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

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About the film

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, and their momentous first performances together, Los Hermanos/The Brothers offers a nuanced, often startling view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family.

Featuring an electrifying, genre-bending score, composed by Cuban Aldo López-Gavilán, performed with his American brother, Ilmar, and with guest appearances by maestro Joshua Bell and the Harlem Quartet.

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For $10, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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84 MIN

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

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About the film

From Kim A. Snyder, director of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Newtown, comes an insightful, rousing coming-of-age story of a generation of youth leaders determined to take the reigns and fight for justice at a most critical time in our nation’s history. Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools, Us Kids chronicles the March For Our Lives movement over the course of several years, following X Gonzalez, its co-founders, survivors and a group of teenage activists as they pull off the largest youth protest in American history and set out across the country and globally to build an inclusive and unprecedented youth movement that addresses racial justice, a growing public health crisis and shocking a political system into change.

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For $9.99, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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99 MIN

These film compilations are part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent any of the Oscar Shorts packages you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Oscar nominees are available to watch in the following packages:

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Click here to rent THE LIVE ACTION SHORTS PACKAGE

Click here to rent THE SHORT DOCUMENTARY PACKAGE

Click here to bundle all three packages at a discount!

About the shorts

For over a decade, ShortsTV has proudly brought the Oscar Nominated Short Films to audiences across the globe. This exclusive release features the year’s most spectacular short films and for a limited time is available to watch on the Athena’s virtual cinema.

Each nominee is released in one of three distinct feature-length compilations according to their category of nominations: Live Action, Animation or Documentary. Learn more with the program listings below:

Animated Shorts Program

BURROW – USA, 6 min

GENIUS LOCI – France, 16 min

*Winner!* IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU – USA, 13 min

OPERA – South Korea/USA, 9 min

YES-PEOPLE – Iceland, 9 min

Featuring Bonus Shorts:

KAPAEMAHU – USA, 8 min

THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE – UK, 27 min

TO GERARD – USA, 7 min

Live Action Shorts Program

FEELING THROUGH – USA, 19 min

THE LETTER ROOM – USA, 33 min

THE PRESENT – Palestine, 25 min

*Winner!* TWO DISTANT STRANGERS – USA, 25 min

WHITE EYE – Israel, 21 min

Short Documentary Program

A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION – USA, 13 min

A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA – USA, 19 min

*Winner!* COLETTE – France/Germany/USA, 25 min

DO NOT SPLIT – USA/Norway, 20 min

HUNGER WARD – USA, 40 min

How to stream

For $12 each or $30 bundled, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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

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About the film

ABOUT ENDLESSNESS is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Simultaneously an ode and a lament, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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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.

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76 MIN

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

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About the film

Lori and Doug, a longtime couple break up just days before Lori’s little sister Bea’s wedding. In order to not disrupt the fun, the couple decides to pretend they’re still together until the weekend is over.

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For $7, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

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80 MIN

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

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About the film

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture.

Having witnessed profound social and political change during a life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration, Traylor devised his own visual language to translate an oral culture into something original, powerful, and culturally rooted. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.

Using historical and cultural context, Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts brings the spirit and mystery of Traylor’s incomparable art to life. Making dramatic and surprising use of tap dance and evocative period music, the film balances archival photographs and footage, insightful perspectives from his descendents, and Traylor’s striking drawings and paintings to reveal one of America’s most prominent artists to a wide audience.

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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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After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for ten days.

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75 MIN