The League (2023)
OCT. 5 AT 7 P.M. | 103 MINS
With unearthed archive footage and interviews, this documentary tells the story of the legendary players in the Negro leagues, including their triumphs and challenges facing discrimination and segregation.
Every Body (2023)
OCT. 6 AT 4 P.M. | 92 MINS
Academy Award-nominated director Julie Cohen follows three subjects who overcame stigma, social pressure and nonconsensual surgery as members of the intersex community.
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The Space Race (2023)
OCT. 6 AT 7 P.M. | 91 MINS
Candid interviews with America’s first Black astronauts illuminate how the country’s racial injustices marked space exploration. Directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza will be in attendance.
Fremont (2022)
OCT. 7 AT 2:30 P.M. | 91 MINS
Featuring The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White, this film tells of a former Afgan translator for the U.S. military rebuilding her life and putting a message in a fortune cookie while working at a San Francisco cookie factory.
Uncharted (2023)
OCT. 7 AT 5:30 P.M. | 95 MINS
Three participants in Alicia Keys’ songwriting camp try to make it big in a music industry that often affords little access and opportunity to young Black and brown women.
Rotting in the Sun (2022)
OCT. 7 AT 8:30 P.M. | 109 MINS
This explicit queer mystery-comedy features director Sebastián Silva as a nihilistic version of himself as he meets an admiring influencer on a nude beach in Mexico.
Kids Shorts: Stay Gold (2022)
OCT. 8 AT 12 P.M. | 120 MINS
These seven short films give a glimpse into kids around the world, with stories that capture misfit heroes, vibrant communities and deep connections.
Golden Delicious (2022)
OCT. 8 AT 2:30 P.M. | 120 MINS
This award-winning queer coming-of-age romance follows Asian-Canadian teen Jake as he tries out for a basketball team to impress a boy who recently moved into the neighborhood.
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2022)
OCT. 8 AT 6 P.M. | 102 MINS
The life, impact and transformative work of poet and social commentator Nikki Giovanni is captured with visual treatments of her poetry intertwined with archival footage.
Fancy Dance (2022)
OCT. 9 AT 7 P.M. | 90 MINS
Lily Gladstone plays a young Seneca-Cayuga woman caring for her niece and searching for her missing sister while heading to a powwow in this film that explores the complexities of Indigenous women in a colonized world.
Coldwater Kitchen (2022)
OCT. 10 AT 7 P.M. | 90 MINS
This documentary follows a chef’s esteemed culinary training program in a prison in Coldwater, Michigan, and his students enduring incarceration and finding renewed passion through cooking gourmet food.
Lady Buds (2021)
OCT. 11 AT 7 P.M. | 96 MINS
Six women continue grow their established cannibis businesses in California after legalization in 2016, and they face deep inequities as the industry becomes commercialized.
Hummingbirds (2023)
OCT. 12 AT 7 P.M. | 78 MINS
Two young women document their friendship as they explore life and contend with social and personal struggles during a summer in Laredo, Texas.
