The Man Who Saves the World?
2026-05-03 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Denver) | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Resurrection, indigenous prophecies, and adventures around the globe — this is the story of Patrick McCollum. A spiritual leader and peace advocate, he finds himself at the very center of an ancient prophecy that could decide the fate of our planet. Pulled into McCollum’s world, acclaimed director Gabe Polsky will bring us across continents on a spiritual journey in which the absurd and profound merge. McCollum believes he’s destined to unite South American tribes and save the Amazon, taking drastic steps to fulfill an ancient prophecy. (Gabe Polsky, 2025, USA, 1:27, NR)

Classics with Jeffrey Kash: Hotel
2026-05-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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With an ensemble cast and a great mid-century style, this collection of characters and stories takes place in a failing upscale New Orleans hotel. It is based on the 1965 novel by Arthur Hailey, with a mix of romance and corporate intrigue within the allure of the old French Quarter. (Richard Quine, 1967, USA, 2:04, NR)

The Blue Trail | May 6-10
2026-05-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 6-10
In a not-so-distant dystopian future where the government sends seniors to isolated colonies under the guise of boosting the economy, 77-year-old Tereza (Denise Weinberg) decides her story is far from over. Refusing to surrender her independence, she embarks on a journey to pursue the dreams she is not yet ready to abandon. Along the way, she discovers freedom, companionship, and the joys of going wherever the river takes her. Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, the latest from director Gabriel Mascaro (Neon Bull, Divine Love) is an inspiring reminder that it’s never too late to take flight. (Gabriel Mascaro, 2025, Brazil, 1:25, NR)

Rebel With a Clause | May 6-10
2026-05-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 6-10
A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on an epic road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time. Winner of multiple festival awards, this story transcends language rules. Come for the grammar. Stay for the humanity. (Brandt Johnson, 2025, USA, 1:26, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Dead Lover
2026-05-08 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 8
A lonely Gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love. (Grace Glowicki, 2026, Canada, 1:35, NR)

Late Shift | May 13-17
2026-05-13 16:30 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 13-17
With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Benesch, The Teachers’ Lounge) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she works as a nurse on the overnight shift. With one colleague out sick and no replacement on deck, just two nurses and a nervous trainee will have to cover more than two dozen patients. The doctors to whom the nurses are supposed to defer are nowhere to be found. Floria juggles endless tasks: administering medication, updating charts, soothing patients, answering phones, and managing complaints. Surrounded by fluorescent lights, the steady beeping of monitors, and echoing footsteps, Floria struggles to fight off exhaustion and maintain her professional demeanor. Every second counts, and every interruption could mean the difference between life and death. (Petra Volpe, 2025, Switzerland, 1:32, NR)

Palestine '36 | May 13-17
2026-05-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 13-17
In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem. Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. Palestine’s Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards. (Annemarie Jacir, 2025, Occupied Palestine/Jordan/UK/USA, 1:55, NR)
TALKBACK: Join us after the film on Wednesday, May 13 for a Talkback with Jack Hanley.
Jack Hanley is a Boulder-based film scholar, critic, and programmer. In addition to his work in cinema, he is also a historian of postwar Europe and Central and Eastern European history. At the convergence of these fields, his scholarship examines how postcolonial formations- through national mythos, racialized cultural memory, and processes of cultural refashioning- shape and renegotiate the historical imagination.

Friday Night Weird: Buffet Infinity
2026-05-15 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 15
Echoing the Canadian comedy classic ‘Sctv’ and picking from hundreds of hours of original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County. Ads for insurance, used car rivals, a local religious scholar, and a recording artist converge to tell the story of an expanding sinkhole, a cult, and an ever-growing restaurant that becomes unsettlingly sentient. (Simon Glassman, 2025, Canada, 1:39, NR)

CANCELED - May Cinema Club: Late Shift
2026-05-17 18:00 - 19:30 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS
Immediately following the 4:30 pm screening, join us in the MacMillan Family Lobby for a discussion facilitated by the Dairy Arts Center staff and programming committee. Pizza & soda provided! Film Ticket is NOT included in this reservation – please make sure to purchase your ticket separately!
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.

Daughter of the Light and Talkback with Filmmaker
2026-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sponsored by the Tibet Himalaya Initiative at CU Boulder
Film Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmaker Khashem Gyal
This film illuminates life in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans. It follows the quest for belonging by 13-year-old Metok Karpo to find her father in her native grasslands- spotlighting a young girl living tenaciously in a society undergoing radical transformation. The title refers to Tibetan children living on the plateau, a place closest to the sun on earth, in the hopes that they will have a bright future.
Khashem Gyal is an award-winning filmmaker from the Amdo region of Tibet. In 2018, he was nominated for the Adeste Gold Medal, recognizing global citizens under 40 who help us ‘dream bigger.’ He is currently an Asia in Action Artist at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

Steal This Story, Please! | May 20-24
2026-05-20 16:30 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press – and on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power? (Carl Deal & Tia Lessin, 2025, USA, 1:41, NR)

Amrum | May 20-24
2026-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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It is the Spring of 1945 on the German island of Amrum, a remote outpost in the North Sea. The front is far away, and 12-year-old Nanning (newcomer Jasper Billerbeck) spends his days working the nearby farm and his nights fishing, helping his mother to feed their family. Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept isle seems idyllic. When their anti-fascist neighbor Tessa (Diane Kruger) mentions to Nanning that the war will soon be over, the boy – too young to understand the political implications – is pleased to imagine that his father, a Nazi officer, might soon be coming home. But his mother Hille (Laura Tonke) is a true believer, and word of Germany’s imminent defeat sends her into decline. One day from her sick bed, she wishes for white bread, butter and honey, near impossible luxuries on Amrum which Nanning innocently tries to find for her. But as he sets off on his quest, he learns from his neighbors that the enemy is far closer than he imagined. (Fatih Akin, 2025, Germany, 1:33, NR)

Creative Connections: 60s Folk Sing-Along and Screening of Oh Brother Where Art Thou
2026-05-21 12:00 - 15:15 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Join us for an afternoon of music, memories, and movie fun – Sing Along with songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and more. We’ll start with a live guitarist leading a folk revival-themed sing-along, followed by a private screening of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) on the big screen.
This free event is part of the Dairy Arts Center’s Creative Connections Series, designed to bring older adults together through shared arts experiences that inspire joy and connection.
Schedule:
12:00–12:50 PM – Folk Revival Sing-Along (Dairy Lobby)
1:00–3:00 PM – O Brother, Where Art Thou? Screening (Boedecker Theater)
In partnership with Circle of Care Project
Mobilizing the Arts and Culture to Enrich the Lives of Older Adults

Friday Night Weird: Blades of the Guardians
2026-05-22 20:30 - 22:45 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 22
This is a new martial arts epic directed by legendary action choreographer Yeun Woo-Ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill) starring Wu Jing, Jet Li, Nicholas Tse, and Yosh Yu. Dao Ma, a bounty hunter, takes a job to protect a man on the long road to the city of Chang’an. However, he discovers the person he is protecting is the empire’s most wanted bounty, Zhi Shi Lang. Now, every greedy faction is after them. (Yuen Woo-Ping, 2026, China, 2:06, NR)

Blue Heron | May 27-31
2026-05-27 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it. (Sophy Romvari, 2026, Canada, 1:30, NR)

Space Cowboy | May 27-31
2026-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Joe Jennings, an innovator in the world of skydiving, has spent decades capturing breathtaking aerial moments with his camera for extreme sports competitions, Super Bowl commercials, and Hollywood blockbusters. Driven by a passion for “camera flying” in his youth, Joe cultivated a deep friendship with fellow skydiver Rob Harris, partnering to become one of the most influential skysurfing teams in history. Flying at the top of their game, Joe’s world was shattered when tragedy struck, leaving him to navigate the skies alone. Never giving up, he continued to push the boundaries of aerial cinematography and skydiving, finding solace in the clouds while grappling with profound grief and depression. Now, at 62, this pioneering skydiver is taking on a new challenge, elevating his art with a daring “flying car” stunt. Directors Marah Strauch (SUNSHINE SUPERMAN) and Bryce Leavitt delve into Joe’s extraordinary 40-year career in the sky. Through stunning archival footage, revealing interviews, and dramatic verité, they uncover a deeper emotional journey as Joe navigates loss, depression, and the challenge of balancing a life in the sky with the realities on the ground. (Bryce Leavitt & Marah Strauch, 2024, USA, 1:38, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Forbidden Fruits
2026-05-29 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 29
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate. (Meredith Alloway, 2026, USA, 1:43, R)

Science on Screen®: Like Water for Chocolate Food, Emotion, and the Science of Nourishment
2026-06-01 18:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Before the screening of Like Water for Chocolate, Carmen Pacheco will explore how food carries emotion, memory, culture, and identity while also serving as a fascinating lens into science and engineering. Through stories and examples from Mexican cuisine, chocolate making, flavor development, heat transfer, emulsions, and sensory science, the talk will examine how nourishment extends far beyond nutrition and connects deeply to human experience.

The film shows us that cooking is not only chemistry and heat transfer. Food also carries memory, culture, identity, resistance, and emotion. Mole, chocolate, and salsa become both scientific and human transformations.
Additional Details

Join us at 5:30 PM to enjoy the Dairy’s current exhibition, Set the Table: The Art of Nourishment (open daily from 12 PM) with a limited tasting of fresh salsa and Oaxacan mole provided by Carmen Pacheco.
6:00 PM Lecture; 7 PM Film Screening.
Free for Dairy Arts Center Members!

About the Speaker
Carmen Pacheco is Associate Teaching Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Food Engineering Graduate Certificate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Originally from Sonora, Mexico, she combines engineering, food science, sustainability, culture, and sensory experience through innovative courses such as Design of Coffee and Design of Chocolate. Her work explores how food connects people, history, science, and identity.
About the Film
When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.
(Alfonso Arau, Mexico, 1992, 1:45, R)

André Is an Idiot | June 3-7
2026-06-03 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 3-7
A celebration of life filled with raw honesty, surreal bursts of imagination, and brazen irreverence, this movie shows us what it really means to live happily, truthfully, and hilariously. In this Sundance award-winning documentary, André Riccardi sets out to chronicle his final journey after receiving a diagnosis he could have prevented, through comedic vérité storytelling and fantastical stop-motion interludes. (Tony Benna, 2025, USA, 1:28, NR

The Christophers | June 3-7
2026-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 3-7
A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves. (Steven Soderbergh, 2025, UK, 1:40, R)

Friday Night Weird: Fiume O Morte!
2026-06-05 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 5
Croatia’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.
Bezinović’s inventive hybrid film is a defiantly punk direct-action history lesson, deadly serious yet hilariously surreal. In 1919, the Italian poet, dandy, and glorifier of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume.
The citizens of Fiume (now Croatia’s Rijeka) retell and reinterpret the 16-month occupation of their city, regarded as one of the most bizarre military sieges of all time. Incensed that the city — long part of the now-dissolved Austro-Hungarian Empire, would be ceded to the newly formed Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) despite its large Italian population — D’Annunzio gathered a few thousand troops and invaded, intending to annex the city to Italy.
Italy wanted no part of this folly, and after 15 months, D’Annunzio and his forces retreated. A century later, Bezinović recruits hundreds of Rijeka locals to recreate scenes from the siege on the streets and in the buildings where events occurred. (Igor Bezinovic, 2025, Croatia, 1:52, NR)

June Cinema Club: The Christophers
2026-06-07 18:15 - 19:30 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Immediately following the screening, join us in the MacMillan Family Lobby for a discussion facilitated by the Dairy Arts Center staff and programming committee. Pizza & soda provided! Film Ticket is NOT included in this reservation – please make sure to purchase your ticket separately!
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.
ABOUT THE MOVIE:
A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves. (Steven Soderbergh, 2025, UK, 1:40, R)

The Shining
2026-06-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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During a snowstorm in 1974, Stephen King stayed in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. This inspired the novel, which inspired the Stanley Kubrick film. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. In 2010, The Guardian newspaper ranked it as the fifth “best horror film of all time”. With Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. (Stanley Kubrick, 1980, UK, 2:26, R)

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office | June 10-14
2026-06-10 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 10-14
The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russel’s Altered States and Mike Nichols’s The Day of the Dolphin. (Michael Almareyda & Courtney Stephens, 2026, USA, 1:29, NR)
6/11 TALKBACK: Join us after the film on June 11 for a Talkback with Joy Redstone.
Joy Redstone has been a social worker and addiction counselor in practice for almost three decades, with active LCSW and CAC III credentials. She holds a psilocybin facilitator license and has completed training programs in psychedelic therapy at Multidisciplinary Alliance for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Naropa University (now Memoru.)

She was the clinical director of Naropa Community Counseling and prior to that the Executive Director of the Bridge House. She currently works in private practice, Radiant Life Counseling LLC. She also has a significant art practice as a member of D’art 360 Gallery and a Board Member at Next Gallery.

https://www.joyredstonecounseling.com/

What Does That Nature Say to You | June 10-14
2026-06-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 10-14
Donghwa is a fledgling poet in his thirties. He rejects material aspirations and seeks to lead a life dedicated to truth and beauty. On a lazy afternoon, he drives his girlfriend, Junhee, back to her parents’ home outside Seoul. In the driveway, they run into her father, who is strangely interested in Donghwa’s dinged up old car. He takes it for a spin around the block, then invites Donghwa to stay and meet the family: him, his wife, who also writes poetry, and Junhee’s reclusive sister, who practices the gayageum, a traditional string instrument. They end up wiling away the day together, visiting a temple by the river, climbing the hill near the house, watching the sunset, and, sure enough, imbibing drinks. Egged on by Junhee’s dad, Donghwa gets progressively more drunk as the day advances. Finally, he makes a fool of himself at dinner. Then everything begins to unravel for the poet: his relationship, his art, his revolutionary ideals. (Hong Sang-soo, 2025, South Korea, 1:48, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Exit 8
2026-06-12 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 12
A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor? (Genki Kawamura, 2025, Japan, 1:35, NR)

Michael Brody Roadshow Pictures: Two Women
2026-06-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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TWO WOMEN is the winner of the 2025 Sundance World Cinema Special Jury Award. A frigid winter in Montreal quickly heats up as two neighbors rediscover their lives and sexuality in this thoroughly modern take on relationships.
View Other Films: Michael Brody Road Show Pictures Series

Michael Brody Roadshow Pictures: Slanted
2026-06-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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SLANTED is winner of the 2025 SXSW Grand Jury Award For Narrative Feature. A young Chinese-American girl dreams of becoming prom queen in her California high school. Only problem is all the former prom queens are blonde and White. So what does she do? She joins them, and this you have to see for yourself. One of our favorite and most controversial films of 2025.
View Other Films: Michael Brody Road Show Pictures Series

Mad Bill to Pay | June 17-21
2026-06-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 17-21
In a tight-knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg ”nutcracker” cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it’s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one.
Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his debut feature, teaming up with discovery talent Collado and Checo, to deliver a raw and deeply authentic look at life in The Bronx. With humor and grit, Vargas paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life, and the ups and downs of youthful abandon when things take an unexpected turn. (Joel Alfonso Vargas, 2025, USA/UK, 1:41, NR)

Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other | June 17-21
2026-06-17 16:30 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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June 17-21
When artist Maggie Barrett (75) breaks her femur, her husband Joel Meyerowitz (84), a world-famous photographer, becomes her caregiver. In the shadow of mortality, each with a long and dramatic life behind them, the hard truths of life together provoke in Maggie and Joel an attempt to find a shared inner-peace while there is still time. (Manon Ouimet & Jacob Perlmutter, 2024, UK, 1:40, NR)
