An ex-roommate owes Pablo two months’ rent, he misses his “hilarious” YouTuber ex-boyfriend, and the dog he’s been saddled with keeps knocking over things in his apartment. Or so he thinks. A ghost is about to teach Pablo a lesson in connection – how it’s achieved and the ways it dissolves. To make ends meet, […]
Queer Fighters is a selection of shorts depicting both the history of queer people in Ukraine and their current life, struggles, and aspirations, including during full-scale war with Russia. THE SECRET, THE GIRL AND THE BOY OKSANA KAZMINA | UKRAINE | 2018 | 13 MIN | RUSSIAN S.-T.EN. The Girl and the Boy play in a […]
A sexual awakening and subsequent estrangement complicate the musical relationship of a soulful Shery Bechara (lead guitar) and live wire Lilas Mayassi (rhythm guitar), whose electric chemistry provides both the tension and potential death knell of their taboo-courting group. As they work through ideas, arguing about tempos and studying performances, their unspoken conflicts create an […]
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April 28th screening with filmmaker Catherine Martin in attendance Junichiro Tanizaki’s literary essay In Praise of Shadows, light and dark, and the origins of photography and cinema are among the strands interwoven in this “cinematic meditation” in three chapters. Fleeting shadows ebb and flow in a glistening half-light, an enchanted dreamlike state that reflects on […]
Unfairly shunned by critics at the time of its release in 2003, Jane Campion’s In the Cut is inspired by Susanna Moore’s novel of the same name, reclaiming the tropes of the erotic thriller with a new perspective. After witnessing an event related to a brutal femicide, a New York teacher gets tangled up with […]
NEW 4K RESTORATION Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The set-up is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles—a police officer (Leung) assigned to […]
Maria, Dan and Ilinca take part in their regular end-of-the-year humanitarian trip, driving an SUV along the mountain dirt roads of the Romanian village of Întregalde. They help a lonely old man reach a sawmill where he supposedly works. But when their car gets stuck in a ditch in the woods, the sawmill proves to […]
February 18th screening with filmmaker Olivier Godin in attendance Ducarmel (Emery Habwineza) is an anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet, and an expert soup-maker in his spare time. He also happens to play in a competitive mixed basketball league. There’s only one problem to his life: finding a babysitter to look after his daughter. Moreover, when […]