2014 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films

  Catch all of the 2014 Oscar-nominated Live Action short films in one feature-length program: Helium (Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson, Denmark/Danish, 23 min.) — A dying boy finds comfort in the tales of a magical land called HELIUM, told to him by the hospital janitor. The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill and Baldwin Li, UK/English, […]

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated Shorts

Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 86th Annual Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, March 2!   “Thank the gods of cinema for this annual release of Oscar nominees.” – Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014 program offers viewers the rare opportunity to experience the […]

Due to the cold, The Athena will be open tonight but will close for the late show (any shows starting after 8:00 p.m.)

Sibs Weekend: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

Running Suits and Cowboy Hats! FREE POPCORN IF YOU COME DRESSED AS A CHARACTER!!! (No smoking in the theater) Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston), an archaeologist. Each of the Tenenbaum kids was a precocious genius: Chas (Ben Stiller) made a killing as […]

REACT to FILM Screening: Who Is Dayani Cristal? *Date of screening changed to 2/20

An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. August 3, 2010, Pima County, Arizona—Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, border […]

Sustainability Series: BURNING IN THE SUN

The trials of bringing solar power to rural sites are frankly addressed with ultimate success. This film chronicles a road map to sustainability that could be duplicated around the world, offering hope for the planet. Explores the efforts of a west African community member and entrepreneur to build a solar panel production business in the […]

Sustainability Series: ZERO TEN TWENTY THE CHILDREN OF RIO

1992 was the first Rio Earth Summit where world leaders signed up to a blueprint for a greener, fairer world. For twenty years the producers of LIFE followed the lives of 11 children born in different countries in 1992. Their stories constitute a unique diary of what it’s been like to grow up in a […]

Sustainability Series: THE PRICE OF SAND

“The Price of Sand” is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate. The silica used in hydraulic fracturing (aka : “fracking”), has other uses– glass manufacturing […]

Series Sea Hear: Sunday Night Film Series

Series See Here is Sunday night screening of films that engage the eyes and ears. The films in the series are mostly documentaries that link audiences to the sensuality and politics in the sprit of cinema’s ability to explore the world. Three of the films bring the sea here to Athens (THE FORGOTTEN SPACE, AT […]

Sustainability Series: BITTER SEEDS

As industrial agriculture spreads around the world, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where every 30 minutes one farmer, deep in debt and unable to provide for its family, commits suicide. Explores the impact of genetically modified seeds, globalization,  and the loss of heritage seed […]