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A cult classic holiday movie for those tired of classic holiday movies, RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is the fantastically bizarre story of the “real” Santa Claus unearthed in a Finnish archeological dig. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town…

There has yet to be a film about the life and times of the brilliant and genuinely maverick musician Frank Zappa. Crafted from over a thousand hours of mostly unseen material from Zappa’s personal vault, ZAPPA presents an intimate portrait of an extraordinary artist who was also fully engaged with the turbulent politics of his day.

In this world premiere online event created for audiences of all ages, interdisciplinary performance collective Manual Cinema takes on Charles Dickens’s holiday classic with a stunningly inventive (puppet!) adaptation, streamed live into your home.

On America Street in Charleston’s East Side neighborhood, Joe is the owner of a small corner store–the heart of an old, but slowly disappearing Black community.

On America Street in Charleston’s East Side neighborhood, Joe is the owner of a small corner store–the heart of an old, but slowly disappearing Black community. Almost half of all African-Americans trace their origins back to Charleston, a city that is still haunted by its slave-owning past. Despite the many challenges of being Black in America, Joe is determined to stay hopeful and to resist losing his neighborhood to the rising forces of gentrification.

Brazil, 2027. Where raves celebrate God’s love and drive-through spiritual-advice booths have become the norm, Joana holds her faith and relationship with God in the highest regard. She uses her job as a notary to carefully goad divorcing couples into reconsidering their split, and she takes comfort in an unusual religious collective that helps keep her own marriage in check. Though she and her husband have struggled to conceive, their efforts to produce a child will eventually bring Joana closer to God than she had ever expected.

Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’ celebrated short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”