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( ( ( Opening/Happening This Week ) ) )  
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Opening 3/29

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With PROBLEMISTA, Writer, Director & Lead Actor Julio Torres creates a surreal fairy tale world based on the true-to-life struggles of an immigrant artist trying to make it in present day NYC. Alejandro (Julio Torres is a shy, uniquely talented toy designer who allies with the strange NYC art-world outcast Elizabeth (Tilda Swinton) to navigate the worlds of art, toy making, corporate chicanery, cryogenics and the labyrinthine US immigration & visa process & find his voice. (In English & Spanish, with English subtitles)
R | 1h 44m

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/problemista

INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, April 3 & 4, 2024

(See SPECIAL EVENTS below
for more details)

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( ( ( Continuing This Week ) ) ) 
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Reprised for one last weekend
3/30 & 3/31

In this acclaimed film, which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Matteo Garrone presents a "reverse shot" of the immigration experience while unfurling an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou & his cousin Moussa, living in Dakar, who yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage. (In Wolof & French, with English subtitles) 
NR | 2h 1m

https://ww.rottentomatoes.com/m/io_capitano

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Love & violence collide in this romantic & pulpy film noir directed by Rose Glass. Set in 1989, the film chronicles the relationship between a reclusive gym manager, who is also the child of a crime family, (Kristen Stewart) & an ambitious bodybuilder (Katy O'Brian).  
R | 1h 44m

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/love_lies_bleeding_2024

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This Polish drama from the makers of "Loving Vincent" uses painted
animation to startling effect in an engrossing tale of agrarian lust,
greed and betrayal. Directed & written by DK & Hugh Welchman, the film is an adaptation of Władysław Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name, and, like the novel, is divided into four parts corresponding to each of the four seasons. It takes place at the turn of the twentieth century, over the course of one year. Jagna (Kamila Urzedowskas) is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village - a hotbed of gossip & on-going feuds, held together, rich & poor, by adherence to colorful traditions & deep-rooted patriarchy.
(In Polish with English subtitles)
R | 1h 54m

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_peasants

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Winner of German Film Awards for Best Fiction Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best Actress & Nominated for Best International Feature Film by the Academy Awards & Best Feature Film by the Berlin International Film Festival, THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE tells the story of Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch), a dedicated sports and math teacher, as she starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. Caught between her ideals & the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her, all the while showing how quickly even tight-knit communities can destabalize. (In German with English subtitles)  PG-13 | 1h 34m

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_teachers_lounge

( ( ( April SPECIAl EVENTS ) ) )   
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INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, April 3 & 4, 2024

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The 2024 International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) in North America begins March 7 at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, the capital of the Navajo (Diné) Nation. The "Turtle Island" marathon tour of this worldwide unique film festival on all nuclear topics and radioactive dangers includes more than 10 cities in 9 states, including a 2-day stop in Spokane, WA at Magic Lantern on Main!

 

For 13 years, the International Uranium Film Festval (IUFF) has presented cutting edge films on nuclear issues around the world, including Brazil, Germany, India, Canada and United States.

 

Founded in 2010 by the Brazilian social scientist Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and the German environmental journalist Norbert G. Suchanek, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) is dedicated to all nuclear topics and the entire nuclear fuel chain, from uranium mining to nuclear waste, from nuclear war to nuclear accidents.

 

The 2024 International Film Fesitval  in Spokane is sponsered by Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, (WPSR), and, over the course of two days, will include the six films & 2 panel discussions. Ticketing and more detailed program information to come.

https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/2024_iuff_spokane_program_final_.pdf

KEEP URANIUM IN THE GROUND!

( ( ( Coming Soon! ) ) )   
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Opens 4/12
Tickets Available 3/22
Early Show 4/11

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Opens 4/12

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Opens TBA

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Here we are . . .

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25 W Main

(inside the Saranac Common Building)

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