While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the president’s birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity, where basic ingredients are nearly impossible to find, Lamia sets out on a determined journey throughout the big city in search of eggs, flour, and […]
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. Winner of Sundance’s Festival Favorite Award, Come See Me in the Good Light is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an […]
A big hit at the 2025 Vermont International Film Festival and winner of the 2025 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Cutting Through Rocks is a stirring portrait of courage and conviction. In a remote Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi becomes the first elected councilwoman—with bold dreams of teaching teenage girls to ride motorcycles and […]
Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha’s role in the school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrified by the […]
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. BUTTERFLY Florence Miailhe | 15 | France A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache’s life, from his rise to fame to surviving Auschwitz. FOREVERGREEN Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears | […]
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. BUTCHER’S STAIN Meyer Levinson-Blount | 26 | Israel A Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket is accused of tearing down the Israeli hostage posters in the break room. A […]
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. BUTCHER’S STAIN Meyer Levinson-Blount | 26 | Israel A Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket is accused of tearing down the Israeli hostage posters in the break room. A […]
ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS Joshua Seftel | 33 | U.S. A journalist and a photographer memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings. ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRENT RENAUD Craig Renaud, Brent Renaud | 38 | U.S. An intimate chronicle about the first American journalist killed […]
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. BUTTERFLY Florence Miailhe | 15 | France A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache’s life, from his rise to fame to surviving Auschwitz. FOREVERGREEN Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears | […]
ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS Joshua Seftel | 33 | U.S. A journalist and a photographer memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings. ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRENT RENAUD Craig Renaud, Brent Renaud | 38 | U.S. An intimate chronicle about the first American journalist killed […]
“Illuminates richly human connections with stirring observational portraiture.” —Filmmaker Magazine The Shepherd and the Bear follows an aging shepherd facing down a rapidly changing landscape. High in the majestic French Pyrenees, where Yves and his family have eked out a living for generations, he struggles to find a successor, hoping to pass the torch to […]
“Illuminates richly human connections with stirring observational portraiture.” —Filmmaker Magazine The Shepherd and the Bear follows an aging shepherd facing down a rapidly changing landscape. High in the majestic French Pyrenees, where Yves and his family have eked out a living for generations, he struggles to find a successor, hoping to pass the torch to […]
Winner of 10 Ariel Awards—the premier prize given out by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences—Like Water for Chocolate made inroads into U.S. cinema like few other films ever before, surpassing the longstanding I Am Curious (Yellow) to become the highest grossing foreign-language at the time. Americans certainly like their imports sexy. Set […]
Tran Anh Hung’s (The Taste of Things) “luxuriant, visually seductive debut” (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam as seen through the wide eyes of childhood and the whirlwind of first love. In 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty […]
A lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, Tampopo is one of the most mouthwatering food movies ever made. In this rapturous “ramen western,” written and directed by Juzo Itami, an eccentric band of culinary ronin (including Kōji Yakusho and Ken Watanabe) guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) on her […]
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen plus Johnnie Day Durand One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people […]
André Ricciardi is a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him. When he learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity. A lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur, André has never done anything the conventional way, and confronting mortality proves no different: […]
André Ricciardi is a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him. When he learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity. A lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur, André has never done anything the conventional way, and confronting mortality proves no different: […]
Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films Darren Aronofsky’s brilliantly over-cranked debut is one of the defining cult films of the ’90s, setting the benchmark by which all his subsequent gauntlets—Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, mother!—would be measured. This super low-budget guerrilla production remains singular and jarring, a headtrip surrealist puzzle wherein a […]
This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse […]