FILM SYNOPSIS Seeking an alternative to America’s consumer culture, hundreds of back-to-the-land families coalesced around Poet Laureate Gary Snyder and settled on the San Juan Ridge in the late ‘60s. Repeatedly threatened by corporate Goliaths intent on clear-cutting the Sierra forests, damming the Yuba River, arson, and polluting the Ridge with open-pit gold mining, the community organized to defend their homesteads. Their success overcoming these seemingly impossible obstacles has created national models of sustainability. Now they are facing their greatest threat of all: climate driven wildfires. A Radical Thread is set against the dramatic scars of 19th century hydraulic gold mining and told through Marsha Stone’s 17-year collaborative project stitching an 83-foot tapestry visualizing the Ridge’s story in twelve narrative embroidered panels. Shelly Covert, the spokesperson for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe credits the community’s activism for helping set the stage for cultural reparations. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder’s prescient archival footage about the environmental costs of fossil fuels are combined with his faith in the Ridge’s continued vitality. And Tapestry Illustrator Jennifer Rain Crosby demonstrates how its creation embodies the ethos of the community. But the main character is the tapestry itself that depicts a community originating with much optimism and hope, runs into multiple challenges, grows and learns as it survives, faces the existential threat of climate change, and comes together to understand new ways of sustainability for future generations. The fact that many voices contribute to the community’s narrative, reflects the power of their collective nature as well the process of making the tapestry. A Radical Thread explores what can happen when a community truly dedicates itself to “living lightly on the land.” As second-generation Ridge member Caleb Dardick says, the Ridge endures because each member will step up and say, “I want to add my stitch.”

In the arid landscapes of La Guajira, Colombia, Georgina, a transgender Wayúu woman in the third act of her life, knows that her time is running out and wants to change her existence. With nothing to lose, she sets out to meet her siblings, who don’t speak Spanish and barely survive on the fringes of the opaque Colombian bureaucratic system. Amid open wounds, memories, and unfathomable geographical and emotional distances, Georgina and her people agree that enough is enough. Alma del desierto emerges as a story of resilience, a symbol of hope, and a fervent struggle for justice. (The Open Reel)

After the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?

What is the cost of beauty? In the ‘80s, the floriculture industry was booming in Colombia and was internationally acclaimed. However, behind the idyllic image of abundance, the reality is different. The documentary film Love, Women and Flowers, directed by Marta Rodriguez and Jorge Silva, denounces the use of pesticides in the flower fields of the Colombian savannah as well as the working conditions of the mostly female workforce. Starting from an anthropological approach, the film collects during five years the testimonies of the workers and follows them in their daily life. A pioneering film about emancipation, dignity, and the fight for the environment. (Festival de Cannes) Short: Cuando ellas se fueron solo quedó un pequeño ruido en la montaña (When they left, all that remained was a small noise in the mountain): In the heart of the Andes of Nariño (Colombia), stands the remnants of the once-prosperous textile factory, El Contadero, established in 1943. Now reduced to ruins, it serves as a moving backdrop to the memories of Estela, an 87-year-old woman who worked in the factory from the time she was 16 years old until its closure. Through her memories, we delve into the early years of the factory and life with her co-workers as well as the art of traditional guanga weaving, a practice to which Estela still dedicates her life. (Laura Dávila Argoty)

A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.

Aventurera is a pitch-black film noir punctuated by Afro-Caribbean musical numbers, starring dancer-singer Ninón Sevilla as a proper young lady who, within ten minutes, witnesses a parent’s suicide, is sold into prostitution, and transformed into a nightclub sensation. Through these hairpin turns, director Alberto Gout re-writes the rules of female portrayal in Mexican cinema through a razor-sharp indictment of bourgeois society.

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.

Beyond the Rainbow is a visually arresting and emotionally resonant short documentary that explores identity, leadership, and legacy within the LGBTQ+ movement through the stories of two groundbreaking figures: Suzanne Ford, the first openly transgender Executive Director of San Francisco Pride, and Nguyen Pham, the first gay Vietnamese American to serve as the organization’s board president. Directed and produced by Antonio Contreras—a Bay Area filmmaker and 12-time International Fashion Film Award winner—Beyond the Rainbow blends compelling personal interviews with archival footage, capturing the spirit of activism and community in one of the world’s most iconic Pride celebrations. The film is set to a powerful soundtrack featuring a hit single by global house music icon Miguel Migs, with vocals by local favorite Jason Brock, adding emotional depth to the storytelling. This documentary marks the 55th anniversary of San Francisco Pride, serving as both a tribute to its history and a beacon for its future. With past work officially selected at ASVOFF (A Shaded View on Fashion Film by Diane Pernet, Paris) and the La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival, Contreras brings his signature cinematic style and storytelling to a new chapter of LGBTQ+ visibility and inspiration. Beyond the Rainbow is a timely and necessary film that celebrates trailblazers while honoring the ongoing pursuit of equity and inclusion.

Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya chronicles a decades-long initiative by members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to bring wild buffalo (Blackfeet: iinnii) back to the Blackfeet Reservation. A thriving wild buffalo population would not only reconnect Blackfeet with a central part of their heritage, spirituality, and identity but would also provide economic opportunities and healing for the community. Along the way, however, the initiative faces obstacles from ranchers who see the buffalo as a threat to the cattle ranches that dominate the land and are a legacy of colonization.

Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine.

Come See Me In The Good Light is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

Antique dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) stumbles across Cronos, a 400-year-old scarab that, when it latches onto him, grants him youth and eternal life -- but also a thirst for blood. As Jesus enjoys his newfound vitality, he's unaware that a dying old man, Dieter de la Guardia (Claudio Brook), has sent his nephew, Angel (Ron Perlman), to find the scarab and bring it back to him. But Jesus will not give immortality up easily, even risking the life of his orphan granddaughter (Tamara Shanath).

Crushing Wheelchairs is a powerful new social justice film that follows a group of poor people living in a homeless community as they struggle to find hope amid gentrification, domestic violence and the growing brutality of the State. Starring the talents of POOR Magazine—the prominent California arts & activism collective—this revolutionary film features a cast and crew of currently and formerly unhoused residents of the San Francisco Bay Area who brought their real-life stories to the screen.

Dance Thrill Fest V is the 5th iteration of an annual dance film festival curated by REYES Dance featuring short dance film works by bay area artists exploring themes of horror, thrill, comedy and everything in between.

DEPECHE MODE: M is a cinematic journey into the heart of Mexican culture's relationship with death, framed by the iconic performances of Depeche Mode during their 2023 Memento Mori tour. Conceived and directed by award-winning Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías, the film captures the band's three sold-out shows in Mexico City, attended by over 200,000 fans, blending concert footage with interpretive interstitials and archival material. DEPECHE MODE: M celebrates the band's global influence while delving into the profound connection between music, mortality, and Mexican tradition — a sacred meeting point where pain, memory, joy, and dance dissolve into one another, blurring into something profoundly and beautifully human.

A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad. Based on the award-winning novel of the same title.

Considered lost until the 1980s, Garras de oro (The Dawn of Justice) is regarded as World Cinema’s first explicitly anti-imperialist film. The film follows a newspaper editorialist who publishes an article accusing U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt of violating an international treaty with Colombia, arguing that his role in Panama’s separation renders him unfit for re-election. The film interlaces themes of national sovereignty, political betrayal, and anti-imperialist critique, culminating in a patriotic celebration of Colombian independence and love.

Made at the height of the tech boom of the late 1990s, Monika Treut’s Teddy Award-winning Gendernauts is a portrait of a group of trans artists, activists, and academics living in San Francisco—including historian Susan Stryker, web designer Stafford, video artists Jordy Jones and Texas Tomboy, intersex activist Hida Viloria, and “Goddess of Cyberspace” Sandy Stone. Treut also catches up with Annie Sprinkle and Max Wolf Valerio, who she first profiled in 1992’s Female Misbehavior. Viewed now, over 25 years since its initial release, Gendernauts remains a fascinatingly multifaceted look at the way that technology and the internet reshaped trans culture at the close of the 20th century.

Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third—intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar Wai has put it—was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, In the Mood for Love 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas—with In the Mood for Love stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry— evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the modern city through his inimitable romantic touch.

ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 by archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape) is assembled from a vast stockpile of footage catalogued in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT, where accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories of the beginning of the Israeli state are interwoven with the Palestinian struggle for independence. News coverage with Yasser Arafat and interviews with Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban during a visit to Sweden have not been shown since the first broadcast. From the tenth anniversary of Israel’s founding to the First Intifada, perspectives and encounters with statesmen, civilians, revolutionaries, and intellectuals tell the story from myriad angles of an evolving media landscape, revivifying a history of the conflict.

What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.

A new nonfiction film by Sam Fleischner (Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Wah Do Dem), Jetty documents two years of the decades-long federal project of installing granite jetties to protect the Rockaways—a coastal neighborhood of Queens, New York—from the effects of diminishing beaches. Interspersing footage of the people and machines at work with observations from local residents about living where the city meets the water, the film is shot on Super 16mm, accentuating the tactility of all the elements at play: rocks, sand, metal, water, and celluloid. With subtle sound design featuring a pensive, sometimes playful score by Animal Collective, Jetty looks with equanimity at human attempts to out-engineer nature as it reflects on the way that a sense of place informs our lives.

Working in film since the late 1960s, the cinema of avant-garde filmmaker Larry Gottheim is an observational cinema, rewarding contemplation, stillness and active intellectual engagement and offering uncannily commonplace imagery rife with elusive metaphor and/or accumulating into densely immersive conceptual conundra. In Gottheim’s films, time slows, hesitates and seems to move in novel and non-linear directions, the circularity of experience a recurring aspect of the master filmmaker’s rich body of work. Gottheim’s recent book, The Red Thread: Larry Gottheim and His Films (published 2024 by Eyewash Books and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative) is a ruminative and musing career-spanning culmination, teasing out longitudinal threads and uncanny occurrences in the oeuvre, presenting the artists’ body of work as a multi-faceted whole, a throughline of thought and material-based philosophy. In celebration of this publication, San Francisco Cinematheque is honored to present a three-program residency (in partnership with the Roxie Theater, Gray Area and Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland) presenting selections from the artist’s vast body of work, from early single-shot films, still lifes and nature studies to the complex sound/image constructions of later work to the very recent films completed 2019–2024. This three-part series commences at the Little Roxie with an early evening interactive presentation of three of the artist’s iconic single-shot early works and the later, semi-autobiographical film The Red Thread, filmed in mid-1980s San Francisco. All works screened in 16mm! SCREENING: Corn (1970); 16mm, color, silent, 11 minutes. Fog Line (1970); 16mm, color, silent, 11 minutes. Harmonica (1971); 16mm, color, sound, 11 minutes. The Red Thread (1987); 16mm, color, sound, 17 minutes.

Opened by Rikki Streicher in 1966, Maud’s, once the longest-running lesbian bar in the United States, gained an international reputation during the ‘70s and ‘80s as a meeting place for queer women. Witty, honest, and informative, Paris Poirier’s documentary about the bar blends personal stories with historical accounts from San Francisco icons — including Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin, Sally Gearhart, and Streicher herself — to provide an invaluable window into a time when bars like Maud’s were the only places the sapphic community could gather.

Rest In Pease Diane Keaton. A tribute to the lost icon whose cultural significance is evident even when trying to pick one representative work from a filmography so heavily populated with indisputable cinema classics and unforgettable showcases of the depth & breadth of her talent. A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively extreme sexual encounters.

Experience the gorgeous new restoration of what many believe to be Satoshi Kon’s (Perfect Blue, Paprika) greatest work, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS. When the legendary Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who had retired from the spotlight 30 years prior. As she recounts her career, Genya and his crew are literally pulled into her memories where they witness her chance encounter with a mysterious man on the run from the police. Despite never knowing his name or his face, Chiyoko relentlessly pursues that man in a seamless blend of reality and memory that only Satoshi Kon could deliver. Boasting countless awards, including the Grand Prize in the Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival, which it shared with Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS is a must-see for anime fans of all ages.

Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband's affair. With strikingly intimate access, Mistress Dispeller follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle.

What begins as an intimate portrait of Russian independent journalists facing persecution by Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia starts a full-scale war in Ukraine and they are all forced into exile. The film offers a front row seat to how authoritarianism works and the lives of those who resist, which becomes all the more globally relevant every day.

George Orwell was one of the most radical and visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose 1940s novels, such as 1984 and Animal Farm, foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future that has become scarily prescient in our modern era. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), working in collaboration with the Orwell Estate, seamlessly interweaves historical clips, readings from Orwell's diary, cinematic references, and dynamic modern day footage to craft not only a definitive portrait of the writer himself, but an entirely fresh take on how remarkably relevant and prophetic his work has become. Featuring award-winning actor Damian Lewis as the voice of Orwell.

From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California. Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovered a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean – and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients’ dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.

Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life.

Journalist Yasha Levine follows a lead on a water sale between a farmer and a small desert town—and discovers a hidden side to California’s healthy snack industry. At the center of the story are Stewart and Lynda Resnick. They’re billionaires. They live in the flashiest mansion in Beverly Hills, have a monopoly on the pistachio trade, and have branded themselves as ‘The Wonderful Company,' which now uses more water each year than the entire city of Los Angeles. With Academy Award-winning writer, director, producer Adam McKay (Don't Look Up) as Executive Producer, this fascinating investigative documentary from Journalist Yasha Levine and Filmmaker Rowan Wernham uncovers the environmental devastation caused by industrial agriculture and water mismanagement, the ties to the oil industry, including the use of chemically tainted wastewater for crop irrigation, and the massive lobbying efforts aimed at deregulating water and silencing environmental protections. The film also uncovers a shocking connection to U.S. foreign policy, including alliances with influential policy groups that have pushed for war with Iran — a direct competitor in the global pistachio trade. It’s a road trip into the dark heart of the American Dream.

Wanda (Mechthild Großmann) is a dominatrix who runs an S/M performance space in Hamburg where she stages elaborate sexual rituals for a discerning audience. Cruelty is her profession, but constructing traps for her lovers—including the lovelorn Gregor (Udo Kier), the naive and innocent Justine (Sheila McLaughlin), and the jaded Caren (Carola Regnier)—is her specialty. All know the rules of the game, but not all are willing to play their roles—but the show must go on… Inspired by the writings of the Baron Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch’s Seduction: The Cruel Woman (Verführung: Die grausame Frau) is a coolly sensual tribute to masochism and obsession in all of its forms.

Rewind SF Presents ~ Serial Mom (1994) w/ Drag by Mary Vice! Co-presented by our friends at Screen Slate! The one stop website for all your Bay Area Repertory Screening listings!  Every woman wants to be wanted… just not for Murder One! Director John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray) brings his twisted cinematic vision to the seemingly mundane world of suburbia in Serial Mom, an outrageous dark comedy starring Kathleen Turner (Body Heat, Romancing The Stone). Beverly (Turner) is the perfect happy homemaker. Along with her doting husband Eugene (Sam Waterston) and two children, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard), she lives a life straight out of Good Housekeeping. But this nuclear family just might explode when Beverly's fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics – transforming her from middle class mom to mass murderer! Soon, the bodies begin to pile up… and suburbia faces a horror even worse than wearing white after Labor Day. Featuring appearances by Mink Stole, Suzanne Somers, Traci Lords, and Patty Hearst, Serial Mom is a bloody hilarious tale that's as American as motherhood, the flag, and apple die.

At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.

Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl's sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment. Set in 1976 San Francisco, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL begins at the crossroads of the fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock. News commentary of the Patty Hearst trial echoes in the background, as Minnie's young expressive eyes soak in a drug-laden city in transition— where teenage rebellion and adult responsibility clash in characters lost and longing. Minnie's hard-partying mother and absent father have left her rudderless. She first finds solace in Monroe's seductive smile, and then on the backstreets of the city by the bay. Animation serves a refuge from the confusing and unstable world around her. Minnie emerges defiant— taking command of her sexuality and drawing on her newfound creative talents to reveal truths in the kind of intimate and vivid detail that can only be found in the pages of a teenage girl's diary. THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL is based on Phoebe Gloeckner's novel of the same name, hailed by Salon as "one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America." Writer/Director Marielle Heller unlocks this diary with a richly comedic and deeply personal vision. In her feature film directorial debut, Heller brings Gloeckner's book to life with fearless performances, a stirring score, inventive graphic novel-like animation sequences, imagination, humor and heart. It is a coming of age story that is as poignant as it is unsettling.

A Very Special Double Feature: THE DISINVITED + ALL ABOUT EVIL Join us for a one-of-a-kind night of terror, thrills, and twisted laughs as The Roxie presents a special double feature of THE DISINVITED and ALL ABOUT EVIL. We’re thrilled to welcome writer / director Devin Lawrence and writer/producer Matthew Mourgides to San Francisco as they present their acclaimed new film THE DISINVITED, fresh off its Audience Award win for Best Picture at the Dances With Films festival in Hollywood. Following the screening, filmmaker Joshua Grannell (aka Peaches Christ) will lead a live Q&A with Lawrence and Mourgides to dive into the film’s paranoid, surreal world of old flames, broken bonds, and desert nightmares. Then, stick around as Joshua introduces his own cult favorite ALL ABOUT EVIL, the wickedly funny and gory love letter to San Francisco’s own underground cinema scene. About THE DISINVITED: When Carl crashes a wedding among old friends and flames, what begins as an earnest attempt to reconnect quickly spirals into paranoia, betrayal, and humiliation - turning a hopeful desert weekend into a surreal, violent nightmare. Starring Sam Daly (The Office, Bel-Air) in a career-defining role, alongside Dani Reynolds, and Ryan Vincent, this genre-bending psychological thriller/dark comedy has been described as “David Lynch remaking Swingers.” About ALL ABOUT EVIL: Directed by Joshua Grannell (Peaches Christ), this San Francisco-set cult horror comedy stars Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker, Cassandra Peterson, and Mink Stole. When a shy librarian inherits her father’s movie theater, she discovers a bloodthirsty new way to keep the family business alive. A beloved cult hit that combines outrageous camp with buckets of gore, ALL ABOUT EVIL has built a worldwide fanbase for its unholy mix of horror, humor, and homage. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience two unforgettable films with the artists who made them—on the big screen, at San Francisco’s home for cult and independent cinema.

The Invisible Mammal tells the captivating story of a dedicated team of women scientists as they strive to protect North America's bats against a deadly disease rapidly spreading across the continent. The film, directed by San Francisco filmmaker Kristin Tièche and produced by Matthew Podolsky (Sea of Shadows) follows a team of women bat biologists into underground habitats as they work to save a rapidly disappearing species: the little brown bat. The film’s cast of women scientists include Chief Scientist of Bat Conservation International Dr. Winifred Frick, founder of NorCal Bats Corky Quirk of Davis, CA and Dr. Alice Chung-MacCoubrey of the National Park Service.

The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Directed by Gia Coppola, The Last Showgirl co-stars Oscar®, SAG® Award and Golden Globe® winner Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly’s best friend, who brings her own unique interpretation and brilliance to the story, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd. Written by Kate Gersten, the film is produced by Robert Schwartzman, Natalie Farrey and Gia Coppola and features a new original song “Beautiful That Way,” sung by pop superstar Miley Cyrus, produced by Academy Award nominee Andrew Wyatt and written by Wyatt, Cyrus and Lykke Li.

Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities. In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.

Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in THE MASTERMIND, her latest Cannes triumph. In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine? Pumpkin King Jack Skellington returns to the big screen in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas for a limited time. The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloween town's beloved Pumpkin King, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmas town, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

Julie Wyman seeks her place in the Little People community as dwarf identity evolves. Uncovering family rumors of "partial dwarfism," she joins dwarf artists to challenge and address the rise of height-altering pharmaceuticals.

THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT follows four women living in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of one war while on the precipice of another. In the midst of this uncertainty, four women build a life with the hope of making their home a better place. When war breaks out again, what began as an observational meditation on women’s roles after conflict becomes an urgent and intimate record of their lives interrupted once again by war. From taking up arms on the front lines to fleeing their homes as refugees, each woman’s life changes irrevocably. Their journey becomes the myth of a homeland lost forever, and the power of story to keep it alive.

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

On the streets of London, Mike is hustling to get by. Roadside evangelizers won’t let him sleep in peace, his slippery friend won’t pay up the money he stole, and before long, he finds himself in trouble with the law. As he struggles to reintegrate into society, shuffling between gigs as a line cook and a trash collector, he must balance a newfound sense of community with his own itch for self-destruction.

Dorothee Müller (Ina Blum) is a German journalist researching an article about the nature of romantic love—something she desperately needs, given her dysfunctional relationships with former lover Heinz (Gad Klein) and brother Bruno (Marcelo Uriona). In the Oz of San Francisco, Dorothee finds exactly what she was looking for—and then some—thanks to the help of lesbian strip show barker Susie Sexpert (Susie Bright), drag king Ramona (Shelly Mars), and her mysteriously kinky neighbors (Cleo Dubois and Fakir Musafar). When Dorothy surfaces like a dazzled tourist on the wilder shores of the city’s thriving lesbian community, she has discovered her true sexuality…and left some illusions behind.

WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is a deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at 90 years old, offers practical advice for navigating the 21st century's challenges. The film captures the Dalai Lama speaking directly to viewers, creating a sense of a private audience, and shares his timeless wisdom on achieving inner peace and happiness for everyone. The special screening marks the Dalai Lama's 90 Birthday on July 6th.