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ARRIVAL
Tue, Oct 10 at 3:10pm, 8:10pm

ARRIVAL

Twelve spaceships strategically land in various locations in the Earth’s atmosphere. As mankind fights to agree upon the best course of action to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors, an unlikely hero emerges.
FREMONT
Fri-Sun, Sep 22-Oct 1

FREMONT

A lonely Afghan fortune cookie writer in San Francisco, attempting to build a new life, encloses a special message in a cookie, unsure where it may lead. Tenderly sculpted and lyrically shot in black-and-white, Babak Jalali’s film is a wry, deadpan vision of the universal longing for home.
THE ETERNAL MEMORY
Tue, Sep 12 at 3:20pm, 7:00pm

THE ETERNAL MEMORY

Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s eight years ago, a prominent political commentator and his wife struggle with the heartbreaking disease as the film chronicles the couple’s daily routine while they savor what they have left. Winner – Sundance Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary Competition. Part of Doc Spotlight
KING COAL
Fri-Sun, Sep 15-24

KING COAL

Oscar-nominated Knoxville-based filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in a spectacularly beautiful and deeply moving immersion into Central Appalachia where coal is not just a resource, but a way of life. Part of Doc Spotlight
Ways of Seeing: A Documentary Seminar
Sat, Sep 23 | 11:00am-12:15pm

Ways of Seeing: A Documentary Seminar

Presented in conjunction with the Belcourt’s Doc Spotlight series, this seminar is for anyone interested in the documentary form. Documentary filmmaker and Vanderbilt cinema and media arts assistant professor Carmine Grimaldi will explore the trajectory of documentary film from the birth of cinema to contemporary trends. He’ll discuss documentary styles and practices and explore multiple ways of looking at documentary films, including some of the titles featured in the Doc Spotlight series. The seminar will challenge viewers to see documentaries in new ways, and send participants home with a list of films for recommended viewing.
SHIVA BABY
Wed-Thu, Aug 23-24 at 7:10pm

SHIVA BABY

A young woman struggles to keep up different versions of herself when she runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a shiva with her parents.
TOUKI BOUKI
Sun, Aug 27 at 3:10pm

TOUKI BOUKI

Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, two disaffected young lovers steal some money to fund an escape to France, but the local police are on their tail in this stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic from director Djibril Diop Mambéty.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Mon, Aug 28 at 5:30pm, 8:00pm

NATURAL BORN KILLERS

A cross-country killing spree by serial killers (and lovers) Mickey and Mallory becomes an unlikely cause célèbre when the ensuing media frenzy glorifies their ultraviolent exploits in director Oliver Stone’s scathing satire.
THE GETAWAY
Sat-Sun, Sep 2-3

THE GETAWAY

Action maestro Sam Peckinpah’s bloody take on the genre follows a recently-released ex-con and his wife (Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw) who go on the run after a heist goes awry.
SHORTCOMINGS
Ends Sat, Aug 12

SHORTCOMINGS

Cynical young filmmaker Ben is forced to reckon with his own ambitions and his film-obsessed existence in Berkeley when his girlfriend Miko accepts an internship in New York. Exposing a multiplicity of Asian American identities in a fresh and groundbreaking way, Randall Park’s debut comedy embraces the complexity of being human, flaws and all.
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