Monday, October 20
1:00 PM Hedda at Film House
Hedda, a newlywed thrill-seeker, throws an extravagant party in the hopes of helping her husband receive a professorship. However, a lover from her past appears, and disrupts this event.
1:15 PM Timestamp at Black Box
Following teachers and students across Ukraine over the course of a school year, Kateryna Gornostai captures their evolving relationships with the current conflict.
2:00 PM Walk With Me at The Screening Room
a personal documentary about director Heidi Levitt's husband, Charlie Hess, and their journey navigating his early-onset Alzheimer's diagnosis.
3:30 PM Sound of Falling at Film House
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
4:00 PM The Librarians at Black Box
The film follows the resistance of librarians against extremist-fueled book bans that have targeted them for stocking books on race, gender, and sexuality.
7:00 PM The Little Sister at Film House
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?
7:15 PM Home Is the Ocean at Black Box
A Swiss couple and their six children have been sailing around the globe, conducting field research, inspiring Enviromental awareness, and living aboard a small boat for 25 years.
Tuesday, October 21
1:15 PM Resurrection at Film House
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see—until a woman appears. Gifted with the rare power to perceive these illusions for what they truly are, she chooses to enter the monster’s dreams, determined to uncover the truth that lies hidden within.
1:30 PM Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk at Black Box
Corresponding with the 25-year-old Palestinian journalist, Fatma Hassona through FaceTime, director Sepideh Farsi chronicles her everyday while living through war. The film captures Fatma’s courage and spirit, seeing what she has endured as atrocities become her reality.
2:30 PM Four Mothers at The Screening Room
After finding himself caring for four elderly women, one of which is his mother women, a reclusive writer must learn to let go of excuses and start living.
4:00 PM So Long a Letter at Black Box
Having to navigate emotionally and societally to the fallout of her long-term husband taking on a 20-year-old second wife, the film examines the clash between religious traditions vs. Feminist ideals.
4:30 PM Snow Leopard Sisters at Film House
Two Nepali women, one driven by duty, the other by necessity, combine forces to protect endangered snow leopards in the Himalayas.
7:00 PM A Useful Ghost at Black Box
A man finds out his vacuum is a reincarnated woman named Nat.
7:15 PM Sirāt at Film House
A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a r