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February 29 - March 3, 2024

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2018

The Red Thunder {New York Premiere}

Sarah, a nerdy teenager, needs her mom’s new car to go on a date with the boy she likes, but her mom won’t let her take he car. She decides to steal it, but something unexpected happens that changes Sarah’s life forever.

The Zookeeper’s Wife

Academy Award-nominated Jessica Chastain stars in this stirring film as Antonina Zabinska, the title character in a true story of husband-and-wife team that run the Warsaw Zoo during the Nazi occupation. Working secretly with the Resistance throughout the Holocaust, the zookeepers sneak Jews out of the ghetto, and give them refuge in tunnels beneath their home.

Their Finest

This comedy tells the story of Catrin Cole, a young copywriter drafted by the Ministry of Information to add a woman’s touch to its propaganda films, which are intended to boost morale in the midst of the Blitz. As bombs are dropping all around them, Catrin, Buckley and their colorful cast and crew work furiously to make a film that will warm the hearts of the nation.

Thelma

Writer/director Joachim Trier crafts a haunting tale of Thelma (Eili Harboe), a shy college student who has just left her religious family in a small Norway town and finds herself intensely drawn to her classmate Anja (Kaya Wilkins). But in a surprising twist to this coming-of-age tale, first love and self-discovery arrive with uncontrollable seizures and supernatural powers that force her to confront the terrifying implications.

Under the Net

In one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Tanzania, where malaria is the number one killer, the lives of an 11-year-old girl named Amisa and her ill-stricken family are changed forever by the simple gift of mosquito bed nets.

UnREAL

UnREAL takes place behind the scenes of the fictional dating competition show Everlasting, as the show’s producers manipulate the contestants to get the footage they need.

Virtual Reality Experience Program Session I

Virtual Reality Program: Love With Love: A Story of Women; A Story of Dance, Testimony, Under the Net

Virtual Reality Experience Program Session II

Virtual Reality Program: Love With Love: A Story of Women; A Story of Dance, Testimony, Under the Net

Waiting for Hassana

In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenage girls in Nigeria. Waiting for Hassana is the harrowing account of one girl’s escape from captivity and a lament for her closest friend, Hassana, who remains missing.

Whirlpool {New York Premiere}

Helen Keller might be known for being deaf and blind, but she was also an avid civil rights activist who fought to eliminate bias against the disabled within the public, her family, and even herself.

Wonder Woman

In the 2017 blockbuster of the year, based on the DC comics superhero, Gal Gadot plays Wonder Woman, a.k.a. Diana, the Amazonian princess trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Fighting in the war to end all wars, Diana discovers her full powers and her true destiny and inspires young women across the globe.

Ya Albi

A Syrian refugee, Aya, must adapt to life in an unfamiliar country on her own after her husband’s immigration visa is unexpectedly rejected.

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