In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of displacement, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom (Sam Riley) teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist (Stacy Martin) arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband (Jack Farthing) disappears, and the police suspect Tom.

A portrayal of Ferdinand Magellan and Beatriz Barbosa's 1517 marriage in Seville, focusing on their brief time together before his departure on the Spanish crown's expedition.

Conor Marsh's secluded life disrupted when he plays OBEX game. His dog Sandy disappears, blurring reality and game. Conor enters OBEX world to rescue Sandy, navigating its strange realms.

This Renesan Course is 2 Sessions. This ticket covers both sessions. Appeasing the Dictators: Chamberlain, Churchill and British Diplomacy in the 1930s Renesan Course Information: "As Europe careened toward war in the late thirties, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain optimistically believed that peace and harmony could be obtained by appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. Far from a policy borne out of despair, this presentation shows how appeasement was the product of positive thinking and became Britain’s dominant foreign policy in the twenties and thirties." About The Instructor: Mark Davis has presented for Renesan on French cultural and political history, including the Popular Front, Vichy, and film; the Spanish Civil War; Weimar Germany; the Betrayal of Poland; the Red Scare; and U.S. Elections of 1940, 1948, 1960, and 1968. His numerous presentations on jazz include recent sessions on Miles Davis.

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. Defying the Nazis in Vichy France: The Village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Renesan Course Information: "Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a Huguenot village in the mountains of southern France. In 1990, it was honored by Yad Vashem as the first recipient of its Righteous Among the Nations award to honor gentiles who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews. This lecture will describe how the inhabitants of Le Chambon and the surrounding area saved nearly 5,000 Jews, mostly children, despite the frequent searches of houses and farms by Vichy police." About The Instructor: "K Paul Jones received his doctorate in Modern European History from the University of Wisconsin. After a university teaching career, he retired to Santa Fe in 2005. Since then, he has regularly taught courses for Renesan including efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust."

This Renesan Course is 4 Sessions. This ticket covers all 4 sessions. James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Renesan Course Information: Joyce’s semi-autobiographical Portrait is considered one of the greatest examples in English of a Künstlerroman, a fictional narrative tracing an artist’s growth. In a manner sometimes ironic, sometimes sympathetic, his experimental novel chronicles the development of its protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, in turn-of-the-century Ireland. As Stephen develops, he becomes increasingly aware of the forces and structures that shape him and limit his freedom. Our discussions will focus on Joyce’s innovative narrative technique and his treatment of gender roles, sexuality, Catholicism, and Irish politics and culture. About The Instructor: Ed Walkiewicz is Professor Emeritus of English and Ann and Burns Hargis Professor Emeritus at Oklahoma State University. A prolific author of works on twentieth-century literature (and a regular Renesan discussion leader), he is the former editor in chief of the Cimarron Review.

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session. Listening to Rivers: Large-Scale Global Art and Ecology Projects Renesan Presentation Information: "Artist, activist, and author Basia Irland will present an illustrated talk about her large-scale international projects, including “Gathering of Waters,” which fosters dialogue and connects communities along the length of rivers, in addition to our Río Grande; “Contemplation Stations” such as the three along the Santa Fe River; and hand-carved ephemeral “Ice Book” sculptures embedded with native seeds that are floated down streams to aid riparian restoration, most recently created for SITE Santa Fe. " About The Presenter: Fulbright Scholar Basia Irland creates global projects, featured in her books Water Library, Reading the River, and What Rivers Know and a monograph, Repositories. She is Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, where she founded the Art and Ecology Program. Her projects are featured in more than seventy international publications.

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. Machiavelli: How Machiavellian Was He? Renesan Course Information: "In The Prince, Machiavelli can both discern the nature of princes and understand the nature of the people. Using this double vision, he simultaneously warns the Medici of the dangers to their rule while informing the people as to the weakness of their regime. Contrary to most opinions that Machiavelli wrote The Prince in order to gain employment with the Medici, or to provide amoral, if not immoral, reality-based advice to princes, his actual purpose was to warn the Medici not to become tyrants and to instruct the people as to just what tyranny looked like, with, most probably, the goal of undermining the Medici." About The Presenter: Jo Ann Moran Cruz is Professor of History emerita, Georgetown University, and author of five books and more than thirty articles, including a recent article on Machiavelli’s The Prince in The Journal of Political Thought. She has presented previously for Renesan on medieval women and the Black Death.

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. From Fame to Flashdance: Movie Musicals of the 1980s Renesan Course Information: 1980 marked the return of conservatism in the U.S. As a response, films like Footloose and Dirty Dancing represented the individual struggling for artistic expression against a repressive society. Victor/Victoria and Fame took on issues of gender identity, sexual orientation, race and class in a niche culture against the world at large. MTV influenced the aesthetic of these films so this formally old-fashioned genre could appeal to a younger audience and in doing so, redefined the genre itself. About The Instructor: Aaron Leventman received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and has taught locally at Santa Fe Community College and Renesan. He is an actor for film, theatre, and TV, a playwright, and former curator of film festivals. His theatre company has performed locally, virtually, and in NYC.

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. Colin Jacobsen on How to Program an Orchestral Concert Renesan Course Information: Colin Jacobsen, music director of Santa Fe Pro Musica, is also a skilled concert programmer, noted for his wide-ranging and thought-provoking selections. He’ll use the group’s orchestra concerts on March 14 and 15, as well as other concerts from Pro Musica’s recent past and future, as examples. The March repertory includes a world premiere plus Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Kurt Weill’s Youkali, a work by Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, and the big-band classic “Big Noise from Winnetka.” About The Instructor: Hailed as “one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene” by The Washington Post, Jacobsen co-founded the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and the chamber ensemble The Knights. He frequently performed with Pro Musica prior to being appointed its music director in 2022.

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. Star Axis: The Land Art Project in New Mexico Created by Charles Ross Renesan Course Information: The light artist Charles Ross conceived of Star Axis in 1971 and started construction on this land art project in eastern New Mexico in 1976. All of Star Axis’s shapes and angles are determined by earth-to-star alignments. They are built into the sculpture so that we can experience them in human scale. Star Axis offers an intimate experience of how the earth's environment extends into the space of the stars. Charles Ross will complete the project in 2026. About The Instructor: Jamie Clements is the former President/CEO of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He is currently working with Charles Ross and his wife and fellow artist Jill O'Bryan on a fundraising campaign to open Star Axis to the public.

This Renesan Course is 2 Sessions. This ticket covers both sessions. The Great Deception: FDR’s Last Campaign, 1944 Renesan Course Information: In March 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt was in the final year of his unprecedented third term as US President. At the time, his general physician noted that “Roosevelt represents a textbook case of untreated hypertension progressing to [likely] organ failure and death from stroke.” It’s unclear how much FDR knew of his diagnosis (but he definitely knew he needed treatment) or the timeline of worsening. Family members and close staff knew he was failing but not all the details. Still, FDR ran for a fourth term. Already hiding his paralysis from the public, he, his family and staff went to great lengths to distract and disguise his worsening heart condition. And he won. He died 100 days after being sworn in. About The Instructor: Allen Stone, a retired broadcast journalist who witnessed and reported on many key events of the 1960s and 1970s, received the prestigious duPont-Columbia award for work (with others) on the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination. For Renesan, he has made several presentations connecting past and current events.

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. The Roots and Rise of 1960s Soul Music Renesan Course Information: "Dick Rosemont explores what became labeled soul music, rising out of rhythm and blues of the '50s—from Sam Cooke, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and beyond. The presentation is enhanced by numerous photos and music examples." About The Instructor: "Dick formed his first rock band in 1963. He has produced and hosted radio programs on both public and commercial stations, and his music articles have appeared in various publications. After 50 years, he still buys and sells record albums, now here in Santa Fe."

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. Ukraine, Putin, the Russian Federation Renesan Course Information: "Donald Gluck reviews Ukraine’s history from 9th century Kyivan Rus, through the 1649 to 1764 Cossack Hetmanate, to today’s republic, emphasizing the Orange and Maidan Revolutions, and Russian Federation aggression. The last includes the covert war of 2014 and the massive invasion beginning in 2022. He details the authoritarian trajectory of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation and explores Putin’s irridentist longing for lost land; revanchist passion over despoiled honor; and the realpolitik of capturing bountiful Ukraine." About The Instructor: "Donald Gluck, Ph.D., was an aerospace engineer. He supported the Nunn-Lugar Threat Reduction Program, working for several years with Russian and Ukrainian scientists. After retirement, he taught classes in foreign films, the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, and the Holocaust for lifelong learning organizations including Renesan."

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory. Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger. Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?

Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to find her own voice in an exploration of how trauma can be transformed into art through re-possessing our own bloody histories, particularly those uniquely experienced by the bodies of women and girls.

THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN is an 80-minute, feature silent film that was shot in May, June, and July of 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma. The story, played by an all-Native American cast of 300 Kiowas and Comanches, includes a romantic rivalry, buffalo hunts, a battle, village scenes, dances, deceit, courage, hand-to-hand combat, and even a happy ending. The Native American actors, who in 1920 had been living on reservations for less than fifty years, brought with them their own tipis, horses, clothing, and material culture. The film was directed by a young director, Norbert Myles and written by Richard E. Banks who had spent 25 years living with various tribes. It is fascinating that, by accident or design, the film’s plot hinges on story on a very similar to Quannah Parker’s real encounter with his first wife. Restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society, Film Technology (35mm) and Modern Videofilm (2K), THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN proves to be a revelation. Subtly acted by the all-Native American cast, photographed beautifully, and directed without melodrama by Myles, this lost silent film stands with the best films of the period. Why it played only twice and was never officially released remains a mystery. To accompany the restored film, composer David Yeagley wrote an original score that was performed by the Oklahoma City University Orchestra. Funding for this project provided by: Lawton Community Foundation McMahon Foundation, National Film Preservation Foundation, Oklahoma City University and the Oklahoma Historical Society.

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.