**LAST CHANCE - THU, 4/9!** A MAGNIFICENT LIFE (Sylvain Chomet, 2025, 90min, France/Belgium/Luxembourg, PG-13, Sony Pictures Classics) In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol’s childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: writing. Realizing his memory is failing him and deeply affected by the disappointing results of his last two plays, Pagnol starts doubting his ability to pursue his work. That is until Little Marcel — the young boy he used to be — appears to him as if by magic. Together, they will explore Marcel Pagnol’s incredible life and bring back to life his most cherished encounters and memories...

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?

DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray, 1970, 115min, India, NR, Janus) MON, 4/27 @ 1PM & 7PM Featuring a pre-taped introduction by filmmaker, Wes Anderson! Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale. Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends—Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee), Hari (Samit Bhanja), and Shekhar (Rabi Ghosh)—drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural “tribal lands,” where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family: the soulful yet mischievous Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) takes to the overconfident Ashim, while her widowed sister-in-law Jaya (Kaberi Bose) grows closer to the bookish Sanjoy. At the same time, Hari, fresh off a break-up, woos a Santal girl named Duli (Simi Garewal); and Shekhar, despite his own penchant for gambling, tries to rein in his companions’ boozy hedonism. Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), Days and Nights in the Forest touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak. Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by the Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.

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

FANTASY LIFE (Matthew Shear, 2025, 91min, United States, R, Greenwich Entertainment) An anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters and falls for the girls' mother (Amanda Peet), an actress in a rocky marriage. A smart, New York-set romantic comedy co-starring Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, Zosia Mamet, and Holland Taylor. Winner of the SXSW Narrative Feature Audience Award. Fantasy Life is a New York comedy that was conceived from my years working as a “manny” for Manhattan families while I navigated mental health problems. My character, Sam, and the kids’ mom (whom he pines for), Dianne, played by Amanda Peet, both have chronic mood disorders. To describe these characters, I drew on my history with depression and anxiety as honestly as possible; and I was eager to challenge the mental health narratives that always get on my nerves (namely hyper-tragic stories tackling suicide or hospitalization or the Joker). I sought to find drama in the more personal, everyday comic aspects of living with a mental illness. While Sam is loosely based on me, Dianne’s struggles are very different from my own. She’s an independently wealthy mother of three girls. Her husband (Alessandro Nivola) is off on a big world tour just as her acting career has halted. She’s not working, but she’s also not doing the bulk of the child care. I became fascinated by the vulnerability of her languishing career, her wealth, her mothering. Dianne’s world became an engrossing foil for Sam’s millennial burnout for me; and when a romantic spark emerged, their shared isolation revealed a funny, awkward and useful refuge for them both. Also, Dianne’s family—her husband, kids, and their grandparents—comprise an inter- generational cast of Jewish New Yorkers (ages 6-89) who complicate Dianne and Sam’s relationship at every turn. This extended family includes some true masters of film comedy like Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, and Judd Hirsch. Their warm, effortless performances bring out a cultural rhythm and wise comic edge that is eerily, and touchingly, my own family’s special hysteria. In the end, there’s a sad, joyful way in which this intergenerational family story is a fulfillment of the post-war Jewish American fantasy (one gestated by ages of toiling people). They’ve got money, education, good psychiatric care, a brownstone… what else do they need? I hope Fantasy Life is a fun, resonant portrait of these characters in their complicated modern reality. – Matthew Shear

KOKUHO (Lee Sang-il, 2025, 175min, Japan, NR, GKIDS) OFFICIAL SUBMISSION - JAPAN - BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE - 98th ACADEMY AWARDS Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be eventually taken in by a kabuki theater actor. He experiences turbulent times, but his talent as a kabuki actor blossoms. For three years Shuichi Yoshida served as a kabuki stage assistant, and he used that personal behind-the-scenes experience in order to write his masterpiece Kokuho. This grand biography covers 50 years of the life of the protagonist, Kikuo, as he strives to dedicate his life to the arts.

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.

PALESTINE 36 (Annemarie Jacir, 2025, 115min, Palestine, NR, Watermelon Pictures) OFFICIAL SUBMISSION - PALESTINE - BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE - 98th ACADEMY AWARDS Palestine, 1936. The uprising that took on an Empire. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain's 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.

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.

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.

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.

**LAST CHANCE - THU, 4/9!** THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST (Daniel Roher/Charlie Tyrell, 2026, 103min, United States, PG-13, Focus Features) From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong. THE FEATURE PRESENTATION CONATAINS SEQUENCES OF FLASHING LIGHTS THAT MAY AFFECT VIEWERS WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY OR OTHER PHOTOSENSITIVITIES.

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.

YANUNI (Richard Ladkani, 2025, 112min, Germany/Brazil, NR) MON, 4/20 @ 1PM & 7PM YANUNI follows the extraordinary journey of Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon, as she rises from a remote village in Xipaya territory to the political frontlines of climate justice. A fearless defender of her people and the rainforest, Juma has survived six assassination attempts while confronting illegal gold miners, land-grabbers, and multinational corporations threatening her ancestral land. Spanning years of activism and personal sacrifice, the film captures Juma’s historic appointment as Brazil’s first Secretary of Indigenous Rights under President Lula. At her side is Hugo Loss, her husband and the head of Special Operations at IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental protection agency. As Juma fights on the political front, Hugo leads dangerous operations to dismantle illegal mining camps deep in the Amazon—often under armed threat. When Juma discovers she is pregnant, her battle takes on new urgency. Navigating impending motherhood, rising political responsibility, and Hugo’s high-risk missions, she is forced to confront the personal cost of resistance. Told with intimate access and cinematic urgency, YANUNI is both a love story and a call to action. It illuminates one of the world’s most critical environmental and human rights struggles through a deeply personal lens. At once epic and intimate, YANUNI is a powerful portrait of resilience, Indigenous sovereignty, and the fight to protect the world’s largest rainforest—for future generations and the planet we call home.

YOU GOT GOLD: A CELEBRATION OF JOHN PRINE (Michael John Warren, 2025, 90min, United States, NR Abramorama) MON, 5/18 @ 1PM & 7PM "You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine" captures a star-studded tribute to the legendary songwriter, filmed in October 2022 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. The event brought together acclaimed artists, friends, and family to share behind-the-scenes stories and perform classic songs, honoring Prine's enduring legacy. Prine, widely celebrated as one of history's greatest songwriters, captivated millions of fans and earned the admiration of icons such as Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Isbell, and Bob Weir, amongst many others, are featured in the film performing on the Ryman stage for this special celebration of his life and music.