At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been […]
WONDERSTRUCK
Based on Brian Selznick’s critically acclaimed novel Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home […]
SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU: Last Day Thursday, September 15th
*CaptiView® Closed Caption & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions.* One afternoon during the summer of 1989, two young lawyers named Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama go on their first date in the South Side of Chicago. “Southside with You is a sweet, intelligent, well-crafted, wonderfully […]
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
In Manchester by the Sea, the latest film from award-winning writer and director Kenneth Lonergan, the life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for generations, Manchester by […]
AIFVF Artist in Residence: IKHBAYAR URCHUUD
The Athens Center for Film + Video presents “The Will to Art,” an evening of films by Artist in Residence Ikhbayar Urchuud. Mongolian filmmaker Ikhbayar Urchuud addresses issues of contemporary Mongolian society through his cinematic vision. His recent feature documentary, “Uran Khas” (The Will to Art), is an observation of the lives and resurgent shamanist interests […]
Déjà View: THE BIG LEBOWSKI
This fall, the Athena presents Déjà View: Cult Classics Film Series. Shock value may have put these films on the map but their lasting relevance is a testament to a deeper resonance. There is more to these films than sex, violence and potty humor. These films are about, by and for the outsiders. Each in […]
THE TRIALS OF SPRING
When a young Egyptian woman travels from her village to Cairo to add her voice to the tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to 60 years of military rule, she is arrested, beaten, and tortured by security forces and later punished and imprisoned by her family for daring to speak out. Unbreakable, she […]
DÉJÀ VIEW: Fall Cult Classics Series
Thursday nights at 7PM this fall! PINK FLAMINGOS | Sept. 22 Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”. WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE | Sept. 29 An unattractive seventh grader struggles to cope […]
ANOTHER KIND OF GIRL COLLECTIVE with Laura Doggett
Only two years into the war, over 3,500 journalists had traveled through the Camp Za’atari to tell stories of the Syrian people who were forced out of their country to live in exile in Jordan. The stories told were somewhat black and white and largely tragic. In response to the mainstream media reporting of the […]
THE WIND WILL CARRY US
Three engineers from the city travel to a small Kurdish village to document the villagers’ mourning for a 100-year-old woman who is still alive, but whose health is failing. Haunting and visually stunning, The Wing Will Carry Us is an absorbing abstract meditation on life and death and the divisions between tradition and modernity. The film will […]
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