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Alice
After discovering that her husband's addiction to escorts has left their family penniless, Alice finds herself drawn into the world of high-end prostitution as a means of caring for herself and her ch... READ MORE
Directed by: Josephine Mackerras
Runtime: 103 mins
Format: DCP
The Art of Self-Defense
A dark comedy set in the world of karate. The film centers on Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), who is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei (A... READ MORE
Directed by: Riley Stearns
Runtime: 104 mins
Format: DCP
Blinded by the Light
***Director Gurinder Chadha and Star Viveik Kalra in attendance for a post-film Q&A***Blinded by the Light tells the story of Javed (Viveik Kalra) a British teen of Pakistani descent, growing up i... READ MORE
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
Runtime: 114 mins
Format: DCP
But I'm a Cheerleader
***Hosted by KJ Relth (Programmer at UCLA Film & Television Archive)******Pre-show Vinyl set by @gaudygod******Watch the Original Trailer by Zena Grey here!***Jamie Babbit's creative feature debut... READ MORE
Directed by: Jamie Babbit
Runtime: 85 mins
Format: 35mm
The Cabin in the Cotton
This pre-Code drama film contains perhaps Bette Davis' most legendary line of dialogue -- "I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair." Directed by Michael Curtiz (one of their seven collaboration... READ MORE
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Runtime: 78 mins
Format: 35mm
CCFF Shorts Program #2
SHORTS INCLUDEDWild Love - Dir. Paul Autric | 7 min.Alan and Beverly, away hiking on a romantic getaway, are tenderly in love. Unfortunately, in the middle of their blinding happiness, they... READ MORE
Directed by: Paul Autric, Robert Dupuis, Stefanie Abel Horowitz, Carolina Markowicz, Anette Sidor, Kate Trefry, Sandra Winther
Runtime: 98 mins
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld's plane mysteriously crashed, leaving no survivors. It's understood that because Hammarskjöld was, at the time, advocating for Congo's indepe... READ MORE
Directed by: Mads Brügger
Runtime: 128 mins
Format: DCP
The Farewell
***Director Lulu Wang in attendance for a post-film Q&A***In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find... READ MORE
Directed by: Lulu Wang
Runtime: 98 mins
Format: DCP
Hail Satan?
Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, HAIL SATAN is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from... READ MORE
Directed by: Penny Lane
Runtime: 95 mins
Format: DCP
Life Overtakes Me
***Directors Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas in attendance for a post-film Q&A***Over the past fifteen years, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden have become afflicted into Resigna... READ MORE
Directed by: Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
Runtime: 40 mins
Format: DCP
Light From Light
***Closing Night | Director Paul Harrill and Star Jim Gaffigan in attendance for a post-film Q&A***Single mom Shelia, gifted with sometimes prophetic dreams, moonlights as a paranormal investigato... READ MORE
Directed by: Paul Harrill
Runtime: 82 mins
Format: DCP
Luce
Seventeen-year-old Luce (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) is a star athlete and debate-team captain in his suburban Virginia high school. Raised by loving adoptive white parentsAmy and Peter (Naomi Watts, Tim Ro... READ MORE
Directed by: Julius Onah
Runtime: 109 mins
Format: DCP
Meeting Gorbachev
Werner Herzog and André Singer’s riveting documentary, filled with unforgettable archive materials and based on three long interviews, provides incredible access to, arguably, the world’s greatest li... READ MORE
Directed by: Werner Herzog, André Singer
Runtime: 92 mins
Format: DCP
Monos
In a remote mountaintop setting somewhere in Latin America, a rebel group of teenage commandos bearing noms de guerre like Rambo, Smurf, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom perform military training exercises... READ MORE
Directed by: Alejandro Landes
Runtime: 102 mins
Format: DCP
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Recorded at the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare's famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.Caesar and his assassins are dead. General... READ MORE
Directed by: Simon Godwin
Runtime: 220 mins
Format: DCP
The Nightingale
***Star Aisling Franciosi in attendance for a post-film Q&A***THE NIGHTINGALE is a meditation on the consequences of violence and the price of seeking vengeance. Set during the colonization of Aus... READ MORE
Directed by: Jennifer Kent
Runtime: 136 mins
Format: DCP
Non-Fiction
Opens May 24thJuliette Binoche and Guillame Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas (PERSONAL SHOPPER; CARLOS) for this wry, slyly seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature. Set amidst... READ MORE
Directed by: OLIVIER ASSAYAS
Runtime: 107 mins
Format: DCP
Olympic Dreams
In the Athlete Village at the Olympic Winter Games, Penelope (Alexi Pappas), a cross-country skier, befriends Ezra (Nick Kroll), a volunteer dentist, after a disappointing finish in her race. Penelope... READ MORE
Directed by: Jeremy Teicher
Runtime: 85 mins
Format: DCP
Our Time Machine
***Talent in attendance for a post-film Q&A | Student Ticket Rate Available at the Box Office ONLY with Valid Student ID***When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. Maleonn) realizes that h... READ MORE
Directed by: S. Leo Chiang, Sun Yang
Runtime: 86 mins
Format: DCP
Penguin Highway
3 Shows Only!**5/11 & 5/13 in Japanese w/ English subtitles****5/19 dubbed in English**Budding genius Aoyama is only in the 4th grade, but already lives his life like a scientist. When penguins st... READ MORE
Directed by: Hiroyasu Ishida
Runtime: 118 mins
Format: DCP
The Perfection
The most buzzed-about movie at last year's Fantastic Fest, THE PERFECTION is an elegant and terrifying suspense ride filled with unexpected twists and turns. When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte (A... READ MORE
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Runtime: 89 mins
Format: DCP
Pink Wall
***Writer/Director Tom Cullen and Stars Jay Duplass & Tatiana Maslany in attendance for a post-film Q&A***PINK WALL is a modern day romance, following the six year relationship of Jenna (Tatia... READ MORE
Directed by: Tom Cullen
Runtime: 85 mins
Format: DCP
Piranhas
Based on the novel by GOMORRAH scribe Roberto Saviano, PIRANHAS follows the fifteen year-old Nicola (in a stellar performance from newcomer Francesco Di Napoli) and his group of friends as they descen... READ MORE
Directed by: Claudio Giovannesi
Runtime: 105 mins
Format: DCP
Seven Chances
***Preceded by COPS (1922, 20 min) - 2K restoration with Ben Model piano score***Love has never been funnier or more difficult to manage than in this immortal Keaton comedy. SEVEN CHANCES is a film of... READ MORE
Directed by: Buster Keaton
Runtime: 57 mins
Format: DCP
The Short History of the Long Road
For teenage Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), home is the open road. Her self-reliant father (Steven Ogg) is her anchor in a life of transience. The pair criss-cross the United States in a lovingly refurbishe... READ MORE
Directed by: Ani Simon-Kennedy
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: DCP
Skin
After a difficult childhood drives him into the grasps of a white supremacist gang, Bryon (Jamie Bell, delivering a visceral, explosive performance) tries to escape to a new life, all the while questi... READ MORE
Directed by: Guy Nattiv
Runtime: 120 mins
Format: DCP
Them That Follow
Snake handlers are spiritual renegades belonging to an obscure sect of American Pentecostalism: part of a century-old tradition of worshipping with venomous snakes during church services. Seeing thems... READ MORE
Directed by: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage
Runtime: 98 mins
Format: DCP
Walking on Water
Opens May 24thTen years after the passing of his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before. Boa... READ MORE
Directed by: Andrey Paounov
Runtime: 100 mins
Format: DCP
