Miss Representation: Rise Up

Thursday, November 5 6:30pm

Conversation to follow the film with special guests!

Over a decade after Miss Representation exposed the media’s contribution to the under-representation of women in leadership, MISS REPRESENTATION: RISE UP dives deep into the cultural backlash against women’s agency and power…MORE INFO

Wild Horse Nine

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways…MORE INFO

Godzilla Minus Zero

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant…MORE INFO

In Japanese with English Subtitles

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. For four hours, this extraordinary group – many of whom had not seen each other in fifty years – reminisced, critiqued, argued, laughed and drank while wrestling with their place in a rapidly shifting cultural landscape…MORE INFO

La Bola Negra

At the cusp of the Spanish Civil War, a young man confronts his ideology and sexuality as he is conscripted into the fascist army where he becomes fascinated by a prisoner of war. Another young man in pre-dictatorship Spain finds himself blackballed from his father’s prestigious social club due to rumours about his sexuality. Finally, a young gay historian manoeuvres through his complicated family history and a unique inheritance decades after the dictatorship has ended…MORE INFO

In Spanish with English Subtitles

The Cat in the Hat

Known for taking things too far, The Cat in the Hat has one chance to prove himself and cheer up two siblings (and their curmudgeonly goldfish) after a move, without making a mess. With his imagination, heart, some childhood dreams and a Thing or 3, the Cat aims to pull off the impossible…MORE INFO

The Indivisible Sonoma County Film Series presented by Rialto Cinemas

The Great Dictator

Wednesday, November 11 1 & 7pm

Panel discussion to follow 7pm screening!

In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him…MORE INFO

The Dads

Presented by OUTwatch and Rialto Cinemas

Thursday, November 12 1 & 6:30pm

As anti-trans legislation and hostility escalate in the United States, a group of dads, building a nascent movement to support their trans and gender expansive kids, are forced to make an impossible choice: stay and fight or flee the country…MORE INFO

Being Heumann

Starts Friday, November 13

All Shows Presented with Open Captions!

In 1977, a young disabled woman (Ruth Madeley) and a scrappy coalition of outsiders decide they’ve had enough. What begins as one impulsive act becomes the longest occupation of a federal building in American history, as hundreds spontaneously seize government offices and refuse to leave until the bureaucrat in their way (Mark Ruffalo) takes action…MORE INFO

How to Rob A Bank

Starts Friday, November 13

A crew of social media-savvy bank robbers broadcasts their daring heists, unaware that their growing viral fame has put them in the crosshairs of a veteran FBI agent and a brilliant software engineer. Despite the unlikely duo closing in, the crime ring pushes past their limits, putting everything on the line for their beliefs — and their most ambitious heist yet…MORE INFO

Ebenezer

Starts Friday, November 13

A thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, following one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future as he fights for a second chance at redemption…MORE INFO

Jewish Film Festival

We Met at Grossinger’s

Tuesday, November 17   1 & 6:30pm

We Met at Grossinger’s is an immersive journey through the Jewish Catskills—once known as the Borscht Belt—reviving the iconic resort that inspired Dirty Dancing and defined an era of Jewish American life. Throughout decades of prejudice stifling the integration of Jewish immigrants in America, the Borscht Belt in the Catskills provided an oasis of belonging, and Grossinger’s Resort and Hotel was the crown jewel…MORE INFO

I Play Rocky

Starts Friday, November 20

I PLAY ROCKY is an electrifying true story about an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn’t just meant to write Rocky–he was meant to be Rocky Balboa. Told “no” at every turn, Sylvester Stallone bets everything on himself, holding the line on playing the lead against seemingly impossible odds. The result is the ultimate underdog story behind the ultimate underdog movie…MORE INFO

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Starts Friday, November 20

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell…MORE INFO

Hexed

Starts Wednesday, November 25

In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ all-new magical coming-of-age saga, “Hexed,” an impulsive and unconventional teenage girl named Billie discovers secret magical abilities which, once unleashed, hurtle her into a spectacle-filled journey out of suburbia and into a vast witch realm called Hexe. Forced to team up with her cautious mother, Alice, they uncover family mysteries that could change the world of witches forever…MORE INFO

Paper Tiger

Starts Wednesday, November 25

In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences…MORE INFO

Focker-in-Law

Starts Wednesday, November 25

Greg Focker’s son, Henry, brings his girlfriend, a trained FBI hostage negotiator, home to meet the family. Greg soon gets worried when Henry tells everyone that he plans to propose to her…MORE INFO

The Indivisible Sonoma County Film Series presented by Rialto Cinemas

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Wednesday, December 2 1 & 7pm

Panel discussion to follow 7pm screening!

The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol. The film shows how Charles Dickens mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today…MORE INFO

Elsinore

Starts Friday, December 4

The deeply emotional and inspirational true story of Ian Charleson, a gifted actor whose greatest challenge becomes his greatest triumph. Facing his own mortality with unflinching honesty, wit, and grace, Charleson delivers a courageous performance that becomes a source of healing and inspiration for those around him…MORE INFO

Club Kid

Starts Friday, December 4

For Peter Green (Jordan Firstman), a promoter and purveyor of… shall we say… stimulating party favours in the queer New York club scene, the party never stops. Each revelry blurs into the next, with restraint and responsibility perpetually foisted upon others, especially his fed-up business partner Sophie (Cara Delevingne) But on the precipice of losing another decade to the rhythm of the night, reality bites in the form of his surprise parentage to 10-year-old Arlo (Reggie Absolom), the result of a half-remembered hookup…MORE INFO

Behemoth!

Starts Friday, December 4

A gifted cellist, Alex Serian (Pedro Pascal), returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the constant, all-consuming river of his life, begins to carry Alex on an adventure that will change him forever…MORE INFO

Ray Gunn

Starts Friday, December 4

In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova…MORE INFO

Ink

Starts Friday, December 11

An explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of news — one that would give the people what they want and would change the face of the world we live in today. Based on the Tony Award-winning play of the same name…MORE INFO

The Debut

Starts Friday, December 18

When Mona Friedman is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director…MORE INFO

Dune: Part 3

Starts Friday, December 18

Dune: Part Three is set nearly two decades after Paul Atreides seized control of the Imperium. Now a ruthless Emperor, Paul must face the consequences of his reign as old allies return, terrifying new threats emerge, and betrayal lurks in every shadow. Haunted by visions of Imperial collapse and the reappearance of his long-lost love, Paul is drawn into a sweeping conspiracy, with Chani at the heart of its unfolding mystery…MORE INFO

Avengers: Doomsday

Starts Friday, December 18

Universes collide and the Multiverse Saga begins its final chapter in Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday. Beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and ultimately face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered. This epic film will lay the foundation for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe…MORE INFO

Werwulf

Starts Friday, December 25

England, 1305. A mute medieval peasant, haunted by childhood trauma, leads a quiet life raising a family on their farm, but with each full moon, he’s cursed to transform into a murderous werewolf. When a hunting party, charged by the king to cull the land of wolves, arrives and forces our man to join them, he struggles to conceal his transformation…MORE INFO

Jumanji: Open World

Starts Friday, December 25

Our heroes have escaped the ever-changing jungles of Jumanji before, but this time the game comes to us — as Jumanji breaks free of its console, unleashing its chaos into our world…MORE INFO