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SEEDS OF TIME

Watch Trailer Director: Sandy McLeod
Language: English

A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food. Seed banks around the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation and rioting, and the accelerating effects of climate change are affecting farmers globally. Communities of indigenous Peruvian farmers are already suffering those effects, as they try desperately to save over 1,500 varieties of native potato in their fields. But with little time to waste, both Fowler and the farmers embark on passionate and personal journeys that may save the one resource we cannot live without: our seeds.
Topics: Agriculture, food, seeds, policy, climate disruption, saving seeds. Talkback with panelist Janice Brewer.
“Although it may not be the most vivid or exciting subject for cinematic exploration, the documentary ‘Seeds of Time’ offers a vital, clear-headed look at the effects of climate change on global food security.” – Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
“‘Seeds Of Time’ neatly utilizes stunning nature photography, zippy animation, map-centric graphics, and stock footage to further clarify its subject matter.” – Kate Erbland, The Dissolve

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Running Time: 77 minutes77 MIN
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Spotlight on Documentary: IN THE TURN

Watch Trailer Director: Erica Tremblay
Language: English

IN THE TURN follows Crystal, a 10-year-old transgender girl growing up in rural Canada, as she navigates the difficult and complicated world that surrounds her. Tormented at school by teachers and peers alike, she faces daily assaults in the form of insults and physical altercations. The pain she endures at school takes a toll on not only her self-esteem, but also on the emotional stability of her family.
The film documents Crystal’s journey as she and her family struggle against the challenges of prejudice, hatred and ignorance. After being denied the right to join local athletics teams due to her gender, Crystal and her mom serendipitously discover the Vagine Regime, an international queer collective of roller derby players comprised of people of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds and identities. The Vagine Regime not only accepts Crystal, but actively supports her journey. Crystal emerges from exclusion into empowerment: she steps out of the shadows and onto the track.
IN THE TURN weaves Crystal’s story into the broader narrative of the evolution of roller derby from a niche sport into a social movement with strong roots in the LGBTQ community. Crystal’s story finds its place among the journeys of other queer skaters whose stories we film across the United States — from LA and San Francisco to Austin, Brooklyn and Minneapolis. Crystal adds her profile to the mosaic of other transgender, lesbian, and queer roller derby skaters who have found acceptance and empowerment in the Vagine Regime.
IN THE TURN will be introduced by Dr. Lorain Marsan, a visiting assistant professor: women’s, gender and sexuality studies, and following the film there will be a talkback with Director Erica Tremblay.
Erica Tremblay is an award- winning filmmaker based in Boston where she works as a producer for the creative agency Digitas. She is the co-founder of Homespun Pictures and her films have been featured on PBS and the Independent Film Channel. In 2012, she received the Emerging Filmmaker award at the Kansas City Film Festival for her documentary HEARTLAND. Erica is enjoying her 9th season of roller derby with the Boston Derby Dames
This screening is part of the Athena’s SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY SERIES and sponsored by the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Film Division, Media Arts department, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Women’s Center, and Athens Ohio Roller Derby, in collaboration with the LGBT Center’s Queer Studies Conference.

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Running Time: 113 minutes113 MIN
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The Athena Cinema & Athens International Film + Video Festival Present A Visit with Charles Burnett & One Night Only Screening of KILLER OF SHEEP

Watch Trailer Director: Charles Burnett
Writer(s): Charles Burnett
Cast: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, and Charles Bracy

 

 

As part of the 43rd Athens International Film + Video Festival, The Athena Cinema is honored to host renowned filmmaker Charles Burnett. Two of his films will be screened during the festival and Burnett will be in attendance to speak with audiences about his work and career.

Burnett’s first film, Killer of Sheep, was shot on 16 mm for his master’s thesis at UCLA. The film was largely ignored until a re release garnered the attention of the Guggenheim Foundation. In the years following the re release it won many awards including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival and has been celebrated worldwide.

Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, holding his daughter. The film offers no solutions; it merely presents life — sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and gentle humor.

“Killer of Sheep caught the lives of the children with a fidelity to how kids really do fight, play, and cry — and how they can sometimes be cruel simply because they’re so scared.”  — Rodger Ebert

Free admission supported by Ohio University’s Film Division, Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Multicultural Center and Programs, and the Athena Cinema. Tickets are free, however there are a limited number of seats available. Patrons are encouraged to secure tickets in advance.

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Running Time: 83 minutes83 MIN
Rating: Unrated

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The Athena Cinema & Athens International Film + Video Festival Present A Visit with Charles Burnett & One Night Only Screening of TO SLEEP WITH ANGER

Watch Trailer Director: Charles Burnett
Writer(s): Charles Burnett
Cast: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, and DeVaughn Nixon

As part of the 43rd Athens International Film + Video Festival, The Athena Cinema is honored to host renowned filmmaker Charles Burnett. Two of his films will be screened during the festival and Burnett will be in attendance to speak with audiences about his work and career.

The life of a middle-class black family in Los Angeles is disrupted by the arrival of an old friend from back South in this layered drama. Initially a charming reminder of their past, the visitor soon comes to seems increasingly sinister as the strained household heads towards an inevitable conflict.

Starring Danny Glover as a Southern trickster who overstays his welcome with family. The National Society of Film Critics honored Burnett for best screenplay for this film, making him the first African American to win this category. The film was a critical success but was not widely distributed. This was Burnett’s second film to be added to the National Film Registry.

Free admission supported by Ohio University’s Film Division, Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Multicultural Center and Programs, and the Athena Cinema. Tickets are free, however there are a limited number of seats available. Patrons are encouraged to secure tickets in advance.

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Running Time: 102 minutes 102 MIN

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Science on Screen: EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT with Arthur Trese

Watch Trailer Director: Ciro Guerra
Writer(s): Ciro Guerra and Theodor Koch-Grunberg (based on the diary by)
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet and Antonio Bolivar

As part of the 43rd Athens International Film + Video Festival, The Athena Cinema is proud to present EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT as part of the Science on Screen℠ series

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

In conjunction with the film there will be a talk with Ohio University Associate Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology, Arthur Trese.

Science on Screen℠ is a project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Coolidge Corner Theater. The Science on Screen program pairs with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging and offer dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

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Running Time: 125 minutes125 MIN
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I SAW THE LIGHT: Leaving Thursday, April 21st

Watch Trailer Director: Marc Abraham
Writer(s): Marc Abraham and Colin Escott (book)
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Maddie Hasson and Bradley Whitford

 

 

Tom Hiddleston stars as Hank Williams in this biopic about the legendary country western singer who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.

“Hiddleston’s performance is gutsy and heartfelt, as playful and soulful as the best of Williams’s songs.” -Tom Huddleston, Time Out

*CaptiView® Closed Caption and Audio Description support is available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions.*

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Running Time: 123 minutes123 MIN
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Spotlight on Documentary: CAMBODIAN SON

Watch Trailer Director: Masahiro Sugano

CAMBODIAN SON documents the life of deported poet, Kosal Khiev after receiving the most important performance invitation of his career—to represent the Kingdom of Cambodia at the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Kosal would travel to London having only taken two flights prior; first, as a 1-year-old refugee child whose family fled Cambodia and, then as a 32-year-old criminal “alien” forcibly returned to Cambodia in 2011. The film follows a volatile yet charming and talented young man who struggles to find his footing amongst a new freedom that was granted only through his deportation. Kosal’s London representation is a triumphant moment for many people in his life, both in America and Cambodia. The film traces the impact and significance of this moment for Kosal, his friends, family, mentors and a growing international fan base. Armed only with memorized verses, he must face the challenges of being a deportee while navigating his new fame as Phnom Penh’s premiere poet. After the performances end and the London stage becomes a faint memory, Kosal is once again left alone to answer the central question in his life: “How do you survive when you belong nowhere?”

There will be a Q&A session with Director Masahiro Sugano following the screening.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Masahiro Sugano, a Sundance Film Festival alumni, is an award-winning filmmaker. Mr. Sugano released a web series on PBS.org titled “VERSES IN EXILE” as a prequel to CAMBODIAN SON. Through his media lab Studio Revolt, Mr. Sugano has introduced Cambodian Neo-Realism to a young generation of eager Khmer filmmakers. He is currently working on several script ideas for his next feature length movie project. He spends his time between the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region

This screening is part of the Athena’s SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY SERIES and is sponsored by the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Global Leadership Center, housing and residence life, Film division, International Student Union, and the International Week Committee.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
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LABYRINTH: A Tribute to David Bowie

Watch Trailer Director: Jim Henson
Writer(s): Terry Jones, John Varley, Edward C. Hume, Lewis John Carlino, Jim Henson
Cast: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly

The Athena pays tribute to one of the most unique and talented men ever to set foot on Earth, (as well as a few other planets) with a March 12th showing of the David Bowie/Jim Henson classic, Labyrinth. Laugh, sing along, or watch in silent wonder as the Goblin King takes you to a mysterious & strange world unlike any other…

Fifteen-year-old Sarah resents her baby brother Toby and secretly wishes that he will just disappear. Her wish comes true when goblins kidnap the boy. Feeling responsible and guilty about his abduction, she sets forth to retrieve him, and finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime. To rescue her brother, she must sneak into the castle of the Goblin King, which is in the center of a fantastical labyrinth. But, the task is easier said than done, for the maze is filled with strange creatures and mind-bending puzzles, and nothing is really as it seems.

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Running Time: 101 Minutes101 MIN
PG Rated

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Free Universal Premiere: POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING

Watch Trailer Director: Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone
Writer(s): Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer
Cast: Andy Samberg, Imogen Poots, and Adam Levine

The comedy goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he’s no longer the dopest star of all.

Free preview screening. Tickets are first come, first serve.

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Running Time: TBA MIN
Rating: Unrated
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SON OF SAUL

Watch Trailer Director: László Nemes
Writer(s): László Nemes, Clara Royer
Cast: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
Awards: 2016 Oscar WINNER for Best Foreign Language Film
Language: Hungarian

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

“Good movies summon up worlds. Son of Saul [is] a great movie…” -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

“No matter how many Holocaust films you’ve seen, you’ve not seen one like this.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

This film has English subtitles.

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Running Time: 107 minutes107 MIN
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