HIGH FALLS WOMEN IN FILM | Wednesday, April 5 at 7:30pm | Theatre 5 | During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
FREE screening | Monday, Jan. 29 at 6:30pm | Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold.
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Thursday, February 1 at 7:00pm | Director Ava DuVernay’s newest film, about author Isabel Wilkerson writing her seminal book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” about the unspoken system that has shaped America and defined lives by a hierarchy of human divisions.
STAFF PICKS | Monday, June 12 at 7:15pm | The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen.
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Saturday, June 17 at 8pm | The Dude abides, but don’t mess with the rug, man (it really ties the room together). This quotable Coen Brothers 1998 classic celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special Little screening. Wear your best bowling shoes.
HIGH FALLS WOMEN IN FILM | Wednesday, May 24 at 7:30pm | Theatre 5 | As cancer spreads, Noelia’s decides to return to her native Puerto Rico to claim freedom.
STAFF PICKS | Monday, February 12 at 7:30pm | Picked by Katie G. | Little Popcorn, but designed as a triumphant “Z”
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7:15pm + Saturday, Feb. 17 | Filmmaker Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time.
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Thursday, June 22 at 7:30pm | A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
JAMES BALDWIN CENTENNIAL | Thursday, February 22 at 7:30pm | In early 1970s Harlem, Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo “Fonny.” Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together, but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.
50 YEARS OF HIP-HOP | Friday, February 23 at 7:30pm | Based on the inception of the Def Jam Recordings label and the challenges that artists Run-D.M.C. and Russell Simmons faced on their path to become successful. Starring Blair Underwood, Shelia E, and LL Cool J.
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Saturday, February 24 at 8pm | During a visit to Transylvania, an African prince (William Marshall) gets turned into a vampire by Count Dracula. Sealed in a coffin for several lifetimes, “Blacula” reawakens in 1970s Los Angeles, and begins pursuing a women bearing a striking resemblance to his dead wife, leaving a trail of bloodless victims in his wake.
INDIE LENS POP-UP | Monday, February 26 | Frustrated by the lack of representation in the media, a group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists launched The 19th*, a digital news startup whose work is guided by elevating the voices often left out of the American story.
INDIE LENS POP-UP | Monday, March 27 | Theatre 5 | The rollercoaster life story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder.
HIGH FALLS WOMEN IN FILM | Wednesday, June 14 at 7:30pm | Theatre 5 | An aspiring black lesbian filmmaker researches an obscure 1940s black actress billed as the Watermelon Woman.