Sometimes stories are just too crazy to have been written, which is why documentaries are one of the grand pillars of film. However, you would be hard pressed to consistently find them playing in the city’s theaters. This Sunday, cinéma vérité will have a permanent New York screening room when the Maysles Cinema, a nonprofit theater in Harlem, opens their doors. ‘Strangers in Strange Lands’, an 11-film series of travelogues by French directors, opens this Sunday.

Their site states that, “We aim to foster a democratic viewing experience by selecting and presenting movies in collaboration with independent filmmakers, programmers, critics, local film clubs and organizations.”

The theater is part of the Maysles Institute, which was launched three years ago and hosts film education programs. This mixture of a teaching and viewing center produced an extremely interesting and well thought out calendar. 

If you want to loose yourself someone else’s extraordinary tale, the Maysles Cinema is located in Harlem at Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard building (between 127th and 128th streets) and has a suggested donation of $7.