A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them begins a passionate affair with a younger woman. By director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange), PASSAGES is a fresh, honest and brutally funny take on messy, modern relationships and stars Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom), Ben Whishaw (Women Talking) and Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is […]

Based on the novel by Nella Larsen, the movie follows two African-American women who can pass as white and choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1929 New York. *Sundance Film Festival 2021

A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in differing ways with friends, family, and lovers in this drama. Valerie is an author in her early thirties who has just moved to Berlin, while her best friend Sophie will be spending the summer in Rome.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny. *Competition – Berlin Film Festival 2023 *Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Picture – Oscars 2024

May 16th screening with filmmaker Denis Côté in attendance Paul struggles with depression and social anxiety. He leads a solitary and routine-bound existence spent mostly at home. But, as a big fan of “Alice in Wonderland”, he is always thinking up new ways to make his world brighter and more ornate. Seeking safety and security, […]

  Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.

PAYING FOR IT is a live-action adaptation of acclaimed alternative-cartoonist Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel. In the late 90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their relationship, Chester, an introverted cartoonist, starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. PAYING […]

New 4K Restoration A powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema and Lee Chang Dong’s second directorial feature, Peppermint Candy spans 20 years in the life of one man, Yongho, from his callow teens through his fraught, self-hating middle age. Presented in seven chapters in reverse-chronological order, the film begins with Yongho’s untimely suicide and […]

New 4K Restoration The groundbreaking and rarely screened first film from the legendary director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent). Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren’t ready to see her go… Encouraged by her managers, Mima takes on a recurring role on […]

Hirayama is content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Unexpected encounters reveal more of his story in a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the world around us. *Best Actor Prize (Kôji Yakusho) […]