The Librarians

Tuesday, December 16 6:30

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Benefit Screening for The Oakland Literacy Coalition

Thursday, January 15 6pm

Panel discussion with Oakland school library leaders to follow screening

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…MORE INFO

Hundreds of Beavers

Wednesday, December 17 9pm

JEAN KAYAK finds himself stranded in a surreal winter landscape with nothing but his dim wits to guide him. Against a backdrop of ruthless elements and sinister creatures – all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes – KAYAK develops increasingly complex traps in order to win the hand of a mischievous lover…MORE INFO

The Secret Agent

3 Golden Globe nominations including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language, Best Actor, Drama – Wagner Moura

Starts Friday, December 19

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting…MORE INFO

Marty Supreme

3 Golden Globe nominations including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actor, Musical or Comedy – Timothée Chalamet, Best Screenplay – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie

Starts Thursday, December 25

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness…MORE INFO

Cutting Through The Rocks

Monday, January 5 7pm

Q&A with Directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni to follow screening!

Patriarchy reigns in the rural Iranian village where 37 year-old Sara Shahverdi—divorced, childless, and an avid motorcyclist—became the first woman elected to city council. Wife and husband team Khaki and Eyni followed Shahverdi’s journey over eight years, tracking her inspiring, upstream efforts to subvert economic systems and transform local attitudes (of men and women alike) that destine girls to matrimony and dependence…MORE INFO

No Other Choice

3 Golden Globe nominations including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language, Best Actor, Musical or Comedy – Lee Byung-Hun

Starts Friday, January 2

From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years…MORE INFO

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

Starts Friday, January 9

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab…MORE INFO

Is This Thing On?

Starts Friday, January 9

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form…MORE INFO

Arco

Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Animated

Starts Friday, January 30

A magical and beautifully animated journey through time, Arco is a dazzling adventure about a 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a charming and touching friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and along with her trusted robot caretaker Mikki, set out on a quest to get Arco home…MORE INFO