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Tokyo Story (1953)

March 15, 2025

“Isn’t life disappointing?” Quite a question, and it gets a profound answer in Ozu’s highly influential mega-masterpiece, Tokyo Story, which has long been considered one of the greatest films of all time for a simple reason… it is. The plot is simplicity itself: an aging couple come to the big city to see their grown […]

I’m Still Here (2024)

March 21, 2025

The surprise Oscar contender of the year. A phenomenon in Brazil, director Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road) first film in 12 years seemingly came out of nowhere to score nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best International Feature. This powerful, poignant historical drama about Brazil’s military dictatorship in the early 1970s […]

I’m Still Here (2024)

March 21, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. The surprise Oscar contender of the year. A phenomenon in Brazil, director Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road) first film in 12 years seemingly came out of nowhere […]

Dune (1984)

March 22, 2025

David Lynch’s Dune is a maddening failure. But what a failure! After Eraserhead set midnight audiences’ brains on fire, and Mel Brooks shepherded The Elephant Man into an art house hit, Lynch was offered the chance to move up to the Big Leagues and helm Return of the Jedi. He opted to adapt Frank Herbert’s […]

Eraserhead (1977)

March 22, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. David Lynch’s debut feature started as a student project in 1970 and ended up being one of the defining midnight movies during the heyday of that subculture in the late-’70s. […]

Hard Truths (2024)

March 27, 2025

Acclaimed filmmaker and playwright Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world—after his prickly biopic Mr. Turner and his uprising epic Peterloo—with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the frayed ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste […]

No Other Land (2024)

April 3, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. *This film has multiple showtimes, please take care to select the correct one* Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli […]

No Other Land (2024)

April 4, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. *This film has multiple showtimes, please take care to select the correct one* Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli […]

No Other Land (2024)

April 4, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. *This film has multiple showtimes, please take care to select the correct one* Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli […]

No Other Land (2024)

April 5, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. *This film has multiple showtimes, please take care to select the correct one* Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli […]

No Other Land (2024)

April 5, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. *This film has multiple showtimes, please take care to select the correct one* Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli […]

No Other Land (2024)

April 5, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. *This film has multiple showtimes, please take care to select the correct one* Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli […]

Nickel Boys (2024)

April 10, 2025

“A stunning achievement” —New York Times Directed by RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys is one of the most acclaimed films of the past year, earning best picture nods from critics circles in Chicago, Boston, L.A., Toronto, and New York, as well as numerous accolades for Ross’ direction and Jomo Fray’s astounding cinematography. The film earned Oscar […]

Nickel Boys (2024)

April 10, 2025

“A stunning achievement” —New York Times Directed by RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys is one of the most acclaimed films of the past year, earning best picture nods from critics circles in Chicago, Boston, L.A., Toronto, and New York, as well as numerous accolades for Ross’ direction and Jomo Fray’s astounding cinematography. The film earned Oscar […]

Scarecrow (1973)

April 11, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Gene Hackman Weekend The great Gene Hackman—a consummate actor by any standard—passed away recently at age 95. We’re taking a weekend to say thanks by showing a couple of his […]

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

April 12, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Gene Hackman Weekend The great Gene Hackman—a consummate actor by any standard—passed away recently at age 95. We’re taking a weekend to say thanks by showing a couple of his […]

Misericordia (2024)

April 18, 2025

Named the best film of the year by the storied French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Alain Guiraudie’s (Stranger by the Lake) kinky neo-noir is also a delectably tart Coen-esque comedy of manners. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village, in Guiraudie’s native region of Occitanie, Misericordia follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an […]

Take Out (2004)

April 19, 2025

Now that Sean Baker is the toast of Hollywood, hot off his armful of Oscars for Anora, we’re taking a look back at an early, lo-fi film from the days before he was even an indie darling. The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Take Out, which Baker co-wrote, co-directed, and […]

Memories of Murder (2003)

April 19, 2025

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Five years after Parasite fever swept across the globe—culminating in Bong Joon Ho and company winning the Oscar for Best Picture, the first and only non-English-language film do so—Bong is […]

MHFF 2025: Outsiders

April 24, 2025

VISITANT Natalie Jones | 8 | VT Two deer notice an unfamiliar presence in the forest. LOVE IN THE DESERT (L’Amour dans le désert) Aubert Sénéchal | 19 | QC On a beach on the south shore of Quebec, Jeff films a western with his son Loïc and his daughter Marion. KINTSUGI ANGEL Lukas Huffman, […]

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