YEAH MAYBE NO

Watch Trailer Director: Kelly Kend

The Better Bystanders and the Campus Involvement Center presents Yeah Maybe No as part of the annual A Mile Together (to end Power-Based Personal Violence) event. Follow the Better Bystanders on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @OHIObystander. Want a bystander intervention workshop for your group, class, or club?  Email us at bystander@ohio.edu!

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After campus activists bring attention to sexual assault to Reed college, Blake, a young gay man, realizes that his past early sexual encounters were more than just bad learning experiences. But gaps in the legal system and difficulties in getting peer support leave Blake feeling uncomfortable in his new identity as a survivor.

Testimony from experts in sexual violence and the filmmaker’s own assault offer context for understanding how each story of sexual assault is both commonplace and unique. Yeah Maybe No ultimately challenges audiences to see the complexity of sexual assault in order to more fully support survivors.

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...a more subtle exploration of our ingrained attitudes about sexual assault—what constitutes it, who it happens to, how we recover from it, and how we can respond more effectively to survivors.

Thomas G. Fiffer
The Good Men Project
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THE MIDWIFE *Last Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet

Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together in this sharp character study from the César-award winning director Martin Provost (Séraphine).

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Running Time: 117 minutes117 MIN
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Provost's film is, in the end, a story about attaining the wisdom that comes from forgiveness and the acceptance of those things - namely the past and the future - that none of us can control.

Michael O'Sullivan
The Washington Post
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THE B-SIDE: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography * Lady Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Errol Morris
Cast: Elsa Dorfman

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

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Running Time: 76 minutes76 MIN
R Rated
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It’s an endlessly charming film focused on a woman whose view of life is one to be envied.

Benjamin Lee
The Guardian
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Masters Mix Tape: THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Watch Trailer Director: Penelope Spheeris
Cast: Alice Bag Band, Alice Bag, Claude Bessey

“See it in a theater… where you can’t get hurt,” The Decline of Western Civilization provides a no-holds barred look at the underground punk scene in the late 70s/early 80s. After its midnight release in 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police wrote a letter to director Penelope Spheeris, (who went on to direct two sequels as well as the cult classic Wayne’s World), demanding that she never show the film in Los Angeles again. She did not obey his request.

Feat. Alice Bag Band • Black Flag • Circle Jerks • Catholic Discipline • Fear • Germs • X

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MASTERS OF FILM DIRECTION AND GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIANS TOGETHER FOR THE GREATEST MUSIC DOCS OF ALL TIME

 

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Running Time: 100 minutes100 MIN
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A bracing, stimulating and technically superb close-up look at the LA punk scene, pic is pitched at a perfect distance to allow for simultaneous engagement in the music and spectacle, and for rueful contemplation of what it all might mean.

Variety Staff
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Universal Premiere: HAPPY DEATH DAY

Watch Trailer Director: Christopher Landon
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine

Blumhouse (Split, Get Out, Whiplash) produces an original and inventive rewinding thriller in Happy Death Day, in which a college student (Jessica Rothe, La La Land) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity. Happy Death Day is directed by Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and written by Scott Lobdell and Landon.

See Happy Death Day more than a week before its release date for FREE at the Athena! Tickets will not be available for pre-sale. Tickets will become available at the box office starting at 4PM on the day of the show, and will be given out on a first come, first serve basis.

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Sustainability Series: TIDEWATER, RAINMAKERS OF NGANYI, & THE CALL FROM THE SEA

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Tidewater

Tidewater explores the challenge of sea level rise in Virginia and North Carolina, encompassing Hampton Roads, arguably the region whose vulnerability most affects our overall national security. An area rich in diversity and historical significance, it is the second most vulnerable community in the U.S. to sea level rise, after New Orleans. Tidewater will highlight the innovative whole-of-government problem-solving model being pioneered by local leaders.

Rainmakers of Nganyi

Researchers at Kenyan universities were faced with a problem: the weather forecasts that they were providing weren’t being taken seriously. The people did not trust the scientific forecasts and listened only to traditional rainmakers. So the researchers began to use rainmakers as communication agents in an attempt to convince people to listen to their forecasts. But then they started to notice striking similarities between their predictions and those of the rainmakers. Were they really forecasters? Were they really meteorologists? And can they make it rain?

The Call from the Sea

The Bajau are an indigenous, sea nomadic group that live on top of the ocean in Indonesia. This short documentary looks at the ocean through the Bajau’s eyes. A poetic, personal story about the fragile state of the ocean and the people who live closest to it.

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WIND RIVER

Watch Trailer Director: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones

Wind River is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past (Jeremy Renner) to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote Native American Reservation in the hopes of solving her mysterious death. Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, Wind River also stars Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, Julia Jones, Kelsey Asbille, and James Jordan.

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Running Time: 111 minutes111 MIN
R Rated
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The mood is tense, the characters are well-drawn and director-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan has crafted some of the best dialogue of any movie this year.

Claudia Puig
TheWrap
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Food on Film: BUGS

Watch Trailer Director: Andreas Johnsen
Cast: Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade

 

Series Description:
What’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner are universal questions, and what’s on your plate reveals much about your culture and society. The Food on Film series serves up films that highlight not only the cuisines of different countries but also ways in which the food we eat tells the stories of our lives.

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Each film screening will be followed by a discussion.

Will eating insects save our Earth?

Insects as food is a hot topic. Particularly over the last few years, since the UN recommended edible insects as a resource to combat world hunger, they have been heralded for their taste by cooks and gastronomes, for their low ecological impact by environmentalists and for their nutritional content by public health scientists. It would seem that insects are the new superfood that will fix all our problems of global food security.

For the past three years, a team from Copenhagen-based Nordic Food Lab, made up of chefs and researchers Josh Evans, Ben Reade and Roberto Flore, has been travelling the world to learn what some of the two billion people who already eat insects have to say. In BUGS, film director Andreas Johnsen follows them as they forage, farm, cook and taste insects with communities in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and beyond. During their journey they encounter everything from revered termite queens and desert-delicacy honey ants to venomous giant hornets and long-horned grasshoppers.

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Running Time: 76 minutes76 MIN
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BUGS is one of most compelling documentaries about food in the past few years.

John Wedemeyer
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Art House Theater Day

Art House Theater Day celebrates the legacy of independent theaters as advocates for cinema arts. In an age where media has become more digital than tangible, more solitary than social, art house theaters remain the physical spaces where film lovers congregate and connect with intrepid, creative filmmaking. They are the beating heart for new and exciting cinema that is shaping the future of the medium.

In recent decades, a colorful constellation of art houses has emerged across the globe. This art house movement has nurtured a flourishing ecosystem of adventurous audiences, independent productions, and an incredible diversity of original filmmaking. Art House Theater Day is a worldwide celebration in honor of this movement, a day to celebrate cinemas that stand the test of time and the tremendous film culture that art house theaters promote.

Student tickets are free thanks to Arts for Ohio. Regular matinee admission ($5.00) applies to non-students. Free ticketing for students will be offered for our Masters Mix Tape screening of The Last Waltz at 7:00PM as well.

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Masters Mix Tape: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Watch Trailer Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González

Celebrated director Wim Wenders travels through the beautiful tropic of Cuba with guitarist Ry Cooder and his son, Joachim to gather the country’s finest but sadly forgotten aging musicians to band together and create the ultimate album. The culmination is a once-in-a-lifetime performance unlike anything seen or heard before in this Oscar nominated documentary.

Feat. Buena Vista Social Club

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MASTERS OF FILM DIRECTION AND GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIANS TOGETHER FOR THE GREATEST MUSIC DOCS OF ALL TIME.

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Running Time: 105 minutes105 MIN
G Rated
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Infectious, intoxicating joy is the emotion conveyed in every frame of this ravishing, exuberant documentary.

Hal Hinson
New Times (L.A.)
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