Get Away
Apr
10
12:00 PM12:00

Get Away

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The Smith family's much-needed vacation to the remote Swedish island of Svalta takes a dark turn when they arrive during preparations for a mysterious local festival that celebrates a dark history. Unsettled by the unfriendly locals and strange rituals, they try to make the best of their trip, stubbornly enjoying the island's isolation and natural beauty. However, as the festival looms closer, the family realizes something far more sinister is unfolding--especially when they discover that a serial killer is on the loose.

Dir: Steffen Haars

Starring: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft

Runtime: 86 min

Rated R

Genre: Comedy/Horror

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The Blue Caftan
Apr
10
1:00 PM13:00

The Blue Caftan

  • Mid Michigan College Community Room (map)
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Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

Director: Maryam Touzani

Not Rated

Runtime: 122 minutes

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Flow
Apr
10
3:00 PM15:00

Flow

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Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. Animated. Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Runtime: 85 min

Rating: PG

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Zurawski v Texas
Apr
10
5:30 PM17:30

Zurawski v Texas

  • Opperman Auditorium in Park Library at CMU (map)
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A group of women denied abortions, even at the brink of death, band together with a fearless attorney to sue the state of Texas in an extraordinary effort to regain their rights and reproductive futures—not only for themselves but millions of others.

Directors: Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault

Runtime: 99 min

Not Rated

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Sugarcane **FREE SCREENING**
Apr
10
5:30 PM17:30

Sugarcane **FREE SCREENING**

A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, SUGARCANE illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.

Directors: Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat

Rated: R

Runtime: 107 min

This film is sponsored by the Ziibiwing Center and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe

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I'm Still Here
Apr
10
6:00 PM18:00

I'm Still Here

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A powerful drama set in Brazil during a military dictatorship. The film follows Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a mother who must navigate the turmoil of her family after her outspoken husband is mysteriously taken away by the government, forcing her to fight for answers and protect her children in the face of an oppressive regime. Based on a true story, the film explores themes of resilience, family bonds, and the struggle against tyranny. Oscar Winner: Best International Feature Film

Director:Walter Salles

Runtime: 137 minutes

Rated PG-13

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All Too Clear
Apr
10
6:00 PM18:00

All Too Clear

Directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team, Zach Melnick and Yvonne Drebert, the immersive film uses cutting-edge underwater drones to explore how quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels, known as quaggas, are re-engineering the ecosystem of the Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. To capture this epic change, the pair spent more than 150 days filming underwater, likely making it the most ambitious underwater film ever made about the Great Lakes. Part scientific exploration, part natural history adventure - the film showcases freshwater wildlife and environments like never before.

Directors: Zach Melnick and Yvonne Drebert

Runtime: 90 minutes

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Hard Truths (2024)
Apr
10
8:00 PM20:00

Hard Truths (2024)

  • The Platform, 102 Moore Hall, CMU Campus (map)
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Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.

Director: Mike Leigh

Runtime: 97 min

Rated R

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Wild at Heart (1990)
Apr
10
8:00 PM20:00

Wild at Heart (1990)

  • Opperman Auditorium at CMU's Park Library (map)
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After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune (Laura Dern). Lula's mother, Marietta (Diane Ladd), desperate to keep them apart, hires a hit man to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.

Director: David Lynch

Runtime: 125 min

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Bird
Apr
10
9:00 PM21:00

Bird

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Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.

Rated R

Runtime: 119 minutes

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Apr
4
9:30 PM21:30

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

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A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman's life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us. The New Yorker called it “the directorial debut of the year.”

Directed by Raven Jackson.

Rated PG-13

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Girls Will Be Girls
Apr
4
9:00 PM21:00

Girls Will Be Girls

**Michigan Premiere**

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself. Shuchi Talati’s debut film offers a sensitive and distinctive take on the fraught dynamics between mothers and daughters.  Fresh off it’s premiere at Sundance, this is GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS first screenings in Michigan.

In English and Hindi with subtitles.

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Common Ground
Apr
4
7:30 PM19:30

Common Ground

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**This film is sponsored by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College Land Grant Office. Students of the SCTC and Saginaw Chippewa Tribal members will be admitted free of charge**

COMMON GROUND is the sweeping and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” who are forgoing the toxic seeds and sprays pushed by Big Ag in order to produce tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life.

By fusing journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the sustainable food movement, COMMON GROUND unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how racist practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us.

The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy—before it’s too late.

Directed by Joshua Tickell & Rebecca Harrell Tickell. Appearances by Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder & Donald Glover

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Cast & Crew
Apr
4
7:30 PM19:30

Cast & Crew

  • Opperman Auditorium/Park Library CMU (map)
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In the midst of a creative crisis after years of making short films, a group of friends foolishly endeavor on the best possible way to break out of their seemingly hopeless situation: make their first feature film with no money, credibility, or talent.

Dir: Jason Taylor

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Walter, Grace & the Submarine
Apr
4
6:30 PM18:30

Walter, Grace & the Submarine

Premiere Event. Q&A with cast and crew after the film.

Walter is new in town. Grace is leaving town. After sparking an untimely connection, two young adults decide to spend one weekend exploring Grand Rapids together before saying goodbye. During their weekend, they forge a strong connection by sharing vulnerable stories from their pasts.

Directed by Noah Bashore.

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Breed & Bootleg
Apr
4
5:30 PM17:30

Breed & Bootleg

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The film canonizes Eric "MC Breed" as the first commercially successful rapper in the Midwest, establishing him as the forefather of the regional musical subgenre. The documentary also follows another Flint hometown hero Ira "Bootleg" Dorsey of The Dayton Family, a pioneer of gangsta rap in the city.

Directed by Geri Alumit Zeldes.

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The Taste of Things
Apr
4
3:30 PM15:30

The Taste of Things

Destined to be remembered as one of the great films about the meaning, texture, and experience of food, this sumptuous, exceptionally well-crafted work, set in late 19th-century France, stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel (married, decades ago, in real life) as Eugénie, a cook, and Dodin, the gourmet chef she has been working with for 20 years. As they reach middle age, they can no longer deny their mutual romantic feelings, which have so long been concentrated in their passionate professionalism. This simple narrative—based upon Marcel Rouff’s 1924 novel La passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet—sets the table for a sublime, sense-heightening exploration of pleasure, in which the play of sunlight across a late-afternoon kitchen is as meaningful as the image of a perfectly poached pear or the crisp of a buoyant vol-au-vent. Director Trân Anh Hùng won the Best Director prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his bravura, scrupulously deployed feat of epicurean cinema.

Directed by Anh Hung Tran.

In French with English subtitles

Rated PG-13

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Perfect Days
Apr
4
3:00 PM15:00

Perfect Days

Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.

PERFECT DAYS was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and for the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Kôji Yakusho (Named Best Actor at Cannes)

In Japanese with English subtitles

Rated PG

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Girls Will Be Girls
Apr
4
12:00 PM12:00

Girls Will Be Girls

**Michigan Premiere**

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself. Shuchi Talati’s debut film offers a sensitive and distinctive take on the fraught dynamics between mothers and daughters.  Fresh off it’s premiere at Sundance, this is GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS first screenings in Michigan.

In English and Hindi with subtitles.

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