WIFE OF A SPY
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | Japan | 115 min | Drama
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.
Winner: Silver Lion (Best Director) – Venice Film Festival
“Critic’s Pick! Thrum[s] with unusual intensity… Wife of a Spy is something like linear narrative perfection, with every scene perfectly calibrated.” – Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
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WAITING FOR
Monday, 29 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 14 min | Drama
Director: Matt Braunsdorf
Producers: Jonathan Marballi, Matt Braunsdorf
When a man’s clumsy attempt at honesty derails a first date the only thing keeping the two of them there is a desire to try the gumbo. During their wait, however, they come to discover the upside of unrestrained honesty.
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VOODOO MACBETH
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual + In-Person Showing
2020 | USA | 108 min | Narrative
Directors: Agazi Desta, Christopher Beaton, Dagmawi Abebe, Ernesto Sandoval, Hannah Bang, Roy Arwas, Sabina Vajraca, Tiffany Kontoyannis, Victor Alonso-Berbel, Zoe Salnave
Producers: Miles Alva, Xiaoyuan Xiao, Jason Phillips
Editor: Takashi Uchida
1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. They choose for their groundbreaking production a gifted but untested 20-year-old director by the name of Orson Welles, whose reimagined Haitian vision for the Scottish play is as daring and fresh as the cast and crew themselves.
Based on true events surrounding the Negro Theatre Unit’s revolutionary 1936 production of “Macbeth,” this is the story of a group of committed artists as they set out to create what is now considered a landmark event in African-American theatrical history.
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A VIETNAM PEACE STORY
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 83 min | Documentary
Director: Andy Cline
Producers: Shannon Cay, Shane Franklin
Editor: Austin Wood
Former Marines return to “Hill 50” in North Vietnam, where they fought one of the war’s bloodiest battles. It takes both physical and mental courage for these Veterans to return. This is the story of their inner journey back.
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TYPE CAST
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | USA | 7 min | Narrative
Director: Rick Groleau
Three typewriters that have taken on the personalities of their dead owners — a Catholic priest, a famous novelist, and a beatnik poet — tussle in an escalating battle of words and expose a damning hypocrisy.
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TOPOWA! NEVER GIVE UP
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2020 | Uganda, UK | 83 min | Documentary
Directors: Philip Sansom, Inigo Gilmore
Producer: Rupert Sansom
‘TOPOWA!’ is the inspirational story of 12 talented young musicians, many of whom grew up as street children in some of the toughest slums in Uganda. From the dusty dirt roads of the Katwe slum to the iconic Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, and a residency at the world-famous Cheltenham Music Festival. The documentary features the Brass for Africa musicians and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, together with British virtuoso trumpeter Alison Balsom and saxophonist Jess Gillam. We follow Julius, Sumayya, Tadeo, Gilbert, and the Brass for Africa musicians as they are welcomed to the UK for an unforgettable experience that will transform their lives forever and empower the next generation of musicians to follow their dreams.
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THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE NAKED
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 11 min | Narrative
Director: Ethan David
Producer: Jorja Hudson
A karaoke DJ at a dive bar in Brooklyn discovers her childhood best friend-turned famous pop star has adapted an old inside joke of theirs into a mega-hit song titled ‘This Is What I Look Like Naked.’
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THIS FOG
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | USA | 5 min | Narrative
Director: Jeff Stern
People talk about this pandemic year as a bridge or a pause. Something we just have to get through, to get to the other side. But what if this IS the other side? “This Fog” is a lyrical short film shot on the harbor islands of New Hampshire’s seacoast that attempts to capture our strange and lonely, sometimes terrifying, sometimes beautiful pandemic lives.
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SUMMER
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 18 min | Narrative
Directors: Nick Czerula, Anna Belmonte
Following the death of their Father, a set of siblings find a figurative skeleton in his closet. Together, they must find a way to discreetly dispose of it, so as not to tarnish their family’s good name. A seemingly simple task turns into an adventure when the siblings run into everyone in town that knew their Father. Who knew saying goodbye could be so difficult.
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STUNTWOMEN: THE UNTOLD HOLLYWOOD STORY
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 84 min | Documentary
Director: April Wright
Producers: Stephanie Austin, Michael Gruskoff, Marion Rosenberg
Editor: Jonathan P. Shaw
Leaping over walls, taking a punch, landing a kick, feeling the heat of an explosion, and sometimes holding dangerously sharp objects, these are the routine dangers stuntwomen face at the office. narrated by Michelle Rodriguez (Widows, The Fast and the Furious), STUNTWOMEN: THE UNTOLD HOLLYWOOD STORY is the inspiring untold story about the unsung professionals, their struggles on screen to perform at the highest level, and their fight off-screen to be treated fairly and equally. The movie takes us behind the scenes and introduces us to the female stunt performers who drive the action and thrills of Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster movies from the silent age of cinema to present day.
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