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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
March 19, 2026 | 7:00 PM
From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.
Monthly Screening
February 10, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Nurse Floria works with passion and professionalism in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital. Her every move is perfect. She has an open ear for patients, even in the most stressful situations, and is immediately on hand in an emergency – ideally. But in the harsh reality of her daily routine, things are often unpredictable. When she starts her late shift one day, a colleague is absent from the fully occupied, understaffed ward. Amidst the hustle and bustle, Floria looks after a seriously ill young mother and an old man desperately waiting for his diagnosis with the same care and routine as a private patient with extra demands. But as the night progresses, her work becomes more and more of a race against time.
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January 06, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Iraqi director Hasan Hadi's acclaimed debut swept major film festivals globally in 2025, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the festival's Audience & Caméra d'Or awards, and is now shortlisted for the Academy Awards for Best International Feature. It tells the story of a young Iraqi girl trying to bake Saddam Hussein's birthday cake amidst sanctions, offering a humorous yet poignant look at life under tyranny.
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December 09, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Oscar-nominated director Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland) tells the story of a farmer’s relationship to a white stork, interwoven with the folk tales of North Macedonia.
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November 18, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau) has crafted a thrillingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic set in his hometown of Recife during the late 1970s, starring a magnetic Wagner Moura as a man on the run from his past. Winner, Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes. Official Oscar Submission, Best International Feature.
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October 21, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Featuring a career-best performance from Sydney Sweeney (TIFF ’24’s Eden), the latest from David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) chronicles groundbreaking boxer Christy Martin's fierce story of self-actualization in the face of terrifying adversity.
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September 16, 2025 | 7:00 PM
In Eleanor The Great, June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell.
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August 19, 2025 | 7:00 PM
In Oscar®-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s life-affirming film, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway where they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow inunexpected directions.
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July 15, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Award-winning Argentinian filmmaker Luis Ortega's (El Ángel) latest film is a hypnotic, fun, and wholly unforgettable thriller set in the underworld of Buenos Aires horse racing. Remo (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), a washed-up jockey, and Abril (Úrsula Corberó), his talented partner facing a life-changing decision, are caught in the grip of a dangerous mobster (Daniel Giménez Cacho). Argentina’s official 2025 Oscar® submission to the Academy Awards,
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June 17, 2025 | 7:00 PM
As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.
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May 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Julie Delpy directs and stars in this razor-sharp satire about a well-meaning French village excited to welcome Ukrainian refugees—until they discover they’re hosting a family from somewhere else. Hilarity ensues as cultural expectations collide in this timely, bitingly funny film. Winner, Audience Award, Best Film, Sonoma Film Festival.
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April 15, 2025 | 7:00 PM
A North Macedonian shepherding boy´s love of techno music sets him on a path of small-town love and rebellion in this modern-day "Footloose." A wonderfully touching and humor-filled debut from director Georgi M. Unkovski. Audience Award Winner, Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize Award Winner, Sonoma Film Festival.
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February 16, 2025 | 4:00 PM
Academy Award Nominee - Best Documentary Feature. This eye-opening, award-winning documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military.
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February 09, 2025 | 10:00 AM
A motley but irresistible crew of animals band together for an unforgettable adventure in the watery world created by animator and filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis.
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December 17, 2024 | 7:00 PM
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, I’m Still Here transports us to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s when Brazil’s dictatorship sought to exert its authority through detentions and disappearances. The latest from Walter Salles, director of the Oscar-nominated Central Station (TIFF ’98) and the Oscar-winning The Motorcycle Diaries (TIFF ’04), focuses on Eunice Paiva, whose lived to tell the harrowing experiences that transformed her into an activist, lawyer, and hero.
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December 10, 2024 | 7:00 PM
The Room Next Door is renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature. It may not be in Spanish but he has included all of his acclaimed directorial flourishes: heartbreaking choices, visuals saturated with color, and the precise rendering of women’s inner lives. Tuesday, December 10 at 7pm at the Sebastiani Theatre.
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December 10, 2024 | 3:00 PM
After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands — where she grew up — hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot. Tuesday, December 10th at 3pm at the Sebastiani Theatre
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November 19, 2024 | 7:00 PM
An audience hit at the Telluride Film Festival and Venice Film Festival "September 5" unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. "September 5" provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.
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October 22, 2024
French director Jacques Audiard’s audacious masterpiece is at once a darkly funny Mexican crime drama and a jaw-dropping musical. It is powered by a quartet of superb actors—Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz—who shared the Best Actress prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in addition to the film winning the festival’s Jury Prize.
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