During WWII, 10,000 children were sent to London via a rescue mission called the Kindertransport — but only children, the vast majority of them Jewish. Families were forced to make brutal choices, whether to send their unaccompanied children to another country, and, in some cases, which child to send. One family had a single ticket and chose their 14-year-old daughter, Lisa Jura, a pianist and a prodigy. Directed by Academy Award-nominated Josh Aronson, this documentary tells the story of this child’s survival and gift, and features Mona Golabek, a Grammy-nominated concert pianist and daughter of Lisa Jura. Using rare archival footage from wartime in Vienna and London, and music, this story is an elegy of humanity and the brute force music. (dir. Josh Aronson, U.S., 2025, 78 min.) Winner of the recent Torchbearer Jury Prize at the Miami Jewish Film Festival.

Based on the life story of Tourette's Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, MBE. Set within 1980s Britain, the story follows him throughout his troubled teens and early adulthood, and explores this little known and entirely misunderstood condition, along with his attempts to live a ‘normal’ life against the odds.

The New York City Sanitation Department has an artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles. For nearly 50 years, she's put labor on the pedestal of fine art. From garbage truck ballets to permanent installations in the most celebrated museums, Ukeles turns maintenance into art. "I am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother. (Random order)… Now, I will simply do these maintenance everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them as Art." (dir. Toby Perl Freilich, US, 2025, 90 min.) "Forty-six years after she embedded with the Sanitation Department, Ms. Ukeles’s populist convictions, her belief in the dignity of labor, her wariness of feminist art committed narrowly to liberating women from the male gaze speak with a power to the tensions between class and gender politics roiling the country right now.” —The New York Times

Family Films of the ’80s Upon arriving at a new house, two sisters discover a secret world of fantastical creatures living in the surrounding forest. Drawn from Shinto beliefs about balance, mind-bendingly inventive and filled with humor and majesty, Hayao Miyazaki’s film invokes all of the beauty, mystery and preciousness of the world around us. Featuring the voices of Dakota and Elle Fanning and Tim Daly. (Japan, 1988, 86m, DCP, recommended for all ages) “One of the five best children’s films ever made.” –Roger Ebert

Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please. is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the front lines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media. Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi - raised in a tradition of asking hard questions - as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please. is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death. The Tuesday, April 21, 7 pm screening will be accompanied by a Close Up w/ screenwriter Ed Solomon.

Cantankerous, charismatic and passionately committed, this river keeper — John Lipscomb — reflects on his 25 years patrolling the Hudson, traveling more than 80,000 miles, by wooden boat, helping defend America’s First River. (dir. Jon Bowermaster, U.S.) Jon Bowermaster is an oceans expert, journalist, writer, filmmaker, adventurer and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society's 'Ocean Heroes,' his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled. He is the founder of Oceans 8 Films and the One Ocean Media Foundation, making films about climate at home in the Hudson Valley and around the world. His podcast, "The Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster” on Radio Kingston has recorded over 150 episodes with environmental activists, community leaders and friends from his vast rolodex of travels.