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February 29 - March 3, 2024

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Future Weather

January 30, 2013

[vimeo 57079487 298 168] Abandoned by her single mom, a teenaged girl becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures. Inspired by a New Yorker article on global warming, Future Weather uses the refuge of science and the environment as a backdrop as the two women… Read more

Brave Miss World

January 28, 2013

[vimeo 24438873 298 168] BRAVE MISS WORLD is the inspiring story of a former Miss World, who after experiencing a violent abduction and rape, battles for justice and devotes her life to helping other survivors. Her own trauma is triggered when her rapist comes up for parole, and she hunts down two of his previous… Read more

Hannah Arendt

January 14, 2013

[youtube WTQNWgZVctM 298 168] Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious… Read more

Fast Girls

January 7, 2013

[youtube O-ScqQXpSac 298 193] When a sassy streetwise runner meets an ambitious, wealthy competitor, their two worlds collide with explosive results. As the fast girls strive to qualify for the World Championships, they battle adversity and rivalry on a dramatic, heartwarming and inspirational journey. film & screening »

Ginger & Rosa

January 7, 2013

[youtube tFYeYKAGVek 298 193] London, 1962. Two teenage girls – Ginger and Rosa — are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers’ frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of… Read more

Granny’s Got Game

January 7, 2013

[vimeo 37451863 298 193] Granny’s Got Game is a documentary film about a senior women’s basketball team in North Carolina. These seven fiercely competitive women in their seventies battle physical limitations and skepticism to keep doing what they love. The film follows them for a year as they compete for another National Senior Games championship…. Read more

Inocente

January 7, 2013

[youtube 008ZofyIRHo 298 193] At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be thwarted by her life as an undocumented, homeless immigrant. The extraordinary sweep of color on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past – – punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse,… Read more

I Stand Corrected

January 7, 2013

[youtube -G0eO8d4hHQ 298 193] Watch Jennifer Leitham perform and it’s obvious the striking redhead is an original. When this world-famous jazz bassist takes center-stage, she’s a special talent made all the more unique because Jennifer Leitham began her life and career as John Leitham. I Stand Corrected explores Leitham’s enlightening story of success and survival,… Read more

La Rafle

January 7, 2013

[youtube g3ClPF0ZKzE 298 193] This French box office hit is the story of the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv roundup in 1942 when French police carried out an extensive raid on Jews in greater Paris, resulting in the arrest of more than 13,000 people — including 4,000 children. Told from the perspective of the children and the… Read more

Middle of Nowhere

January 7, 2013

[youtube NUZEcoJFg0w 298 193] When her husband, Derek, is sentenced to eight years in a California prison, Ruby drops out of medical school to focus on ensuring Derek’s survival in his violent new environment. Driven by love, loyalty, and hope, Ruby learns to sustain the shame, separation, guilt, and grief that a prison wife must… Read more

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