
Who’s Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway? + Finding Christa
Both films employ unconventional forms and artifice to bring viewers closer to family tragedies.
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Both films employ unconventional forms and artifice to bring viewers closer to family tragedies.
With a 1970s aesthetic and screwball comedy tone, Between the Temples is a sharply witty and heartwarming comic drama with Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman.
One of the greats by the late “King of Cult” Roger Corman follows an ambitious surgeon and scientist, Dr. Xavier (Milland), who formulates eyedrops that allow him to see more than the visible spectrum of light.
In her recently rediscovered, deeply hilarious film, Jan Oxenberg pulls focus on her grandmother, playfully approaching memory and mortality by using cardboard cutouts to recreate scenes of her childhood and other candid family memories. With Jan Oxenberg and Tomboychik director Sandi DuBowski in person.
Spanish director Pablo Berger’s Academy Award–nominated first animated feature, an adaptation of Sara Varon’s celebrated graphic novel, is a beautiful, surprising, and bittersweet tale of a friendship between a dog and his robot companion.
These Academy Award–nominated films catalog family stories to provide foundations for reframing the filmmakers’ own personal histories. Featuring in-person appearances by the directors on 9/29.
With a 1970s aesthetic and screwball comedy tone, Between the Temples is a sharply witty and heartwarming comic drama with Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman.
Julia Loktev explores the ripple effect in her family nine years after her father is struck by a car while passing between garage sales on a busy street. Screening 9/29.
Mati Diop documents the voyage home of 26 treasures of the African kingdom of Dahomey after having been plundered by French colonial troops in this New York Film Festival selection, screening 10/3.
RaMell Ross’s extraordinary realization of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2019 novel follows two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow–era Florida.
Spanish director Pablo Berger’s Academy Award–nominated first animated feature, an adaptation of Sara Varon’s celebrated graphic novel, is a beautiful, surprising, and bittersweet tale of a friendship between a dog and his robot companion.
Marlon Riggs’s film is an unclassifiable masterpiece that breaks formal boundaries in an attempt to express an exuberant, joyous, angry, irreducibly complex Black gay identity. Thomas Allen Harris’s similarly formally adventurous film uses video and film to depict three sets of Black queer siblings.