Kikuyu Land (Subtitled) Kenya Run Time: 100 minutes
Screening Time(s): Friday, April 10 at 9:15am Saturday, April 11 at 1:00pm Sunday, April 12 at 5:15pm
Directed by: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu
Synopsis: As a news producer and a local land claimant investigate a dispute linked to a multinational corporation, they uncover buried histories and family secrets that reshape how their community understands its past.
Screening Time(s): Friday, April 10 at 9:30am Thursday, April 16 at 4:30pm
Directed by: Mike Doyle Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Caroline Aaron, Noam Ash, Charlie Barnett
Synopsis: When Nate moves in with his grandparents after a bad breakup with his boyfriend, the two generations' life experiences, values, and philosophies collide in exasperating, funny, and heartbreaking ways.
Dancing with the Bear (Subtitled) Czech Republic Run Time: 110 minutes
Screening Time(s): Friday, April 10 at 11:30am Saturday, April 11 at 3:10pm Sunday, April 12 at 2:10pm
Directed by: Jitka Rudolfová Cast: Pavla Gajdošíková, Kryštof Hádek, Klára Melíšková, Vladimír Javorský, Zuzana Kronerová, Petra Špalková, Petr Pěknic, Eliška Soukupová
Synopsis: Rooted in folk tradition,the bear dance once symbolized fertility during carnival rituals.Inspired by real events, the film weaves past and present to explore the emotional impact of prenatal diagnostics.A young couple is confronted with a life-changing choice after learning their unborn child faces a fifty percent risk of intellectual disability.
Synopsis: The collective experience and raw whiteness account of Ukrainians – a married couple of artists, a priest in Bucha, and soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – united by the events in the Kyiv region during the occupation and after the liberation in the spring of 2022.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Colette Ghunim embarks on journeys with her parents to find the ancestral houses they were forced to flee as children in Mexico and Palestine. Colette’s initial desire to heal her disconnect from her cultures and her parents reveals an internal quest to discover home within herself.
Screening Time(s): Friday, April 10 at 1:55pm Saturday, April 11 9:00am Sunday, April 12 at 3:15pm
Directed by: Alice Tomassini
Synopsis: Surrogate mothers imprisoned, women forced into hiding, children conceived in the shadows: Mothers boldly explore the complex reality of surrogacy, free from prejudice.
Synopsis: An unexpected pregnancy compels an Indian immigrant mother to help her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.
Waltzing Matilda (Subtitled) Czech Republic Run Time: 115 minutes
Screening Time(s): Friday, April 10 at 3:35pm Saturday, April 11 at 1:05pm Sunday, April 12 at 4:35pm
Directed by: Petr Slavík Cast: Karel Roden, Reginá Rázlová, Zuzana Kanócz, Antonio Šoposki
Synopsis: The film follows Karel Jaroš, his mother Matilda with Alzheimer’s, and his son Pavel. Crisis, care, and old wounds force them together in a tragicomic story inspired by reality, about responsibility, forgiveness, and whether they can withstand this test of life and find their way back to one another.
Synopsis: Gioia has devoted her whole life to her work as a teacher. She’s fifty years old, and her days go by one after the other, unchanged and quiet in the provincial high school where she’s always been teaching.
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez Run Time: 95 minutes
Screening Time(s): Friday, April 10 at 7:00pm
Directed by: David Alvarado Cast: Luis Valdez, Lupe Trujillo-Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Cheech Marin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dolores Huerta, Linda Ronstadt, Jorge A. Huerta, Luis C. Garza, Taylor Hackford, Rose Portillo, Sal Lopez, Phil Esparza, Socorro Valdez, Daniel Valdez
Synopsis: Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.
