4K Restoration Feature followed by “IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001”, Wong Kar Wai’s rarely-screened short film Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate […]
After a series of mysterious and debilitating allergic reactions to food, Cora (27), joins a radical community of people who claim to be fed by light, forgoing all physical nourishment. Drawn to this idea like a moth to a flame, Cora falls headfirst into this community, and its promise of transcending the corporeal nature of […]
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 […]
February 1st screening with filmmaker Oksana Karpovych in attendance Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of phone calls Russian soldiers made from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia, painting a stark picture of the cruelty of war in a dizzying emotional tension. Juxtaposed with images of the destruction caused by […]
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 […]
4K Restoration In Memory of Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Fransisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When […]
Elizabeth, a proud sex worker and burlesque dancer, begins to question her choices after meeting a new client with a disability who challenges her perception of intimacy. She shares her doubts with her roommate and friend Caroline, who disapproves of her growing empathy. Junna Chif’s debut film approaches sexuality and disability with sensitivity and respect. […]
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 […]