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Community Collaborations

Community Collaborations is an ongoing series of engaging cinematic events in partnership with nonprofits, advocacy groups, passionate individuals, and community organizations to generate conversation and action inspired by film.

Upcoming Screenings

IN THE NAME OF GOD (RAM KE NAAM)

1992 / India / Anand Patwardhan

Tue, Apr 237:00pm

Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India’s population, the greatest danger to the nation’s extremely strained social fabric may come not from Sikh or Muslim separatists, but from Hindu fundamentalists who are appealing to the 83% Hindu majority to redefine India as a Hindu nation.

A STILL SMALL VOICE

2023 / USA / Luke Lorentzen

Tue, Apr 307:00pm

An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.

BEYOND WALLS

2023 / USA / Ash Goh Hua +

Tue, Jun 117:00pm

An anthology of documentary films that define and amplify what prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition means, while inspiring people to imagine and take action toward a world without policing.

Previous Screenings

FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG

1995 / USA / Mark Rappaport

This film blends documentary and fiction to create a portrait of American actress Jean Seberg’s rise to fame.

AFTERSHOCK

2022 / USA / Paula Eiselt +

Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.

ISRAELISM

2023 / USA / Erin Axelman +

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.

TOMBOY

2011 / France / CĂ©line Sciamma

This moving exploration of childhood gender nonconformity follows 10-year-old Laure, who moves to the suburbs and decides to pass as a boy named Mikael.

I, TOO

2022 / USA / Tom Glynn

To some, the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol was an unexpected and shocking attack on democracy. To others, it was a noble attempt to rescue a nation on the brink of collapse. For Carol Anderson, the insurrection was a predictable coda to more than two centuries of American mythology.