Join Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the author of an acclaimed new book on the “King of Calypso,” for a multimedia talk on the gigantic life and legacy of an American icon who transformed our politics by evolving culture. Jelly-Schapiro’s talk will feature rare archival film and audio clips from Belafonte’s astonishing career, and be followed a book signing. “Daylight Come takes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This book fills the heart and mind, and is essential reading for our times.” —Hilton Als

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.

On a quiet May morning, a van marked “Immigration Enforcement” pulls up on a street in Glasgow. Conducting a dawn raid, two long-standing residents are arrested for alleged immigration violations and face deportation. Word of the raid goes out almost immediately, and students, neighbors, members of the local mosque and others — rush to the area in response. One man forces his way under the van to prevent it from leaving. Dozens, hundreds, and then thousands of people pour in, filming, chanting, and blockading the van in solidarity. From executive producer Emma Thompson and director Felipe Bustos Sierra, EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET chronicles this event through interviews with people who were there, and using footage shot throughout the day. Told from multiple viewpoints, the film captures the chaos and confusion — but also a sense of joy, celebration, and the power of community. The mosque opens its doors for people who need a washroom. Supporters turn up, passing around pizzas, water, and snacks. Thompson herself appears in the film, re-creating the role of the so-called Van Man, and Bustos Sierra places the events of the day in the broader context of centuries of labor activism and direct action by the people of Glasgow. EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET tells a remarkable story of resistance, community care, and the power of everyday people coming together to fight injustice.

A socialite begins a shipboard romance with a wealthy man, but is blackmailed by a former lover.

In an idyllic village in Burkina Faso, a woman decides to use an ancient tradition—the moolaadé, the right for the powerful to protect the weak—in a new way, sheltering young girls who are about to enter a dangerous ritual. Ousmane Sembene’s final work, a masterpiece of activist cinema, celebrates the heroism of everyday people and the potential for even the most entrenched customs to soften. (dir. Ousmane Sembene, Senegal-Burkina Faso, 2004, 124m).

Join 90s grunge bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, of HOLE and Smashing Pumpkins fame, as she takes us on a grunge journey through her decade of road photographs. Courtney Love goofing around backstage, self-portraits from sold-out arenas, moody images that mirror the complex grief of losing friends to drugs, suicide and illness. Auf der Maur accidentally became a 1990s musical icon and originally meant to become a photographer, so her archive of this historical time period with her fellow cultural tastemakers is a sometimes brutal but always real slice of touring life.

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Based on the Herman Melville novel of the same name as the protagonist, Pierre, the film surprised its audiences in a similar manner that Melville shocked his readers with the first book post Moby Dick. It follows a wealthy male author living with his mother, waiting to be married to his cousin, when a long-lost vagrant, claiming to be his half-sister, appears. (dir. Leos Carax, France/Switzerland/Germany/Japan, 1999, 134 min.) “[A film that] breaks free of the dismal bonds of formula to cartwheel into overwrought passionate excess.” —Roger Ebert

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

Redemption Time is a 70-minute performance film featuring poet Jimmy Santiago Baca and jazz violinist Christian Howes––two formerly incarcerated artists who reclaimed their lives through art. While imprisoned, Howes discovered Baca’s poetry, igniting a creative lifeline that would sustain them both. Through spoken word, jazz, and intimate testimony, the film reveals the trauma of incarceration and art’s redemptive power. Directed by David Gonzalez, Redemption Time is an emotional journey and a call to reimagine justice, identity, and human potential. (dir. David Gonzalez, US, 2025, 70 min.) Ulster Literacy Association and Upstate Films invite you to a special fundraising screening of Redemption Time, an acclaimed documentary directed by David Gonzalez featuring poet Jimmy Santiago Baca and jazz violinist Christian Howes. Through spoken word, music, and art, the film explores trauma, healing, and the transformative power of second chances — themes at the heart of ULA’s mission to support adult literacy across Ulster County. The director will participate in a panel discussion immediately following the screening.

Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston, plans to make money selling records. After his prized motorcycle is stolen, his plans fall through and he's forced to adapt.

Known as the Father of African Cinema, the Senegalese freedom fighter and writer Ousmane Sembene was the first African filmmaker to achieve international acclaim. This award-winning documentary follows the dockworker and fifth-grade dropout and once-in-an-era savant storyteller, who reached to the stars through the thorns. (dir. Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, US, 2015, 89 min.) “A richly crafted documentary that serves as an enlightening tribute to the filmmaker who masterfully tapped into the medium’s wide-reaching socio-political potential.” —Los Angeles Times This documentary was made by Upstate Films’ co-director, Jason Silverman, who has been instrumental in the restoration of Sembene’s films and is currently writing Sembene’s biography.

SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns MAD SCIENTIST to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control... With The Farmer missing and a wild beast roaming the woods of Mossingham, all the ingredients are in place for a monstrously fun family adventure.

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

When he was young, a street artist from India's "untouchable" caste was prophesied that he would find true love with a Taurus musician from a foreign land who owned a jungle. When he met her while drawing her later in life, they fell madly in love, and he eventually cycled 3,000 miles from India to Sweden to reunite. (dir. Orlando von Einsiedel, U.K., 2025, 98 min.)

Since 1967 when Les Braunstein and the Soft White Underbelly (early Blue Oyster Cult) recorded for Elektra records, Les has been exclusively a rock singer. Les now performs live against the rock tracks he has recorded of his own songs with the bands he has sung with over the past five decades. This special performance will also include stories drawn from his books, travelogues entitled, The Lucky Monkey Stories.

When Samuel (Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy (Crowe) offers a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom. But as the group journeys into the unforgiving wilderness, the real threat isn’t the terrain - it’s the betrayal and violence festering within their ranks. Surrounded by greed, suspicion, and danger, Samuel must risk everything to reunite with his child.

William Holden leads a band of aging robbers through the hard world of the Old West as they try to outrun the bounty hunter (the legendary Robert Ryan) who is hot on their trail. The balletic violence and weary fatalism that Peckinpah brings to his vision of the American West is underscored by some of sweatiest, dirtiest, bloodiest performances from some of the the toughest, ugliest actors of all time. Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates shoot, screw, drink, and ride horses all while imbuing the film's harsh, empty world with a sense of real poetry. This is a film about the mantle of violence passing from old professionals, who live by a code, to even more chaotic and deadly future generations. And what is the code these old men live by? Stand by your friends and against the world, take what you can get, and don't kill civilians...unless they get in the way.

Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.

FOREWORD AUTHOR EVENT Under the Crucian Sun: A Memoir of Place, environmentalist and creative Cynthia McVay sets foot on the island of St. Croix in 2018 for the first time. She arrives with an adventurous partner and her heart set on purchasing and renovating an abandoned plantation house. Things do not go as planned. This collection of stories, essays, poetry with over 150 photos offers a personal portrayal of a coy, complex and layered island. At its heart, Under the Crucian Sun is a love story, an ode to the island of St. Croix and its many peoples. Whether you call St. Croix home or you are a visitor, you will relate to Cynthia’s journey. In both image and word, she captures St. Croix’s unique magic.

What I Want You To Know, executive produced by two veterans, is an intimate journey alongside Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as they share deeply personal stories from their deployments and explore truth and justice in the context of their wars. Interspersed with actual images and video from both wars, their stories present an intense and compelling picture of the post-911 wars and their cost to the men and women who fought, and to civilians on the ground.

This documentary pulls apart the legendary 1972 Toronto’s highly-improvisational production of the musical Godspell that was a comedic launchpad for a generation of North American icons: Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Victor Garber, and Paul Shaffer. What began as an off-off-off-and more off Broadway show, planted the seed which would become the sensibility for generations of Saturday Night Live and everything the came from that. (dir. Nick Davis, US, 2025, 98 min.) “It’s about something bigger than Godspell — a pop movement that didn’t have a name yet, a cultural spirit that found its way into existence almost like (laughing) gas gathering in the air.” —Variety