The Flood is the love story of Mick and Lily. After fifty years of marriage, Mick (Ed Asner) loses Lily (Patty Pell) to a chronic illness, and faces the question whether their love is eternal, while his family struggles to understand his bereavement.
Filmmakers will participate in a Q&A following both screenings.
Silent horror movie classic Nosferatu, with live accompaniment by Tom Teasley. What better motion picture is there for Halloween eve? Nosferatu was directed by F. W. Murnau and is based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.
Dress like a vampire and receive a Halloween surprise after the film!
Presented in partnership with the Reston Community Center: CenterStage.
The sixth film in Bill Plympton’s Oscar-nominated “Guard Dog” series, in which our plucky hero has a new occupation: patrolling our airports sniffing for illegal drugs. You know that’s not going to end well.
Filmmakers will participate in a Q&A following both screenings.
Mari Yoshimori holds the U.S. record for the fastest 400 meter time in track and field. Shortly before Olympic trials, she learns that she has a potentially career-threatening torn hamstring. The news crushes her soul. Ignoring her doctor’s and mother’s advice, Mari keeps training and pushes herself too far—so far that the powers of nature thrust her into the depths of a psychological purgatory. While there, she meets her spiritual sidekick, Bettari. Petite, cute and mysterious, Bettari communicates through a handwritten sign as she playfully lures Mari deeper into her domain. Only Mari can decide whether Bettari intends to guide or destroy.
As a daughter grinds away as caretaker for her father, she discovers some memories are best left hidden under the veil of dementia.
A writer on the verge of suicide catches an insect in a glass, and instead of following his first impulse and killing it, he lets the crave grow up in his favor. Over time, however, the animal earns a different and more gloomy function, and soon they fight a match for the roles to be exchanged between them: The waiter will be champion.
This is a short film about a struggling father who uses a bedtime story to convey an important life lesson to his son.
Scarlett-Angelina, pampered daughter of wealthy parents, takes it all in stride when she is kidnapped by Ralph, who poses as the family chauffeur. Ralph finds out the reason for her attitude when the exchange doesn’t go as planned.
Charlie is happily in love with his girlfriend and mails her a series of love letters to convey his affection. One evening the two have a fight over dinner, and Charlie hastily pens a break-up letter. A persistent mailbox has other plans.
A lonely teenager, new to the city, is forced out of his comfort zone one morning on the basketball court.
