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USA, 2023, Jodi Wille
WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS tells the true story of The Unarius Academy of Science, a long-running extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school in El Cajon, California that in the late 1970s became a wildly prolific filmmaking and art collective under the direction of outlandish spiritual leader and visionary filmmaker Ruth E. Norman, AKA "Archangel Uriel." 101 min. plus Q&A.
Cleveland Premiere. Filmmaker Jodi Wille will answer audience questions after the screening.
Thursday 6:30 pm
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Japan, 2026, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Lord Murashige Araki, rejecting the violence inherent in the samurai code, takes leave of Nobunaga Oda, the great unifier of Japan. Murashige holes up in his castle with his faithful army, Nobunaga’s forces approaching to demand surrender. Against this backdrop, Kyoshi Kurosawa sets THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER across four seasons, each featuring a brutal murder and Murashige’s attempts to solve them, often relying on the castle’s key prisoner, a loyalist to Nobunaga. Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Subtitles. 147 min.
Cleveland Premiere.
Friday 9:00 pm & Saturday 6:30 pm
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Czech Republic/Poland/Germany/France/Turkey, 2025, Agnieszka Holland
How do you present the life of an ordinary man who lived an ordinary life while being an extraordinary writer? The answer for Agnieszka Holland (Green Border) is to cut back and forth through time, to present key moments from Kafka’s childhood and adult life and juxtapose them with scenes present day Prague and Max Brod’s attempts to smuggle Kafka’s unpublished works out of Nazi controlled Czechoslovakia in the 1939. FRANZ is Poland's Official Entry to the 98th Academy Awards. Subtitles. 127 min.
Cleveland Premiere. Film Club discussion after Friday’s screening.
Friday 6:30 pm & Saturday 4:00 pm
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USA, 1971, Richard C. Sarafian
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours. Though VANISHING POINT star Barry Newman did some stunts, much of the driving was performed by stunt coordinator Carey Loftin (Grand Prix, Bullit, The French Connection). Co-stars Cleavon Little and Dean Jagger. 99 min.
Road Tripping.
Saturday 9:20 pm & Sunday 4:00 pm
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USA, 1986, Philip Hartman
A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City. Philip Hartman’s NO PICNIC is a priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village that follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by David Brisbin, who wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars, and derelict streets of the East Village in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress. This neo-noir comedy features appearances by Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, Luis Guzmán, and other fixtures of the Downtown music and art scenes. “A forgotten eighties NYC movie is back, scuzzier and better than ever. No Picnic captures New York’s boho hipster Lower East Side on the edge of Reagan-era gentrification — and a new restoration just saved it from obscurity.” – David Fear, Rolling Stone. “A priceless artifact… gorgeously evocative.” – Museum of Modern Art. 86 min.
New 4K Restoration.
Thursday 9:15 pm & Sunday 7:35 pm
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Lebanon/France/Germany/Qatar, 2026, Lana Daher
Made in close collaboration with editor and co-writer Qutaiba Barhamji (editor of Kaouther Ben Hania's Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize-winning The Voice of Hind Rajab and the Oscar-nominated Four Daughters), DO YOU LOVE ME, Daher's playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, is composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche – marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the eyes of citizens, filmmakers and artists, the film reconstructs a fragmented history in a country without a national archive, celebrating creative expression as both resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory. "As heartbreaking as it is celebratory, and as reflective as it is brimming with resistance." —Sarah Ward, AWFJ. Subtitles. 75 min.
Cleveland Premiere.
Sunday 6:00 pm
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| This Week
Thu., Aug. 20, 6:30 pm
Filmmaker In Person
WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS
Post-film Q&A with filmmaker Jodi Wille
$12/$9
Thu., Aug. 20, 9:15 pm
Sun., Aug. 23, 7:35 pm
NO PICNIC
New 4K Restoration
$12/$9
Fri., Aug. 21, 6:30 pm
Sat., Aug. 22, 4:00 pm
FRANZ
$12/$9
Fri., Aug. 21, 9:00 pm
Sat., Aug. 22, 6:30 pm
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER
$12/$9
Sat., Aug. 22, 9:20 pm
Sun., Aug. 23, 4:00 pm
Road Tripping
VANISHING POINT
$12/$9
Sun., Aug. 23, 6:00 pm
DO YOU LOVE ME
$12/$9
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Next Week
THIS IS PIKE COUNTY
Laura Paglin In Person
GANDAHAR
AMERICAN DOCTOR
THELMA & LOUISE
SAMBA TRAORÉ
A PAGE OF MADNESS
Live metal score by The Silent Light
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