From National Geographic Documentary Films comes the extraordinary love story of intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died just as explosively as they lived — capturing the most spectacular imagery ever recorded of their greatest passion: volcanoes.

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Run Time 93 min

Language French and English

Partial English Subtitles

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OPENING NIGHT FILM

Wed. May 25 @7pm

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Added Screening Fri. May 27 @11am

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Minaret Cinema

The thrilling story of the takeover of a TV station in China by members of the persecuted Falun Gong religion, and its violent aftermath, rendered in a unique style of 3D animation. It shows that there is a movement inside China that works for human rights, transparency, freedom, and justice.

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Run Time 85 min

Partial English Subtitles

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Thurs. May 26 @5:30pm

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Edison Theatre

After watching the men in her life disappear to prison, Ivy League over-achiever Kristal strives to keep families connected as a social worker and by helping families visit loved ones in far-off prisons. But when her dad and brother come home, Kristal confronts the ultimate question – can she reunite her own family?

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Run Time 85 min

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Thurs. May 26 @8:00pm

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USFS

 Two men and a bird, trapped by a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery while it slowly devours them.  

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English Subtitles

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Run Time 65 min

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Fri. May 27 @11:00am

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Edison Theatre

Spectacular and grotesque footage of people and animals scrounging a living in the middle of Kolkata's largest city dump, as the world outside is rapidly changing. The dump is about to be converted into a recreational park.

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Run Time 93 min

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Fri. May 27 @1:30pm

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USFS

After nervous breakdown, a Polish MMA champion quits psychotherapy and starts training instead. She quickly defeats all her opponents in Poland and starts preparing for the World Championships in Las Vegas. But winning the gold medal may be just as hard as learning to deal with challenges outside the fighting cage.

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Run Time 85 min

English Subtitles

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Fri. May 27 @ 4:00pm

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Edison Theatre

After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. Their search for answers leads them into a political battle fuelled by pharmaceutical company money and an old-guard medical establishment protecting its turf regardless of the human cost.

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Run Time 102 min

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Fri. May 27 @ 6:30pm

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USFS

Memphis, a millennial with cerebral palsy, journeys in search of work, love, and freedom. Caught between the world’s expectations and his own ambitions, MEMPHIS reveals the power of dreams to sustain us, and how to persist when they don’t come true. 

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Run Time 93 min

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Fri. May 27 @ 8:30pm

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USFS

 August 1928. A Soviet factory worker is cast in the role of Trotsky by the director Sergei Eisenstein for his film ‘October’. But his dreams of an actor’s life are shattered when the real Trotsky falls out of favor with Stalin and he is edited out of the film; he flees his communist homeland, determined try his luck in Hollywood.

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Run Time 125 min

English Subtitles

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Sat. May 28 @ 12:00pm

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Edison Theatre

Alexandre, a young firearms instructor at the Canadian customs college, makes a surprise visit to his mother, owner of a drag strip 45 kilometers from Montreal. Sexually explicit cartoons are found on the door of the local church, and Alexandre’s face is the only one recognizable in the drawings, making him the prime suspect.

 

Run Time 79 min

French with English Subtitles

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Sat. May 28 @ 2:30pm

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Minaret Cinema

An avalanche of unforeseeable magnitude breaks free at the Alpine Meadows ski resort on March 31, 1982 — millions of pounds of snow hurtle down the side of the mountain. Over the next five days, through an unrelenting storm and unimaginable tragedy, innocence is lost, mortality faced and Mother Nature is reckoned with, but through it all the rescue team never gives up hope for a miracle

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Run Time 96 min

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Sat. May 28 @ 5:00pm

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USFS

A spectacular, surreal, animated musical dark comedy centered on an up-and-coming astronomer who is trying really hard to ignore everything in their life. When Barber gets an internship at NASA, it gets harder to ignore everything, so they have to learn how to be a person.

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Run Time 90 min

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Sat. May 28 @ 5:00pm

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Edison Theatre

An aimless girl in her final week of college goes to absurd lengths to win the affections of a boy from her hometown of Philly and gets twisted up in anxieties about her love life, family, and future.

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Run Time 84 min

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Sat. May 28 @ 7:30pm

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USFS

Stoic Michael and wild and free Dana are a married couple headed for an unexpected crisis that will shake their world and force them into a reckoning about their relationship and life choices. Their story is the story of contemporary Tel Aviv, its people, its voices, its beauty and ugliness. 

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Run Time 81 min

English Subtitles

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Sun. May 29 @12:30pm

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USFS

During the Syrian revolution, the Assad regime lays siege to the Yarmouk district of Damascus, which had been a Palestinian refugee camp since 1957. Abdallah Al Khatib and his friends document the daily life of the besieged inhabitants, who decide to face the bombing, displacement and hunger with rallies, studying, music, love and joy.

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Run Time 89 min

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Sun. May 29 @ 12:30pm

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Edison Theatre

Over the course of one thought-provoking breakfast, two immigrant cousins from Rwanda wax philosophical about failure, love, and humanity.

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Run Time 65 min

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Sun. May 29 @ 2:45pm

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USFS

In this gorgeous, hand-crafted fantasy film, life-size puppet Gaspard is the last man on Earth and Zeria, his grandson, is the first human to be born on Mars. Gaspard tells him about his life, his fears, his loves... in the hope that Zeria will come to see him before he dies... Zeria would be the first human being to return to Earth without having ever known it.

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French with English Subtitles

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Run Time 61 min

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Sun. May 29 @2:45pm

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Edison Theatre

A misanthropic struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.

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Run Time 82 min

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Sun. May 29 @ 5:00pm

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USFS

Steve Glew, a downtrodden factory worker from rural Michigan, goes on a dangerous, high-stakes adventure smuggling Pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, and makes millions of dollars. It’s all magical until... his arch-nemesis, the Pezident, tries to destroy him.

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Run Time 87 min

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Sun. May 29 @ 7:30pm

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USFS