Monsoon Wedding
Monsoon Wedding
Philadelphia, PA
As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. Monsoon Wedding traces five intersecting stories, navigating different aspects of love and crossing boundaries of class, geography, and identity. (Mira Nair…
Friday, June 10 2022
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Guns of the Trees
Guns of the Trees
Philadelphia, PA
Overshadowed by his 16mm diaristic work of later years, Jonas Mekas’s debut film, Guns of the Trees, a feature-length experimental narrative shot on 35mm, is nonetheless a foundational work both within his own filmography and within the nascent New American Cinema movement. As such, it qualifies as…
Friday, June 3 2022
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8:30 PM
The Wobblies
The Wobblies
Philadelphia, PA
Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of American history. This compelling documentary of the IWW (or “The Wobblies” as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories, sawmills, …
Wednesday, May 4 2022
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The Bloody Child
The Bloody Child
Philadelphia, PA
A young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave. Inspired by this real event, Menkes turns the man’s arrest—a single moment in time—into a harrowing hallucinatory journey. Shot in North Africa and 29 Palms, C…
Wednesday, May 11 2022
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Phantom Love
Phantom Love
Philadelphia, PA
Phantom Love is a surreal drama about an enmeshed family, in which violence and trauma are steadily percolating, just beneath the surface. The main character, Lulu (Marina Shoif) appears at first to be a continuation of the frozen heroine Tinka represented in Menkes’s earlier films and refers to h…
Thursday, May 12 2022
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8:30 PM
Dissolution
Dissolution
Philadelphia, PA
Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Dissolution combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black-and-white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Jaffa (the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv), the movie …
Friday, May 13 2022
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8:30 PM
Queen of Diamonds & The Great Sadness of Zohara
Queen of Diamonds & The Great Sadness of Zohara
Philadelphia, PA
Critically acclaimed for her radical feminist body of work, Nina Menkes’ Queen of Diamonds (Sun- dance ’91) is the second title in a quartet of films (alongside The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), and The Bloody Child (1996)), that Menkes produced, wrote, directed, and shot…
Friday, May 6 2022
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9:00 PM
Magdalena Viraga
Magdalena Viraga
Philadelphia, PA
Set in decaying boudoirs and bloody dance halls, within the brutal confines of an oppressive regime and the back reaches of the protagonist’s mind, Magdalena Viraga is a tale of murder and crucifixion, alienation and friendship, past and present. It leaves us empty of hope but full of desire. It is…
Thursday, May 5 2022
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9:00 PM
Kamikaze Hearts
Kamikaze Hearts
Philadelphia, PA
Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, im…
Thursday, June 9 2022
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In Front of Your Face
In Front of Your Face
Philadelphia, PA
After years living abroad, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung) is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee) in her high-rise apartment. The siblings sleep late, have breakfast in a cafe and visit a restaurant owned by Jeongok's son. But as the details of Sangok's day accrue (a sp…
Wednesday, June 8 2022
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