Theatrical Starts January 3, 2025
2024 - 119 MINS - ITALY, FRANCE - IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLESA FILM BY MAURA DELPERO
1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter of the teacher, instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from its tragedy, the family will face its own.
Theatrical Starts January 17, 2024
2024 - BELGIUM, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS - ENGLISH, FRENCH, DUTCH, RUSSIANA FILM BY JOHAN GRIMONPREZFEATURING: LOUIS ARMSTRONG, ANDRÉE BLOUIN, JOHN COLTRANE, DIZZY GILLESPIE, ABBEY LINCOLN, PATRICE LUMUMBA, NINA SIMONE, MALCOLM X
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.
Theatrical Starts March 28, 2025 (TBD)
2024 - FRANCE/ SPAIN/ PORTUGAL - 102 MINUTES
A FILM BY ALAIN GUIRAUDIE
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man’s widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie’s short stay in the village take an unexpected turn…
Theatrical Starts May 2025
2024 - CHINA - COLOUR - IN MANDARIN (WITH ENGLISH/ FRENCH SUBTITLES)
A FILM BY JIA ZHANG-KE
An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s to the present day. One day, a restless Guao Bin leaves without any notice to try his luck in another province. Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him.
In chronicling the romantic destiny of Qiao Qiao, his perennial heroine, Jia Zhangke delivers an unprecedented cinematic epic. A story that traverses all of his past films and spans 25 years of a country experiencing profound transformation.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
90 MINUTES - SWITZERLAND - 2024
A FILM BY BEATRICE MINGER & CHRISTOPH SCHAUB
A cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. The Irish designer builds a refuge on the Côte d'Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day. A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
A FILM BY JOANNA RUDNICK
Story & Pictures By is a captivating documentary exploring the vibrant world of children’s picture books. It spotlights Christian Robinson, Yuyi Morales, and Mac Barnett, pioneers of a new “golden age” in children’s literature, who create groundbreaking works reflecting childhood’s wonders and complexities. The film also revisits classics like Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Snowy Day, and Where the Wild Things Are, uncovering their enduring legacy through rare archives and mesmerizing stop-motion animation.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
USA - 2023 - 108 MINUTES
A FILM BY MAUREEN GOSLING
Barbara Dane: Folk, blues and jazz singer, international social justice activist and recording star, wife, mother of three, feminist, record producer, unwavering maverick and general troublemaker on the road at 90. THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is a sonic boom, an explosion of music and passion, a celebration of one woman’s groundbreaking artistry and moral leadership. Standing strong with her singular confidence, Dane emanated the people-powered connectivity of folk, the defiance of blues and the elemental cool of jazz while propelling major historic events with boldness and subversion that cut through commercial artifice and earned her a 5” FBI file.THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is an underground history of a singer-agitator whoseunbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
2024 - 41 MINUTES - FRANCE
A FILM BY LEOS CARAX
For an exhibition, that in the end never took place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to reply, in pictures, to the question : Where are you at, Leos Carax? He attempts an answer - full of questions. About himself and “his” world: I don’t know, but if I did, I’d reply that…
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
2024 – ITALY, GERMANY, BELGIUM – DRAMA – 102 MINUTES
A FILM BY YASEMIN ŞAMDERELI
Samia defies taboos by racing through the streets of Mogadishu, in a society where a woman is not supposed to run. Her passion will one day take her to the Olympic Games.
