Post-screening Q&A with director Avy Meeropol. ASK E. JEAN is the thrilling story of E. Jean Carroll. Carroll’s life, from her early days as Miss Cheerleader USA to her rise as a trailblazing journalist, author, and beloved advice columnist.Carroll broke barriers as the first female editor at Esquire, Playboy, and Outside, helping to redefine women’s roles in media with her sharp wit and fearless voice. In recent years, she reignited public discourse by standing up to power, becoming the only woman to beat Donald Trump twice in court, and sparking a national conversation about truth, accountability, and resilience. This film is a portrait of an indomitable woman who proved it’s never too late to reclaim your voice, rewrite your story, and change the world.

In the Alpine village of Tolzbad, no one can speak for fear of triggering an avalanche. A widow, Zenaida, and her three sons — Johann, Grigorss, and Franz (who lives in the attic) bottle up their emotions to live a quiet life. Eventually, all the tamped emotions mount, as does the noise, and with it, total destruction. Color-tinted like early Technicolor, and in its 4K Restoration, this ethereal dark comedy — a surrealist, absurdist masterpiece — was an homage to 1920s silent film while simultaneously being well ahead of its time stylistically. (dir. Guy Maddin, Canada, 1992, 100 min.)

Shot in over eight years, by highly-acclaimed filmmaker Debra Granik, this is the first installment of a five-part docuseries that follows former drug dealer Coss Marte and his post-incarceration business venture — a gym called ConBody that employs not only the workout methods of incarceration, but also the people; his staff is made up of people who have previously committed crimes. With an eye for honesty, we are able to see the beyond-difficult process of reentry from one man's story, as he deals with one systemic challenge after another. (dir. Debra Granik, US, 2024, 132 min.) "The personal and the political intertwine in this moving, novelistic series, a reminder that Granik is a filmmaker who deserves to be mentioned alongside the best working today." —RogerEbert.com

The story of the 1974 kidnap of teenage heiress Patty Hearst, which set off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history.

Post-screening Q&A w/ director Mary Harron. The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (American Psycho) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I Shot Andy Warhol stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of grad school in the mid-sixties, the brilliant yet volatile Solanas survived in New York City as a destitute artist, sex worker, and panhandler, soon striking up a friendship with Warhol superstar Candy Darling that brought her briefly into the orbit of the world’s premier pop artist. With vivid, hallucinatory attention to historical detail, Harron captures the explosive cross-pollination of New York’s political and artistic countercultures as well as the creativity, snobbery, and decadence at the heart of the legendary Factory. Anchored by pitch-perfect performances —and featuring a blistering score by John Cale as well as covers of sixties hits by some of the nineties’ most iconic bands (R.E.M., Wilco)—I Shot Andy Warhol is an incisive portrait of a rebel without an outlet and the soon-to-be-lost generation she came to define.

Industrialization creates intentional landscapes — just not as nature intended. This documentary, as sobering as it is strikingly gorgeous, follows environmental photographer Edward Burtynsky as he shows us what it looks like when capitalist waste becomes our living environment.

Philip Hartman’s priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by David Brisbin, who wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars, and derelict streets of the East Village in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress. NO PICNIC premiered at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, where Peter Hutton won the Best Cinematography prize for his gorgeously evocative black-and-white imagery, working with producer Doris Kornish, Emmy Award–winning director Mike Spiller as assistant cameraman, animator Lewis Klahr as boom operator, Christine Vachon as assistant sound editor, with assistance from, among other notables, Jacob Burckhardt and Jeff Preiss. Scored by Ned Sublette, the soundtrack features The Raunch Hands, Fela Kuti, Charles Mingus and Student Teachers.

Solar geoengineering, otherwise known as sunlight reflection, is as controversial as it is fast and easy — but the more urgent the climate crisis becomes, the more scientists stand behind it as part of the solution. At the front of this movement is David Keith, the subject of this documentary, who has spent 30 years studying this technology. This film explores if and how this subset of climate tech could act as sunblock, and begs the question — is it enough? (dir. Ben Kalina, US, 2025, 108 min.)

When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves - even if it means risking everything he cares about. From writer-director John Carney (Sing Street, Once), POWER BALLAD is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition.

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki's father, Keiji, is battling cancer, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world.

Using stones, mud, wood, ice, and other natural materials, the British artist Andy Goldsworthy organizes nature into intricate patterns, knowing full well that time will shift his natural sculptures. This is a meditative documentary, a gentle film. (dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer; Germany/Finland/U.K.; 2001; 90 min.)

One of the most-watched NT Live productions of all time, starring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, who plays Queen Elizabeth II in the much-anticipated return of the Olivier Award-winning hit production that inspired Netflix’s The Crown.

Q&A w/ director Oren Jacoby post-screening. An inspiring story of grassroots environmentalists taking on Big Oil. Set primarily in the early 2020s, This Is Not a Drill introduces us to three heroes. Justin J. Pearson is a recent college graduate living at home. When an oil company announces plans to construct a pipeline going under/through a historically Black, economically disadvantaged area of Memphis, Pearson finds his calling. Roishetta Ozane is a mother of six who moved her family to Louisiana only to immediately face the devastating impacts from multiple unprecedented hurricanes. When she begins to wonder about the connections between the oil refineries literally in her backyard and the storms, she launches a crusade to educate herself and those around her about climate change. Sharon Wilson used to work for the oil industry in Texas, but she quit and moved to a rural part of the state. Then fracking swept the region. When the water from her pipes starts coming out black, Sharon becomes the industry’s worst nightmare, a woman with a fancy infrared camera, a blog, a YouTube channel and a desire to track the release of methane and spread the word about its consequences.

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs, and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. From Academy Award®-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

An intimate look at the work, wisecracks and women behind The New Yorker cartoons, this documentary shows the collaborative spirit and utmost importance of humor as a vehicle to both understand serious issues and also to deal with them. The process of a laugh drawn line by line in this short documentary followed by a discussion with several filmmakers. (dir. Liza Donnelly + Kathleen Hughes, 2025, US, 38 min.)