October 9, 2024

8:30 AM School Time Screening

4:00 PM Public Screening

Small town Universe paints an intimate and captivating portrait of life in Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the world’s most sensitive radio telescope and the only U.S. town where Wi-Fi and cell phones are banned. In this uniquely radio-quiet community, scientists use the telescope to search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and advance the field of radio astronomy while residents navigate through pivotal moments of existence, forming deep connections with the universe, a science, and one another.

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Family Tree explores sustainable forestry in North Carolina through the stories of two Black families fighting to preserve their land and legacy. Family Tree’s cinematic approach reveals the vast task of maintaining the land while navigating challenging family dynamics, unscrupulous developers, and changing environmental needs. The forest itself and the beauty of its changing seasons become a primary character int he is family drama.

February 12, 2025

Chewing-gum sculptures, a wealthy galleries, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case and the segregated south - its’ all part of Nellie Mae Rose’s boundless universe. This World is Not My Own reimagines the self-taught artist’s world and her life spanning the 20th century. With Uzo Aruba as the animated version of Nellie Mae Row.

March 19, 2025

Filmed over ten years, LIft shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young homeless and home-insecure ballet dancers in New York City. After performing all over the world, ballet dancer Steven Melendez returns to the Bronx shelter where he grew up to give back to his community, offering a New York Theatre Ballet workshop to children. his traumatic reaction to the shelter from his childhood sends him on a unexpected journey with three kids to reckon with a past he had escaped from through ballet. As young dance students, Victor, Yolanssie and Sharia face the same chasm of home insecurity that long separated Steven from his audience and makes the arts inaccessible to so many kids who share his background. The children he mentors off him insight into turning a hidden trauma into dance, and together they make an aristocratic art form into an expression all their own.

April 15, 2025

For two decades, New York City cinephiles had access to a treasure trove of rare and esoteric films through Kim’s Video. Originally run by the enigmatic Yongman Kim out of his dry-cleaning business, his franchise eventually amassed 55,000 rental titles. In 2009, facing a changing industry, Mr. Kim offered to give away his collection provided that is sty intact and be available to Kims’ Video members. In a bid to revitalize tourism, the small Italian village of Salemi, Sicily became home to the archive. But after the initial publicity faded, so too did any sign of the collection. enter filmmaker David Redmon, who credits Kims’ Video for his film education. with the ghosts of cinemas past leading his way, Redmon embarks on a seemingly quixotic quest to track down what happened to the legendary collection and to free it form purgatory.