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Three Women

Encore Screening

The opposite of a detached portrait, Three Women freely engages and communes with the village, capturing the warmth of the place and its people.

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Mami Wata

Encore Screening

In the waters off the coast of West Africa swims the powerful mermaid goddess Mami Wata. Nigerian filmmaker C.J. "Fiery" Obasi's closing night selection for First Look 2023, on Sunday, March 19, electrifies the eye.

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Mami Wata

Encore Screening

In the waters off the coast of West Africa swims the powerful mermaid goddess Mami Wata. Nigerian filmmaker C.J. "Fiery" Obasi's closing night selection for First Look 2023, on Sunday, March 19, electrifies the eye.

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New Strains

Encore Screening

Shaw and Kamalakanthan’s film is at once a depressingly accurate evocation of the city’s first few months of lockdown and an endearing display of cinematic ingenuity under extreme duress.

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The Taste of Mango

Encore Screening

This tender and poetic love letter from daughter to mother expresses a complexity of feeling and affinity that only cinema might approach.

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Three Women

Encore Screening

The opposite of a detached portrait, Three Women freely engages and communes with the village, capturing the warmth of the place and its people.

Beau Is Afraid with Ari Aster in person

In Ari Aster's wild, tongue-in-cheek odyssey, a modern-day Job named Beau (a remarkable Joaquin Phoenix), beset by terrors real and imagined, escapes a cartoonish, satirically degenerate cityscape only to wind his way through a series of false paradises. Aster will appear in person for a discussion of the film.

King Coal

Native Appalachian and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon joins us in person 9/9 for a screening of her alluring cinematic journey through the past, present, and future of Appalachia

The Wolf House

Our 9/29 screening of this surreal and sinister animated film, as haunting as it is exquisitely crafted, will be followed by a Q&A with director Cristóbal León. 

The Space Race

The Space Race tells the little-known story of the first Black pilots, scientists, and engineers to become astronauts. Free screening on 10/4 followed by a conversation and Q&A with directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.

Kokomo City + Alpha Kings

D. Smith's Sundance NEXT Innovator Award winner will be preceded by the short Alpha Kings with filmmakers Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedráza-Botero in person

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Mayor

One of the most insightful and entertaining documentaries of recent years, this political saga follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, Palestine. On December 3, with director David Osit in person!

A Still Small Voice

Director Luke Lorentzen spends a year inside New York’s Mount Sinai hospital following Mati, a chaplain-in-training who’s completing a residency providing spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Lorentzen appears in person 12/8.