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Athena Film Festival

February 29 - March 3, 2024

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2019

Fast Color {Opening Night Film, New York Premiere}

This fantasy superhero re-mix stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a hero forced to run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after abandoning her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.

Filmmaking Conversation with Julia Hart

Come join filmmaker and Columbia College alumni Julia Hart for a discussion on the filmmaking process.

Game

The new teenager in town shows up at the boys basketball tryouts and instantly makes an impression. Will talent and drive be enough to make the team?

Giving Birth in America: California

A Mexican farmworker, pregnant with her third child, seeks prenatal care from a clinic in the “Strawberry Capital” of California.

Halloween {Horror Classic}

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Happy Today

In Northern Uganda, a midwife accompanies new mothers through the physical pain and intense emotion of giving birth.

Heed the Call {New York Premiere}

In the midst of World War II, a young woman must decide if she is willing to defy both social expectations and her family by joining the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.

I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story {World Premiere}

I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story tells the journey of a young African American girl who navigated over 30 foster homes and psychiatric facilities before age 18, and the one woman, Jeanne, who believed in her.

I’m Just Here

A suicide helpline operator fields an unforgettable call from a young, queer woman.

Jinn

An African-American teenager’s world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular TV meteorologist, abruptly converts to Islam, prompting both mother and daughter to reevaluate their identities.

Juck

Feminist activists use dance to challenge popular notions of modern femininity.

Knock Down the House {Closing Night Film, NY Premiere}

A young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri build a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress.

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