Week Starting March 29

Wednesday, April 1

Enlighten Up!
Enlighten Up! (Kate Churchill)
Filmmaker Kate Churchill is determined to prove that yoga can transform anyone. Nick Rosen is skeptical but agrees to be her guinea pig. Kate immerses Nick in yoga, and follows him …
Tulpan
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
In the director’s own words, "Tulpan" was shot “in the middle of nowhere,” in southern Kazakhstan, in an area known as the Hunger Steppe, home to nomadic shepherds and their flocks. …

Friday, April 3

Adventureland
Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan, an uptight, recent college grad, can't wait to embark on his dream tour of Europe. But when his parents announce they can no …
Forbidden Lie$
Forbidden Lie$ (Anna Broinowski)
Norma Khouri is a thief, a saint, a seductress and a sociopath – depending on who is talking. Men want to marry her, Islamic extremists want to kill her, and the …
Gigantic
Gigantic (Matt Aselton)
Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano) is a 28 year-old salesman at a high-end Swedish mattress company. The afterthought child to elderly parents (Ed Asner, Jane Alexander), and the youngest son in a …
Sugar
Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family …
The Escapist
The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt)
Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer: in prison for the rest of his natural-born days. And he's been perfectly willing to accept that...until now. A letter informs him his daughter …
The Song of Sparrows
The Song of Sparrows (Majid Majidi)
Karim works at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Iran. He leads a simple and contented life with his family in his small house, until one day when one of the …

Week Starting April 5

Tuesday, April 7

Donkey Punch
Donkey Punch (Oliver Blackburn)
Kim (Jaime Winstone), Tammi (Nichola Burley) and Lisa (Sian Breckin) are best friends on a girl’s weekend in Mallorca, away from grey Leeds. Feisty Kim and carefree Lisa are determined to …
Doubt
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools’ strict customs, which have long been …
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (Scott Hicks)
In July 2005, filmmaker Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Philip Glass to celebrate his 70th anniversary in 2007. Over the next 18 months, Scott followed Philip across …
I.O.U.S.A.
I.O.U.S.A. (Patrick Creadon)
.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, …

Wednesday, April 8

Lymelife
Lymelife (Derick Martini)
Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin) is a typical 15-year-old boy growing up in late-1970s Long Island. His suburban existence is primarily marked by a nerdy interest in Star Wars, fending off bullies …

Friday, April 10

Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi)
At 14, Toronto school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the "demigods of Canadian metal," releasing …
Is Anybody There?
Is Anybody There? (John Crowley)
In his follow up to last year's "Boy A," John Crowley returns to the world of a young boy, fashioning a film of a very different kind. Infusing his new work …
Observe and Report
Observe and Report (Jody Hill)
At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist, combating skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional unruly customer while dreaming of the day when …

Week Starting April 12

Tuesday, April 14

Dark Matter
Dark Matter (Chen Shi-Zheng)
The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, "Dark Matter" delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for “Shooting Star”), a Chinese science student pursuing a …
The Reader
The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
The Reader opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out …

Wednesday, April 15

Oblivion (El Ovido)
Oblivion (El Ovido) (Heddy Honigmann)
The latest documentary from Heddy Honigmann ("Forever," "Metal and Melancholy," "O Amor Natural") focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing its startling contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how many …

Friday, April 17

American Violet
American Violet (Tim Disney)
Based on real events and set in a small Texas town in the midst of the 2000 Bush/Gore Presidential election, "American Violet" tells the story of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a …
Every Little Step
Every Little Step (James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo)
Documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look at the grueling audition process for the hit Broadway show "A Chorus Line."
Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis)
Salma, a Palestinian widow, has to stand up against her new neighbor, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line …
Sleep Dealer
Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera)
"Sleep Dealer" is our tomorrow today, a corporation-controlled, militarized near future where the United States has successfully closed its borders. Finally. Through American technology we have developed a capacity, a digital …

Week Starting April 19

Tuesday, April 21

A Jihad for Love
A Jihad for Love (Parvez Sharma)
In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack from within and without, "A Jihad for Love" is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and nine languages. Muslim gay filmmaker …
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions …
House of the Sleeping Beauties
House of the Sleeping Beauties (Vadim Glowna)
Away from every-day-life in Berlin which fades out in the afternoon entering darkness Edmond (a man in his late sixties) visits by advise of his older friend Kogi (75) a mysterious …
How About You
How About You (Anthony Byrne)
How about You tells the story of Ellie (Hayley Atwell- Brideshead Revisited, The Duchess), a footloose and fearless young woman who is left in charge of a residential home for senior …
The Wrestler
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
Back in the late 80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling …

Wednesday, April 22

Treeless Mountain
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)
Evoked by early childhood memories, the story of a precocious journey to maturity comes into focus with exquisite simplicity in So Yong Kim's gentle masterpiece, Treeless Mountain. An observational portrait …

Friday, April 24

Empty Nest (El nido vacío)
Empty Nest (El nido vacío) (Daniel Burman)
Cultured, prosperous, blessed with three children and many friends, Leonardo and Martha are a truly enviable example of the species "married couple." Leonardo is an author of considerable repute; Martha, a …
Il Divo
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is sleeping, one man is awake. That man is Giulio Andreotti. He's awake because he has to work, write books, move in fashionable circles and, …
Mutant Chronicles
Mutant Chronicles (Simon Hunter)
In the year 2707, war rages between earth’s four giant corporations as they battle over the planet's dwindling resources. In an era marked by warfare and social regression, the earth is …
Nursery University
Nursery University (Marc H. Simon, Matthew Makar)
Set in New York City, this documentary takes an in-depth look into the oddly competitive world of New York City nursery school admissions. The film follows five families attempting to place …
The Garden
The Garden (Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the …
The Informers
The Informers (Gregor Jordan)
Sex, drugs, and new wave...Los Angeles in the early 1980s: a time of excess and decadence, and nobody captures it better than Bret Easton Ellis as he coadapts his own acclaimed …
Throw Down Your Heart
Throw Down Your Heart (Sascha Paladino)
“Throw Down Your Heart” follows American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo and record an album. Béla’s boundary-breaking …
Tyson
Tyson (James Toback)
A gritty and intimate portrait of one of boxing’s most polarizing figures, James Toback’s Tyson recounts Iron Mike’s rise to superstardom and subsequent fall from grace through the eyes of the …

Week Starting April 26

Tuesday, April 28

JCVD
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri)
When the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with the reality of a hold-up in Brussels, Belgium, suddenly the huge movie star turns into an ordinary guy, filled with fears, contradictions …
Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains
Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains (Gonzalo Arijón)
On October 12th, 1972, a Fairchild F 227 airplane from the Uruguayan Air Force took off from Montevideo in the direction of Santiago de Chile carrying a team of amateur rugby …

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