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Two recreational baseball teams have been meeting on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. After the county board opts to raze the baseball diamond, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier's Field. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund's poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America's eternal pastime. A comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who has ever lamented their community slipping away.

Opening Night
Features pre-recorded intro by filmmaker Simon Moutaïrou
1759, Mauritius. 16-year-old Mati refuses to accept her fate as a slave under French colonial rule and decides to find refuge with a community of runaway slaves. Her escape triggers a ruthless pursuit. Mati’s disillusioned father has no choice but to break free from his chains and embark on a perilous journey through the island’s dense jungle to find her.
Opening Night: March 14, 7:00 p.m.; Also showing March 18, 9:15 p.m.

Q&A with filmmaker Xinyan Yu and producer Tamara Mariam Dawit on March 16
When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women bet their futures on the promise of industrialization. As initial hope meets painful realities, they find themselves, like Ethiopia, at a pivotal crossroads.
March 16, 3:10 p.m. with Q&A. Also showing March 21, 2:45 p.m.

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Academy Award^®-winning writer/director Bong Joon Ho (PARASITE) returns with the groundbreaking cinematic experience MICKEY 17, an instant satirical sci-fi classic adapted from the novel "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton. Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job: to die, for a living.

After her uncle’s unexpected death, Shula and the younger women in her family share memories long dismissed and confront their conflicted relationships. Winner of Best Director, Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
March 15, 4:30 p.m. & March 20, 7:00 p.m.

Followed by a panel discussion moderated by Katea Stitt, Program Director, WPFW
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature, 2025 Academy Awards^®
Jazz and colonial politics collide in a forgotten chapter of Cold War history in Johan Grimonprez’s electrifying essay film, featuring the music of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone. Special Jury Award Winner at Sundance.
March 15, 1:10 p.m.

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Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2025 Academy Awards^®
Basel Adra is a Palestinian activist living under occupation in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist whose freedom of movement allows him to come and go as he pleases. As unlikely as it might seem, the two strike up a friendship and, together with Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal, form a collective to document the gradual destruction of Masafer Yatta, the forced eviction of its Palestinian residents and the illegal takeover of their lands at the hands of Israeli authorities.

The first South African film to feature an all-Black cast, JOE BULLET was a blaxploitation-inspired action movie banned after just a few screenings. This rollicking documentary follows the miraculous journey to discover the truth behind the government’s apartheid-era censorship and features interviews with the surviving stars of the film they didn’t want you to see.
March 16, 7:45 p.m.; March 17, 7:00 p.m.; March 26, 2:40 p.m.
Plus: JOE BULLET, the film subject of BANNED, plays March 14 & 16.

The McMillan Memorial Library in Nairobi was a whites-only space until 1958. Wanjiru "Shiro" Koinange and Angela Wachuka took over its management in 2018 with dreams of turning it into a vibrant new community space. But as they struggle with funding and bureaucratic red tape, they must face the library’s colonial legacy and find new ways to decolonize its function.
March 19, 7:00 p.m. & March 25, 4:30 p.m.

Introduction by executive producer Jago Agegnehu on March 15
Amidst the tight-knit Sidama community in Southern Ethiopia, a grief-stricken farmer sets out to avenge his son's murder, all while desperately trying to protect his daughter from meeting the same fate. The farmer’s world is further complicated when he finds himself drawn to a free-spirited American anthropology student, whose modern ideals and lifestyle seem worlds apart from his own.
March 15, 6:45 p.m. & March 18, 7:00 p.m.

Initially enamored by the seemingly idyllic life of her fiancé’s family, Nikiya soon discovers a sinister secret that will have her caught in a web of deception and danger. Nigerian filmmaker Daniel Oriahi has crafted a ferocious, pulpy thriller that brings a whole new layer of fear to meeting the in-laws.
March 15, 9:30 p.m. & March 20, 9:10 p.m.

Plus so much more!
Algerian movie maestro Merzak Allouache’s upbeat, chaotic family dramedy FRONT ROW; Tanzanian film THE EMPTY GRAVE, a poignant tale of the struggle for a future disentangled from a painful past; DISCO AFRIKA: A MALAGASY STORY, a debut feature inspired by the moods, fashions and civil rights movements of the ‘70s in Madagascar; and the lives of nine individuals intertwine in one of the year’s most acclaimed Nigerian films, FREEDOM WAY.

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