Don't Be Nice

USA • 2018 • 96 minutes

Director: Max Powers

TRUE STORIES

We follow the five young members of the Bowery Slam Poetry Team as they prepare to compete in the National Poetry Slam in Atlanta. Urgent and intimate, this passionate documentary shows how they turn personal pain into poetry, slamming truth to power.

Sunday, January 13 • 10:30 am • Mary Pickford

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Keep Going

Belgium • 2018 • 84 minutes

Director: Joachim Lafosse

MODERN MASTERS

U.S. Premiere

Joachim Lafosse (After Love)’s surprising, unsentimental, and supremely intelligent drama features superb performances from Virginie Efira and Kacey Mottet-Klein as an estranged mother and son trekking through the Kyrgyz steppe on horseback while trying to mend their broken relationship.

Sun, January 13 • 9:00 am • Regal

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The Chambermaid

Mexico • 2018 • 102 minutes

Director: Lila Avilés

FOCUS ON MEXICO

Living her life within the confines of a pricey Mexico City hotel, shy maid Eve longs for human connection, unexpectedly coming into her own through the promise of education and surprising new friendships in this subtle, assured debut.



Sun, January 13 • 9:30 am • Regal

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Good Girls

Mexico • 2018 • 93 minutes

Director: Alejandra Márquez Abella

FOCUS ON MEXICO

Living a plush life of privilege in one of Mexico City’s most exclusive enclaves, beautiful Sofía struggles to hold on to her status as the peso collapses, setting her adrift in a new reality in this sly satire from Alejandra Márquez Abella.

Sun, January 13 • 10:00 am • Mary Pickford

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Dead Pigs

    

China • 2018 • 130 minutes

Director: Cathy Yan

WORLD CINEMA NOW

A mysterious wave of livestock deaths is the groundwork for this award-winning ensemble drama, which combines compassionate explorations of vastly different yet inextricably connected characters with a biting commentary on consumerism and the drive toward modernization in present day Shanghai.

Sunday, January 13 • 10:00 am • Camelot

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EXT. Night

Egypt • 2018 • 95 minutes

Director: Ahmad Abdalla

WORLD CINEMA NOW

U.S. Premiere

In this social satire about class and misogyny, disillusioned Moe is a young Egyptian filmmaker burnt out by the commercial work he’s been getting but must continue. To edit his work, he heads to the opposite side of the city. So begins a wild night that also works as a classic setup to a joke: a filmmaker, a cabbie and a prostitute walk into a diner…

Sun, January 13 • 10:00 am • Regal

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Wedding Ring

Niger • 2016 • 97 minutes

Director: Rahmatou Keïta

FLOS: FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS

Tiyaa returns home to the Republic of Niger, after studying in France. The reunion with her affluent family and friends is tainted by the melancholy caused by an unresolved relationship she left behind in Paris. The new moon should help her figure out her next step.

Sun, January 13 • 11:30 am • Regal

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To Dust

    

USA • 2018 • 90 minutes

Director: Shawn Snyder

NEW JEWISH STORIES

Shmuel, a recently widowed Hasidic cantor, starts obsessing over how his wife’s body will decay. He will have to disregard his religious beliefs and reach out to a science professor for answers that he hopes will bring him some peace.

Sunday, January 13 • 4:00 pm • Camelot

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Vita & Virginia

    

UK • 2018 • 110 minutes

Director: Chanya Button

QUEER CINEMA TODAY

US Premiere

The legendary literary love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West — beautifully played by Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Arterton — is brought to life in this sensuous chronicle of a convention-shattering affair.

Sun, January 13 • 1:00 pm • PS High School

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