Film Seminars | Discussions | Intros

Sara Dosa’s elegiac followup to her volcanic 2022 documentary FIRE OF LOVE reflects on how glaciers create an archive of deep time within their ice over millions of years — likening it to the intergenerational memory of her subject, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, who is tasked to write the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier to be declared dead due to climate change.

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. There's an unexpected side effect: the predators got smarter…and meaner.

A desperate ronin arrives at the manor of a powerful Lord where he begs to be allowed to commit ritual suicide in this tragic, eviscerating anti-samurai film. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, HARAKIRI, directed by Masaki Kobayashi is a fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system.

A feature-length documentary exploring Ralphie May — the comedian America couldn’t contain — and the personal and cultural crises that ultimately consumed him. Post-screening discussion with Lahna Turner, co-director of the film and wife of the late Ralphie May

After a mysterious mist envelops a small Maine town, a group of locals trapped in a supermarket must battle a siege of otherworldly creatures… and the fears that threaten to tear them apart.

A farmer and his daughter try to survive in a desolate landscape even as the horse that had always provided their livelihood has already given up on them. Clinging to daily ritual, the pair refuses to let go of life as they know it, even as omens abound that the world might be coming to an end. The final film from Hungarian master of slow cinema Bela Tarr (SÁTÁNTANGÓ), who plunges us into a feat of speechless, spellbinding storytelling.

As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty.

An American newlywed on his honeymoon in Paris searches for his former medical colleague Leo who may have a cure for the tropical virus that transformed Leo’s wife into a murderous sexual carnivore in Claire Denis’ blood-soaked, divisive gem.

In the last seven days of her life, Laura Palmer, besieged by a transuniversal conflict reaching back into infinity, must face her own immovable destiny amongst the myriad of secrets in the town of Twin Peaks. Note: FIRE WALK WITH ME bridges Season 2 and Season 3 (Coming Soon)

Philip Hartman’s priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by David Brisbin, who wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars and derelict streets of the East Village in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress. Post-screening discussion with director (and Two Boots founder) Philip Hartman

MADDIE’S SECRET is comedian, writer and actor John Early’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company whose mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past. A pitch-perfect blend of satire, melodrama, daring tonal shifts and intimate performances.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Erin, who says: “Mike Myers writes and stars in one of the greatest comedies of all time. Come see how this ‘shagadelic’ spoof holds up almost 30 years on!”