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AFTERSUN

August 26, 2022

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare times together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film.

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LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S BLACK & BLUES

August 26, 2022

Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong’s life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civil rights activist to world-renowned artist, this illuminating film shows sides of Armstrong few have seen.

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BAD AXE

August 26, 2022

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-Mexican American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.

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GOOD NIGHT OPPY

August 26, 2022

Good Night Oppy tells the inspirational true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ended up surviving for 15 years. The film follows Opportunity’s groundbreaking journey on Mars and the remarkable bond forged between a robot and her humans millions of miles away.

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MOONAGE DAYDREAM (Q+A)

August 23, 2022

MOONAGE DAYDREAM illuminates the life and genius of David Bowie, one of the most prolific and influential artists of our time. Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Brett Morgen’s (THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE, COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK, JANE) feature length experiential cinematic odyssey explores David Bowie’s creative, musical and spiritual […]

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Three Minutes: A Lengthening

August 9, 2022

A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.

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Warsha

July 11, 2022

Mohammad is a crane operator working in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon.

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Erratum

July 11, 2022

Florence, a teacher and researcher, uncovers with astonishment an anachronistic engraving – in modern French – on a Gallo-Roman fresco she just dug up. When she realizes this engraving is really from antiquity, her rationality is put to the test.

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Sierra

July 11, 2022

Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, this animation pulls viewers into a surreal car-racing world and the story of a father and his son. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire.

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Nuisance Bear

July 11, 2022

Churchill, Manitoba is famous as an international destination for photographing polar bears. Through a shift in perspective this documentary reveals an obstacle course of tourist paparazzi and wildlife officers whom bears must navigate during their annual migration.

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