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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent BUOYANCY you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent MEETING THE BEATLES IN INDIA you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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Narrated by Morgan Freeman, MEETING THE BEATLES IN INDIA retells filmmaker Paul Saltzman’s journey 50 years ago when he spent a life-changing time with the Beatles at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram on the banks of the Ganges River. In 1968, he discovered his own soul, learned meditation, which changed his life, and hung out with John, Paul, George and Ringo. Fifty years later, he finds “Bungalow Bill” in Hawaii; connects with David Lynch about his own inner journey; as well as preeminent Beatles historian, Mark Lewisohn; Academy Award nominated film composer, Laurence Rosenthal; and Pattie and Jenny Boyd. And much of this is due to Saltzman’s own daughter, Devyani, reminding him that he had put away and forgotten these remarkably intimate photographs of that time in 1968.

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you purchase RBG, you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

RBG is available to purchase for $6.99. Proceeds from these purchases will support the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, which Justice Ginsburg co-founded in 1972. Once purchased, this film will not expire and you will have permanent access to it.

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About the film

At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior’s rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. RBG is a revelatory documentary exploring Ginsburg ‘s exceptional life and career from Betsy West and Julie Cohen, and co-produced by Storyville Films and CNN Films.

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent FEELS GOOD MAN you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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As in many of the weirdest fairy tales, it all starts with a frog. This story, however, is all too real. In November 2016, a barbaric election cycle had exposed a seismic cultural rift, and the country suddenly felt like a much different place. For underground cartoonist Matt Furie, that sensation was even more surreal. His innocent creation, Pepe the frog, had become co-opted by agents of chaos.

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92 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent CRITICAL THINKING you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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Based on a true story from 1998, five LatinX and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.

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For $6.99, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent I AM WOMAN you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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1966. Helen Reddy arrives in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230 in her pocket. She had been told she’d won a recording contract, but the record company promptly dashes her hopes by telling her it has enough female stars and suggests she has fun in New York before returning home to Australia.

Helen, without a visa, decides to stay in New York anyway and pursue a singing career, struggling to make ends meet and provide for her daughter. There she befriends legendary rock journalist Lillian Roxon, who becomes her closest confident. Lillian inspires her to write and sing the iconic song “I Am Woman” which becomes the anthem for the second wave feminist movement and galvanizes a generation of women to fight for change.

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For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

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117 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent FLANNERY you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress / Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, Flannery is the lyrical, intimate exploration of the life and work of author Flannery O’Connor, whose distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. With her family home at Andalusia (the Georgia farm where she grew up and later wrote her best known work) as a backdrop, a picture of the woman behind her sharply aware, starkly redemptive style comes into focus. Including conversations with those who knew her and those inspired by her (Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilton Als and more), Flannery employs never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered personal letters and her own published words (read by Mary Steenburgen) alongside original animations and music to examine the life and legacy of an American literary icon.

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent CREEM: AMERICA’S ONLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MAGAZINE you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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Capturing the messy upheaval of the ’70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores CREEM Magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse — spotlighting iconic features, interviews, and anecdotes along the way — then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later. Fifty years after publishing its first issue, “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” remains a seditious spirit in music and culture.

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73 MIN