October 9-13, 2025

October 9-13, 2025
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Icarus

When a Mars colony’s comm satellite is damaged, Emilia Riley sets out on a simple repair excursion. When a malfunction aboard the shuttle cuts connectivity to the ground, Emilia’s son makes the knee-jerk decision to go after her.

Home

Home explores a woman’s return home to her husband after spending 20 years in prison.

Game

A new kid in town shows up at the high school boys basketball tryouts and instantly makes an impression. Will talent and drive be enough to make the team?

Fireplace

Inspired by true events. It is Christmas Eve in Syria. A small kid plays hide and seek with his dad, picking the most unexpected place to hide—the fireplace. As a jet fighter bombards the house, the fireplace stands. But now, the child finds himself trapped and alone.

Filmmakers will participate in a Q&A following both screenings.

Edith

Starring Game of Thrones’ Michelle Fairley and Peter Mullan, Edith explores the heartbreaking inevitability that is old age.

DeKalb Elementary

The film is Inspired by an actual 911 call placed during a school shooting in Atlanta, GA. DeKalb Elementary won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at SXSW.

And The Moon Stands Still

The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.

Filmmakers will participate in a Q&A following all screenings.

Alternative Math

A well-meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

Filmmakers will participate in a Q&A following both screenings.

King of Peking

When home entertainment enters the market in 1990s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.

What Children Do

What Children Do is a comedy about two estranged sisters who are thrust back into each other’s lives by the impending death of their grandmother and forced to try to repair their feral relationship.

Filmmakers will participate in a Q&A following the screening.

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