Release Date: July 10

This documentary delves into the life and work of pioneering architect R.M. Schindler and offers a rare insight into his profound impact on Modern Architecture. It traces his journey from the influence of turn-of-the-century Vienna to his collaboration with the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright. It investigates Schindler’s philosophy of Space Architecture as contrasted with the dominant International Style championed by his friend turned rival, Richard Neutra. Narrated by Academy Award winner Meryl Streep and featuring interviews with renowned architects - including Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, and Steven Holl - the film reveals the struggles of a creative genius who refuses to compromise his vision.

North America / Architecture

Release date: August 21

In the immersive documentary Never Stop Chasing, legendary storm chaser Reed Timmer pursues a life hunting the world’s most violent weather. Haunted by the tragic death of his mentor, Tim Samaras, in the historic 2013 El Reno tornado, and the sudden loss of his best friend and long-time chase partner, Joel Taylor, Reed’s life on the edge takes a severe emotional toll. Driven by an unshakeable compulsion, he pushes his mind and body to the absolute limit in pursuit of the perfect storm.

Operating the custom-built, armored "Dominator 3," Reed and his eclectic crew—Connor, Mike, Edgar, and "Local Man"—plunge directly into the impact zones of apocalyptic supercells. Despite holding a Ph.D. in meteorology, Reed’s highly aggressive intercept tactics constantly put him at odds with a traditional scientific establishment that frequently dismisses his controversial approach. The film captures the duality of their extreme lifestyle: the euphoric highs of intercepting a tornado alongside an embedded New York Times reporter, and the terrifying lows of being overtaken by a massive wedge tornado inside their vehicle.

When the Dominator suffers a catastrophic engine failure, the team is forced to continue their pursuit in a vulnerable rental car. This fateful decision places them directly in the path of the devastating 2024 Greenfield tornado. Confronting the horrific human toll left in the storm's wake, Reed and his team must reconcile the adrenaline of the chase with the profound destruction they witness. Ultimately, the renegade crew captures unprecedented visual data that forces the meteorological establishment to finally validate Reed's methods, cementing a historic breakthrough in tornado science.

North America / Adventure

Contact Tom Hassell and/or Jon Friedman for booking

Release date: August 28

A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable car’s wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.

With a startling sense of immediacy, Hanging by a Wire transports viewers to rural Battagram, in northern Pakistan, to witness this harrowing scene unfold, which quickly becomes international news. With the clock ticking and pressure mounting, regional authorities, army commandos, and courageous local community members undertake dramatic risks to save the cable car passengers. Fault lines around class emerge in the process, begging the question of whose knowledge and expertise is valued and whose is instead dismissed, as well as why proper transportation infrastructure is lacking in these remote areas. Drawing from up-close drone footage, on-the-ground recordings from the assembled community of onlookers, and skillful reenactments featuring actual participants from the incident, director Mohammed Ali Naqvi constructs a riveting, unforgettable documentary thriller.

North America / Adventure

Release date: September 17

More than 30 years after Iran issued a fatwa, a religious decree calling for author Salman Rushdie’s death over The Satanic Verses, Rushdie traveled to Chautauqua to speak about the United States as a sanctuary for exiled writers and artists. The event marked the 20th anniversary of a writer-refuge program — a setting meant to celebrate safety and creative freedom. It was there, in an unrelated incident, that a young man rushed the stage, intent on killing him with a knife. Using excerpts from Rushdie’s works, including his powerful memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Alex Gibney’s documentary is both a striking testament to freedom of expression and a defiant response to the attempt on Rushdie’s life.

The film incorporates never-before-seen footage shot by Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, in the days and weeks following the attack. This material offers a graphic, unflinching, and deeply intimate account of what happened. It also traces Rushdie’s physical and spiritual recovery, including the challenges he continues to face, from losing an eye to the reduced use of one hand.

Knife blends reportage with fictionalized dialogues to explore the mindset of the attacker, probing the “why” behind the violence. At its core, the film is a portrait of resilience — of Rushdie’s own extraordinary strength and the love that carried him through — and a call to action against censorship and hatred. It argues that art itself can be a form of resistance.

In Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, Gibney, working with longtime collaborators Andy Grieve (editor) and Will Bates (composer), crafts a poetic dreamscape that reflects how Rushdie views his writing as his own “knife,” a tool to fight back, reclaim his story, and respond to violence with imagination and art.

North America / Social/ Political

Release date: September 25

In One More Time, director Andrè Gregory and actors Larry Pine and Gerry Bamman, revisit Samuel Beckett’s post-apocalyptic masterpiece, Endgame, a play they first staged in the 1960s when they were in their twenties and have returned to five times over the years. Now in their eighties and nineties, they reunite to perform it once more. Directed by Cindy Kleine, and Co-Directed by Andre Gregory (My Dinner With Andre), this tender and unexpectedly uplifting work interweaves present-day rehearsals – at once demanding, humorous, and deeply felt – with archival fragments from their storied careers, to become a moving meditation on art, time and memory, as well as on the ways Beckett’s vision has come to mirror both our world and their own lives.

North America / Art / Theater

Contact Cindy Banach for booking