The Future of Film is Female is proud to present a special one-night screening of Lina Soualem’s documentary BYE BYE TIBERIAS. In partnership with Women Make Movies and Arab Film and Media Institute. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass (Emmy-nominated for Succession) left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives. Set between past and present, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds, despite exile, dispossession, and heartbreak.
Palestine’s entry for Best International Feature in the 2024 Academy Awards, this second feature from Lina Soualem premiered at Venice, won the Grierson Award at the BFI London Film Festival, had its North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and won the shared jury prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival. An important film that beautifully portrays the complexity of Arab women’s lives.
Starring: Maya Hawke, Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira
Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.
Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sammy fights to survive.
Starring: Lio Tipton, Charles Halford, Danielle Hoetmer
This neo-fairytale set in Wyoming, USA follows three mischievous children as they embark on an odyssey when their mother asks them to run an errand. On the hunt to obtain her favorite blueberry pie, the children are kidnapped by poachers, battle a witch, outwit a huntsman, befriend a fairy, and bond together to become best friends forever.
Join us for several short films by revolutionary filmmaker Maya Deren, set to a hypnotic and beautiful live score by musician Annie Hart.
Maya Deren is most famous for her groundbreaking experimental work, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), which won the Grand Prix International for avant-garde film at Cannes. This and other works presented in this program are famous not only for their break with traditional timelines, editing and narrative techniques, but also their depiction of women as the subject of a film, rather than object. Deren used a low budget to stay outside of the borders of Hollywood’s mainstream, allowing her complete artistic freedom in breaking conventional filmmaking boundaries. “By achieving worldwide recognition for films that she made on her own, with family and friends, on trivial budgets, [Deren] spurred generations of experimental filmmakers to follow in her footsteps” (The New Yorker).
Hart and friends will combine vintage synthesizer loops, mallet percussion, and chamber music instruments to create ephemeral and unique scores for each of these six films.
The shorts
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Meshes of The Afternoon
Meditation on Violence
At Land
The Very Eye of Night
Study in Choreography
Starring: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman
Presented with Playwrights Horizons
Dawn (Jess Weixler) is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey (Hale Appleman), nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.
With special guest co-host Gena Radcliffe (film writer and podcaster)
Comedian Kevin Maher returns with a look at pop culture portrayals of mental wellness (and illness). The show covers conditions in everything from ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST to 13 REASONS WHY, exploring anxiety and OCD, panic attacks and mood disorders. The 90-minute video variety show looks at tropes and archetypes, spanning THE A-TEAM to THE DREAM TEAM and MOMMIE DEAREST to SESAME STREET. Plus: play-along games and trivia prizes.
See why SyFy.com called Kevin “an insane genius” in the video variety show Daily Grindhouse described as “TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”
With guest appearances by
Max Bank (Host, Cage Match)
Dan McCoy (co-host, The Flop House podcast)
Suzen Tekla Kruglnska (writer, producer, host “The Comedy Film Funnel”)
Ken Reid (host, TV Guidance Counselor podcast)
Kseniya Yarosh (Bonnie & Maude film podcast)
Don’t miss Camila Jones’ custom 30-minute pre-show video that plays as soon as the house opens.
In 1972 The Gallery opened and for 6 years it ruled as New York City’s hottest dance club. Now, for the first time in film history, you will go inside one of the hottest clubs ever, actually filmed at the club during its heyday.
Sequences filmed inside The Gallery were directed by Jim Biggood, who directed the classic Pink Narcissus. Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, Grace Jones and Loleatta Hollowav are a few of the legends who began their career working at the club. It has been called the first disco.
The innovative lighting, environment and sound design was the inspiration for The Paradise Garage and Studio 54 and heralded by New York Magazine and many other publications as the impetus for the disco scene. Now, for the first time ever, you will spend a night at The Gallery, filmed 1976-77. You will be transported into the past and you will never want to return!
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley Jr., Mel Harris, Kanin Howell
A storm forces frightened Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) inside a nearby library for shelter. Mr. Dewey (Christopher Lloyd), the librarian, sees that Richard needs an adventure and tries to give the boy a book, but all Richard wants is a phone. Before he can call his parents (Ed Begley Jr., Mel Harris), Richard slips on the floor, hits his head and passes out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a fantasy land populated by famous literary characters.
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Fraser James
The T-virus unleashed by the evil Umbrella Corp. has spread to every corner of the globe, infesting the planet with zombies, demons and monsters. Alice (Milla Jovovich), a former Umbrella employee turned rogue warrior, joins her friends on a last-chance mission to storm the company’s headquarters located deep underneath what used to be Raccoon City. But the Red Queen (Ever Anderson) knows that Alice is coming, and the final battle will determine if the rest of mankind lives or dies.
