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For this edition of Living Room Film Club we look at Emma Seligman’s SHIVA BABY, now streaming in the Belcourt’s virtual cinema. Guest speakers are Rebecca Epstein-Levi, Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University, and Nashville Scene contributing writer Margaret Littman. This event is co-presented by the Nashville Jewish Film Festival.

When her small Lesotho village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.

For this month’s Living Room Film Club we spotlight Criterion Channel’s Black Westerns series with a discussion of BUCK AND THE PREACHER, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Guest speakers are Vassar College professor of film Mia Mask and Nashville Scene contributing writer Ron Wynn.

A subtle dance budding with innuendo, this remarkable and risqué debut heralds a burgeoning talent in writer/director/star Suzanne Lindon, who plays a bored 16-year-old nursing an ill-matched crush on an older actor.

A Black American soldier stationed in France is granted a three-day leave during which he embarks on a whirlwind romance with a French woman. Channeling the brazen exuberance of the French New Wave, Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy first feature astutely dissects bigoted attitudes hindering interracial relations. (New Restoration)

Herbalist and hunter Sundog homesteads off grid, in harmony with the Sonoran Desert. As government surveillance encroaches on his ecological haven, he increasingly ventures beyond the bounds of survivalism with the aid of medicinal plants — raising provocative questions about humanity's environmental relations amidst the specter of global collapse.

Writer-director Zoé Wittock’s gorgeous and imaginative debut feature about a shy young woman who falls in love with an amusement park ride eschews the exploitative in favor of an earnest and compassionate portrait of loneliness and longing.

In the early stages of a loving and committed interracial relationship, the strength of Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) and Evan’s (Will Brill) bond is tested by gender and racial prejudices she encounters as a Black woman seeking justice within the healthcare industry and criminal justice system.

Director Andrei Tarkovsky creates a stream-of-consciousness meditation on war, memory, and time that draws heavily on events from his own life.