Starring: Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Luka Sabbat, Scott Speedman, Lena Dunham, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) is a sensitive and naïve 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her disillusioned mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and influencer sister (Taylour Paige). Working as a caregiver and just longing to be seen, she begins an exploratory affair with her older, married employer (Jon Bernthal), and is thrust into a startling education on sexuality, loss and power.

Starring: Jasmine Batchelor, Chris Perfetti, Sullivan Jones, Brooke Bloom

The Gotham and The Future of Film is Female present a special screening of Jeremy Hersh’s Gotham supported feature, The Surrogate. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Jess Harris, a 29 year old web designer for a nonprofit in Brooklyn, is ecstatic to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend Josh and his husband Aaron. Twelve weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with unexpected results that pose a moral dilemma. As they all consider the best course of action, the relationship between the three friends is put to the test. The Surrogate has its World Premiere at SXSW in 2020.

The Gotham celebrates and nurtures independent film and media creators, providing career-building resources, access to industry influencers, and pathways to wider recognition.

Art-rock duo Parlor Walls will be performing a live score to Kino’s forthcoming release, Cinema’s First Nasty Women.  The program features a series of feminist shorts from the early Twentieth century featuring feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play.  These rare and never-before-seen silent films were sourced from 13 international film archives and libraries, spotlighting an electrified parade of strong female leads.

Program:

1. Le bateau de Léontine (Léontine’s Boat) (France 1911), 5 min.

Starring: Crystal Bernard, Kimberly McArthur, Atanas Ilitch

Courtney and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can’t get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

Co-presented by Screen Slate. Choose the “Repertory Reserved + $5 donation” ticket to add on a $5 donation to support Screen Slate with your ticket purchase!

An Orlando McMansion rigged with cameras is the setting for the website CollegeBoysLive.com, where thousands of viewers watch and virtually interact with the inhabitants of the house. The young men who end up here are escaping troubled pasts, and endeavor to find a makeshift family among themselves. George O’Donnell’s documentary captures the turbulence of their lives, and the friction from surrounding neighbors who deem the house to be no more than a hub of pornography and prostitution.

Starring: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor, Brynn Taylor

Join us for this feat of animation from legendary visual effects and stop-motion craftsman Phil Tippett (Return of the Jedi, Jurassic Park), a passion project decades in the making!

Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.

Mad God is a labor of love, a testament to the power of creative grit, and an homage to the timeless art of stop-motion animation. Ready your eyes. Ready your spirit. Prepare to meet your maker.

Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke

An international spy (Jean-Claude Van Damme) teams with a flamboyant weapons dealer (Dennis Rodman) to escape from a penal colony and save his family.

Starring: Pat Hingle, Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Bill Erwin, Helen Shaver

Preceded by a Secret nostalgic animated short film from the 90s!

Littlefoot (Gabriel Damon), a young plant-eating dinosaur, is orphaned after his mother (Helen Shaver) perishes while protecting him from a vicious carnivore. With her last breath, she tells him how to get to the legendary Great Valley, where he will be reunited with others of his kind. With his friend Cera (Candace Hutson), Littlefoot sets out for the fabled land, meeting a variety of new friends along the way — while also being tracked by the killer dinosaur that mortally wounded his mother.

Starring: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Biehn, Richard Crenna

Sponsored by MUBI; co-hosted by filmmaker/programmer Caroline Golum

When a prominent so-and-so is found filleted in his mansion, Assistant District Attorney David Corelli (David Caruso) becomes too close to the case as former lover Trina (Linda Fiorentino) looks to be a prime suspect. Will pubic hair souvenirs or video evidence at a “f*ck house” frequented by powerful men lead the trail closer to her, or is that part of someone’s plan? William Friedkin’s wild ride is as sleazy as they come, getting your pulse racing with salacious implications and a few car crashes for good measure.

Nitehawk audiences gets a special offer of a custom trial with MUBI. Learn more at mubi.com/nitehawk

The Future of Film is Female presents a preview screening of Emelie Mahdavian’s sweeping documentary Bitterbrush. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Bitterbrush follows Hollyn Patterson and Colie Moline, range riders who are spending their last summer herding cattle in remote Idaho. Totally off the grid with only their dogs as companions, Hollyn and Colie brave inclement weather and perilous work conditions while pondering their futures. A portrait of friendship, life transitions and the work of two skilled young women in the isolated and beautiful landscape of the American West, Bitterbrush is an intimate portrayal of a way of life rarely seen on film.