Theatrical Starts Fall 2024
USA - 2023 - 108 MINUTES
A FILM BY MAUREEN GOSLING
Barbara Dane: Folk, blues and jazz singer, international social justice activist and recording star, wife, mother of three, feminist, record producer, unwavering maverick and general troublemaker on the road at 90. THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is a sonic boom, an explosion of music and passion, a celebration of one woman’s groundbreaking artistry and moral leadership. Standing strong with her singular confidence, Dane emanated the people-powered connectivity of folk, the defiance of blues and the elemental cool of jazz while propelling major historic events with boldness and subversion that cut through commercial artifice and earned her a 5” FBI file.THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is an underground history of a singer-agitator whoseunbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.
Theatrical Starts April 19, 2024
2023 - 163 MINUTES - ROMAINIA, LUXEMBOURG - IN ROMAINIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY RADU JUDE
An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-inventthe whole story.
Theatrical Starts March 29, 2024
2023 - JAPAN - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 102 MINUTES
A FILM BY NEO SORA
FEATURING: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
On March 28th, 2023, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away after his struggle against cancer. In the years leading up to his death, Sakamoto could no longer perform live. Single concerts, not to mention sprawling global tours, were too taxing. Despite this, in late 2022, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave the world with one final performance: a concert film, featuring just him and his piano.
Theatrical Starts March 15, 2024
UNITED KINGDOM - 2023 - 117 MINUTES
A FILM BY KEVIN MACDONALD
FEATURING: JOHN GALLIANO
Kevin Macdonald’s film investigates the career of fashion designer John Galliano, and the context, including decades of industry pressure and drug and alcohol addiction, that surrounded his downfall in 2011.
Theatrical Starts February 23, 2024
BHUTAN, FRANCE, USA, TAIWAN - 2023 - 107 MINUTES
A FILM BY PAWO CHOYNING DORJI
In this gentle fable from Bhutan, an American gun collector and a young monk match wits over what will happen to an antique gun, against the backdrop of the country’s first modernizing election in 2006.
Theatrical Starts February 2, 2024
2023 - MEXICO, DENMARK, FRANCE - IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 4K - 95 Min - 4:3 - 5.1
A FILM BY LILA AVILÉS
Seven-year-old Sol gets caught up in the whirlwind of preparations for her father Tona's birthday party in a bustling Mexican household. As the day unfolds, she grasps the significance of the celebration and observes her family doing the same.
Theatrical Starts February 2, 2024
(AVANT QUE LES FLAMMES NE S'ÉTEIGNENT)
FRANCE - 2023 - 96 MINUTES - FRENCH (WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
A FILM BY MEHDI FIKRI
Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place. However, her quest for truth jeopardizes the stability of her family.
Theatrical Starts January 19, 2024
(LOS COLONOS) CHILE - 2023 - 97 MINUTES - ENGLISH, SPANISH (With English and French Subtitles)
A FILM BY FILIPE GÁLVEZ HABERLE
Chile, beginning of the 20th century. A wealthy landowner hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean half-blood, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid.
Theatrical Starts January 12, 2023
112 MINUTES - FRANCE/ BELGIUM- 2023 - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY DELPHINE DELOGET
WITH VIRGINIE EFIRA, ARIEH WORTHALTER, CAMILLE FONTAINE, FÉLIX LEFEBVRE
Sylvie and her boys adore each other, but when one son is injury after she leaves them home alone go to work, the boys are taken into foster care. Sylvie is determined to fight the administrative and legal battle to get them back.
Theatrical Start November 24, 2023
Winner! “Best International Feature” - TORONTO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION 2023
2023 - 82 MINUTES - FINLAND/ GERMANY - 1.85:1 - 5.1
A FILM BY AKI KAURISMÄKI
FALLEN LEAVES tells the story of two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives.
Theatrical Starts November 23, 2023
“Orlando, ma biographie politique”
FRANCE - 98 MINUTES - 2023 - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY PAUL B. PRECIADO
Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” tells the story of a young man who grows up to become a 36-year-old woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado speaks to Virginia Woolf to tell her that her fictional character has become a reality. The transition of Orlando’s body now lies at the root of all non-binary bodies and there are Orlandos all over the world.
Theatrical Starts November 22, 2023
USA – 1967 – 124 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
BASED ON THE BOOK BY MARK LANE
Mark Lane and de Antonio, for the first time, create a vivid, frank legal brief which asks the still unanswered question: who killed John F. Kennedy?
A critique of the Warren Commission’s report on the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
*Restored to 4K for the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination
Theatrical Starts November 14, 2023
1990 - CANADA - 77 MINUTES - ENGLISH
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I.
Theatrical Starts October 27, 2023
2022 - 93 MINUTES - USA
A FILM BY JENNIFER LANE
An in-depth look at the career of iconoclastic artist Robert Irwin, whose investigations into the nature of perception have radically expanded the possibilities of what art can be.
Theatrical Starts April 26, 2024
2023 - 262 MINUTES - NETHERLANDS/ UNITED KINGDOM
A FILM BY STEVE MCQUEEN
The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.
Theatrical Starts May 10, 2024
(Aku wa Sonzai Shinai (悪は存在しない))
JAPAN - 2023 - 106 MINUTES
A FILM BY RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house; offering city residents a comfortable ‘escape’ to nature. When two company representatives from Tokyo arrive in the village to hold a meeting, it becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the local water supply, causing unrest. The agency’s mismatched intentions endanger both the ecological balance of the nature plateau and their way of life, with an aftermath that affects Takumi’s life deeply.
Theatrical Starts May 17, 2024
2023 - 90 MINUTES - UNITED KINGDOM
A FILM BY PAUL SNG
A moving portrait of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha, who dedicated her life to documenting the lives of working-class communities in North East England.
1968 - 96 MINUTES - USA - 1.37:1
A FILM BY GEORGE A. ROMERO
Night of the Living Dead is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.
Theatrical starts May 24, 2024
2023 - FRANCE - 70 MINUTES
An anthology of four Man Ray short films, with original music by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan)
Return To Reason celebrates the 100th anniversary of Man Ray’s cinematic Œuvre, restored for the first time in 4K. Il reveals the unique dialogue between two multitalented artists, and creates an undefinable object, a piece of visual music that resonates through its modernity and poetry.
Theatrical starts July 13, 2023
2022 - 80 MINUTES
A FILM BY DAVIDE FERRARIO
A documentary immersion into all things Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Umberto Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself. Combining new footage with material he shot with Eco in 2015 for a video installation for the Venice Biennale, Ferrario documents this incredible collection and the man who amassed it. As Eco leads us among the more than 50,000 volumes, we also gain insight into the library of the mind of this vastly prolific and original thinker.
