New Releases and Restorations
What Does That Nature Say to You (2025)
Hong Sang-soo · 109m · DCP
For young poet Ha Donghwa (Ha Seong-guk), what was initially intended as a quick stop to drop off his girlfriend at her family’s suburban home spins into an impromptu visit and introduction to her father, mother, and sister. As the day stretches on and more alcohol is imbibed, hidden tensions and anxieties end up coming to the fore.
Saturday, March 28 3:00 PM
One Battle After Another (2025)
Paul Thomas Anderson · 162m · DCP
Sixteen years after going into hiding, washed-up revolutionary Bob Ferguson needs the help of a karate teacher to rescue his teenage daughter from Col. Lockjaw – a white supremacist and henchman of the police state. Though intensely dystopian, Paul Thomas Anderson and his star-studded cast continually find brevity and irony with references to The Battle of the Algiers, The Big Lebowski, and other cultural artifacts. An adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern novel Vinelands. “Viva la revolución!”
Saturday, March 28 6:00 PM
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (2024)
Julia Loktev · 324m · DCP
Only months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, American filmmaker Julia Loktev returned to her country of birth in 2021 to follow a band of independent, Gen-Z journalists forced by Putin’s regime to register as “foreign agents.” Constantly stressing about their safety, the journalists try to speak truth to power on the last independent news channel. Loktev provides an invaluable look at opposition under tyranny.
Screening will include two ten-minute intermissions.
Sunday, March 29 12:00 PM
All That’s Left of You (2025)
Cherien Dabis · 146m · DCP
After a Palestinian teenager is swept up in a protest in the Occupied West Bank during the First Intifada that results in a fateful moment of violence, his mother recounts seven decades of familial displacement and violence that led up to the moment. Palestinian-American filmmaker Cherien Dabis gives ample focus to the mundanities of the family’s fragile life that is haunted by the prospect of further dispossession.
Presented in partnership with Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Screening will be free to the public.
Saturday, April 4 8:00 PM
Resurrection (2025)
Bi Gan · 160m · DCP
In a society that has exchanged the ability to dream for immortality, Resurrection tells the story of a monster who is taken on a journey through five different segments of the film, each representing one of the senses and one period in the history of cinema. After only being shown in select theaters and film festivals world wide, Doc Films is proud to be able to present Resurrection.
Saturday, April 11 6:00 PM
Dry Leaf (2025)
Alexandre Koberidze · 186m · DCP
When a woman disappears on a mission to photograph rural soccer fields across Georgia, her father sets out to find her, guided only by the fragments she has left behind. Filmed on a W595 Sony Ericsson phone camera, the film’s dreamlike pixelated images drift through villages, roads, autumnal countryside, where chance encounters slowly eclipse the urgency of the search itself.
Sunday, April 12 3:00 PM
Towards the Light (2024)
Vadim Kostrov · 94m · DCP
Russian filmmaker Vadim Kostrov captures a year of his life in exile after fleeing his home country in the wake of the war against Ukraine. Towards the Light is an intimate and poetic journey through which Kostrov invites viewers to think about themes of loss and displacement.
Sunday, April 19 4:00 PM
Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)
João César Monteiro · 122m · DCP
Monteiro’s arguable late masterpiece follows the director’s alter ego João de Deus, a drifter roaming the cafes and board houses of Lisbon. Monteiro’s mischievous wanderer obsesses over younger women and the music of Franz Schubert, but his fixations become more and more dangerous…. Monteiro’s infamous character has drawn comparisons to Chaplin’s Little Tramp and Dostoevsky’s Underground Man, in this strange, sardonic character study with a new 4K restoration.
Saturday, April 25 4:00 PM
Hovering Over the Water (1986)
João César Monteiro · 137m · DCP
In another new Monteiro 4K restoration, Laura Morante stars as an Italian translator who returns with her children to a sunlit house on Portugal’s Algarve coast, haunted by the recent death of her husband. When an American sailor drifts ashore, their tentative connection unfolds amid daily rhythms of the village and distant political unrest. The film, which featured a young Pedro Costa on its crew, moves with dreamlike grace; according to João Bénard da Costa, “we see everything [as if] filtered through a crystal, as in the last, fabulous shot, a trompe-l’oeil of light and paint.”
Saturday, April 25 7:00 PM
Revelations of Divine Love (2025)
Caroline Golum · 73m · DCP
Based on the first surviving example of a book written in English by a woman, this film is adapted from the memoir of 14th-century mystic Julian of Norwich. In this crowd-funded movie, director Caroline Golum explores themes of love, religious ecstasy, and revolt, resulting in a period piece that imagines the life of a woman we know almost nothing about.
Sunday, April 26 5:00 PM
Kontinental 25 (2025)
Radu Jude · 109m · DCP
Taking its cue from Rossellini’s Europa ‘51, Radu Jude’s biting black comedy swaps the cinematic crane for the static, sharpened gaze of an iPhone. Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) is a bailiff in Cluj – efficiently navigating the gears of the state until a routine eviction ends in a suicide. As this tragedy fractures her professional armor, Jude follows her desperate, absurdist quest for atonement through the spiritual vacuum of contemporary Europe.
Saturday, May 2 4:00 PM
Anatomy of a Relationship (1976)
Luc Moullet, Antonietta Pizzorno · 79m · DCP
Real-life partners Luc Moullet and Antonietta Pizzorno turn private tensions into a frank and comical study of love, work, and ego. Arguments and reconciliations between a filmmaker (Moullet) and his sharp, increasingly disillusioned partner (Christine Hébert) play out within the cramped intimacy of their apartment, the women’s movement in France always in the background.
Saturday, May 16 4:00 PM
A Girl Is a Gun (1971)
Luc Moullet · 75m · DCP
Luc Moullet pays homage to American westerns with A Girl Is a Gun, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, comically dubbed by a deep-voiced American. Though much of the Cahiers du Cinéma crowd were steadfast admirers of the westerns of Hawks and Fuller, Moullet was the only one to attempt the genre himself. The result is a discontinuous and psychedelic film that satires the image of the cowboy.
Saturday, May 16 7:00 PM
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
Mona Fastvold · 137m · DCP
Mona Fastvold‘s The Testament of Ann Lee traces the life of Ann Lee, a visionary who crossed the Atlantic to plant the seeds of the Shaker tradition in American soil. Rooted in communal worship, gender equality, and ecstatic hymn, the Shakers forged a radical theology of the body. Amanda Seyfried delivers a career defining performance as a woman whose "hunger and thirst" for utopia becomes an act of faith unto itself.
