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Recommended for Ages 3+.  Runtime: 56 min. For a full program description CLICK HERE.

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Recommended for Ages 8+.  Runtime: 72 min. For a full program description CLICK HERE.

NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL ~ Available Until 5/24!

Catch the best short films from around the world! The New York International Children’s Film Festival brings you a great opportunity to share the art of film with kids, with this program filled with fun and clever stories of growth and transformation.
 
If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming KUAP. Catching up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils in the winning doc Pen Licence. Then little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.
 
Take a wild ride and harness the (cat) power of the cosmos with the quirky film Catmos. If you're curious about more earthly matters, take a page out of a Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl. And whether their tastes lean umami or sweet, the duo in Mogu & Perol just might convince you there is simply nothing more delish than a warm friendship.
 
These short films from over 10 different countries show that playfulness, big ideas, and feelings small and large are all just fine! You’ll have plenty of inspiration to continue the conversation with your kids long after the screening is done.
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Not Rated. Directed by Mark Bozek. 75 min.

THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM (Documentary)

"Does the world need another Bill Cunningham documentary? Yes, it turns out. More than ever." - Washington Post
 
Told in Bill Cunningham's own words from a recently unearthed six-hour 1994 interview, the iconic street photographer and fashion historian chronicles, in his customarily cheerful and plainspoken manner, moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times and his democratic view of fashion and society. Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, The Times of Bill Cunningham features incredible photographs chosen from over 3 million previously unpublicized images and documents from Cunningham.
 
"The minute Bill Cunningham starts talking in this charming documentary is the minute you fall in love with him." - RogerEbert.com
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Not Rated (some strong language). Directed by Ken Loach. 102 minutes.

SORRY WE MISSED YOU (UK Drama)

"A drama of such searing human empathy and quotidian heartbreak that its powerful climactic scenes actually impede your breathing" - The Hollywood Reporter
 
"It’s fierce, open and angry, unironised and unadorned, about a vital contemporary issue whose implications you somehow don’t hear on the news." - Guardian
 
At 81 years of age BAFTA winning director Ken Loach (Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, I Daniel Blake) has spent 50+ years sharpening his considerable storytelling skills. His latest continues to bring the hardships of ordinary working class folks, their families, their livelihoods- into heartbreaking focus. A master of humanism.
 
"It’s difficult to imagine a more socially engaged or powerful condemnation of the exploitative gig economy than Ken Loach’s latest." - Slant Magazine
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Rated PG-13 (for strong language). Directed by Barak Goodman, Chris Durrance. 101 minutes.

SLAY THE DRAGON (Documentary)

"The Most Important Politcal Film of the Year" - 

Gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing electoral maps to serve the party in power, has been around for centuries. But in today’s hyperpartisan political environment it has been taken to unprecedented extremes, fueled by the elimination of corporate campaign contribution limits and the availability of vast amounts of personal information. Slay the Dragon shines a light on this timely issue, and follows a handful of citizens’ groups, outraged by what they see as an attack on the core democratic principle that every person’s vote should count equally, as they battle party operatives and an entrenched political establishment to fix a broken system. 

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Not Rated. Directed by Alex Thompson. 98 minutes.

Saint Frances (Indie/Comedy)

"Anchored by delicately moving performances from O’Sullivan and the amazing Williams, Saint Frances is a quietly riveting film that slowly but surely draws you in. " - Los Angeles Times
 
After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.  "Saint Frances approaches an array of weighty issues with empathy, humor, and grace -- and marks star and writer Kelly O'Sullivan as a tremendous talent to watch." - Rotten Tomatoes Consensus
 
"Saint Frances goes down easy. It’s refreshingly small and intimate, and is specific on the lives of very particular women without overreaching to look more politically salient or strike zeitgeist concerns" - The A.V. Club
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Not Rated. Directed by Alex Thompson. 98 minutes.

ONCE WERE BROTHERS: Robbie Robertson and The Band (Documentary)

“TRIUMPHANT. Robertson deeply dissects The Band's magic and dysfunction.” - David Fear, Rolling Stone

“DEMANDS TO BE SEEN. The story of the rise and disintegration of the Band turns out to be as compelling as its spectacular music. Just watching and listening to the group tearing through their classic 'Up on Cripple Creek' near the documentary’s opening, alive with the pleasure of making great music with one another, is enough to joyously lift you out of your seat.” - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“A gripping saga of triumph and tribulation. Captures the story with vigorous urgency and passion that fits the music itself.” - Alex Biese, USA Today

 
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Not Rated. Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, in Romanian with English Subtitles. 97 minutes.

The Whistlers (Dark Comedy/Thriller)

“If the Coen Brothers were Romanian..."  - The New York Times

In THE WHISTLERS, not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off.

“A funhouse of cinematic mirrors. ‘The Whistlers’ makes reading subtitles not just vital, but fun.” - Los Angeles Times

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Not Rated. Directed by Michael Herbig, in German with English Subtitles.           125 minutes.

BALLOON (Based on True Events)

A thriller-like true story of one of the most spectacular escapes of the 20th Century. With a theatrical release to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Germany’s reunification, BALLOON is based on the true events of one of the most daring escapes of the Cold War in which two families living in Communist East Germany sailed over the heavily fortified border in a homemade hot-air balloon.

In the summer of 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families—who had been working on their audacious plan for more than two years—try to flee East Germany in a self-made hot-air balloon. But after the balloon crash-lands just before the West German border, the Stasi find traces of the attempted escape and immediately launch an investigation. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families attempt to build a new escape balloon as the Stasi get closer and closer each day…

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Not Rated (contains some graphic violence). Directed by Diao Yinan, in Chinese with English Subtitles. 117 minutes.

THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Noir/Crime)

Toppling box office records in Diao’s native China, THE WILD GOOSE LAKE “cements his status as a master filmmaker with another ingenious crime epic” (Little White Lies). When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (Chinese superstar Hu Ge) accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hiding out in China’s densely populated (and deeply divided) Wuhan province, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions of her own. Featuring gorgeous, neon-drenched cinematography and bursts of shocking, expertly choreographed action, THE WILD GOOSE LAKE is “spellbinding” (Rolling Stone), “brilliant" (Indiewire) and “downright Hitchcockian” (AV Club).

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