More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
CINEMA
Evidence
Lee Anne Schmitt traces how the Olin family corporation shaped conservative intellectual networks in the US through decades of funding, weaving her own family history into an exhaustive study of how right-wing thought consolidated.
CINEMA
Debut, or Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
Julian Castronovo updates film noir conventions to a digital-physical hybrid present, constructing an unwieldy catalogue where physical documents, internet searches, and found footage coexist as equal evidence without resolution.
CINEMA
Remake
Ross McElwee reverses his usual method, exploring how filming compulsion has shaped his life and those around him. His son's death, subject of many works, brings elegiac tension: filming no longer preserves but exposes fragility.
CINEMA
The Prince of Nanawa
Clarisa Navas follows Ángel from childhood to adulthood in a small border town between Argentina and Paraguay across ten years, documenting his psychological and social evolution without sentiment or judgment as he is consumed by experience.
CINEMA
Dead Language + Sauf le Passé
Double bill: Dead Language follows an isolated man surrounded by dogs in a violent landscape where wind and silence guard what cannot be fully said; Sauf le Passé explores how museums preserve and present contested histories.
SHORT FILMS
The Recce + Afterlives
Screening at Sala Plató of Daniel Mann's short about location scouting in Uganda that uncovers colonial logics, paired with a second work.
DOCUMENTARY
Second Round
Documentary portrait of transgender men across different ages, sexualities, professions, and temperaments, capturing diverse lived experiences.
CINEMA
Blind Love
Sensitive teen Han questions her family's perfect facade, detecting her mother Shu-yi's unhappiness. Drawn to enigmatic woman Xue-jin, Han's rebellion uncovers a profound connection that redefines her fragile home.
