Special Screenings
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
Black Box Diaries (2024)
Shiori Itō · 103m · Digital
In a May 2017 press conference in Japan after prosecutors refused to press charges, Shiori Itō alleged that a high-profile journalist drugged and sexually assaulted her. The public revelation broke a societal inhibition that discouraged women from reporting cases of sexual assault, sparking the country’s #MeToo movement. In her documentary, Itō recalls her experience coming forth and investigates her unresolved case.
Presented in partnership with the Center for East Asian Studies, Film Studies Center, Center for the Art of East Asia, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Screening will be free to the public and followed by a Q&A with director Shiori Itō and Professor Yuki Miyamoto.
Saturday, April 18 2:00 PM
Time Share (2018)
Sebastián Hofmann · 96m · DCP
A family vacation at a seaside resort complex in Acapulco takes a paranoid turn when Pedro (Luis Gerardo Méndez), his wife and his son arrive to learn that their accommodations have been double-booked, and they must share with another family. While others seem to blandly accept their edenic surroundings, Pedro and employee Andres (Miguel Rodarte) become increasingly convinced that the resort’s corporate owner has sinister intentions for the guests.
Screening will be preceded by an introduction and followed by a Q&A with producer Julio Chavezmontes.
Saturday, April 18 7:00 PM
Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990)
Wu Wenguang · 134m · DCP
Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing is widely regarded as one of the first independent documentaries produced in the People’s Republic of China. Following five artists existing on the margins of Beijing’s cultural scene, the film captures a bohemian restlessness in a society still reeling from the convulsions of reform and opening up. Shot with unflinching intimacy, though originally conceived as an episode for state television, Wu Wenguang went on to shape an entire genre of Chinese independent documentary film.
Presented in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art on occasion of the exhibition Beyond Boundaries: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart.
Thursday, April 23 4:00 PM
Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
Hong Sang-soo · 121m · DCP
A chance encounter at a restored palace brings together a frustrated film director (Jung Jae-young) and a lonely young painter (Kim Min-hee). Over tea and a fair amount of soju, the pair navigates a series of awkward, vulnerable conversations – only for Hong Sang-soo to hit the reset button halfway through. By replaying the same day with subtle shifts in honesty, Right Now, Wrong Then becomes a witty, delicate exploration of how a single gesture can entirely rewrite a relationship.
Screening sponsored by Night Owls.
Saturday, May 9 7:00 PM
Nightshift (1981)
Robina Rose · 68m · DCP
A hotel in early 1980s London becomes an ethereal space of drifting encounters over the course of a single night. Punk icon Jordan (of Derek Jarman’s Jubilee and Sebastiane) plays the front desk clerk as she observes a procession of late-night wanderers passing through the lobby. Unseeable for years before its recent restoration, the film’s dreamy rhythm is enhanced by music from Simon Jeffes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Screening followed by a talk by film scholar, critic, and programmer Elena Gorfinkel.
Wednesday, May 20 6:00 PM
The Poem of Hayachine Valley (1982)
Sumiko Haneda · 186m · 16mm
Sumiko Haneda’s documentary, part ethnographic record and visual poetry, focuses on mountain communities around Japan’s Mount Hayachine in Iwate Prefecture. Filmed over several years, Haneda’s portrait centers on a sacred dance (kagura) performed by villagers in honor of the mountain’s deity, a tradition passed down for centuries. Haneda wrote that this work is an “expression of the spirit of the farmers in Tōhoku, beyond what is visible to the eye, and as an expression of the ever-changing flow of history." Screened on a rare unabridged 16mm print recently shown in New York as a part of a Theatre of the Matters program at Light Industry.
16mm print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
