I Walked with a Zombie
Jacques Tourneur, 1943, United States, 69 mins
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she’s fallen in love with.
Eve's Bayou
Kasi Lemmons, 1997, USA, 116 min
Kasi Lemmons made a splash with one of the most distinctive directorial debuts of the 1990s, a richly atmospheric, Southern Gothic stew of sex, lies, and voodoo in which a young girl witnesses secrets and deceptions tearing her wealthy Louisiana family apart. A primordial American blend of Creole folklore, magic, and mysticism, Eve’s Bayou provides a scintillating showcase for a powerhouse ensemble of Black actresses.
FEM-N-NEM Presents: Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
Join FEM-N-NEM for the screening of 'Bodies, Bodies, Bodies' October 16th from 8-12 AM. Enjoy refreshments, sweet treats, and do the monster mash after credits with DJ Heaven Above. Doesn't this scream sapphic?
General Itinerary:
8 PM- Doors
*8:30 PM- Movie screening (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies- 1 hr 35 mins)
10 PM- Monster mash! (Music for event goers to mingle and dance to)
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
Halina Reijn, 2022, USA, 94 min
In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a “killer” while the rest tries to “escape”. Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.
A Bigger Splash
Jack Hazan, 1973, UK, 106 mins
Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. Titled after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash'.
Sound and Fury
Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1988, France, 95 min
Bruno is 14. When his grandmother dies, he returns to Bagnolet with his mother who is rarely there. At school he meets Jean-Roger, who introduces him to a group of delinquents.
Black Zombie
Maya Annik Bedward, 2026, Canada, 93 mins
Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried and unsettling origins. Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery: not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power. A symbol of stolen agency was recast as an object of fear, while Black spiritual traditions were distorted, sensationalized, and erased. Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, reconsidering iconic films like White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, and The Serpent and the Rainbow alongside archival footage, vérité scenes, and interviews with cultural historians, artists, and genre legends including Yves-Grégory Francois, Mambo Labelle Déesse, Slash, Tom Savini, and Zandashé Brown. Part cultural reckoning, part horror remix, Black Zombie exposes how a figure born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance was transformed into one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters.
Coherence
Featuring a pre-recorded Q&A with director James Ward Byrkit moderated by programmer Simon Pruitt
James Ward Byrkit, 2013, UK, 89 min
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
Drinking and Driving
Avalon Fast, Jillian Frank, 2026, Canada, 105 min
Early twenties Iris (Jillian Frank) and Palmer (Avalon Fast) never left their hometown. They work at the same restaurant, share the same bed, and both have a habit of drinking and driving. They run into Levi (Ethan Hawksworth), a guy they used to know. They spend time with him and his cousin, Phoenix (Henri Gillespi), in cars, backyards, and other people's bedrooms. When Levi shares a dream he had with Iris things change between the four of them. The reality of the summer becomes faded, the parties die. The four end in a field of unified confusion.
Breached: A Chronicle of Cargo Theft + Machine in Flames
BREACHED: A CHRONICLE OF CARGO THEFT
Thomas Dekeyser, Andrew Culp, 2024, USA, 15 min
Freight train robberies grabbed headlines in late 2021. Amidst a supply chain crisis, stark images of train tracks strewn with Amazon packages went viral. Consumers, awaiting delayed orders, spotted their items among the sea of cardboard. To reassure anxious shoppers, California’s governor joined the cleanup, while rail companies spent millions on added security.
Breached asks: What makes container freight so sacred yet so vulnerable?
The story is told from the POV of a local worker, drawn from his diary. His alienated existence unravels when he witnesses the robbers in action. A hidden landscape of logistics, infrastructure, and surveillance snaps into focus, both violent and fragile. The turning point comes when he trains himself to read the landscape like a looter, discovering a way to channel his disaffection into a strike against capitalist ideology.
MACHINE IN FLAMES
Thomas Dekeyser, Andrew Culp, 2022, USA, 50 min
A cinematic search for the elusive group CLODO, who bombed computer companies in 1980s Toulouse, France. Journeying through the cybernetic nodes of military, industrial, and socialist development, the film exposes how recording devices fail to collect the ashes of history. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and paranoid footage of nocturnal stakeouts into a philosophical investigation of self-combustion.
The film is the debut work of the Destructionist International, and the first in a series of films on the appetite for abolition in ultra-leftism. It was first distributed through a network of self-erasing USB data sticks dropped outside corporate campuses.
Fangs (1981)
All proceeds of this screening will be going to Dahnoun Mutual Aid, a group of grassroots organizers led entirely by Palestinians inside and outside of Gaza working to provide life sustaining aid to the people of Gaza.
Mohammed Shebl, 1981, Egypt, 100 min
Egypt’s answer to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this delirious musical-horror oddity follows two innocent lovers who stumble into a nightclub of disco-dancing vampires, rock ‘n’ roll numbers, and campy bloodsucking mayhem. Cairo meets Transylvania in a cult curio that’s equal parts satire, singalong, and surreal nightmare. Mohammed Shebl’s 1981 adaptation isn’t just a cult classic, Fangs (Anyab) is also an astute commentary on the Egyptian socio-political climate all wrapped up in disco, glam, and vampire fangs! -- Cultpix
Chained For Life
Aaron Schimberg, 2018, USA, 91 min
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Requiem For A Vampire | MIDNIGHT MASS
HALLOWEEN MIDNIGHT MASS
Jean Rollin, 1972, France, 65 min
Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants.
Withdrawal (2025)
Featuring a live in-person Q&A with writer/director/editor Aaron Strand!
Aaron Strand, 2025, USA, 93 min
Artistic lovers Viv and Jay are trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addiction. When Viv's wealthy parents hire an interventionist to take her to rehab, the couple decides to go it alone with nothing but a suboxone prescription and each other. All they have to do is survive one harrowing night of withdrawal. As the hours tick by, physical, mental, and emotional torments send them searching through fractured memories, trying to figure out where it all went wrong.
Raw, unflinching, and surprisingly funny, Withdrawal was shot on miniDV in Athens, GA for a budget of $60k. Winner of 12 awards on the festival circuit including Best Feature/Best Director at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and Best Actress at the Kanazawa Film Festival.
Withdrawal is now touring independent cinemas and art spaces across North America.
"The best film about addiction since ‘Requiem for a Dream’” - Film Threat
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Herk Harvey, 1962, USA, 78 mins
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.
Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Don Sigel, 1956, USA, 85 mins
Something evil has taken possession of the small town of Santa Mira, California. Hysterical people accuse their loved ones of being emotionless impostors; of not being themselves. At first, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) tries to convince them they’re wrong…but they’re not. Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Earth, replicating the villagers in giant seed “pods” and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. Soon the entire town is overwhelmed by the inhuman horror, but it won’t stop there. In a terrifying race for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people!
Sunday Symposium Presents: Contempt (1963)
Featuring an extended introduction from Sunday Symposium (filmmaker Daniel Laabs).
Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, France, 103 min
Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the behind-the-camera struggles of a director (Fritz Lang) and producer (Jack Palance) as they film an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
River Shell Presents: O Fantasma
Artist River Shell presents this screening in conjunction of their current gallery exhibit, "The Dust is Here to Stay", at Tureen which ends on October 3rd.
Joao Pedro Rodrigues, 2000, Portugal, 87 mins
An unusual, ultra-kinky story from Portugal tells of Sergio, a Lisbon trash collector who enjoys anonymous rough sex with both women and men in bathrooms and the backseats of cars. A control freak, Sergio usually gets what he wants, but when one handsome young man doesn't respond to his advances, he goes off the deep end, taking his obsession to kinkier heights.
From the Other Side
Co-partnering with Party for Socialism and Liberation DFW & Latin American Film Festival of Dallas and will feature a post-screening discussion.
Chantal Akerman, 2002, France, Spanish and French with English subtitles, 99 min.
Following her study of the crumbling Soviet Union landscape in 1993’s D’est, De l’autre côté (From the other side) finds Akerman shifting her focus to the border that divides the US and Mexico. Here, Akerman’s compassionate and curious gaze generously listens to the story of Mexicans journeying to cross the border. Shot nearly 25 years ago, this chilling portrait of migration remains an insightful rumination on the borders that divide us.
Mayabazar Presents: Gol Maal (1979)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 1979, India,
When circumstances at work compel Ram to pretend to have a twin, his lie works -- until the boss wants his daughter to marry Ram’s fictitious brother.
Macho Dancer
Lino Brocka, 1998, Philippines, 136 mins
Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol (Allan Paule) leaves the provinces to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Metro Manila. Pol learns the ropes alongside fellow stripper Noel (Daniel Fernando) and savvy prostitute Bambi (Jaclyn Jose), discovering an underbelly of protection rackets, human trafficking and rampant political corruption.
One of Lino Brocka’s lasting successes, 1988’s MACHO DANCER combines a flair for socially conscious melodrama with pulp provocation, setting the template for what would become Viva Films’ erotic niche to this day. Underlying the film’s astute, cynical outlook on systemic, class-based exploitation in the Philippines is a neon-lit tale of self-discovery gyrating between queer desire and heteronormativity, sensuality and street-level grit, tenderness and violence. Heavily censored upon release and hugely successful overseas, MACHO DANCER follows the recent re-discovery of Brocka’s Bona and is presented here in a new 4K restoration from Viva Film’s original film elements.
Endless Summer Syndrome
Kaveh Daneshmand, 2023, France, 98 min
The mother of two adopted children's sense of duty takes a macabre turn when she learns that her husband may be having an affair with one of their kids.
Queer Poetry Night
Are you queer and/or trans? Do you have a poem or short story you're working on?
Come to our free queer reading starting at 7pm for folks to share original poetry, stories, etc
(Every participant will have a five minute time limit on their work just to be respectful of everyone else who wants to share their work)
Take Care of My Cat
Sept 9th 7:30pm
Sept 25th 8pm
Jeong Jae-eun, 2001, South Korea, 112 min
A sleeper hit at the time of its release, Jeong Jae-eun’s perceptive debut Take Care of My Cat chronicles the lives of five graduating friends whose bonds begin to fracture as they contend with their share of squashed dreams and unequal opportunities. Director Jeong sets the lives of her protagonists (among them Bae Doona and Lee Yo-won in breakout roles) against the industrial backdrop of Incheon, a port city adjacent to Seoul and bearing the brunt of South Korea’s ruthless globalization efforts. In the doing, her film expands to accommodate notions of class, solidarity and privilege – in what is now a timeless snapshot of a rapidly evolving society. Alternately bleak and sunny, realistic and effortlessly cool, suffused with the joys of girlhood yet clear-eyed about the uneasy transition into adulthood, Take Care of My Cat offers a tender and a multi-faceted portrait of young women at the turn of the new millennium.
Nature of Things Presents: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Screening in collaboration with gallery Nature of Things for their current exhibit "Crying Is Just Wet Laughter" until September 27th located at 3002A Commerce St. Dallas, TX 75226
Mike Nichols, USA, 1966, 131 mins
Edward Albee’s astounding journey into the hell of a stormy marriage blazes with powerhouse performances by Oscar winners Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis, and Oscar nominees Richard Burton and George Segal. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, this taut and explosive drama is filled with suspense and a searing tension that is as compelling and riveting as any film ever to hit the cinema.
In The Land of Fish and Honey
Featuring a pre-recorded intro from directors John Ledingham & JP Meldrum!
John Ledingham, JP Meldrum, 2025, Canada, 102 mins
A mute man searches for fish and honey at the behest of a cynical carnivoran with the help of ultra-Canadian strangers against the backdrop of the vast and desolate forest-cityscape of Victoria, BC.
A unique alchemy of slow cinema, regional horror, colourful JRPGs, and Walden, In The Land of Fish and Honey is as sinister as it is hilarious. The landscapes engulf our hungry boy as he befriends local weirdoes, paws at the water, and confronts the creature in the woods telling him what to do. Co-writers/directors John Ledingham and JP Meldrum (who also stars in a fearless, mysterious performance) make the most of their $0 budget to conjure an idiosyncratic horror comedy atmosphere totally their delirious own. A studio movie could never reach these strange heights!
SIMILAR: Yakuza: Like A Dragon, the films of Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, James Benning
LAFFD Film Club Presents: Dias de Otoño (1963)
FREE SCREENING!
Roberto Gavaldón, 1963, Mexico, 93 min
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
FREE SCREENING! Co-presented with Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Ivan Dixon, 1973, USA, 102 min
One of the most radical, revolutionary statements in film history, Ivan Dixon’s explosive adaptation of the novel by Sam Greenlee follows the fictional first Black CIA agent (Cook), who uses his specialized training to build a guerrilla army intent on government overthrow. So potent is the film’s call to revolution that it was pulled from theaters within days of opening.
Phantom Beirut
Ghassan Salhab, 1998, Lebanon, 120 minutes
“A poem to a beloved city and its people” – Variety
Lebanon at the end of the 80s. Ghassan Salhab’s debut follows Khalil as he returns to Beirut under a new identity, forced to confront the old friends and comrades he left behind following his faked death a decade earlier. Phantom Beirut is a haunting exploration of the official silences and collective amnesias that stalk the lives of those who live through conflict.
Open Doom Crescendo
Following the screening will be a live virtual Q&A with the director Terry Chiu moderated by writer Erik Reeds.
Terry Chiu, 2022, Canada, 175 mins
An experimental Tokusatsu-flavored fantasy epic. The three-hour film follows a lo-fi storytelling aesthetic that pushes the boundaries of independent creation. Proceeds from this screening support director Terry Chiu’s crowdfunding campaign for his upcoming feature, A.A.A. LOVE WILL REIGN AGAIN.
In the destroyed present, the aggressively badass Keikei (Xinkun Dai) and her lackadaisical white-shirted pal Rev (Ging Yu Kei) wander the wasteland looking for their friend Spike (Matias Rittatore), in between running into the confrontational Lady Moondrift (Pei Yao Xu) and her Candy Ass Kickers (They kick candy ass!!!), or the deadly Psycho on The Radio - whose kill count is like into the 900s - with the promise that one day, they'll get all the answers to their problems from the Embodiment of Angst.
RIYL: End of Evangelion, 2000s Adult Swim, the Nostalgia Critic movies, Shaw Bros., Shunji Iwai's Swallowtail Butterfly
Fragrance Swap
Find your new signature scent for the Fall 🍂
Be sure to bring all your unwanted perfumes and wishlisted to buy/sell/trade this Sept 17th 7-10pm! Free to attend // No RSVP needed
No perfumes? No problem! We have a show & tell table with raw materials alongside the buy/sell/trade table
Niche/designer/local/samples/full bottles? We want it all!
We'll be playing experimental shorts in the background to enhance your sniffing journey
Alipato at Muog
JL Burgos , 2024, Philippines, 96 min
The abduction of Jonas Burgos in 2007 was brazen—carried out at noon in a crowded mall. As his family launched their search, a car plate brought them face-to-face with powerful forces. Thus began their fight for justice.
Despite insurmountable barriers, anonymous informants have provided leads and even the last known photo of Jonas in captivity. At the forefront of this battle is Edita, his 80-year-old mother, and her other son, filmmaker JL Burgos.
Presented through testimonials from their lawyer, a reporter, a former Justice Secretary and Human Rights Commission Chair, and witnesses who agreed to appear on condition of anonymity, combined with animation and never-before-seen footage of the family’s relentless search, JL pieces the stories together to uncover the painful truths about his brother’s disappearance.
Castration Movie Anthology III: Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
Louise Weard, Canada, 2026, 126 min (with built-in intermission)
Castration Movie is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard. In Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift, Izzy (Avalon Fast) seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner (Henri Gillespi) from transitioning.
Selected Reviews for Castration Movie Anthology i. and ii.:
"Rejects conventional wisdom around representational politics, form or even what a movie is." - Sight and Sound
“As daring and revolutionary an indie film as any crafted this decade.” - William Bibbiani, The Wrap
“Castration Movie mixes Cassavetes-level rawness, a dazed Warholian languor and quotable banter worthy of Kevin Smith… With its scenes of unsimulated sex, water-sports, self-harm and the graphic aftermath of surgery, Castration Movie’s list of trigger warnings is longer than some films’ scripts.” - Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian
“Castration Movie holds the shimmering promise of what cinema can be now, when multiplex fare has entered its moribund final act and fascism is tightening its grip on dissent, free expression, and the rights of the vulnerable. Great films about real things made on the margins are evermore essential, and this is a great film.” - Chris Shields, Screen Slate
“It's so painful and good that I can only bear to watch it in like, fifteen minute increments while pacing around the room in psychic discomfort” - Torrey Peters (author, Detransition, Baby)
“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” - Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, Manhunt)
“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” - Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film)
“Watching Castration Movie got me so hyped for the future of film.” - Morgan M. Page (writer, Framing Agnes)
“Castration Movie is cinema, everything else is mere filmmaking!” - Theda Hammel (filmmaker, Stress Positions)
Winner of the 2025 Frameline Audience Award
Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds
Louise Weard, Canada, 2025, 300 min (with built-in intermission)
Castration Movie is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard.The second part of Castration Movie (running 300 minutes with an intermission) contains one chapter:
In Chapter iii. Polygon!!!! Heartmoder, Circle (Lex Walton) tries to leave a trans separatist cult in New York.
Selected Reviews for Castration Movie Anthology i.:
“As daring and revolutionary an indie film as any crafted this decade.” - William Bibbiani, The Wrap
“Castration Movie mixes Cassavetes-level rawness, a dazed Warholian languor and quotable banter worthy of Kevin Smith… With its scenes of unsimulated sex, water-sports, self-harm and the graphic aftermath of surgery, Castration Movie’s list of trigger warnings is longer than some films’ scripts.” - Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian
“Castration Movie holds the shimmering promise of what cinema can be now, when multiplex fare has entered its moribund final act and fascism is tightening its grip on dissent, free expression, and the rights of the vulnerable. Great films about real things made on the margins are evermore essential, and this is a great film.” - Chris Sheilds, Screen Slate
“It's so painful and good that I can only bear to watch it in like, fifteen minute increments while pacing around the room in psychic discomfort” - Torrey Peters (author, Detransition, Baby)
“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” - Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, Manhunt)
“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” - Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film)
“Watching Castration Movie got me so hyped for the future of film.” - Morgan M. Page (writer, Framing Agnes)
“Castration Movie is cinema, everything else is mere filmmaking!” - Theda Hammel (filmmaker, Stress Positions)
Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps
Louise Weard, Canada, 2024, 275 min (with built-in intermission)
Castration Movie is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard. Anthology i. Traps contains two chapters. In Chapter i. Incel Superman, a production assistant named Turner Stewart (Noah Baker) sees his world spiral out of control as he uncompromisingly attempts to shape his life into the one he feels he deserves. In Chapter ii. Traps Swan Princess, a trans sex worker named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (Louise Weard) finds her relationships becoming increasingly strained as she decides to pursue motherhood.
Written and directed by Louise Weard, Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps features a cast headlined by Louise Weard (Computer Hearts), Vera Drew (The People's Joker), Alice Maio Mackay (The Serpent’s Skin), Avalon Fast (Camp), John Paizs (Crime Wave), Lea Rose Sebastianis (In a Violent Nature), and Nate Wilson (The All Golden), amongst a mix of other emerging talent and weird and wonderful cameos.
Niu Lai (SOLD OUT)
Free screening presented by Haters Cafe!
Xin Yumeng, 2026, China, 86 mins
The naive calf Niu Lai loves exploring the grasslands, but struggles to live up to his family’s expectations as future leader of the herd. With migration fast approaching, Niu Lai finds unlikely allies on his journey to learn the meaning of courage as they prepare for a dangerous trek across the desert.
Take Care of My Cat
Sept 9th 7:30pm
Sept 25th 8pm
Jeong Jae-eun, 2001, South Korea, 112 min
A sleeper hit at the time of its release, Jeong Jae-eun’s perceptive debut Take Care of My Cat chronicles the lives of five graduating friends whose bonds begin to fracture as they contend with their share of squashed dreams and unequal opportunities. Director Jeong sets the lives of her protagonists (among them Bae Doona and Lee Yo-won in breakout roles) against the industrial backdrop of Incheon, a port city adjacent to Seoul and bearing the brunt of South Korea’s ruthless globalization efforts. In the doing, her film expands to accommodate notions of class, solidarity and privilege – in what is now a timeless snapshot of a rapidly evolving society. Alternately bleak and sunny, realistic and effortlessly cool, suffused with the joys of girlhood yet clear-eyed about the uneasy transition into adulthood, Take Care of My Cat offers a tender and a multi-faceted portrait of young women at the turn of the new millennium.
Partners
Free Labor Day screening!
Chris Sessions, 2025, USA, 39 min
When a group of baristas in Buffalo, New York announce their intention to start a labor union, Starbucks responds with an elaborate, illegal anti-union attack. Featuring on-the-ground footage from workers and organizers, Partners takes us to the front lines of the historic union campaign that catalyzed America’s Gen Z labor revival.
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Absent Silhouette
Free screening! Followed by a post-screening Q&A with director and cast.
Byron Neal, 2026, USA, 10 min
Some shadows belong to us, where sorrow becomes the only companion left a dreamlike portrait of akhira unraveling beneath the weight of her own reflection. A meditation on loneliness, transformation, and the haunting spaces between memory and identity. As she descends into the depths of her own solitude, akhira is forced to confront the ghost within herself, a reflection of forgotten memories, buried desires, and the eternal struggle to find meaning in one's own existence.
Dreams in Nightmares
Post-screening mixer and DJ set featuring the folks of FEM N NEM! 9-10:30pm
Shatara Michelle Ford, USA, 2024, 120 min
Three Black queer femmes hit the road in search of a missing friend, unraveling truths and tensions along the way. Director Shatara Michelle Ford (TEST PATTERN) centers joy in a world in this defiant treatise for living.
“Shatara Michelle Ford borrows from and remixes the road movie to construct a vision of Black femmes finding peace.”
—The Hollywood Reporter
Shades of Silk (Ombres de soie)
Mary Stephen, 1978, Canada/France, 62 minutes
Mary Stephen, perhaps best known as Eric Rohmer’s editor, made her feature debut in 1978 with the alluring Ombres de soie [Shades of Silk], which traces the relationship between two Chinese women in Shanghai in the 1930s.
“An astounding low-budget achievement (in which 1970s Paris passes for 1930s Shanghai), this entrancing film evokes the Marguerite Duras of India Song, which is no accident: Stephen explicitly wished for Ombres de soie to be a counterpoint to India Song, from an Asian woman’s point of view. ” – New York Film Festival
Chaser (2026)
Live post-screening virtual Q&A with director Jesse Williams! Moderated by programmer Athenna Jey
North American premiere!
Jesse Williams, United Kingdom, 2026, 10 min
A trans woman on a night out crosses paths with a charming stranger, but he may not have her best interest at heart.
Mayabazar Presents: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
FREE SCREENING!
Co-presented with Mayabazar
Aditya Chopra, 2008, India, 167 mins
A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman.
Black Chariot
Robert Goodwin, 1971, USA, 90 mins
Robert Goodwin wrote, produced and directed this lost gem of American independent cinema. Opening during a tense meeting between members of an underground Black Power group that leads to a stunning foot chase, Goodwin’s film weaves past and present to tell the story of the social awakening of a character only referred to as “the drifter” (screen legend Bernie Casey in his first starring role!). Shot on both 35mm and video and boasting a fierce, early performance from L.A. Rebellion icon Barbara O. Jones, BLACK CHARIOT is a fascinatingly iconoclastic revelation. Though world-premiered at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1971, BLACK CHARIOT has remained under-screened for decades — until now.