2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA (Mstyslav Chernov, 2025, 107min, Ukraine/United States, NR, PBS Distribution) Monday, 3/16 @ 1:00PM & 7:00PM Join us in supporting PBS and FRONTLINE, and come join the post-film discussion led by Nicole Eure, Chelsea Board Member and Producer for PBS North Carolina! The post-film discussion will take place after the 7:00PM Screening ONLY. 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.

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.

March 22 @ 1:30PM: PROGRAM 4: The Call The COSMIC RAYS FILM FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be. The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired by the possibilities of film as art. March 22 @ 1:30PM: PROGRAM 4: The Call Films Total RunTime: 79min Films about war, sad poetry, and failed experiments in communal living. There are forever chemicals in the Cape Fear River. But don’t give up hope. Utopia is a roller rink inside a crystal palace. Geométrika Nicole Blundell, 2024 RT: 04:00 minutes Geométrika is a mathematical odyssey that invites viewers on an experimental journey through the geometric wonders of the universe, reminiscent of watching floaters under your eyelids. Shot on 16mm and hand painted and developed. The Phalanx Benjamin Balcom, 2025 RT: 13:30 minutes Filmed on the former site of Ceresco, a 19th-century agrarian commune in Ripon, Wisconsin, this lyrical, experimental film revisits the utopian aspirations of a community striving to live “in association,” guided by principles of harmony and shared ownership. Founded in 1844 and disbanded in 1851, Ceresco was one of several communes across North America inspired by the writings of French philosopher Charles Fourier. These fleeting but potent attempts to imagine alternative ways of living now serve as a lens to explore the fragility of collective ideals. Foot to Ground Christopher Thompson, 2024 RT: 08:11 minutes Minimalist frontiers proliferate from acquisition. Larping utopia, shedding skins, forging new luxury amidst shards of past lives. Embracing shadows, sculpting stagnant futures in the flicker of ancient flames. How Now, House Tess Martin, 2025 RT: 13:00 minutes How Now, House? investigates our yearning to leave traces behind through the prism of one house in Rotterdam. Using archives, personal memories and the philosophy of time, the film questions whether a space can ever really belong to one person, or time period, at all. Good Neighbors Care Kate E. Hinshaw, 2025 RT: 03:30 minutes For decades chemical company DuPont and its subsidiary Chemours poisoned North Carolina’s drinking water through illegally dumping forever chemicals into the Cape Fear River. On altered 16mm film, corporate promises of community care and pure water dissolve as rivers and bodies merge in a meditation on what it means to exist in an imperfect environment. Allrecipes (Stuffed Manifesto) David de Rozas, 2025 RT: 05:17 minutes A constellation of fragmented memories and gestures that shape the body, mind, and spirit as layered, shifting, and unresolved sites. Skirting the edge of coherence, the film becomes a space of offering and defiance, where transformation is unstable, leaky, and refuses to stay quiet. 09/05/1982 Camilo Restrepo, Jorge Caballero, 2025 RT: 11:00 minutes Signs of turmoil linger on walls and windshields in the grainy footage revisited in 09/05/1982. A recurring slogan, Matanza del 9 de mayo (Massacre of 9 May), is graffitied on multiple buildings. Shots of bullet holes, crowds in the streets, and burning barricades made of car tires evoke a bloody street clash somewhere in Latin America in the early 80s. The recovered footage, seemingly countering the official narrative, is damaged and fragmentary.Rather than argue a thesis, this film builds an intrigue that unfolds in time, asking who speaks through images and how we come to believe them—until the evidence itself demands a second look. Another Earth Ben Russell, 2025 RT: 11:10 minutes From mouth to cave to fire to screen to war to skin, this is a dizzying 16mm portrait of an increasingly chaotic present, one whose political contours are affected by everything and nothing all at once. In the words of Zadie Smith: Time is not what it is / But how it is felt. Crystal Palace Linda Izcali Scobie, 2024 RT: 08:30 minutes Two films align as a languid meditation on motion, color, pattern and joy. A collaboration between filmmaker Linda Izcali Scobie and musician John Davis for John’s 2024 LP release “Landlines”.

March 21 @ 7PM: PROGRAM 2: Hiding Places The COSMIC RAYS FILM FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be. The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired by the possibilities of film as art. March 21 @ 7PM: PROGRAM 2: Hiding Places Films Total RunTime: 62min Films about hiding places and the things we hide in them. Plastic soldiers, pacemakers, pantyhose, and letters from mom. Is that a rock or a woman camouflaged as a rock? Evacuations Lilli Carré, 2025 RT: 07:07 minutes Painted formless figures haunt recent photos of emptied-out public spaces. As cel-animated smear frames, they perform various repetitive acts in these settings, with movements expressing the helpless, frantic energy felt in our current moment. Earth and organs are emptied, situations are fled. The figures become displaced from their locations, as their environments dissolve and their printed record evaporates. Army People Sean Zou, 2025 RT: 05:00 minutes Army people is a five‑minute audiovisual collage staging a silent standoff. Soldiers emerge in black‑and‑white, nature responds in vivid color; ambient sound only, narrative stripped away, yet senses are pulled into an unseen rupture. Hiding Places Magdalena Bermudez, 2025 RT: 12:22 minutes Women pretend to be rocks. Military operations masquerade as art education. One woman deserts to pursue a more radical act of unselfing. On the Second Floor Neil Ira Needleman, 2025 RT: 05:03 minutes This work is part of a video series that was shot in an apartment building that provides subsidized apartments for residents who are mostly elderly and infirm. Each of the videos in the series explores the spaces and characteristics of a different floor of the building (“On the Second Floor,” “On the Third Floor,” “On the Fourth Floor,” “On the Fifth Floor,” and “Fade Out in Color”). explant / implant Josh Weissbach, 2025 RT: 03:16 minutes a lifetime of surgeries continues with an upgrade in battery life and a downgrade in scar tissue when the filmmaker has his original pacemaker replaced after sixteen years. pressing stephanie barber, 2025 RT: 03:18 minutes Pressing a woman washes her hair in the kitchen sink while telling her friend about a memory of sitting in a bathtub and watching her aunt get ready to go out. a narrative fragment, a very short story, a performance and exercise in the prosaic as mythologized through memory. concision and the infinite that is always entwined with remembering and forgetting. this film is in a camp with work i make about dialog and conversation as literary forms. The Story of the Cricket Queen Natalie Peracchio, 2025 RT: 03:57 minutes The “Story of The Cricket Queen” recreates digital media tropes, trends, and aesthetics with analog film techniques. Api (April, 1949) Harper Stone, 2025 RT: 11:00 minutes Too often, we forget what and who has come before us. Do we exist because of our corporeal forms, or have we long existed in our ancestor’s dreams and prayers? Api (April, 1949) is a one-take recorded translation of a man’s proposal letter and firm vision of life through love. Penned after my paternal grandfather’s time in a forced labor camp during WWII, Api (April, 1949) is a reconstruction of his bid for agency during a time of oppression and destruction. Both an homage to his dreams and prayers and a critical interpretation of values and authority, this film is an interpretation of generational inheritance and reclamation. The Next World RT 11:00 minutes Grau Del Grau, 2025 An estranged parent attempts to record their memories, only to discover that the past may not be as reliable as it once seemed.

March 21 @ 9PM: PROGRAM 3: The Call The COSMIC RAYS FILM FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be. The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired by the possibilities of film as art. March 21 @ 9PM: PROGRAM 3: The Call Films Total RunTime: 67min There’s an insurgency brewing among the birds and the Bradford pears. Listen closely. Breathe in to receive. Exhale sharply through the nostrils to send. in place of a hollow tree Eislow Johnson, 2024 RT: 08:00 minutes Migrating from the Amazon basin across northern Illinois, a flock of chimney swifts flutter without perching, using a natural form of radar to navigate. The pulse of infrasound from deep ocean waves vibrates the ground and emanates up, guiding the birds amid disrupted air. Open space heard becomes turbulent, resonant space. Various forms of tuning elicit a strained acoustic ecology between altitudes. The Call Kelly Sears, 2025 RT 07:06 minutes A rebellion has been building for decades. The Call is an eco-revenge film featuring unlikely instigators who were observed and filmed over three years at airports across the United States. This is a call to action. Fall Wind Alina Taalman, 2025 RT: 4:30 minutes A fall wind arrives with cold, dense air and covers the landscape below. Living Containers Kara Ditte Hansen, 2025 RT: 14:00 minutes Aided by machine learning, a bioengineer creates a mutant enzyme inspired by larvae capable of digesting plastic. Insects, sapiens, models and machines are consumed by extraction, ingestion, excretion, and an unconscious drive to return to a state of matter before life. I think I said “yes” Pere Ginard, 2025 RT: 04:17 minutes I think I said (I…insect…scare…bird…eye…tear…thing…heartbeat… centaur…dream…mylove…) yes. Little Balls of Mercury Andrea Marquez, 2025 RT: 08:02 minutes Through the recounting of a dream—an image from the past that insists on reappearing—the film dissects and displays the very materials it’s made of: still photography, moving image, narration, as if these cinematic elements were minerals and gems in a museum showcase. In doing so, it transforms them into an evocative exploration of what is preserved and what is lost. An archive of broken and silent images? A mausoleum of time? A Telephone for God Nicky Tavares, 2025 RT: 11:24 minutes Breathe in to receive. Exhale in a sharp burst through the nostrils to send. Quartz is the medium—amplifier, transducer, archive. Inspired by the teachings of Marcel Vogel—IBM research chemist turned spiritual scientist—A Telephone for God oscillates between past and present, tuning into frequencies of human-plant communication and energetic healing. The film follows Drew Tousley, one of the few crystal cutters trained by Marcel Vogel before his passing in 1991, as he creates a four-sided Vogel crystal, modeled after the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Alongside him, Carly Tousley reflects on the use of crystals in healing. Award-winning artist Merik Goma stars as Vogel’s present-day assistant.

March 20 @ 7PM: PROGRAM 1: Xtended Release The COSMIC RAYS FILM FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be. The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired by the possibilities of film as art. March 20 @ 7PM: PROGRAM 1: Xtended Release Films Total RunTime: 82min Emulsion peels off filmstrips and spray paint peels off walls. A flying saucer piloted by a Swedish movie star crashes in the Nether Lands. If Plan 9 fails, what’s our Plan B? SKRFF Corrie Francis Parks, Daniel Nuderscher, 2024 RT: 07:00 minutes A 40-year old graffiti wall becomes an archaeological site and a sgraffito sculpture as long-gone layers of paint are uncovered and transformed into fireworks of color and shape. The combination of stop motion animation with visceral sounds compresses decades of artistic, political, and cultural expression into a new audio-visual dimension. Driven by frustration with the global rise of toxic ideologies, the artists created this street art metaphor in an earnest attempt to know and understand the past and the present. Grounds, Premises Bram Ruiter, 2025 RT: 14:07 minutes Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together. Interwoven Intervals Laura Kraning, 2026 RT: 06:00 minutes A material hybrid of film and textile, as the intermediary device of a laser printer transcribes weaving patterns onto strips of 16mm clear leader, connecting the material process of handmade films with hand-crafted textile production. Pattern drafts are the graphical score for weaving – grids of light and dark representing the over and under of weft threads between the warps. The printer strains to align the image, as powdered toner smudges and fibers peel away like stray threads. The graphic repetition of grids, lines, and squares assert a structural form that is fragile and vulnerable to erasure. In the archeological record, textiles are often lost to time. Here, a new form emerges – grids of ink and plastic, flickering projected light and dark. Placeholder Jesse McLean, 2026 RT: 12:13 minutes Amid a pandemic and the breakup of a marriage, loneliness sparks new forms of escapism. A film star becomes a companion and pop culture a way of coping, as the lines between reality and fantasy dissolve. Friends, Shopping, & Food Michael Lopez, 2025 RT: 15:00 minutes A solitary character sips coffee and ruminates in his haunted basement apartment. A pensive woman wanders suburban streets. A beautiful person smokes, and is unable to change their face at a Christmas party. A picnic descends into a bacchanalian nightmare. A state-of-the-art mall is explored, while another character is drawn into an ever-tightening surreal trap. Intercut with experimental interludes, Friends, Shopping, and Food blends frenetic 2D animation with eerie early-3D aesthetics, creating an experimental journey through memory, consumerism, and creeping horror. Acetone Reality Sara Magenheimer, Michael Bell-Smith, 2025 RT: 12:32 minutes Images cascade and collide in Acetone Reality, as animation, found images, and the artists’ own video recordings crash against a dialogue between computer-generated voices exploring the wonders of acetone and the nature of meaning. Xtended Release Joshua Gen Solondz, 2025 RT: 14:57 minutes following up from 2022’s NE CORRIDOR and SWAMP THINGS SUPANICKS SERIES, a handmade sculptural collage film on 16mm offloading found footage I’ve accumulated from specific people/points in time, collaged with tape ink skin semen and various corrosive chemicals. The result became unprojectable, subsequent iterations have changed the work further.

CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS (Mohammadreza Eyni/Sara Khaki, 2025, 95min, Iran, NR) 98th ACADEMY NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE As the first elected councilwoman of her deeply conservative Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi — a divorced, motorcycle riding, former midwife — stands out. Tenacious and not easily intimidated, Sara is determined to uplift her community and put an end to the empty promises and laziness perpetuated by local councilmen over the years. But it is as an advocate for the girls and women in her village where she encounters the greatest opposition. Among other things, she aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.

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*

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.