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Sustainability Series: GROUNDSWELL RISING

GROUNDSWELL RISING, PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN’S AIR AND WATER the new documentary from Emmy Award-winning Resolution Pictures, captures the passion of people engaged in a David and Goliath confrontation. They stand together, challenging a system that promotes profit over health. We meet mothers, fathers, scientists, doctors, farmers and people from all sides of the political spectrum […]

Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Unveiled – One Day Only Saturday, March 14th

Fabria (Jasmin Tabatabai), prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a women, flees to Germany. But, her application for asylum is turned down. Her desperate prospects are improved by the suicide of her fellow-inmate Siamak: she assumes his identity and using his temporary permit of sojourn, is send to a province village. At first glance […]

Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Sleep Dealer – One Day Only Saturday, March 21st

When Memo Cruz’s family is victim of a drone attack he finds himself with no option but to head towards the U.S./Mexico border, but migrant workers cannot cross. Memo ends up in a strange digital factory in Mexico where he connects his body to a robot in America. Memo’s search for a better future leads him to love, loss, and […]

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Sustainability Series: WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL

The story of William Kamkwamba, a remarkable young man from a remote village north of Malawi’s capital city. Forced to drop out of school due to lack of funds, William turned to self-education and, after seeing a picture of a windmill in a textbook, decided to build one to power his family’s home in order […]

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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Paradise Now – One Day Only Saturday, April 11th

  PARADISE NOW follows two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a strike on Tel Aviv and focuses on their last days together. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border and separated from their handlers, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions. “takes away both your breath and your ability […]

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Sustainability Series: OIL & WATER

OIL & WATER follows two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world’s worst toxic disasters. Hugo fights for the survival of his Amazonian tribe, while David attempts to revolutionize the oil industry. Their journeys lead them to explore a more just future for people around the world born with oil beneath their feet […]

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42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival SNEAK PEEK! Song of the Sea

From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated The Secret of Kells comes a breathtakingly gorgeous, hand-drawn masterpiece. Based on the Irish legend of the Selkies, Song of the Sea tells the story of the last seal-child, Saoirse, and her brother Ben, who go on an epic journey to save the world of magic and discover […]

Inherent Vice: Last Day Thursday, February 26th

INHERENT VICE is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a […]

United in Anger – One Night Only Monday, January 26th

        United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts […]

100 Years of The Athena: Annie Hall – One Day Only Saturday, September 26th

  Comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) examines the rise and fall of his relationship with struggling nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Speaking directly to the audience in front of a bare background, Singer reflects briefly on his childhood and his early adult years before settling in to tell the story of how he and […]