Language: Spanish
Runtime: 101 min
Format: DCP

Eva can't stand her mother's desire to renovate the house and get rid of the cat, which has become disorientated since her parents' divorce and now relieves itself everywhere. She plans to leave to live with her father.

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Friday, January 23
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, January 24
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, January 25
3 pm

Language: English
Runtime: 95 min
Format: DCP

This film was inspired by a murder that took place in 1992 in the Cabrini-Green housing projects: Dantrell Davis, a seven year old, was hit by a stray bullet from a local gang fight while walking to school with his mother.

Drawing from the real life tragedy, it follows two young boys in the projects as they navigate childhood. They soon find their bond challenged when tragedy shakes their community. This film explores themes of childhood innocence, the beauty and importance of friendship, and showcases black boyhood in 90s Chicago.

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Friday, January 30
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, January 31
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, February 1
3 pm

Languages: English, Bemba, Chewa, Tonga
Runtime: 93 min
Format: DCP

Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.

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Friday, February 6
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, February 7
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, February 8
3 pm

Languages: English, ASL
Runtime: 92 min
Format: DCP

Zeinabu irene Davis conjured something completely singular with Compensation, tying in dual narratives of Black American experiences decades apart. In its short runtime, Davis deftly provides windows into history ranging from the Great Migration to the AIDS epidemic. Brisk documentary-like footage gives way to two separate love stories that are rich and tenderly wrought, the former in the 1910’s, the latter a sort of spiritual reincarnation of the couple in the 1990’s.

Melding unique cinematic styles of old and new,  Davis seamlessly creates an accessible film for both hearing and deaf audiences. As she has said herself, “in most cases, no words need be spoken in order to evoke compassion and solidarity.”

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Friday, February 13
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, February 14
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, February 15
3 pm

Language: Spanish
Runtime: 101 min
Format: DCP

La Ciénaga follows two families during one hot Argentinian summer vacation in a run-down, rural country house. This story doesn’t rely on a concrete plot, but rather is a series of events where no scene of the movie is more important than the other.

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Friday, February 20
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, February 21
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, February 22
3 pm

Language: Italian
Runtime: 116 min
Format: DCP

Despite being the first woman to receive a nomination for Best Director at the Academy Awards, Lina Wertmüller’s films have been curiously underrepresented in contemporary cinemas. One could suspect that this has to do with her work often being impossible to compartmentalize neatly into one box.

Getting her start as Fellini’s assistant director in 8 ½, she later gained her own notorious reputation for her skewering of Italian politics, sex and male machismo. Seven Beauties is unlike any other film set in WWII, in turns hilarious and heinous, tasteless and profound, and quintessentially Wertmüller.

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Friday, February 27
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, February 28
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, March 1
3 pm

Language: English
Runtime: 158 min
Format: DVD

Jane Campion’s biographical triptych traces the life of writer Janet Frame from childhood to artistic maturity. Raised in rural New Zealand amid hardship and brief moments of grace, Frame survives years of misdiagnosis and institutionalization before finding her voice as a writer.

Three actors portray her through the decades, yet the film imparts a steady continuity of self, reminiscent of an intimacy that mirrors the act of close reading. Campion’s lens rarely leaves Frame, insisting on her sovereignty when institutions sought to erase it.

The late beloved Agnès Varda praised the film's intelligence and sensitivity, and Mira Nair described Campion as "a big sister who opens unexpected doors and gives me courage." That generosity of vision shapes each frame. By the film's end, Frame sits alone at her typewriter, her expression suggesting she has finally found her place in the world, grounded in a solitude that is precisely her own.

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Friday, March 6
6 pm

Saturday, March 7
6 pm

Sunday, March 8
3 pm

Language: English
Runtime: 90 min
Format: DCP

Saturated in discourse, Lizzie Borden's breakthrough film is a raw commentary on the tension between the facade of a "liberated" post-socialist America and its inherent patriarchal ecology that is so unapologetically sexist it's still topical.

Directed, shot and edited by Borden in a guerrilla docu-fiction style, the collage of real surveillance footage, police brutality and news clips against a Black, queer-led Woman's Army and no-wave feminist soundtrack, tells a story that parallels both the struggle and beauty of what another world could look like. Provoking our collective imagining of what might happen if gender-based oppression is met with the transformative power of fire.

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Friday, March 13
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, March 14
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, March 15
3 pm