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Grand Prix, 2024 Cannes Film Festival | Nominee, Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language and Best Director, 2025 Golden Globes
The light, the lives and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who work together in a city hospital — head nurse Prabha and recent hire Anu — plus their coworker, cook Parvaty, Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment.

Q&A with filmmaker Whit Stillman | FREE for SCC members!
Whit Stillman's sparkling comedic debut earned the director multiple accolades including a Best Original Screenplay Oscar^® nomination. A middle-class Manhattanite from the Upper West Side falls in with a clique of upper-class Upper East Siders during the busy debutante ball and holiday season; amid the ensuing drinking, debating and comedic class anxiety come the pangs of love, self-discovery and the first fumblings toward growing up.
Dec. 13, 6:45 p.m.

Special Presentation | Post-screening reception sponsored by the Italian Cultural Society on Dec. 13
Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino gorgeously depicts the tale of Parthenope, a young woman possessed of near supernatural beauty befitting her mythic namesake — who embarks on a sentimental education in her life and academic career in Naples.
Dec. 13, 7:00 p.m. & Dec. 15, 5:00 p.m.

$5 tickets for kids 12 and under!
This week: the restored director’s cut of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL; Will Ferrell in ELF; Frank Capra’s all-time Christmas classic IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE and ‘80s favorite DIE HARD (yippee ki-yay, mistletoers!) $5 tickets for kids 12 and under! (R and PG-13 rated films excepted)

U.S. Premiere | Special Presentation | Q&A with director Bruno Anković on Dec. 15
In his feature debut, Croatian director Bruno Anković employs a nonlinear narrative to explore the circumstances that lead villager Mijo to join the fascist Ustasha movement that ruled Croatia during the Second World War.
Dec. 15, 1:45 p.m. & Dec. 18, 5:00 p.m.

Centerpiece Screening
Advance tickets for THE BRUTALIST are sold out. At approximately 4:00 p.m. on Dec. 14, a standby line will form outside AFI Silver; any remaining seats will be made available just before the 4:30 p.m. showtime. THE BRUTALIST in 70mm opens at AFI Silver on Friday, January 10. Please check back for showtimes and tickets!

FREE community screenings Dec. 13, 15 & 18!
This new documentary by Oscar^®-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck, narrated by Oscar^® nominee LaKeith Stanfield, chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole's early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Telling Cole’s own story through his writings, the recollections of those closest to him and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation.
Fri, Dec. 13, 2:30 p.m.; Sat, Dec. 14, 1:50 p.m.; Sun, Dec. 15, 3:15 p.m. & Wed, Dec. 18, 6:45 p.m.

Special Presentation | 2025 Oscar^® Selection, Italy | Nominee, Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language, 2025 Golden Globes
In VERMIGLIO, which won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, family secrets and lies are unearthed amongst a family living under a strict patriarch in the remote alpine village of Vermiglio, Italy, during World War II. Dec. 14, 6:00 p.m. & Dec. 18, 7:00 p.m.

2025 Oscar^® Selection, Czech Republic
This taut historical thriller follows a young technician coerced into spying on his new colleagues in the International Editorial Office of Czechoslovak Radio on the eve of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Dec. 15 & Dec. 17, 4:20 p.m.

U.S. Premiere | Special Presentation | Q&A with filmmaker Elena Manrique, plus post-screening reception sponsored by the Embassy of Spain on Dec. 17
Elena Manrique’s directorial debut is the tender and humorous tale of a lonely, politically incorrect Spanish divorcée (Sonia Barba) who discovers a Senegalese migrant (Edith Martínez Val) living inside the garden shed of her marvelous villa.
Dec. 17, 7:00 p.m. & Dec. 19, 4:45 p.m.

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U.S. Premieres
This week: celebrated Bulgarian rapper FYRE stars in WINDLESS, a deeply moving exploration of family legacy and reconciliation; Olivier Assayas’ auto-fictional portrait of his family’s life during their COVID quarantine, SUSPENDED TIME, which balances droll self-deprecation with moving self-reflection; and a father and his adult son attempt to reconnect in warm, intimate comedy THREE DAYS OF FISH.

Plus so much more!
Tradition and the nouveau clash in GLORIA!, a poppy feminist romp boldly reimagining the lost history of women composers and artists; spellbinding travelogue GRAND TOUR, where time, place, language and culture collide into an intoxicating masterwork; deeply humane improvised comedy THE BLACK SEA; suspenseful thriller THE QUIET ONES, inspired by the true story of the biggest heist ever completed on Danish soil; and many more films from across the European Union.

In 2023, the newly reborn BABYMETAL embarked on their largest world tour, "BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2023–2024," which took them to 25 countries, including Japan. The final chapter of the world tour, the first Okinawa performance "TOUR FINAL IN JAPAN LEGEND-43," has been fully filmed. This live film allows viewers to experience the diverse music, unique worldview and high-quality production that only a tour final can offer, as well as the astonishing performance of BABYMETAL, which has evolved even further during their world tour.
Dec. 15, 8:00 p.m.

Now playing!
Amy Adams, Nominee, Best Performance by a Female Actor (Musical/Comedy), 2025 Golden Globes
In Marielle Heller’s perceptive and fur-ociously funny adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s bestselling novel, Oscar^® nominee Amy Adams stars as Mother, a stay-at-home mom who begins experiencing an overwhelming feeling that she might be turning into a dog. At once a profoundly original and smart surrealist comedy about motherhood and identity and a feminist tribute to the unsung power of women everywhere, NIGHTBITCH will have you howling with laughter, crying with joy — and ready to thank your mom for her service.

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