Sept 23-27 “Burned, beaten, abandoned, donkeys look back at us humans with indifference, and bray.” this documentary– filmed over 5 years––subtly subverts the notion of the “dumb beast” as it captures donkeys communicating emotionally with each other in the midst of healing from human cruelty and neglect. A poetic text threads through scenes “acted” by […]
Sept 16-20 Inspired by Fred Ross Sr, one of the most influential grassroots organizers of the 20th century, AMERICAN AGITATORS is a documentary about the importance of patience and deep listening in organizing. Beginning in the 1930s, Ross organized Dust Bowl refugees and during WWII he helped Japanese Americans find jobs and housing after release
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Sept 16-20 A beautifully rendered autobiographical tale, Romería is celebrated Spanish director Carla Simón’s touching portrait of family origins. In a bravura performance, Llúcia Garcia stars as 18 year-old Marina, who travels to the glittering seaside town of Vigo determined to uncover information on her father. Gradually tracking down his siblings, she slowly learns uncomfortable
Sept 9-16 The great Willem Dafoe lends his delicate gravitas to the role of Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet who works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer (Edmund Donovan) appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered
Apr 20 A meticulous diarist and avid photographer, Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands, living alone in a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as ‘the lonely loch’. He has no electricity or running water. He lives off the land, fishing for his supper, chopping wood, and even
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Apr 20 A meticulous diarist and avid photographer, Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands, living alone in a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as ‘the lonely loch’. He has no electricity or running water. He lives off the land, fishing for his supper, chopping wood, and even
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As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient. “Night Nurse brings back the dirty pleasurable indulgence in something repulsive but highly attractive.” -Jaylen Salah, Geek Vibes Nation (Georgia Bernstein, 2026, USA, 1:35, NR)
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Two rock-bottom drivers transport a wealthy teen to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails their plans. “It’s a clever flick with an undercurrent of social commentary about how the bar for just being considered worthwhile in this world can depend on the
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Director Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) returns to the zombie genre with COLONY, a new evolution in horror starring Gianna Jun (Assassination) and Koo Kyo-hwan (Peninsula). Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no
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After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Hannah Einbinder, Hacks) for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star (Gillian Anderson, The X-Files, Sex Education), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of
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