When a charming house guest (Galitzine) arrives at a remote castle, the delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his innocent bride Cherry (Monroe), and their devoted maid Hero (Corrin), is thrown into chaos.

Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power-plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes. Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams is both a showcase for its maker’s artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

After his wife, Alice, tells him about her sexual fantasies, William Harford sets out for a night of sexual adventure. After several less than successful encounters, he meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale - now a musician - who tells him of strange sex parties when he is required to play the piano blindfolded. All the men at the party are costumed and wear masks while the women are all young and beautiful. Harford manages to find an appropriate costume and heads out to the party. Once there, however, he is warned by someone who recognizes him, despite the mask, that he is in great danger. He manages to extricate himself but the threats prove to be quite real and sinister.

The feature debut of Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus is a forceful collision of documentary reality and myth. In the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus is from, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion. It’s harvest time and there’s discontent in the fields. Suddenly, a black bull is on the loose, and the laborers must scramble for refuge high up in the oak trees. As the specter of the beast looms below, they share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of the landscape and of struggles past and present. Night begins to fall, and time swells. The wind that brings the heatwave, it burns. A fable-like film rich with language and monumental gesture, Fire of Wind announces a rare voice in contemporary cinema, an artist of deep political commitment steeped in the great filmmaking traditions of Portugal, all the while forging a singular new path forward.

CCA’s Foundations of Film Presents: The Passion of Cinema Narrative A Special Evening of Film and Discussion St. John’s University Tutor – and CCA Board Member – David Carl and IAIA Cinema Studies professor David Meyer present and dissect an international evening of film segments chosen for their visual/cinematic brilliance. This is a night for curious movie lovers, passionate cineastes and anyone who wants to know more about how and why movies work. Cinema Narrative explores the story-telling cinema and narrative visual techniques of unique directors with recognizable visual styles. In studying their cinematic solutions to narrative movement, the class will span over eight decades of cinema. Cinema Narrative will explore, through film clips and discussion, how these directors enrich the drama of their stories with cinematography, editing, mis-en-scene, pace and emphasis – all the directorial arts. Mr. Carl and Mr. Meyer will explore each filmmaker’s visual storytelling and narrative techniques. There will be time only for brief audience discussions of each clip and time for a thorough discussion at the end of the program. A festival of movie across time and nations: Beau Travail 1999 France Claire Denis My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford La Dolce Vita 1960 Italia Federico Fellini. The Killers 1946 USA Robert Siodmak No Country for Old Men 2009 USA Joel & Ethan Coen Police Adjective 2009 Romania Corneliu Porumboiu Sátántangó 1994 Hungary Ball Tarr Woodstock 1970 USA Sequence edited by Martin Scorcese

Fearless civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio battles at the Supreme Court for transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming healthcare, confronting not only the legal system but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens the struggle for trans rights. With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, Heightened Scrutiny is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice.

An elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.

A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.

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.

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit—including theater legend Elaine Stritch, who fought anxiety and exhaustion to record her iconic rendition of “The Ladies Who Lunch.” With thrilling immediacy, legendary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker offers an up-close view of the larger-than-life personalities, frayed-nerve energy, and explosive creative intensity that go into capturing the magic of live performance.

A Life in Conversation with Art Renesan Course Information: "Hear first-hand about the life and times of Linda Durham, a leading gallerist of contemporary art in New Mexico. From the 1970s through early 2011, she represented and championed the work of New Mexico-based painters, sculptors, and photographers. Durham will talk about some of the work in her personal collection: the Art, the Artists, the stories…and why she loves what she loves. (Photo by Alex Traube; painting by Jerry West.)" About The Instructor: Linda Durham is a long-time gallery owner and art consultant in Santa Fe. In addition to being a lifelong journal writer, she is an author (Still Moving, The Trans-Siberian Railway Journey), founder of the Wonder Institute (a visual- and performing-arts think tank and salon), lecturer, and workshop presenter who collects experiences and cultural encounters the way others collect souvenirs.

THIS TICKET COVERS ALL 2 SESSIONS! Journeys into Jazz I: Bird and the Origins of Modern Music Renesan Course Information: When he died in 1955 at age thirty-four, Charlie (“Bird”) Parker was arguably the most influential—and imitated—jazz musician in the country. His recording career spanned a short 15 years. Yet, no other jazz musician before or after Bird captured the imagination of fellow artists and the public as much as he did. Parker’s story, at its core, is about the triumph of music as a dominant obsession amid a perplexing array of competing compulsions. About The Instructor: After 50 years of teaching on college campuses, Bruce Johnson retired to Santa Fe and joined the Renesan family in 2016. Introduced to the saxophone at age eight, he played in a regional swing band during high school and spent summers studying jazz composition and orchestration while exploring the Southern California jazz scene.

THIS TICKET COVERS ALL 2 SESSIONS! Journeys into Jazz II: Miles Davis Renesan Course Information: "Duke Ellington called Miles Davis the Picasso of Jazz. Like the painter, Davis kept changing and experimenting with new styles and forms of expression. To study Davis means to learn about bebop, hard bop, cool jazz and jazz/rock fusion. This presentation addresses the artistry of Davis during the years 1945 to 1970 and his association with jazz greats of that period, including Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter." About The Instructor: "Mark Davis has taught more than twenty courses for Renesan, half of which deal with jazz. Other presentations have been on French cultural history, including film; the Spanish Civil War; Weimar Germany; the Betrayal of Poland; Vichy France; the Red Scare; and U.S. Elections of 1940 and 1960. "

Saving Florence's Art: Renaissance, WWII, Flood 1966 Renesan Course Information: "Step back in time to the Florentine Renaissance when Man became the center of the universe. Discover the role of women in this Florentine society and the one woman who saved Florence’s art. Imagine a time when Florence, the Beautiful City of Art, was in danger of becoming the City Without Art during WWII and the tragic flood of 1966! Relive the consequences of these disasters, not only for Florence, but also for the world." About The Instructor: Linda Sassano Higgins received a B.S. in Anthropology (University of California), an M.Ed. (Tufts), a degree in Art (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art) and became a Licensed Italian Tour Guide in 2016. She lives in Santa Fe and works in Florence.

Renesan Course Information: Fred Nathan, Executive Director of the nonpartisan think tank Think New Mexico, will discuss the organization's recommendations for addressing the state's critical shortage of health care workers. He will provide an update on the progress made toward enacting these reforms during the 2025 legislative session and describe plans for future action. About The Instructor: Fred Nathan, Jr. founded Think New Mexico in 1999. A recovering attorney, he served as special counsel to New Mexico Attorney General Tom Udall from 1991-1998, when he spearheaded several successful legislative initiatives and New Mexico’s lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which resulted in a $1.25 billion settlement for the state.

Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 Renesan Course Information: Albuquerque Museum Director Andrew Connors provides an overview of its current special exhibition, which features powerful works by such major artists as George Grosz, Max Beckmann, and Paul Klee, many of which were condemned by the Nazi Party in its 1937 exhibition Degenerate Art. Other pieces were created in response to that exhibition. They are juxtaposed with work by other experimental artists of the era, including Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Giorgio de Chirico, and Salvador Dalí. About The Instructor: Andrew Connors was appointed director of the Albuquerque Museum in 2018, after serving as its curator for nine years. Originally from Colorado, Connors studied at Yale University and The George Washington University, worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and served as senior curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

Five bold young voices go on a high-stakes journey to conquer the Super Bowl of public speaking. As the world teeters on a razor’s edge, these teens rise with fire and heartfelt humanity – offering a masterclass in courage, conviction, and the kind of hope that refuses to be silenced.

From the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Honeyland’ comes a poignant and visually arresting story set in the heart of rural Macedonia. Nikola, a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies, finds himself unable to sell his land or crops. When his family leaves in search of a better life abroad, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan. As he nurses the bird back to health, an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. The result is a deeply moving film that touches on climate change, economic migration, resilience and the quiet power of connection.