Spotlight 2019

Rafiki

Friday, April 12, 9:30 PM Saturday, April 13, 5:00 PM Rafiki Director: Wanuri Kahiu, Kenya, 83 min. “Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the

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Winter Flies

Tuesday, April 9th, 7:15 PM Sunday, April 14, 5:30 PM Winter Flies Director: Olmo Omerzu, Narrative, Czech Republic, 85 min. On a bright, wintry day, cherubic and ingenuous Heduš catches doe-eyed friend Mára and his stolen car in his BB

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Ulysses & Mona

Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 PM Friday, April 12, 5:15 PM Ulysses & Mona Director: Sébastien Betbeder, Narrative, France, 82 min. Ulysses, fifty-five years old, is a Contemporary artist. Four years ago, Ulysses ran away from his family and put an

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Modest Heroes

Thursday, April 11, 9:45 PM Saturday, April 13, 3:30 PM Sunday, April 14, 3:15 PM Modest Heroes Directors: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose, Akihiko Yamashita, Animation, Japan, 53 min. Studio Ponoc, the new animation studio founded by two-time Academy Award®-nominee Yoshiaki

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MFKZ

Monday, April 8, 9:15 PM Saturday, April 13, 9:30 PM MKFZ Director: Shojiro Nishimi, Guillaume Renard, Animation, France, Japan, 105 min. From the collaboration of French comic artist Guillaume “Run” Renard and ultra-hip Japanese animation house Studio 4C (Tekkonkinkreet, Genius

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Mike Wallace is Here

Monday, April 8, 5 PM Thursday, April 11, 5 PM Mike Wallace is Here Director: Avi Belkin, Documentary, USA, 94 min. Deemed the “enemy of the people” by our current president, journalism in America is on the chopping block. Lies,

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Her Smell

Friday, April 12, 7:00 PM Her Smell Director: Alex Ross Perry, Narrative, USA, 135 min. Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) is a ’90s punk rock superstar who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio Something She. Now she plays smaller

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Hail Satan?

Tuesday, April 9th, 5:15 PM Friday, April 12, 5:00 PM Sunday, April 14, 5:00 PM Hail Satan? Director: Penny Lane, Documentary, USA, 95 min. What kind of religious expression should be permitted in a secular nation? Holy hell, something is

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Dogman

Wednesday, April 10, 5:15 PM Saturday, April 13, 5:00 PM Dogman Director: Matteo Garrone, Narrative, Italy, 120 min. Marcello is a mild-mannered dog groomer who commits petty crimes for Simoncino, a former boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When Simoncino’s abuse

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Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Monday, April 8, 7:00 PM Wednesday, April 10, 7:15 PM Cold Case Hammarskjöld Director: Mads Brügger, Documentary, Denmark, 128 min. In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, killing Hammarskjöld and most of the crew. It’s understood that

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