The Little Business Office will be closed Friday, July 3 in observance of Independence Day. (Café and Theatres open regular hours all weekend).
SPECIAL SCREENING | Wednesday, July 1 at 7:30pm | In a powerful story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin re-imagines mothering after being abandoned by her own. While building a new sense of home with her own daughter, she sets out on a journey of discovery.
AMERICA 250 | Thursday, July 2 at 7:00pm | Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), in hot pursuit of a legendary treasure, must steal one of America’s most sacred and guarded documents — the Declaration of Independence — or let it, and a key clue to the mystery, fall into dangerous hands.
LIMITED RUN | FREE | Sunday, July 5; Wednesday, July 8; Monday, July 13 | A documentary film exploring the origin, evolution, and lasting impact of one of Rochester’s most recognizable symbols. From its creation in the 1970s to its place in today’s culture, the City Mark’s simple design became a powerful expression of identity, pride, and belonging.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | LIMITED RUN | Sunday, July 5 – Monday, July 13 | Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project.
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35MM FILM | Seven on 7/7 at 7 | Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives in David Fincher’s “feel-bad” classic.
FILMS + Q&A | Friday, July 10 at 7:30pm | Unstoppable programming, highlighting films created by filmmakers with visible and non-visible disabilities. Co-presented with Move to Include, this program includes the shorts “Talk” and “Contours”, the feature “You Look Fine”, and a Q&A with filmmaker/comedian J Snow.
LIMITED RUN! | JULY 10-12 ONLY | A documentary that explores the life of pioneering songwriter and producer Linda Perry. It’s a story of the strength and resilience of a gifted artist, daughter and mother who is finally able to embark on a search to find her voice.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE | Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July 19 | Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.
AMERICA 250 | Saturday, July 11 at 8pm | In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. Directed by Paul Verhoeven
FOAM, FELT & FROGS | Sunday, July 12 at 3:00pm | While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
STAFF PICKS x THE WACHOWSKIS | Sunday, July 12 at 6:30pm | An epic that spans five centuries, as souls are born and reborn, they renew their bonds to one another throughout time. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent; from the directors of The Matrix Trilogy and Run Lola Run; based on the best-selling book.
ONE TAKE DOCUMENTARY | Friday, July 24 at 7pm & Saturday, July 25 at 3pm | Featuring interviews with her close friends, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her.
LIMITED RUN | July 25-27 | São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin training for their first match. But as the team quickly becomes a media sensation, its members are forced to confront the prejudices of the conservative military dictatorship that they live under.
THE WACHOWSKIS x PRIDE | Saturday, July 25 at 7:30pm | Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet’s crooked boyfriend Caesar. The Wachowskis’ debut feature film.
SPECIAL SCREENING | Sunday, July 26 at 7:00pm | A special showcase of Fleischer Studios Superman cartoon shorts from the early 1940s, newly restored from original 35mm elements. These cartoons were Superman’s first theatrical adventures, and not only created a definitive style but went on to influence comic characters’ animated portrayals.