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: 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.
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.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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.
Dreaming of Lions (Subtitled) Run Time: 90 minutes
Screening Time(s): Saturday, April 11 at 7:55pm Monday, April 13 at 10:05am
Directed by: Paolo Marinou-Blanco Cast: Denise Fraga, Asun Planas, Dinarte Freitas, António Durães, Alexander Tuji, Victoria Guerra, Sandra Faleiro, Joana Ribeiro, Joāo Nunes Monteiro, Roberto Bomtempo
Synopsis: Dreaming of Lions is an absurdist tragicomedy about euthanasia and assisted suicide. Gilda and Amadeu meet at an underground organisation that helps the terminally ill kill themselves painlessly. When they discover it’s a scam, they escape to Spain to finalize their plans.
Screening Time(s): Saturday, April 11 at 8:10pm Sunday, April 12 at 9:25am
Directed by: Jacy Mairs Cast: Esther Harrison, Eddie Lee Wollrabe. Chloe Kramer
Synopsis: Trash Baby is a coming-of-age drama that follows 12-year-old Stevie as she navigates growing up, getting out, and the art of finding beauty in the ugliest of places.
Synopsis: Middle-aged coke fiend Luc (Jonathan Lambert, Quentin Dupieux’s REALITY) is having a pretty terrible night. Having gone to confront his ex at the club where she works, determined to somehow win back her love, one thing leads to another and he soon finds himself wedged firmly in a toilet, effectively trapping him in a bathroom stall. Plus he’s got a heap of coke that he stole from the bar’s resident dealer. He’s soon found, setting off an increasingly crazy series of circumstances that veer from the hilarious to the intensely grotesque.
Screening Time(s): Saturday, April 11 at 9:45pm Friday, April 17 at 3:50pm Saturday, April 18 at 1:40pm
Directed by: Luis Calderón Cast: Sandra Escacena, Claudio Portalo, Mala Rodriguez, Kandido Uranga
Synopsis: After witnessing her boyfriend’s fatal fall from a treehouse, Ale returns to the forest one year later, convinced his death was not an accident. As she confronts the place where it happened, an unsettling presence resurfaces, forcing her to face the truth behind that night.
