A mysterious young man from a New York publisher is sent to Switzerland to persuade the renowned writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of the Ripley anthology.

On the last day of World War II in a small town somewhere in Poland, Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. In this incendiary environment we find Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki, who has been ordered to assassinate an incoming commissar. But a mistake stalls his progress and leads him to Krystyna, a beautiful barmaid who gives him a glimpse of what his life could be. Gorgeously photographed and brilliantly performed, Ashes and Diamonds masterfully interweaves the fate of a nation with that of one man, resulting in one of the most important Polish films of all time.

Before the Rain tells the stories of an orthodox Christian monk, a British photo agent, and a native Macedonian war photographer to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. This gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence, and remains one of recent cinema's most powerful laments on the futility of war.

ABOUT THE FILM LA BOLA NEGRA, the bold new film from Spanish writer-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, won the Best Director award at Cannes and the People's Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Inspired by the surviving pages of an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca and by Alberto Conejero's award-winning play La piedra oscura, the film tells the interconnected stories of three gay men in Spain in 1932, 1937, and 2017. Moving from the years before the Spanish Civil War, through the war itself, to the present day, LA BOLA NEGRA is a sweeping, passionate triptych about desire, repression, historical memory, and what one generation carries forward to the next. PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS Our panel will explore the film's roots in Lorca's work, its portrayal of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco era, and how it brings queer history and historical memory to the screen. CARLOS RAMOS Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literary Studies and Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College Carlos Ramos's teaching and research focus on the literature and cultural history of contemporary Spain. His published work includes Construyendo la modernidad: Escritura y arquitectura en el Madrid moderno (1918-1937) and Poesía insomne. WAN SONYA TANG Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Boston College Wan Sonya Tang teaches courses on Spanish literature and culture from the nineteenth century onward. She is the author of Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in 19th-Century Spain and co-editor of Televising Restoration Spain, which examines how heritage film and television explore Spain's relationship to modernity in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Moderator: FERNANDO ROSENBERG Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University Fernando Rosenberg is the author of After Human Rights: Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010.

ABOUT THE FILM ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM captures an extraordinary evening in 1972, when pioneering documentarian William Greaves gathered surviving luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance at Duke Ellington's Harlem townhouse. Over four hours, artists, writers, and intellectuals, many of whom had not seen one another in fifty years, reminisced, argued, laughed, and debated their place in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. Greaves considered it the most important event he ever filmed. Decades later, his son David Greaves, one of the original camera operators, restored the 16mm footage and completed the film, creating both a vivid time capsule and a searching inquiry into one of the most creative periods in American history. PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS Our panelists will discuss the Harlem Renaissance and its legacy, the remarkable figures gathered in Greaves's footage, and the story of how this film was made and, fifty years later, finally completed. KENDRA FIELD Kendra Taira Field is the Gerald R. Gill Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at Tufts University; and a 2025-26 Hutchins Fellow at Harvard University. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country (Yale, 2018), which traced her own ancestors’ post- emancipation lives in Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Field’s American Historical Review article, "The Privilege of Family History" explores the history of African American engagement with family history and genealogy in slavery and freedom. Field abridged David Levering Lewis' W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Henry Holt, 2009) and co-founded the Du Bois Forum, a retreat for writers, scholars, and artists. Field serves as Chief Historian for the 10 Million Names Project and has appeared in numerous historical documentaries and television programs, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" (2013) and HBO Max’s, Breaking New Ground (2024). KHARY JONES Professor of the Practice, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Tufts University Khary Jones is Professor of the Practice, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. As a writer-director, his work includes the award-winning documentary Night Fight and the short films Hug, Three and a Half Thoughts, and Chrysalis. He has also served on the editorial teams behind the documentary features Where the Pavement Ends; Black Memorabilia; Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart; He Named Me Malala; Sembene!; and The World According to Dick Cheney. JESSE MCCARTHY John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University Jesse McCarthy is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War; Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Essays, which won the 2022 Whiting Award for Non-Fiction; and the novel The Fugitivities, featured on NPR. He is editor of the Norton Library edition of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and the co-editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of The Norton Critical Edition of Jean Toomer's Cane.

Join us for a screening of Cut to David followed by a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Sandy Jaffe. ABOUT THE FILM: David’s story is beautifully layered from the start: An adopted, Chinese-American, transgender teen, raised in a Jewish home in Boston with a filmmaker for a mom, with a camera always close by. As David journeys from high school to college to adulthood, Sandy Jaffe’s camera documents her family’s evolving relationship as each participant has a turn steering the narrative. Blending vérité footage, home videos, and candid conversations, the film begins as an effort to understand David’s gender transition and expands into a deeper exploration of identity, agency, authorship, power, and the complicated yet loving bond between a mother and her son. An intimate, fly-on-the-wall documentary, CUT TO DAVID considers the possibilities—and perils—of living visibly and openly, exploring how ethnicity, gender, religion, and parenting shape who we become.

Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a Romanian-Norwegian Pentecostal couple, move with their five children from Romania to Norway after Mihai’s parents die, seeking closeness to Lisbet’s family, who share their faith. Settling in an isolated coastal village, they form a bond with their neighbors, the Halbergs. When their daughter Elia appears at school with bruises, suspicions arise about the family's strict religious upbringing. Fjord explores clashing worldviews, conformity, tolerance, and the boundaries of freedom and intimacy.

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Beautifully shot, with stunning performances by its young cast, the Oscar-nominated Mustang is both a rousing tale of spirited youth and a powerful, moving, and timely work of engaging social cinema. It’s the beginning of summer. In a small village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school, innocently playing with local boys. But prying village eyes view their games with suspicion and the girls’ behaviour – and refusal to repent – quickly causes a scandal among the family. Soon the sisters find themselves locked in their bedrooms, with sober dress enforced and their schoolwork replaced by cookery classes. Their home now a prison, all the girls have to live for are arranged marriages and family honour. But together, driven by strength, courage, and a desire for freedom, the five sisters fight back against the limits imposed on them and test their family ties to breaking point. Drawing vocal support from critics, festivals, and audiences across the globe, this highly impressive debut from director Deniz Gamze Ergüven is set to be one of the most talked-about and celebrated films of the year.

PETER PAN. SYNDROME Inspired by the tales of J.M. Barrie, Dmitry Krymov's "Peter Pan. Syndrome" is about art and the artist – the creator who, even when trapped in a dead end, when despair tightens around the throat and the urge to abandon everything feels unbearable, still returns to creation. Overcoming pain, he, like Peter Pan, cannot grow up from his passion for art; he continues to make miracles because he knows no other way to live. You want to let him go, to say, "Rest!" – but he is so radiant, his miracles so beautiful, and his heart so full of love that the audience, weeping, cannot bring themselves to release him. Latvian National Theatre Production Presented in Latvian w/ Russian subtitles Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes CREATIVE TEAM Directed by Dmitry Krymov Set Design by Dmitry Krymov, Uģis Bērziņš Video artist: Toms Zeļģis Lighting Design by Oskars Pauliņš CAST Egons Dombrovskis Dita Lūriņa Gundars Grasbergs Uldis Anže ABOUT THE DIRECTOR DMITRY KRYMOV Known for his innovative, design-centric style, Dmitry Krymov is one of the most original directorial voices of his generation. He has been hailed as “one of the world’s finest theatermakers” (New York Times), and has won several awards for his work, both in Russia and internationally. In early 2022, Krymov was in Philadelphia, preparing his production of The Cherry Orchard, which was scheduled to premiere at the Wilma Theatre in February. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he condemned the invasion and refused to return to his homeland. In October 2022, Krymov announced the opening of his new studio in New York City – Krymov Lab NYC.

ABOUT THE FILMS In 1978 Robb Moss filmed a group of friends, young river guides, on a 35-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, and he has kept filming them ever since. RIVERDOGS (1982, 32 min.) is Moss's original 16mm record of that summer on the Colorado River, a lyrical and unselfconscious portrait of youth and the canyon. RIVERDOGS contains nudity. A short break follows. THE BEND IN THE RIVER (2025, 83 min.) returns to Barry, Cathy, Danny, Jeff and Jim, now in their seventies. Moss weaves together footage from across their lives into a portrait of friendship and aging that is often funny and finally very moving. Executive produced by Frances McDormand and Joel Coen, the film premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. CONVERSATION WITH THE FILMMAKER FOLLOWS Robb Moss joins Anne Marie Stein to talk about filming the same people across a lifetime, and what it is like to watch his friends, and himself, grow older on screen. ROBB MOSS Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking, Harvard University Robb Moss is a documentary filmmaker who teaches filmmaking at Harvard. His films include RIVERDOGS, THE SAME RIVER TWICE, which premiered at Sundance, and SECRECY and CONTAINMENT, both made with Peter Galison. He has been an advisor at the Sundance Institute Documentary Labs since their first year and has served on documentary juries at Sundance and many other festivals. Moderator: ANNE MARIE STEIN Former Executive Director, Boston Film/Video Foundation Anne Marie Stein is a Newton resident who led the Boston Film/Video Foundation from 1988 to 2001 and co-founded the Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema.

ABOUT THE FILMS In 1978 Robb Moss filmed a group of friends, young river guides, on a 35-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, and he has kept filming them ever since. THE SAME RIVER TWICE (2003, 78 min.) catches up with five of those friends, Barry, Cathy, Danny, Jeff and Jim, twenty years later. Two have served as mayors and one as a county commissioner, and all five are weighing the free lives they once led against the ones they have built. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. RIVERDOGS (1982, 32 min.) is Moss's original record of that summer on the Colorado River, a lyrical and unselfconscious portrait of youth and the canyon. RIVERDOGS contains nudity.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.

From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.

A filmmaker applies lessons from a Hallmark movie writing workshop to pitch a documentary about concrete.

This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions, and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.

Wildwood is a handcrafted epic fantasy that transports audiences into a secret, dangerously alive world. A girl’s desperate quest to save her baby brother unfolds into a spectacular, high-stakes adventure through a forbidden forest full of enchanted creatures, endearing allies, and formidable adversaries—where an entire hidden realm hangs in the balance. In an era of automation, LAIKA delivers its most ambitious and globally accessible film yet—a bold fusion of human-crafted artistry and cinematic storytelling from the makers of Coraline.

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes You Can See Everything.

You’re invited to a special screening of “Your Attention Please”, a film about parents, educators, and young people fighting back against Big Tech—and building something better for our kids. This isn't a doomsday doc. It's hopeful, honest, and it sparks real conversations about the future we want to create. Join us and be a part of this important conversation. Panel Discussion To Follow, featuring Director and Producer Sara Robin, Writer and Editor Jack LeMay, and Executive Producer Joni Siani. More information on the film: https://www.yourattentionplz.com