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KINGS, QUEENS, & IN-BETWEENS

Watch Trailer Director: Gabrielle Burton
Writer(s): Gabrielle Burton
Cast: Nina West

KINGS, QUEENS, & IN-BETWEENS is a documentary drag queens and kings in Columbus, Ohio. Through the appealing stories of seven main drag performers, KQIB gives rare insight into an underground community and captures how a midwestern city full of terrific performers tackles the complexities and pathos of gender expression, personal identity, and human rights–all with humor, great music, big hair, and duct tape. Continuing the conversation started by the groundbreaking ‘Paris Is Burning,’ KINGS, QUEENS, & IN-BETWEENS is the first film to include the entire gender performance spectrum: kings, queens, and transgender performers.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
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...Could be an eye-opener for viewers who are befuddled by current debates over sexual expression...

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
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Defend Our Future Presents RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN

Watch Trailer Director: Susan Froemke, John Hoffman, Beth Aala
Cast: Tom Brokaw, Dusty Crary, Justin Knopf

The new documentary Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the inspiring story of heartland conservation heroes who are feeding the world while stewarding the land and water.

The film is a tribute to people like Justin Knopf, a fifth-generation Kansas farmer revolutionizing industrial scale agriculture to rebuild the fertility, biodiversity and resilience of his soil, and Dusty Crary, a fourth-generation Montana rancher who forged alliances between cattlemen, federal agencies, hunters and environmental groups to protect the Rocky Mountain Front.

Based on a book by best-selling author Miriam Horn of Environmental Defense Fund, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman was directed by Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Susan Froemke and Emmy winner John Hoffman, and narrated by award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw.

This show will be presented free and will consist of a short introduction, screening, and post-show talkback.

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Running Time: 103 min103 MIN
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Designed to go down easy among exactly the audiences who might assume all environmentalists are 'radicals,' but would readily identify with the folksy protagonists herein.

Dennis Harvey
Variety
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LOST IN PARIS *Last Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (II)
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva

Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s signature whimsical style, Lost in Paris stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Academy Award nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. Replete with the amazing antics and intricately choreographed slapstick that has come to define Abel and Gordon’s work, Lost in Paris is a wondrously fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Lights.

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Running Time: 83 minutes83 MIN
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Who wouldn’t want a picturesque trip to the French capital that delivers more laughs than a nitrous oxide leak near the hyena compound? In fact, I’d go as far as to promise that Lost in Paris offers the three most delightful sight gags you’ll see on screen all year.

Peter Debruge
Variety
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Halloween Midnight Movie: HAUSU

Watch Trailer Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Writer(s): Chiho Katsura, Chigumi Ôbayashi
Cast: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba

1977 Asian horror cult classic in which a schoolgirl travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions.

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Running Time: 88 min88 MIN
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Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone — no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to 'House.'

Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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LADY VALOR: The Kristin Beck Story

Watch Trailer Director: Sandrine Orabona, Mark Herzog

In Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, former U.S. Navy SEAL Christopher Beck embarks on a new mission as Kristin Beck. Kristin’s journey in search of the American ideals that she protected have a whole new meaning as she lives her life truthfully as a transgender woman.

Lady Valor is presented free with a panel discussion taking place after the show.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
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This event is sponsored by WGSS, OMSAR, Alden Library, Multicultural Center, Veterans Center, Women’s Center, Athena Cinema, Critical Studies, Diversity Studies, Cutler Scholars, Honors Tutorial College, and the Athens Center for Film and Video

Sustainability Series: SAVING MES AYNAK & OUR LAST REFUGE

Watch Trailer Director: Brent E. Huffman (Aynak) & Daniel Glick (Refuge)

Saving Mes Aynak

Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancient site, eager to harvest $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins. Only 10% of Mes Aynak has been excavated and some believe future discoveries at the site have the potential to redefine the history of Afghanistan and the history of Buddhism itself. Qadir Temori and his fellow Afghan archaeologists face what seems an impossible battle against the Chinese, the Taliban and local politics to save their cultural heritage from likely erasure. Saving Mes Aynak examines the conflict between cultural preservation and economic opportunity through the lens of the Afghan archaeologists and local villagers who work and live near Mes Aynak.

Our Last Refuge

This is the story of the Badger-Two Medicine, the sacred homeland of the Blackfeet Nation, and the decades-long struggle to protect it from gas exploration. Located at the intersection of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Glacier National Park, and the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the Badger is an undeveloped expanse of mountains, ridges, river valleys, and wetlands. In 1981, the U.S. government illegally leased the Badger at $1 per acre for oil and gas development—without consulting the Blackfeet Tribe and without conducting a proper environmental review. One of the highest profile conservation efforts in recent history, Our Last Refuge is the first in-depth telling of this critical struggle.

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Running Time: 86 min86 MIN
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THE BEGUILED

Watch Trailer Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning

The Beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

 

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Running Time: 104 minutes104 MIN
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The Beguiled is Coppola's bloodiest, most visceral movie to date, and it is also one of her best.

Julia Cooper
Globe and Mail
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THE LITTLE HOURS *Last Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Jeff Baena
Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci

Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of substance abuse and wicked revelry.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
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The film manages to be both crudely hilarious and bluntly satiric while also establishing sympathetic characters, a sharp contemporary wit, a sly, dry absurdism ... and a "Handmaid's Tale"-like subversiveness.

Peter Keough
Boston Globe
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THE HERO

Watch Trailer Director: Brett Haley
Writer(s): Brett Haley, Marc Basch
Cast: Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter

Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) is an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy.

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
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You will almost assuredly leave The Hero knowing that [Sam Elliott] is a bona fide national treasure.

David Fear
Rolling Stone
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BEATRIZ AT DINNER

Watch Trailer Director: Miguel Arteta
Writer(s): Mike White
Cast: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Chloë SevignyDavid Warshofsky

Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is a miracle worker—highly sensitive with her touch, and passionately dedicated to curing pain through holistic therapy. After treating the mother of a young woman Beatriz helped recover from chemotherapy, her car breaks down, so she is invited to stay for a dinner celebrating a lucrative business deal.

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Running Time: 83 minutes83 MIN
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This might be the best performance Salma Hayek has ever given, her quiet, observant reserve eventually giving way to bewilderment and resolve.

Bilge Ebiri
Village Voice
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