Hitchcock

Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock’s seminal movie Psycho. “Filmed with lots of style and a macabre sense of humor the master himself would have enjoyed.”-Richard Roeper […]

Tchoupitoulas

COMING TO THE ATHENA ON FRIDAY, JAN. 4TH! Three young brothers take a secret sunset journey across a river to a pleasure island that’s always been forbidden to them. As such, the narrative conceit of Tchoupitoulas is as timeless as a fairy tale. But through the eyes of our juvenile protagonists, we experience an impressionistic […]

Any Day Now

Inspired by a true story and touching on legal and social issues that are more relevant now than ever, ANY DAY NOW tells a story of love, acceptance, and creating your own family. In the late 1970s, when Marco (Isaac Leyva), a teenager with down syndrome who’s been abandoned by his mother, is taken in […]

Anna Karenina

  Based on the novel by author Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina tells the story set in 19th century Russia where an aristocratic, married woman has an affair and becomes the talk of the high society which she is so much used to. With beautiful cinematography and a strong cast, the film powerfully explores the capacity […]

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

For decades, noted columnist and magazine editor, Diana Vreeland, lead the fashion industry with her bold stylistic taste. This film guides the audience through this fashion pioneer’s long career,  from her youth in Paris to reaching the authoritative role of an editor. In this medium, Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of […]

End of Watch

From the writer of Training Day, End of Watch is a riveting action thriller that puts audiences at the center of the chase like never before. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña star as young LA police officers who discover a secret that makes them the target of the country’s most dangerous drug cartel. “Both actors […]

A Royal Affair

A Royal Affair is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen’s heart and starts a revolution. Centering on the intriguing love triangle between the ever more insane Danish King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), the royal physician who is a man of enlightenment and idealism Struenseensee and the young but strong […]

Sigur Ros

Icelandic post-rock band, Sigur Ros, has given a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and has asked them to create whatever comes to mind when listening to their melodic experimental songs from their newest album entitled, Valtari. The concept of this endeavor is to allow freedom of creativity amongst artists while producing an original story […]

Headspace: The Sound of Life

Joining our Music on Film week, HEADSPACE,  an 85-minute documentary brought to you by local filmmakers, was filmed in ten countries over the course of three years and brings us to the mystical land of electronic music parties and the people creating them. The film is a multi-sensory journey stemming from years of dance music evolution, delivering the stories […]

Passione

When acclaimed actor-director John Turturro was invited to make a film about Neapolitan music he was intrigued, as an Italian-American who’d grown up with many of the swooning ballads that had become popularized. But when he revisited the place from where these songs had come, and met the artists living there carrying on the tradition, […]