts one actress playing multiple versions of herself — or so it would seem."—Variety

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Holding: Circumstantial Pleasures

Scene from Lewis Klahr's film Circumstantial Pleasures with a fist punching through a circle

Image courtesy of the artist

"Circumstantial Pleasures uses a variety of photos and illustrations—of everything from drugstore shelves to plastic gloves and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—to paint a hectic, unnerving portrait of contemporary times."—Columbus Dispatch

Read more about the film and watch for free through June 18.

Holding: Joan of Arc

A scene from Bruno Dumont's film Joan of Arc with Joan standing next to a man in fur cloak

Image courtesy of KimStim

"Adapting a play by Charles Péguy, Dumont turns the tale into a dialectical spectacle: he stages military musters like Busby Berkeley productions, seethes at the torturers’ rationalizations, delights in hearing his actors declaim the scholars’ sophistries, and thrills in the pugnacious simplicity of Joan’s defiant responses, which reduce her captors’ pride to ridicule."—The New Yorker

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