Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: Dances of Universal Peace
2025-09-13 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Denver) | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Dances of Universal Peace with Waduda and Jahanara.
The Dances of Universal Peace are a joyful, embodied, sacred practice of sound and movement. The chants and movements are powerful, but simple and repetitive, and easily accessible, even to beginners. Everything is taught in the moment so anyone can join.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: One Mind - A Zen Pilgrimage
2025-09-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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ONE MIND is a rare cinematic portrait of life inside one of China’s most austere and revered Zen communities. The monks at Zhenru Chan Monastery continue to uphold a strict monastic code established over 1200 years ago by the founding patriarchs of Zen in China.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: Women of Tibet Gylayum Chemo – The Great Mother
2025-09-13 14:00 - 15:40 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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WOMEN OF TIBET: GYALYUM CHEMO – THE GREAT MOTHER, director Rosemary Rawcliffe
Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo – The Great Mother recounts the compelling story of Dekyi Tsering, the mother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Dekyi Tsering, known by Tibetans as ‘Gyalyum Chemo’ or ‘Great Mother,’ gave birth to 16 children, three of whom were recognized as incarnate lamas. Weaving anecdotal threads and personal reflections from her children, grandchildren, and friends, with never before seen photographs from their family collections and rare footage of Tibet, the film offers an intimate glimpse into Tibet’s first family and the woman who inspired them. His Holiness talks about how his mother helped shape the man he is today and the relationship between healthy family and healthy humanity, and how it all begins with a mothers love. Dr. Marion Woodman (Addiction to Perfection), Alice Walker (The Color Purple), and Angeles Arrien (The Second Half of Life) link this uniquely Tibetan story to a much broader perspective of motherhood and how the Great Mother lives within each of us. 97 minutes

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: BORN I book reading and performance "Lyrical Dharma"
2025-09-13 16:15 - 18:15 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Lyrical Dharma: A Journey through Music and Mindfulness. This will be an immersive experience blending spoken word, live performance and readings.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: O Mother Gaia The World of Gary Snyder
2025-09-13 19:00 - 20:45 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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O MOTHER GAIA – THE WORLD OF GARY SNYDER, director Colin Still
This is the first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. A participant in the famed 1955 Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco that launched the Beat era (and the careers of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac), Snyder later lived and studied in Japan, becoming a Zen teacher. He is the model for the character of Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s bestselling novel, The Dharma Bums.
The film was skillfully assembled and remastered from the filmmaker’s original 1990s 16mm footage shot for British television, and offers a vivid self portrait of the famously elusive poet and essayist through his poems and commentary. Filmed on location at his Kitkitdizzie/Ring of Bone Zendo home in the Sierra and other locations connected with him, it also features key archival footage from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as contemporaneous readings and commentary by Peter Coyote, Jane Hirshfield, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Shoemaker, and Michael McClure, and a precious interview with Snyder’s late wife Carole Koda. 102 minutes.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: The Lion's Roar
2025-09-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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THE LION’S ROAR, director Mark Elliott
This is the masterful portrait of the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the great Tibetan Buddhist master known as the Black Hat Lama. The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage, one of the four great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. His line of successive reincarnations has its origins in the 13th century when it was the first to identify tulkus, reincarnations of Buddhist teachers. He is recognized as the embodiment of the teachings of his lineage, one that traces its source from teacher to disciple through Tibet’s great teachers Milarepa and Marpa to India’s Naropa and Tilopa all the way back to the Shakyamuni Buddha. 50 minutes

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: Wisdom of Happiness
2025-09-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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WISDOM OF HAPPINESS, directors Barbara Miller & Philip Delaquis
WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is a deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at nearly 90 years old, offers practical advice for navigating the 21st century’s challenges. The film captures the Dalai Lama speaking directly to viewers, creating a sense of a private audience, and shares his timeless wisdom on achieving inner peace and happiness for everyone.
WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is a profound, new cinematic exploration of the innermost world of the Dalai Lama, perfectly attuned to our times. In an intimate heart-to-heart, the world’s greatest ambassador of compassion invites everyone along for a journey to the source of happiness. 90 minutes.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: Brakhage on Brakhage
2025-09-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE, director Colin Still
Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. 94 minutes.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: BORN I Guided Meditation and Sound Bath
2025-09-14 16:30 - 18:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Presence and sound, guided meditation and sound bath. This offering will include a short dharma talk on self-compassion and presence, followed by a guided meditation and immersive sound bath.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: Blessings The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns Of Tibet
2025-09-14 18:30 - 20:15 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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BLESSINGS: THE TSOKNYI NANGCHEN NUNS OF TIBET, director Victress Hitchcock
In 2005, Tsokyni Rinpoche, a renowned Buddhist teacher, led a group of Western women on a journey into a remote mountainous region of Eastern Tibet to visit nunneries where 3000 women were practicing an ancient yogic tradition of Buddhist teachings. This is the original longer version of the film that documented this extraordinary journey. 104 minutes
Celebrating 20 years since the pilgrimage, the film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the director Victress Hitchcock along with other members who were on the journey.

The Short Game
2025-09-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 17-20
Jeremy Avery is vying for a college golf scholarship, but his preparation and game are affected by family pressures related to his younger autistic brother Ethan. Jeremy’s path leads him on a journey of discovery both internal and of his brother’s savant-like gifts, that if embraced can create an unstoppable pair. But on the brink of his greatest victory, Jeremy is forced to make a life-altering decision, finally achieving his own personal dreams or standing by his brother. (Frank Sanza, 2025, USA, 1:33, PG)

Humans and Other Animals
2025-09-17 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 17-20
This documentary takes viewers on an epic journey—from witnessing firsthand how animals think, use language and feel love, to dangerous investigations of powerful industries using custom-built surveillance equipment and never-before-attempted tactics. Inquiries into evolution, animals’ emotional intelligence and the deconstruction of speciesism lay the groundwork for a profound philosophical idea that may forever change how we view other animals…and ourselves. (Mark Devries, 2025, USA, 1:24, NR)

The Unruly Mystic: Saint Hildegard
2025-09-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 17, the feast day for Saint Hildegard of Bingen
The Unruly Mystic: Saint Hildegard is an inspirational documentary of how the filmmaker reaffirms his life’s work when he fell in love with a 12th century Saint. It’s a must-watch for anyone interested in spirituality, history, music, or the power of the human spirit to transcend limitations. Hildegard von Bingen is venerated for her widely recognized impact on today’s theologians, artists, musicians, doctors and educators.

Local filmmakers in attendance. Join us in 2026 to walk in the footsteps of Saint Hildegard. Learn more: https://www.sainthildegardway.eu/
(Michael M. Conti, 2014, USA, 1:04, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Somnium
2025-09-19 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 19
After a painful breakup, small-town Gemma moves to Los Angeles with the hopes of making it big. To get on her feet, she takes a job working the overnight shift at Somnium – a mysterious, experimental sleep clinic where dreams are made real. Meanwhile, Gemma throws herself into the cutthroat world of Hollywood auditions. But as the pressure to succeed mounts, she begins to experience strange and unsettling phenomena, and soon finds herself trapped in a nightmarish spiral as she discovers a darkness lurking within the clinic walls. (Racheal Cain, 2025, USA, 1:32, NR)

Sans Souci: Locals Only - A Dance Film Screening
2025-09-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 21 & 24
Colorado-based films and artists pepper this lineup, representing the diverse dancers of the Front Range and beyond, of various ages, abilities, and styles. Directly after the screening, you’ll have a chance to connect with attending filmmakers in a Q&A and interactive discussion.
This screening runs approximately 46 minutes with no intermission.
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema is one of Boulder’s longstanding favorite arts organizations, and we’re so happy to return to one of our most beloved venues, the Boedecker Cinema at Dairy Arts Center. We will also be presenting 2 other programs, Dancing on the Planet in October and Dancing as Ourselves in November — search for “Sans Souci” on Boe cinema page for details. Film Lineup and more info available at https://sanssoucifestival.org/ssf-the-boe-2025

Hildegard Speaks
2025-09-21 16:00 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 21
“Hildegard Speaks” is a 72-minute film that brings the wisdom and spirit of 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen to life. Based on Dr. Annette Esser’s book “Saint Hildegard Speaks,” the film features Dr. Esser who embodies Hildegard, sharing her insights and experiences through a series of captivating presentations. Filmed along the Hildegard Pilgrimage Way in Germany, the film invites viewers on a journey of spiritual discovery and inspiration, connecting them to the landscapes and legacy of this remarkable woman.

Local filmmakers in attendance. Join us in 2026 to walk in the footsteps of Saint Hildegard. Learn more: https://www.sainthildegardway.eu/

By the Stream
2025-09-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 24-28
In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim, an artist and lecturer at a women’s university, asks her uncle Chu Sieon to step in and direct a short play for the skit festival put on by her department. Her uncle is an actor-director, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own. He decides to direct the short play because of a similar experience directing a play at the same university 40 years earlier. It doesn’t take long before Sieon develops feelings for Jeonim’s colleague, Professor Jeong, a textile professor. Meanwhile, the circumstances surrounding the scandal grow more complicated, the moon waxes in the sky each night, and every morning Jeonim goes to the stream and sketches to grasp its patterns. For his 32nd feature film, Hong Sangsoo returns to the campus setting of films like Oki’s Movie (2010) and Our Sunhi (2013) and revisits thematic concerns and modes of expression he hasn’t touched on in his cinema for some time. (Hong Sangsoo, 2024, South Korea, 1:51, NR)
9/28/2025: Cinema Club Conversations
Immediately following the screening, join us in the McMahon Gallery for a discussion facilitated by the Dairy Arts Center staff and programming committee. Pizza & soda provided!
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This series is generously sponsored by Belzer Law LLC.

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
2025-09-24 16:30 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 24-28
With bonus 26 minutes of live performance only available in theaters, not online.
Jeff Buckley, a rising star with an otherworldly voice, left the 90s music world reeling when he died suddenly after the release of his debut album. In a tragic accident, Buckley drowned in the Wolf River in Memphis in 1997, leaving behind an unfinished second album and a legion of devastated family, friends and fans. Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts from his mother Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, Jeff’s former bandmates, including Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, and luminaries like Ben Harper and Aimee Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg crafts an illuminating portrait of one of modern music’s most influential and enigmatic figures. (Amy Berg, 2025, USA, 1:46, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025-09-26 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 26
A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece inspired by the works of Jewish-Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard, who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country, has not yet occurred and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form. (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay. 2025, UK/Poland, 1:15, NR)

Cinema Club Conversations: By the Stream
2025-09-28 18:30 - 19:30 | McMahon Gallery, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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Immediately following the screening, join us in the McMahon Gallery for a discussion facilitated by the Dairy Arts Center staff and programming committee. Pizza & soda provided!
Not a member yet? Join Now! or contact us at memberships@thedairy.org for more information.
This series is generously sponsored by Belzer Law LLC.

The Last Class
2025-09-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
September 28 – October 2, 2025
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The Last Class is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education. The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class. (Elliot Kirschner, 2025, USA, 1:12, NR)

National Silent Movie Day: Battleship Potemkin
2025-09-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 29
Silent Movie Day is an annual celebration of silent movies. We believe that silent motion pictures are a vital, beautiful, and often powerful part of film history. With the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history, Battleship Potemkin has inspired generations of filmmakers. In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel’s officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, Soviet Union, 1:09, NR)

Manhattan Short Film Festival | Oct. 2-5
2025-10-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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This one-of-a-kind worldwide festival boasts a line-up of 10 short films that explore a wide range of topics relevant to everyone. Have a look at both dramatic and comical takes on migration, reconciliation, housing prices, parenthood and the price of silence, not to mention the trials and tribulations of growing into adulthood, especially when fantastical and dangerous griffins fly overhead and you have an OMG murderous mother. And what is it about golf anyway? Audiences will find it more difficult than ever to vote for Best Film and Best Actor.

Folk Tales | Oct. 1-4
2025-10-01 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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At the center of this heartwarming documentary is a folk high school in Arctic Norway where teenagers must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions. These teenagers choose to spend an unconventional “gap year” learning to dog sled and survive in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world. Guided by patient teachers and a yard full of heroic Alaskan huskies, they discover their own potential and develop deep relationships with the land, animals and humans around them. (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, 2025, Norway, 1:45 NR)

Drácula (1931 Spanish version)
2025-10-03 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Oct 3
As the classic Dracula was being made, Hollywood was aware of an international audience that it wanted to reach, so each evening after shooting, a different cast and crew would come to work making a Spanish-language version of Drácula. Originally released in Cuba and forgotten by most, now rediscovered, this version is considered by many to be superior to the one most people know. About 30 minutes longer and much livelier, with more camera movement and less studio oversight, this is a Drácula not to be missed. (George Melford, 1931, USA, 1:44, NR)

Naked Ambition | Oct. 8-12
2025-10-08 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world’s prettiest photographer, had a huge influence on 20th-century pop culture, though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy, or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten relic… until now. Featuring testimonies from Dita Von Teese, Bruce Weber, and Larry King, Naked Ambition is a rediscovery of a brilliant yet overlooked artist. (Dennis Scholl & Kareem Tabsch, 2024, USA, 1:15, NR)

Sketch | Oct. 8-11
2025-10-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—unpredictable, chaotic, and dangerously real. As the town unravels, she and her brother must track down the creatures before they leave permanent damage. Their father, racing to find them through the fallout, must navigate a town in crisis to reunite his family and stop the disaster they never meant to unleash. (Seth Worley, 2025, USA, 1:33, PG)

Friday Night Weird: The Addiction
2025-10-10 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Oct 10
A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood. (Abel Ferrara, 1995, USA, 1:22, NR)

IRL Movie Club Presents: My Omaha
2025-10-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Oct 12
The IRL (In Real Life) Movie Club is a nonprofit on a mission to strengthen democracy through the power of shared experience and dialogue.
My Omaha is a powerful and intimate portrait of a left-leaning filmmaker and his terminally ill, MAGA-supporting father as they embark on a series of raw, searching conversations—set against the backdrop of a racially and politically divided Omaha. As activist movements rise in North Omaha and the filmmaker forms a deep bond with a local leader, the film becomes both a personal reckoning and a moving exploration of how love, grief, and honest dialogue can transcend even the deepest divides. (Nick Beaulieu, 2025, USA, 1:25, NR)

Bring Them Home | Oct. 13-18
2025-10-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya chronicles a decades-long initiative by members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to bring wild buffalo (Blackfeet: iinnii) back to the Blackfeet Reservation. A thriving wild buffalo population would not only reconnect Blackfeet with a central part of their heritage, spirituality, and identity but would also provide economic opportunities and healing for the community. Along the way, however, the initiative faces obstacles from ranchers who see the buffalo as a threat to the cattle ranches that dominate the land and are a legacy of colonization. (Daniel Glick, Ivan MacDonald & Ivy MacDonald, 2025, USA, 1:25, NR)
