Online Cinema Initiatives

PBS.org (USA only) Point of view (POV)

Streaming of documentaries on contemporary social issues. Not available outside the USA. 

Aflamuna Online https://www.aflamuna.online/


aflamuna (our films) is an initiative launched by a group of arab filmmakers and film institutions, lead by Beirut DC. During these hard times - and hopefully long after they’ve passed - we will be bringing you some of the best, most thought-provoking and independently-minded works of contemporary Arab cinema to enjoy for free on this website for a limited time. A new issue will be released (at least) every 15 days.
Our current partners include Abbout Productions and mec film.

CINEMA Puerto Rico. https://cine.pr/movies/

Shortly after the global pandemic started impacting the United States, a list started circulating on the internet of feature and short films with streaming links made by Puerto Rican filmmakers—both in the island and in the diaspora. Assembled by art historian and independent curator Marina Reyes Franco and filmmaker Gisela Rosario Ramos, the original idea behind the list was to create a collaborative document of films to watch during the quarantine and make it accessible to a larger audience.
Web designer Javier W. Vélez decided to go a step further and in five days quickly produced a dynamic and attractive online platform with the information gathered. Thus arose the website Cine.PR, a new and extensive tool for Puerto Rican cinema that was launched last Tuesday, March 24, with an initial 200 titles in its pages.
"As soon as I came across this collaborative document, I found it interesting, but I realized that the search was a bit complicated, so I said to myself, ‘There has to be a better way to organize and categorize all this material,’” Vélez told El Nueva Día newspaper about how the platform came about.
The list includes synopses and links to the films, many of them available to stream for free. Vélez reorganized all the material and created a visual design for the online platform. He collected posters for all of the titles, and designed ones for those films without one. He also verified all of the screening links, added categories and filters to enhance the search process.
Cine.PR is available at www.cine.pr.

Cinema Tropical, the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the U.S., has compiled a list of the Best Ten Latin American Films of the Decade (2010-2019), based on a poll of 97 international film festival and cinemathèque programmers.
In total, 234 films representing 17 Latin American countries were nominated for the distinction of being Best of the Decade, demonstrating the high quality and diversity of films from the region.
We’ve updated the list with the streaming platforms where you can watch 25 of the top films (please note most platforms are only available in the U.S. and Canada). Click here for the complete list of films and poll participants.

RTVE "SOMOS CINE"

Películas disponibles en España. ¡Lo mejor del cine español contemporáneo en una cantidad de géneros!
https://www.rtve.es/television/somos-cine/


Five Anti-Capitalist Films to Watch While in Isolation.

https://indypendent.org/2020/04/three-anti-capitalist-documentaries-to-stream-during-the-shutdown/

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