Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert

Sunday, March 23 1pm
Wednesday, March 26 7pm

Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert captures an extraordinary live performance of some of Zimmer’s most revered compositions, including music from Dune, Gladiator, Interstellar, The Lion King, and much more. Decades of cinematic masterpieces are brought to life by his band and a world-class orchestra at Dubai’s iconic Coca-Cola Arena and beyond. From the dunes of the Arabian Desert, to the heights of the Burj Al Arab, these performances deliver an intimate and unique experience of Zimmer’s most loved and renowned movie soundtracks…MORE INFO

The Way, My Way

Encore added by popular demand!

Monday, March 24 2:30pm

THE WAY, MY WAY is the charming and captivating true story of a stubborn, self-centred Australian man who decides to walk the 800-kilometre-long Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route through Spain. He doesn’t know why he’s doing it… but one step at a time, it will change him and his outlook on life forever. Based on Bill Bennett’s best-selling memoir of the same name….MORE INFO

The Penguin Lessons

Starts Friday, March 28

Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down…MORE INFO

Death of a Unicorn

Starts Friday, March 28

A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties…MORE INFO

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2025

Friday, March 28 – Sunday, March 30

Rialto Cinemas is proud to be the home of the annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival each spring. SDFF brings a diverse array of documentaries from around the world to our screens over the course of a weekend long festival in Sebastopol. Rialto Cinemas is excited to present SDFF’s 2025 slate of world class documentaries…MORE INFO

The Indivisible Sonoma County Film Series presented by Rialto Cinemas

The Manchurian Candidate

Wednesday, April 2 1 & 7pm

Panel discussion to follow 7pm screening!

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot….MORE INFO

ENO

Thursday, April 3 1 & 7pm
Thursday, May 1 7pm

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing more than 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in Eno, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit…MORE INFO

Every Little Thing

Coming Soon!

Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry’s diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. Over the course of director Sally Aitken’s moving documentary, we become deeply invested in baby hummingbirds like Cactus and Wasabi, celebrating their tiny victories and lamenting their tragedies…MORE INFO

A Nice Indian Boy

Starts Friday, April 4

When Naveen (Karan Soni), a soft spoken doctor, finally brings his charming white-artist boyfriend Jay (Jonathan Groff) home to meet his traditional Indian family, misunderstandings and emotional revelations put everyone on edge. Despite facing uncomfortable truths about their own ideas of love and marriage, the family attempts to plan the big Indian wedding of Naveen and Jay’s dreams…MORE INFO

A Minecraft Movie

Starts Friday, April 4

Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison, Henry, Natalie and Dawn—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest…MORE INFO

The Friend

Starts Friday, April 4

Based on the bestselling novel, writer and teacher Iris finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her his beloved 150 lb. Great Dane. The regal yet intractable beast, named Apollo, immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones…MORE INFO

Book Signing and Author Q&A

Giving up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir

Sunday, April 6 3-5pm

Rialto Cinemas welcomes local author Samantha Rose to Sebastopol for the launch of her heartfelt memoir – Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir. Discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. This event is free and open to the public. Samantha Rose is an Emmy award-winning television writer and a New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling ghostwriter whose titles have been selected as Reese’s Book Club and Target Bookmarked Picks and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time and Harper’s Bazaar. She is the principal of Yellow Sky Media, a boutique editorial agency in Petaluma, California.

Jewish Film Festival

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

JFF screening: Tuesday, April 8   1 & 7pm
Starts Friday, April 11

Q&A with Director Varda Kar-Bar following April 8, 7pm screening!

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence chronicles the remarkable journey of the Jewish singer-songwriter Janis Ian, beginning with her teen years when she was a precocious member of the vibrant Greenwich Village folk scene and jammed late at night with such legends as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. In the mid-70s, she ascends to major stardom with such hits as “Stars,” about the transient nature of fame (covered by Nina Simone and Cher) and “Jesse,” the wistful lament of a lonely person waiting for their lover to return home (covered to great success by the R&B singer Roberta Flack and Folk icon Joan Baez)…MORE INFO

The Ballad of Wallis Island

Starts Friday, April 11

Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island, dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig…MORE INFO

Drop

Starts Friday, April 11

A widowed mother’s first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she’s bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner, leaving her questioning if her charming date is behind the harassment…MORE INFO

The Wedding Banquet

Starts Friday, April 18

From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity and family expectations. Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee’s expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant wedding banquet…MORE INFO

PINK FLOYD AT POMPEII – MCMLXXII

Thursday, April 24 7pm
Sunday, April 27 3pm

Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, the iconic 1972 film, now re-mastered in 4K with enhanced audio. Set in the haunting ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheater in Pompeii, it showcases Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert without an audience. The film includes stunning visuals, behind-the-scenes moments, and unforgettable tracks…MORE INFO

Neil Young: Coastal

Thursday, April 17 7pm
Sunday, April 20 1pm

Take a journey with maverick musician Neil Young in this personal, behind-the-scenes doc as he cruises the coast on his recent solo tour. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker and Young’s wife, Daryl Hannah, Coastal offers a glimpse behind the curtain of this unguarded iconoclast, as he navigates a return to the stage…MORE INFO

Dinner & A Movie

Next Dinner April 27: Tampopo

Prior to each screening, 40 guests will enjoy a delicious meal, prepared by James Beard Award winner Michele Anna Jordan and Rialto Cinemas’ kitchen team…

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Jewish Film Festival

Resistance: They Fought Back

Tuesday, April 29   1 & 7pm

We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

Bad Shabbos

Tuesday, May 13   1 & 7pm

When David and his fiance Meg gather for his family’s traditional Shabbat dinner on New York’s Upper West Side, things spiral faster than you can say “hamotzi” when an accidental death (or…murder?) derails the evening entirely. With Meg’s devoutly Catholic parents due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family, soon Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions….MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

All God’s Children

Tuesday, June 10   1 & 7pm

In an unprecedented attempt to heal centuries of racism and antisemitism, and combat the rising racial and ethnic tension in their Brooklyn communities, activist Rabbi Rachel Timoner teams up with Baptist Reverend Robert Waterman to unite their congregations. As their faith is put to the test, both congregations struggle to not let their differences drive them apart…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

UnBroken

Tuesday, July 8   1 & 7pm

UnBroken chronicles the seven Weber siblings who evaded certain capture and death, and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent farmer, the children spent two years on their own in wartorn Germany…MORE INFO