When Jack ventures to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother, he meets her grievingwidow, Jill. But his mother’s spirit returns, inhabiting each of their bodies to speak to the other one, instigating a life-threatening three-way nocturnal dance.

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Run Time 99 min

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OPENING NIGHT FILM

Wed. May 21 @7pm

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Olezhka is a 9-year-old boy with fair hair, living in an orphanage. His mere presence has a magnetic effect on people. However, Olezhka himself remains indifferent to those around him, with only one aspiration – to be adopted.  

English Subtitles

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Run Time 71 min

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Thurs. May 22 @2:00pm

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Sierra Center Screening Room

A routine debt collector’s life is turned upside down when a portal to hell opens in his local laundromat followed by a demon who offers him a deal – three souls to save his neighbor from being dragged to hell.

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Run Time 93

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Thurs. May 22 @5:30pm

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A socially awkward high school student films himself as he blunders through attempts to make friends, spiralling into a dark place where his only close relationship is with his phone

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Run Time 75 min

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Thurs. May 22 @8:00pm

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Fátima says she no longer has feelings, but finds herself dreaming about her new policeman neighbor. Her son Vítor secretly wears that policeman’s uniform, hoping it might bring pleasure to a boy he met online. A spiral of insomnia and nocturnal illusions leads to misunderstandings and impossible relationships, all seeking a little air. 

English Subtitles

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Run Time 91 min

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Fri. May 23 @1:30pm

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Sierra  Center Screening Room

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A woman visits her friend’s countryside home, joining a small group for what promises to be a cozy weekend of food and games. A tick bite leads to unsettling developments that transform their idyllic retreat into something sinister.

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Run Time 80 min

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Fri. May 23 @ 4:00pm

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Sierra Center Screening Room

On Banishanta Island in Bangladesh, about 150 girls and women are dependent on the sex trade inside a state licensed brothel on the bank of the Pashur river. They battle with bad weather and try to come to terms with their effective enslavement

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Run Time 67 min

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Fri. May 23 @ 6:30pm

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An aimless college student in Philadelphia aspires to be a writer but rebelliously drops out of school, and navigates love and work in hilariously cringe-inducing ways.

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Run Time 93 min

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Fri. May 23 @ 8:30pm

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A deep dive into an unnerving investigation of Dateline’s To Catch a Predator, pulling back the curtain on the show’s complicated legacy.

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Run Time 74 min

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Sat. May 24 @ 12:30pm

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A man and a woman, connected by sound. They cannot see each other’s faces and do not know each other’s identity. What fate awaits them?

English Subtitles

Run Time 112 min

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Sat. May 24 @ 12:30pm

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Sierra Center Screening Room

Lorena and Mauro navigate a tense day as they prepare to host their friends Andreína and David for dinner. Beneath their fragile harmony lie Lorena’s unmet expectations and Mauro’s longing. The arrival of the other couple only amplifies these dynamics, exposing cracks in both relationships.

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Run Time 77 min

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Sat May 24 @ 2:45pm

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Sierra Center Screening Room

The extraordinary journey of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the former Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner whose groundbreaking autopsies forever shaped American culture. From Marilyn Monroe and Robert Kennedy to Sharon Tate and Natalie Wood, Noguchi’s fearless pursuit of truth often placed him in the crosshairs of controversy.

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Run Time 83 min

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Sat. May 24 @ 5:00pm

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The story of how one man became entangled in a complex geopolitical web, how he risked everything to protect his family, and how he was cruelly betrayed by the country he strived to defend.

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Run Time 97 min

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Sat. May 25 @ 7:30pm

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A cartoon in a genre of its own, this sequel to Barber Westchester and Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners starts with a Der Wienerschnitzel employee getting a hot dog extracted from their eyeball and progresses to the universe is waking up to itself, prophets receiving visions, and God-defying towers formed in hedonistic abundance toppling over.

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Run Time 85 min

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Sun. May 25 @10:30am

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Sierra Center Screening Room

A stunningly deconstructed hybrid documentary about Mahmoud — a colorful, creative married man who explores his past life and his lost dreams. Although he seems to have a domineering attitude towards the women in his family, in reality he is haunted by memories and wanders on the border between reality and fantasy.

English Subtitles

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Run Time 105 min

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Sun. May 25 @12:30pm

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Sierra Center Screening Room

In a remote corner of Southwestern New Mexico, the last remaining cowboys eke out a fragile survival between industrial and protected lands. Their herds diminished, these aging stewards of the land live in a shrinking world of isolation, vulnerability, and rugged beauty.

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Run Time 80 min

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Sun. May 25 @ 2:45pm

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A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap experiments.

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Run Time 83 min​

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Sun. May 25 @ 2:45pm

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Sierra Center Screening Room

From November 30th to December 3rd 1999, tens of thousands of people occupied the streets of Seattle to make known their concerns about the World Trade Organization and its impact on the environment, human rights, and labor.

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Run Time 102 min​

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Sun. May 25 @ 5:00pm

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In 1987, at the age of just 21, Marlee Matlin shattered expectations as the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award® for her groundbreaking performance in Children of a Lesser God. Catapulted into the spotlight, she seized the moment to challenge an industry unprepared for her immense talent, emerging as a trailblazer not only as a performer but also as an author and activist.

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Run Time 98 min

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Sun. May 25 @ 7:30pm

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