MUST END APRIL 23
Screening at Row House Online
This incisive and stirring documentary follows the elusive and well-funded gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago as it continues to undermine American democracy. In the face of greed and voter suppression, everyday people fight to end these malicious practices and make their votes count.
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Impeccably acted and carefully directed, this bittersweet, little gem of a drama revolves around a single mother, her shy son, and the unlikely friendship forged with the gruff Korean War vet that lives next door.
Read MoreLAST DAY
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This daring, cross-genre film from director Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama) spans 1960s Haiti and a boarding school in contemporary France to tell a story of colonialism and cultural appropriation’s refusal to die.
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Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.
Content Consideration Warning: The struggles of post-war life can be as horrifying as war itself. BEANPOLE demonstrates those struggles in a brutal, honest fashion that can be hard to watch. This includes graphic depictions of PTSD episodes, suffocation, child death, and the sexual assault of multiple characters. Although its subject can be bleak or even devastating, BEANPOLE is a film of austere beauty about rising from the ashes of war and finding the courage to live.
Read MoreMUST END THURSDAY
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Called a maverick, a miracle-worker, and a quack, Dr. Marty Goldstein is a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. By holistically treating animals after other vets have given up, Goldstein provides a last hope for pet owners with nothing left to lose.
Read MoreAPRIL 2 – 9
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Jorge Amado’s seductive 1966 novel DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS has had many adaptations, including a Broadway musical and a Mexican telenovela, but none has endured like Bruno Barreto’s (meta)physical sex comedy, which reigned as Brazil’s all-time, top-grossing movie for over three decades—and was even remade in America as Kiss Me Goodbye with Sally Field, James Caan, and Jeff Bridges.
Leading lady Sônia Braga—on screen now in the acclaimed Bacurau—became an international star via her torrid performance as Dona Flor, who can’t resist the carnal charms of her philandering ne’er-do-well husband. After he drops dead, she remarries into a more stable union but when her late spouse reappears as a spirit, the flesh is all too willing to re-engage.
Read MoreMUST END APRIL 10
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Acclaimed Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa returns with another moody, masterful portrait of Lisbon’s Fontainhas neighborhood. Taking its title from the name of its lead — a Cape Verdean woman who plays a fictionalized version of herself — VITALINA VARELA follows its stoic heroine as she arrives in Lisbon to reunite with her husband, who had left their homeland 25 years ago to work in Portugal and died three days before Vitalina could reach him. Following its protagonist as she navigates the traces her husband left behind and encounters the other souls that haunt the crumbling tenements and alleys, VITALINA VARELA plays out as a series of burnished, painterly still lifes, rendering the nightmarish reality of the African diaspora and a harrowing legacy of violence as a dreamlike portrait of the living dead. “Demanding, rewarding, and ineffably stirring” (WSJ), Vitalina’s story is one of deeply concentrated beauty.
Read MoreEXTENDED TO APRIL 24
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Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
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“If the Coen brothers were Romanian, they might have made THE WHISTLERS.” (A.O. Scott, NYT)
Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s first all-out-genre film is a clever, swift, and elegant neo-noir with an off-kilter twinkle in its eye. Cristi–an easily corruptible Bucharest police detective–arrives on the mist-enshrouded Canary Island of La Gomera, where he learns a clandestine, tribal language, improbably made entirely out of whistling. This form of hidden communication will keep his superiors off his trail as he becomes increasingly embroiled in a gangster scheme involving a Euro-stuffed mattress and a sultry femme fatale named, of course, Gilda. Full of double-crossings and unexpected twists and turns, Porumboiu’s crime drama is a sharp, dazzling, deadpan-funny caper that explores the limitations of language while at the same time using it as a poetic form of resistance.
Read MoreMARCH 27 – APRIL 2
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A passionate coming-of age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, AND THEN WE DANCED follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.
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