Coming Soon
Opening Friday, Feb 4
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
Director
Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
Cast
Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher
Language
English
Rating
Sundown
Alice and Neil Bennett (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tim Roth) are the core of a wealthy British family on vacation in Acapulco with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley and Albertine Kotting) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, surprising tensions rise to the fore.
Director
Michel Franco
Cast
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tim Roth, Samuel Bottomley, Mónica Del Carmen
Language
English, Spanish
Rating
Opening Friday, Feb 11
Breaking Bread
Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - the first Muslim Arab to win Israel's MasterChef - is on a quest to make social change through food. And so, she founded the A-sham Arabic Food Festival, where pairs of Arab and Jewish chefs collaborate on exotic dishes like kishek (a Syrian yogurt soup), and qatayef (a dessert typically served during Ramadan). A film about hope, synergy and mouthwatering fare, Breaking Bread illustrates what happens when people focus on the person, rather than her religion; on the public, rather than the politicians.
Director
Beth Elise Hawk
Cast
Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, Shlomi Meir, Ali Khattib
Language
English
Rating
Opening Friday, Feb 18
Jockey
An aging jockey (Clifton Collins Jr.), hopes to win one last title for his longtime trainer (Molly Parker), who has acquired what appears to be a championship horse. But the years – and injuries – have taken a toll on his body, throwing into question his ability to continue his lifelong passion. And the arrival of a young rookie rider (Moises Arias), who claims to be his son, and whom he takes under his wing, further complicates the path to fulfilling his dream.
Director
Clint Bentley
Cast
Clifton Collins Jr., Moises Arias, Molly Parker
Language
English
Rating
The Worst Person In The World
Director Joachim Trier returns with another modern twist on a classically constructed character portrait of contemporary life in Oslo. Chronicling four years in the life of Julie, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD examines one woman’s quest for love and meaning in the modern world. Fluidly told in twelve chapters, the film features a breakout performance by Cannes Best Actress winner Renate Reinsve as she explores new professional avenues and embarks on relationships with two very different men (Anders Danielsen Lie and Herbert Nordrum) in her search for happiness and identity.
Director
Joachim Trier
Cast
Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum
Language
Norwegian
Rating
Opening Friday, Feb 25
Strawberry Mansion
n 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue’s gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers’ paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion?
Director
Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney
Cast
Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney, Ephraim Birney
Language
English
Rating
Opening Friday, Mar 18
Compartment Number 6
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection.
Director
Juho Kuosmanen
Cast
Yuriy Borisov, Seidi Haarla, Dinara Drukarova
Language
Russian, Finnish
Rating
Opening Friday, Apr 8
Aline
The youngest of a hardworking French-Canadian couple's 14 children is propelled to global music superstardom in Aline, a fictional musical dramedy freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion, written by, directed by and starring two-time César Award winner Valérie Lemercier. For Aline Dieu, nothing in the world matters more than music, family and love. Her powerful and emotional voice captivates everyone who hears it, including successful manager Guy-Claude Kamar, who resolves to do everything in his power to make her a star. As Aline climbs from local phenomenon to best-selling recording artist to international superstar, she embarks on the two great romances of her life: one with the decades-older Guy-Claude and the other with her adoring audiences.
Director
Valérie Lemercier
Cast
Sylvain Marcel, Danielle Fichaud, Valérie Lemercier, Arnaud Préchac, Roc Lafortune, Antoine Vézina
Language
French, English
Rating