2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA (Mstyslav Chernov, 2025, 107min, Ukraine/United States, NR, PBS Distribution) From the Oscar®-winning team behind 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point. Following his historic account of the civilian toll in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian soldiers — who they are, where they came from, and the impossible decisions they face in the trenches as they fight for every inch of their land. Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian brigade battling through approximately one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. Weaving together original footage, intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam video and powerful moments of reflection, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that, for them, this war may never end.

2026 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILM PROGRAM: ANIMATION (Various Artists, 2025, 83min, International, NR) BUTTERFLY (Florence Miailhe, 2025, 15min, France, NR) A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache's life, from his rise to fame to surviving Auschwitz, presented as memories flashing back during his final swim. ÉIRU (Giovanna Ferrari, 2025, 13min, Ireland, NR) (shortlisted extra short) When the water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s village, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the earth to retrieve it. Éiru is the story of a child in search of a challenge, and a goddess in search of a champion. FOREVERGREEN (Nathan Engelhardt/Jeremy Spears, 2025, 13min, United States, NR) A joyful adventure featuring an orphaned bear cub and a fatherly tree turns serious when the cub is tempted by the allure of easy food. Fire and deadly danger ensue as the cub is left bereft of hope and on the verge of a ruinous end, until the sacrificial love of the tree falls into place. THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS (Chris Lavis/Maciek Szczerboski, 2025, 17min, Canada, NR) (CONTENT WARNING) A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds. RETIREMENT PLAN (John Kelly, 2025, 7min, Ireland, NR) Retirement Plan tells the story of Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) as he fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.” THE THREE SISTERS (Konstantin Bronzit, 2025, 14min, Israel/Cyprus, NR) Three sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island, each in their own small house. One day, circumstances develop in such a way that they are forced to rent out one of the houses.

2026 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILM PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY (Various Artists, 2025, 157min, International, NR) ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS (Joshua Seftel, 2025, 33min, United States, NR) All the Empty Rooms follows veteran CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories and unbeknownst to his network’s bosses, pursues a piece on absence, memory, and the unseen ripples of America's gun violence epidemic. As these senseless incidents claim more young lives than any other cause in America, these quiet bedrooms reveal truths more powerful than statistics ever could. ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRENT RENAUD (Craig & Brent Renaud, 2025, 38min, United States, NR) On March 13, 2022, filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed by Russian soldiers – the first American journalist to die while reporting on the war in Ukraine. His younger brother and collaborator, Craig Renaud, recovered Brent’s body and his final recordings from Ukraine and brought them back to their childhood home in Arkansas. As Brent’s journey to his final resting place unfolds, the film chronicles the years he and his brother spent covering some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts. As journalism becomes one of the most dangerous professions in the world, Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud is dedicated to Brent and all the devoted journalists who use their cameras to work for truth and understanding. CHILDREN NO MORE: "WERE AND ARE GONE" (Hilla Medalia, 2025, 36min, Israel, NR) Children No More: “Were and are Gone” is an observational documentary short about a vigil that began in March 2025, when a handful of women stood silently in a public square in Tel Aviv, each holding a photograph of a child killed in Gaza. On every image: the child’s name, age, date of death, and the words “WAS AND IS NO MORE.” Their stillness is heavy, pressing against the rhythm of ordinary life. Some passersby look away; others respond with denial, sorrow, or rage. Yet week after week, new names are added, new photographs are printed and lifted high. And each week, more people step forward to join this quiet act of protest. THE DEVIL IS BUSY (Christalyn Hampton/Geeta Gandbhir, 2025, 31min, United States, NR) The Devil is Busy takes viewers on a daylong journey with Tracii, the determined head of security at a women’s healthcare clinic in Atlanta, Georgia as she works to ensure the safety of women seeking abortions in the face of new restrictions and persistent protests. The film is a clear-eyed portrayal of the shifting landscape for patients and abortion providers in America today, and depicts the complex, day-to-day realities facing those working to provide safe reproductive healthcare to women. The film captures a unique snapshot of reproductive healthcare in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a shift that has led to abortion bans and significant restrictions in many states. PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS (Alison McAlpine, 2025, 15min, Canada, NR) In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.

2026 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILM PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION (Various Artists, 2025, 119min, International, NR) BUTCHER'S STAIN (Meyer Levinson-Blount, 2025, 26min, Israel, NR) Samir, a Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket, is accused of tearing down the Israeli hostage posters in the break room. Samir sets out to prove his innocence in order to keep his job he desperately needs. A FRIEND OF DOROTHY (Lee Knight, 2025, 21min, United Kingdom, NR) Dorothy (BAFTA winner Miriam Margolyes) is a lonely widow whose body is failing, but her mind remains as bright as ever. When 17-year-old JJ (Alistair Nwachukwu) accidentally kicks his football into her garden, he upends Dorothy’s daily routine of pills, prunes and crosswords, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. Despite being worlds apart in every way, the two come to find they have more in common than they could ever imagine. JANE AUSTEN'S PERIOD DRAMA (Steve Pinder/Julia Aks, 2025, 12min, United States, NR) Jane Austen's Period Drama is a 2024 English-language short comedy written and directed by Julia Aks and Steve Pinder. The film is a satire on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. THE SINGERS (Sam A. Davis, 2025, 18min, United States, NR) The Singers is a short film adaptation of a 19th-century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden patrons connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off. With a cast comprised of viral video singing talents and other one-of-a-kind personalities from the unlikeliest corners of the internet, the film is an experimental docu-musical hybrid crafted like an improvisational play. TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA (Natalie Musteata/Alexandre Singh, 2025, 36min, United States, NR) In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.

A POET (Simón Mesa Soto, 2025, 120min, Colombia, NR, 1-2 Special) Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS ALL THAT JAZZ (Bob Fosse, 1979, 123min, United States, R, Twentieth Century Fox) Friday, 4/17 @ 10PM Saturday, 4/18 @ 10PM Sunday, 4/19 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Sophia Juggling an exhausting work schedule and a broken home life while mounting an ambitious production for his ex-wife and editing his newest film, Joe Gideon--an unapologetic pill-popping, chain-smoking philanderer, movie director, and Broadway choreographer--is flirting with cardiac arrest. And, more and more, pestered by desirous wannabes, desperate starlets, panic-struck producers, lovelorn lovers, and a neglected daughter, Gideon wrestles with the concept of death and mortality. His ex-wife, his girlfriend, and his daughter attempt to bring him back from the brink, but it's too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. Now the drugs don't work, and as an eventful life filled with amphetamines, alcohol, and sex flashes before his eyes, Gideon converses with eerie Angelique. Scenes from his past life start to encroach on the present as he becomes increasingly aware of his own mortality. After all, Joe deserves to meet his doom. Isn't death the final curtain everyone must face?

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT (Ryan White, 2025, 104min, United States, NR) 98th ACADEMY NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE “Come See Me in the Good Light” is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience. Facing Andrea's diagnosis, these two poet lovers embark on a poignant yet unexpectedly humorous exploration of love, mortality, and life's moments.

Screenings in this series are free and open to the public. RESERVE YOUR SEAT // SEATING IS LIMITED Screenings will feature discussion/Q&A with UNC Global Studies faculty. GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY DIGITAL DETENTION – (Carolina Sanchez Boe, 2025, 53 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 4/6 @ 7 PM DIGITAL DETENTION unveils a booming industry in the surveillance of immigrants, where GPS ankle monitors and facial recognition apps turn migrants and asylum-seekers into data for profit. The film exposes the personal and societal impacts of this new form of control using invasive technologies, highlighting the stories of asylum-seekers living under constant surveillance in Austin, Texas, a city transformed by the tech boom. Part of - GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY Brought to you by the Chelsea Theater and The Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Join us for a compelling film series that brings the global realities of immigration into sharp and contemporary focus. Through powerful storytelling and critical perspectives, Global Big Screen Film Series explore the human cost of displacement, the courage and danger embedded in migration journeys, and the lasting emotional impact of leaving home in search of safety and opportunity. The series also examines how modern technologies and surveillance are reshaping borders, detention, and control in the digital age. Screenings in this series are free and open to the public. They will feature discussion/Q&A with UNC Global Studies faculty. Also in this series: IO CAPITANO – (Matteo Garrone, 2023, 121 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 2/2 @ 7 PM A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe. FLEE – (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021, 89 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 3/2 @ 7 PM A man looks back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. *ADMISSION IS FREE FOR FILMS IN THIS SERIES*

DREAMS (Michel Franco, 2025, 95min, United States/Mexico, NR, Greenwich Entertainment) A powerful socialite (Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain) and a promising ballet dancer (Isaac Hernández) begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together. A tense, erotic drama from acclaimed director Michel Franco (Sundown, Memory, New Order).

THE DOC IS IN... Saturday, 4/4 @ 10AM Sunday, 4/5 @ 10AM + Monday, 4/6 @ 4PM Wednesday, 4/8 @ 10AM Thursday, 4/9 @ 10AM ENDLESS COOKIE (Peter & Seth Scriver, 2025, 97min, Canada, NR) ENDLESS COOKIE is an imaginatively animated family portrait that explores the contrasting upbringings between two half-brothers, one white and one Indigenous, in a humorous oral history. As they reminisce into the recording microphone, the threads of their stories are punctuated, interrupted, or else hijacked by charismatic (and humorously animated) members of the extended family, including nine kids and ten dogs, who add to the narrative by indulging in their own reveries. The result is an exploration of identity, race, and Indigenous resistance to colonization within a First Nations community; an impressionistic and often surreal depiction of family; and a lived-in documentary of the creative process. Contrechamp Grand Prix, Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 Golden Alexander Award, Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025 Rogers Audience Award, Hot Docs International Documentary Festival 2025 Golden Dove Award, DOK Leipzig 2025

HALF-COCKED (Suki Hawley, 1994, 90min, United States, NR) This raw and moody drama from 1994, by the husband-and-wife team of Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky (they co-wrote, she directed and edited, and he photographed, in appealingly grainy black-and-white), captures a moment of grungy charm, when independent art-rock scenes were new and resolutely local. A quintet living in a ramshackle house in Louisville gets a gig at a club, but the show turns sour when the vain, pretentious glam-punk Otis (Ian Svenonius) goes onstage and smacks Tara (Tara Jane O’Neil), the quintet’s spiritual leader—and his sister—for spoiling his encore. In revenge, Tara steals his van and equipment and drives the rest of the band to Chattanooga, where they scuffle along in fear and desperation. Though the aesthetic is rough-and-ready, Hawley is a sincere and sensitive storyteller who brings the characters to life with subtle, oblique touches that show who they are without saying too much about them. Casting highly regarded indie rockers and filling the soundtrack with their songs, Hawley movingly roots their music in a way of life as well as in the grimy urban landscapes they inhabit. — Richard Brody- The New Yorker

THE DOC IS IN... I'M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE (Klára Tasovská, 2024, 90min, Czechia/Slovakia/Austria, NR, Grasshopper FIlm) Saturday, 3/28 @ 10AM Sunday, 3/29 @ 10AM + Monday, 3/30 @ 4PM Wednesday, 4/1 @ 10AM Thursday, 4/2 @ 10AM In Soviet-occupied Prague, a young female photographer embraces wild nights of rebellion, desire, and resistance to conformity. Through thousands of her raw and candid photographs and personal diaries, I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE traces her twenty-year quest for freedom and self-acceptance.

MAGELLAN (Lav Diaz, 2025, 163min, Philippines, NR, Janus) Monday, 3/23 @ 1PM & 7PM At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) navigated a fleet of ships to Southeast Asia, attempting the first voyage across the vast Pacific Ocean. On reaching the Malay Archipelago, the crew pushed to the brink of madness in the harshness of the high seas and overwhelming natural beauty of the islands, Magellan's obsession leads to a rebellion and reckoning with the consequences of power. A vast, globe-spanning epic from Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz (NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY), MAGELLAN presents the colonization of the Philippines as a primal, shocking encounter with the unknown and a radical retelling of European narratives of discovery and exploration. Language: Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, French Genre: Historical Drama

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015, 115min, United States, R, Warner Bros.) Friday, 4/3 @ 10PM Saturday, 4/4 @ 10PM Sunday, 4/5 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Sam Retired male stripper Magic Mike (Channing Tatum) decides to help his friends put on one last show, as the crew embark on a road trip to Myrtle Beach to perform at an exotic-dance convention. Along the way, they brighten the lives of several women, including an aspiring photographer (Amber Heard) and a diva (Jada Pinkett Smith) from Mike's past.

THE DOC IS IN... MISTRESS DISPELLER (Elizabeth Lo, 2024, 94min, China/United States, NR, Oscilloscope Laboratories) Saturday, 3/14 @ 10AM Sunday, 3/15 @ 10AM + Monday, 3/16 @ 4PM Wednesday, 3/18 @ 10AM Thursday, 3/19 @ 10AM In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession and is hired to go undercover and break up affairs by any means necessary; a "mistress dispeller." Offering strikingly intimate access to a real, unfolding love triangle, Mistress Dispeller documents all sides of what is usually kept behind closed doors. As Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis, sympathies shift between husband, wife and mistress while emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide in this spellbinding look at modern love. "This is definitely a big screen movie. Captivated from the first frame. A cinematic and extremely compelling doc." —Sean Baker "It's fresh, it's honest, it's really entertaining, it's surprising." —Constance Wu "One of the most beautiful and interesting documentaries I have ever seen." —Ronny Chieng “Mistress Dispeller is a marvel: elegantly constructed, ethically created, and thought-provokingly humane.” —MASHABLE "The ultimate "How'd they shoot that?" film" —POV MAGAZINE "A remarkably vulnerable film" —THE DAILY BEAST "This level of intimacy and access is rare in any nonfiction film." —INDIEWIRE "Modest, melancholic and strangely romantic" —VARIETY

MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN (David Borenstein/Pavel Talankin, 2025, 90min, Denmark, NR, Kino Lorber) 98th ACADEMY NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha’s role in the school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrified by the transformation of his school and community, he struggles with guilt and a sense of powerlessness, leading him to become an international whistleblower. As the school’s videographer, Pasha documents intimate and revealing footage of Putin’s regime, capturing the rise of militarized children’s groups, repressive laws, fervent nationalism, and the recruitment of graduating students to fight in the war. When he learns his own life may be at risk, Pasha is forced to plan a dangerous escape from Russia. Directed by David Borenstein and co-directed by Pasha Talankin, this uniquely collaborative film is as captivating and joyful as it is eye-opening and sobering. Mr. Nobody Against Putin showcases rare footage that reveals the profound impact of Putin’s regime on the lives of everyday Russians, particularly its children.

NATCHEZ (Suzannah Herbert, 2026, 86min, United States, NR, Oscilloscope Laboratories) MEMBERS ONLY ADVANCE SCREENING - THURSDAY, 3/12 @ 7PM featuring an introduction by Dr. William Reynolds Ferris Jr., also known as Bill Ferris. Dr. Ferris is an American folklorist, scholar, author, filmmaker and ethnomusicologist focused on the distinct cultural qualities of the American South. Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past. With an unflinching lens, the film captures the debates, memories, and tensions that are building toward a reckoning. NATCHEZ captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all. “One of the best documentaries of the 21st century - and the 19th as well.” —MOVEABLE FEST "The genteel politeness on display at the start of the film falls away, revealing an unsettling core." —HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS OBEX (Albert Birney, 2025, 90min, United States, NR, Oscilloscope Laboratories) Friday, 3/27 @ 10PM Saturday, 3/28 @ 10PM Sunday, 3/29 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Matt Conor Marsh's secluded life is disrupted when he plays a game called OBEX. His dog Sandy disappears, blurring reality and game. Conor enters the world of OBEX to rescue Sandy, navigating its strange realms.

THE DOC IS IN... Saturday, 4/11 @ 10AM Sunday, 4/12 @ 10AM + Monday, 4/13 @ 4:30PM Wednesday, 4/15 @ 10AM Thursday, 4/16 @ 10AM PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Kleber Mendonça FIlho, 2023, 93min, Brazil, NR, Grasshopper Film) Brazil’s official selection for the 2024 Academy Awards, PICTURES OF GHOSTS, from acclaimed director Kleber Mendonça Filho (THE SECRET AGENT, BACURAU, AQUARIUS and NEIGHBORING SOUNDS). From the acclaimed director of THE SECRET AGENT, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s PICTURES OF GHOSTS—the inspiration for his 1970s-set Wagner Moura thriller—is a richly textured journey through time, architecture, and cinema, set in the Brazilian city of Recife. Moving through the city’s grand movie theaters, once vital spaces of collective imagination and social life, the film traces a century of dreams, ruptures, and transformations. Blending archival material, film excerpts, moments of mystery, and personal memory, PICTURES OF GHOSTS unfolds as both an intimate portrait of a city and a meditation on how cinema shapes places, history, and the way we remember.

PILLION (Harry Lighton, 2025, 106min, United Kingdom/Ireland, R, A24) A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

THE DOC IS IN... Saturday, 5/2 @ 10AM Sunday, 5/3 @ 10AM + Monday, 5/4 @ 4PM Wednesday, 5/6 @ 10AM Thursday, 5/7 @ 10AM PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK (Sepideh Farsi, 2025, 113min, France/Palestine, NR, Kino Lorber) Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Combining raw immediacy with deep humanity, the film captures daily life during the conflict through the eyes and unwaveringly optimistic presence of Fatma, a talented photographer whose generation is trapped in an endless cycle of war, famine, and resistance. Her conversations with Farsi bring us into the heart of the conflict, even while their physical distance underscores the dire situation inside Gaza. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is an essential document that now stands as a heartfelt memorial and final testament: Fatma and her family were tragically killed by a targeted Israeli airstrike on April 16, one day after the film was announced as a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

THE DOC IS IN... Saturday, 4/18 @ 10AM Sunday, 4/19 @ 10AM + Monday, 4/20 @ 4PM Wednesday, 4/22 @ 10AM Thursday, 4/23 @ 10AM RISING ABOVE HELENE: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S JOURNEY TO RECOVERY (Chris Baucom, 2025, 63min, United States, NR) On September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene swept through the mountains of Western North Carolina, unleashing devastating floods that reshaped both the landscape and the lives of those who call it home. Rivers surged beyond their banks, roads crumbled, homes were lost, and entire communities were left reeling. But this is not just a story of destruction. It is a story of what came next. Rising Above Helene is a documentary about the strength of people and community. Through heartfelt interviews, sweeping visuals, and on-the-ground storytelling, the film captures the quiet determination of neighbors who came together to rebuild what was broken. Across the counties of Western North Carolina, we see the resilience that defines these mountain communities. Local governments played a key role in the recovery, helping to coordinate emergency response and support long-term rebuilding. Their efforts, alongside those of countless volunteers and community members, helped lay the foundation for renewal and hope. This film is a tribute to the spirit of Western North Carolina, a region where the rivers may rise but the people rise higher.

SIRÂT (Oliver Laxe, 2025, 115min, Spain, R, NEON Rated) 98th ACADEMY NOMINEE - BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits. Directed By: Oliver Laxe Written By: Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe Starring: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Henderson, Tonin Janvier, Jade Oukid, Richard Bellamy

SOUND OF FALLING (Mascha Schilinski, 2025, 149min, Germany, NR, MUBI) Monday, 3/30 @ 1PM & 7PM In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory. Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger. Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future? “It knocks you off your feet and then sweeps you up again” - The New Yorker “An awe-inducing cinematic experience” - Bloomberg “Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance” - Deadline ★★★★ “Marvelously tells a century’s worth of women’s stories by weaving together the psychological, the physical, and even the spiritual” - Observer “Extraordinary” - The New Yorker “Bewitching” - The Hollywood Reporter “Astonishing” - New York Magazine

THE DOC IS IN... Saturday, 5/9 @ 10AM Sunday, 5/10 @ 10AM + Monday, 5/11 @ 4PM Wednesday, 5/13 @ 10AM Thursday, 5/14 @ 10AM SUDAN, REMEMBER US (Hind Meddeb, 2024, 78min, France/Tunisia, NR, Watermelon Pictures) Sudan, Remember Us is a powerful portrait of a generation that chose poetry over silence and imagination over fear. Shajane, Maha, Muzamil, Khatab, and the voice of poet Chaikhoon form a cinematic chorus—young, politically defiant, and artistically fearless. In their twenties, they stand at the front lines of a revolution, confronting a corrupted army and paramilitary militias responsible for brutal war crimes in Darfur, Kordofan, and Blue Nile. They could have lost hope before they even began. Instead, through chants, poems, and dreams, they built a movement that helped topple a regime. Blending intimate storytelling with sweeping political urgency, Sudan, Remember Us captures the uneven struggle between the fire of militias and the unbreakable voices of the people. It’s a tribute to the power of words—and a reminder that freedom is a fight born first in the imagination. In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddab flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship. There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins. Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom. SUDAN, REMEMBER US bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.

THE DOC IS IN... Saturday, 4/25 @ 10AM Sunday, 4/26 @ 10AM + Monday, 4/27 @ 4PM Wednesday, 4/29 @ 10AM Thursday, 4/30 @ 10AM THE LIBRARIANS (Kim A. Snyder, 2025, 92min, United States, NR) Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities. In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS THE PUNK SINGER (Sini Anderson, 2013, 81min, United States, NR) Friday, 4/24 @ 10PM Saturday, 4/25 @ 10PM Sunday, 4/26 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Sheela A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.