2023 Season
No Bears
January 11th, 2023
Dir. Jafar Panahi | 107 mins | 2022 | Iran | Turkish, Persian, Azerbaijani
One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In NO BEARS—completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022—Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely in nearby Turkey and finds himself embroiled in a local scandal. As he struggles to complete his film, Panahi must confront the opposing pulls of tradition and progress, city and country, belief and evidence, and the universal desire to reject oppression.
Living
February 8th, 2023
Dir. Oliver Hermanus | 102 mins | 2022 | United Kingdom | English
Overwhelmed at work and lonely at home, a civil servant’s life takes a heartbreaking turn when a medical diagnosis tells him his time is short. Influenced by a local decadent and a vibrant woman, he continues to search for meaning until a simple revelation gives him a purpose to create a legacy for the next generation.
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed
March 29th, 2023
Dir. Laura Poitras | 122 mins | 2022 | USA | English
From Academy Award winner Laura Poitras comes an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis. The film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) actions.
Women Talking
April 5th, 2023
Dir. Sarah Polley | 104 mins | 2022 | USA | English
The women of an isolated religious colony reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men. For years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and then raped them. The truth comes out and the women talk about their new situation.
Aftersun
May 3rd, 2023
Dir. Charlotte Wells | 101 mins | 2022 | USA, United Kingdom | English
Twenty years after their last holiday at a fading vacation resort, Sophie reflects on the rare time spent with her loving and idealistic father Calum. At 11-years-old, as the world of adolescence creeps into Sophie’s view, Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Sophie’s recollections become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
The Eight Mountains
October 4th, 2023
Dir. Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch | 147 mins | 2022 | Italy, Belgium, France | Italian
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Stellar
November 1st, 2023
Dir. Darlene Naponse | 87 mins | 2022 | Canada | English
Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.