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France/Belgium/Morocco, 2025, François Ozon
In French Algeria, office clerk Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) drifts through life and love with mysterious detachment. When he stands accused of murdering an Arab youth on the beach, indifference is his only alibi in THE STRANGER, François Ozon’s fresh take on Albert Camus’s classic novel of existentialist ennui. Subtitles. 112 min.
Cleveland Premiere.
Friday 6:35 pm & Saturday 8:45 pm
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Germany, 2025, Fatih Akin
It is the Spring of 1945 on the German island of Amrum, a remote outpost in the North Sea. The front is far away, and 12-year-old Nanning spends his days working the nearby farm and his nights fishing, helping his mother to feed their family. When their anti-fascist neighbor Tessa (Diane Kruger) mentions to Nanning that the war will soon be over, the boy – too young to understand the political implications – is pleased to imagine that his father, a Nazi officer, might soon be coming home. From Golden Globe Award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akin (In the Fade, Head-On), AMRUM is a tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence. Subtitles. 93 min.
Cleveland Premiere.
Friday 9:00 pm & Saturday 6:50 pm
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France/Germany/Romania/Latvia/Netherlands/Lithuania, 2025, Sergei Loznitsa
In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed, idealistic prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate. Based on Soviet writer and political prisoner G. Demidov’s novel, Sergei Loznitsa's (State Funeral) film TWO PROSECUTORS unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil. Subtitles. 117 min.
Cleveland premiere.
Thursday 6:30 pm & Sunday 2:30 pm
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USA, 1964, Jules Dassin
Based on a comic novel by acclaimed thriller writer Eric Ambler and scripted by Monja Danischewsky, a writer of Ealing comedies, Jules Dassin (Riffi) returned to the screen in 1964 with a new heist movie, TOPKAPI. In it, Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum. The dagger is attached to a weight-sensitive alarm, and one of the team members is a police informant. The planning and the execution of the heist inspired Bruce Geller to create Mission: Impossible, and the scene of a man lowered by wire to snatch the dagger inspired the best scene in Brian DePalma’s M:I 1. 120 min.
Two by Jules Dassin. New 4K Restoration.
Saturday 4:30 pm
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Lebanon/France/Argentina/Canada/Germany, 1985, Joselyne Saab
Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from life, remains in his apartment in war-torn West Beirut, confident that he is safe in his familiar neighborhood. An unlikely bond is formed between the two as they face the devastating civil war. Jocelyn Saab’s fiction feature debut THE RAZOR'S EDGE captures both a complicated friendship and the cultural and political place that forged it. Subtitles. 103 min.
Two by Joselyne Saab. New 4K Restoration.
Sunday 4:50 pm
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Belgium/Luxembourg/Italy/France, 2025, Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet
From the makers of Let the Corpses Tan and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears comes REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, a mystery action thriller that pays homage to Eurospy and giallo films with visually striking storytelling. When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide. Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Beyond Fest. Subtitles. 87 min.
Added film. Cleveland theatrical premiere.
Thursday 8:50 pm & Sunday 6:55 pm
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Thu., Apr. 23, 6:30 pm
Sun., Apr. 26, 2:30 pm
TWO PROSECUTORS
$12/$9
Thu., Apr. 23, 8:50 pm
Sun., Apr. 26, 6:55 pm
Added film
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND
$12/$9
Fri., Apr. 24, 6:35 pm
Sat., Apr. 25, 8:45 pm
THE STRANGER
$12/$9
Fri., Apr. 24, 9:00 pm
Sat., Apr. 25, 6:50 pm
AMRUM
$12/$9
Sat., Apr. 25, 4:30 pm
Two by Jules Dassin
TOPKAPI
New 4K Restoration
$12/$9
Sun., Apr. 26, 4:50 pm
Two by Joselyne Saab
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
New 4K Restoration
$12/$9
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Next Week
UPTIGHT
post-film discussion with Robert Banks and Dennis Barrie
BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT
AMERICAN DREAM
DEAF CROCODILE, ANIMATED: GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND & THE BUBBLE BATH
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST
THE BLUE TRAIL
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