KEDI: Last Day May 4th

Kedi is not a documentary about house cats or the strays you occasionally see in your back yard. Kedi is a film about the hundreds of thousands of cats who have roamed the metropolis of Istanbul freely for thousands of years, wandering in and out of people’s lives, impacting them in ways only an animal […]

Festival Encore: TONI ERDMANN

LAST DAY THURSDAY, APRIL 13th A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach.

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING: Last Day Thursday, March 30th

*CaptiView® Closed Caption, Assistive Listening, & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions. Tony Webster, divorced and retired, leads a reclusive and relatively quiet life. One day, he learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica, left in her will a diary kept by his best […]

LOGAN: Last Day Thursday, March 30th

*CaptiView® Closed Caption, Assistive Listening, & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions. In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended […]

*Best Picture* MOONLIGHT: Last Day Thursday, March 23rd

*CaptiView® Closed Caption & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions. The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man in Miami and his struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, […]

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Spotlight on Documentary

Our Spotlight on Documentary series covers a wide array of topics, from gender & race studies to cultural arts and everything in between. Some have guest speakers and discussions, some are one-night only nationwide engagements, but all of them share the Athena’s mission statement to educate, entertain, and engage our community.

ELLE: Last Day Thursday, March 9th

*This film is spoken in French with English subtitles.* Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both […]

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Lois Weber Restoration: THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI

Introduction by Amy Heller & Dennis Doros, co-founders of Milestone Films. Amy and Dennis will discuss the restoration and amazing career of one of the earliest women filmmakers. The Dumb Girl of Portici is a previously unseen film long overdue for recognition as one of Weber’s finest creations and a landmark in women’s cinema. The […]

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO: Last Day Thursday, March 9th

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, […]

THE HANDMAIDEN: Last Day Thursday, February 23rd

*This film is spoken in Korean & Japanese with English Subtitles.* A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her. “Go see it. If you love cinema at all, go see it.” -Tom Long, Detroit News “Chan-wook Park’s The Handmaiden is deliciously […]