Movies
Country: Sweden
Sentimental Value
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.
Häxan with Live Score by Tall Shadows
Step into the shadows at the Rio Theatre as Tall Shadows bring Benjamin Christensen’s legendary 1922 silent film HÄXAN (aka “Witchcraft Through the Ages”) to life with an original live score, transforming the haunting masterpiece into a fully immersive experience. With its infamous depictions of witchcraft, demons, and superstition, HÄXAN has been
The Ugly Stepsister
A sinister, twisted twist on the classic Brothers Grimm Cinderella story, THE UGLY STEPSISTER follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful and enchanting stepsister Agnes in an attempt to earn Prince Julian’s affection – at any cost. In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal
The Girl with the Needle
A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world. Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn‘s latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to
The Apprentice
THE APPRENTICE is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential, infamous right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn. With Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan. “A
Handling the Undead
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death
About Dry Grasses
Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Further disenchanted when he and Kenan (Musab Ekici), a colleague, come under public scrutiny, Samet fears circumstances will keep him in Anatolia and his dreams of a new life
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
It’s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an ‘archeological’ dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town. When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture
Godland
The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the perilous trek to Iceland’s remote
Living
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city’s bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical