Special Events

Dir. various - 2023 - 105m approx. - MUST BE 18 YEARS OR OLDER! ALL SEATS $25.38

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The New 2023 Annual HUMP! Film Festival Featuring All New Porn Shorts!

HUMP! IS BACK IN 2023 WITH AN ALL NEW LINEUP OF FILMS!

HUMP! is a lovingly curated festival of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The filmmakers and stars show us hot and sexy, creative and kinky, ultimate turn-ons and craziest fantasies. Our program is a cornucopia of body types, shapes, ages, colors, sexualities, genders, kinks, and fetishes—all united by a shared spirit of sex-positivity. HUMP! will shock you. HUMP! will make you laugh. HUMP! will turn you on. HUMP! has been successfully disrupting the way America sees, makes, and shares porn since 2005. Come and get some!

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Dir. Peter Bratt - 2017 - 95m - $5 donation or long sleeves shirts suggested for movie entrance fee!

Special thanks to the UNM Farmworker Awareness Committee!

Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day, at 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change.

“Exuberantly inspiring… makes you want to march and dance.” — David Talbot, San Francisco Chronicle

“A documentary of exceptional storytelling power.” — Joanne Butcher, CineSource

“Energetic, engaging” — Dennis Harvey, Variety

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Dir. Amy Reid - 2022 - 74m - NO MATINEES

DIRECTOR IN PERSON FOR TALK/Q&A!  A NO NAME CINEMA SPECIAL CO-THROW!

A feature-length experimental documentary created while riding with three long haul female truck drivers around the Southwest USA. Reid made the film while acting as a crew of one; independently filming on 16mm film and digital video, recording sound, editing, and raising funds to complete the project.

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Dir. Amy Heckerling - 1995 - 97m - ALL SEATS $10

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Join New Mexico Entertainment for the March Movie Night screening of Clueless. Early bird ticket purchasers have the chance to win door prizes from local businesses and organizations around town.

STORYLINE: Shallow, rich, and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give the hopelessly klutzy new student, Tai, a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him. (Rotten Tomatoes)

NME MOVIE NIGHT IS A LIMITED-SEAT EVENT. It is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED that you arrive NO LATER THAN 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOW to choose your seats and have time to grab something at concessions. Thank you!

COVID PROCEDURES: The Guild Cinema is a mask-friendly venue. Masks are encouraged during our movie screenings (subject to change depending on current mandates by the State). We will also provide hand sanitizer and remind patrons to perform basic hygiene practices while attending.

PLEASE NOTE: TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. Please bring your Hold My Ticket confirmation with your current state ID and check in at the Guild Box Office NO LATER THAN 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOW. If you do not have your receipt, please make sure you have your ID. We will have a list at the box office. If we have a sold-out performance or event, tickets will be released for resale to our standby list if you have not checked TEN MINUTES AFTER THE SHOW STARTS. Thank you for your punctuality!

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Dir. Dir. Barbara Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakami - 1980 - 83m - ALL SEATS $8

A raunchy, gory thrill ride where slimy beasts and gratuitous T&A fill the screen from start to finish. Basically a Corman remake of his own PIRANHA but with monster suits, HUMANOIDS has sleazy fun value — with a slam-bang climax featuring an entire town trashed by marauding fishfolk.

Featuring beloved genre stalwarts Vic Morrow and Doug McClure, and with SFX from Rob Bottin (THE THING) and Chris Walas (THE FLY), seeing is believing as the salmon are definitely coming home to spawn!

"You really need to go back and see how it was done back in the day ... with reckless abandon and lots of splattery fun in mind" - Steve, Dread Central

"Takes the theme of the Julie Adams-lusting 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' to an extreme that the censors would not have allowed in the 1950s..." - John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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Dir. Wim Wenders - 1987 - 127m - NO MATINEES - Germany - In German & English with English subtitles

IN HONOR OF OUR LATE GREAT FRIEND AND LOCAL MOVIEMAKING HERO ALAN FULFORD!

One of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies with Bruno Ganz as Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.

"Wim Wenders’ astonishing, award-winning fantasy drama depicts life in a divided Berlin through the eyes of angels." - Joe Clay, Times (UK)

"If some restorations of classic films are mere spit and polish, this one is spectacular: a deepening and sharpening of existing beauty." - Danny Leigh, Financial Times

"A cinema of ideas, almost an essay movie, and utterly distinctive." - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

"A stunningly made valentine to the city of Berlin, which has never been more imaginatively or more beautifully filmed. A joy from start to finish." - David Stratton, At the Movies (Australia)

"A beautiful, literate and romantic piece of cinema." - Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine

"A fantasy that... goes right in spite of its solemn style." - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

"Wim Wenders’ most purely romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day, the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love." - Sean Axmaker, Stream on Demand

"Remains a stunning cinematic achievement, and sits near the top of an exceptional filmography from one of not just Germany but Europe’s most celebrated directors." - Chris Connor, Flickering Myth

"The film remains as soothing and esoteric as it was upon release, suffused with a sweet lyricality and lightness of touch despite its heavily philosophical outlook." - Steph Green, WeLoveCinema

"Brobably the closest thing to a popular movie about metaphysics that the medium has had yet to offer." - Dennis Harvey, 48 Hills

"Peter Handke's script plays a big role when it injects into the movie a suitable poetic breath." - Octavi Marti, El Pais (Spain)

"Wenders has made a film that is elegiac but harsh, hard-edged and romantic, haunted as well as haunting, but that... holds out the promise of love as a benign coming-to-rest." - Molly Haskel, Vogue

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Dir. Arcie Chapa - 2023 - 60m - ONLY A $5 ADMISSION!

DIRECTOR IN PERSON FOR SEVERAL OF THE SCREENINGS!

An hour long visually stunning documentary film about New Mexico's enduring acequias as seen through the eyes of farmers, advocates, scholars, practitioners, lawmakers, journalists and members of the community. Award winning filmmaker, Aracely "Arcie" Chapa has crafted an emotional and reverential tribute to acequias' past, present and future. With funding from UNM's Center for Regional Studies, the film unfolds through a series of storylines including the acequias' current challenges, such as climate change and water rights transfers, their important role in the development of local food sheds, and the economic opportunity they provide for members of rural communities. Further, in an arid state where every drop of water is studied and tracked, it has been shown that acequias provide recharge to our groundwater systems as water seeps into the earth beneath the flow. For over 400 years, Acequias have been in continuous use and remain important to an understanding of New Mexico's acequia heritage and the continuing relevance of these water democracies.

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Dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans - 1988 - 88m - ALL SEATS $10

Join New Mexico Entertainment for the April Movie Night screening of I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Early bird ticket purchasers have the chance to win door prizes from local businesses and organizations around town.

STORYLINE: Featuring Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Steve James, Damon Wayans & many others!  Jack Spade comes home to the ghetto and finds his brother dead from a gold chain overdose. With the help of his hero, John Slade, and a team of washed-up crime fighters, Spade declares vengeance on Mr. Big, the white crime leader responsible for selling gold chains on the streets. But Spade realizes that he must take matters into his own hands to finish the job in this zany spoof of 1970s blaxploitation films. 

NME MOVIE NIGHT IS A LIMITED-SEAT EVENT.  It is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED that you arrive NO LATER THAN 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOW to choose your seats and have time to grab something at concessions. Thank you!

COVID PROCEDURES:  The Guild Cinema is a mask-friendly venue. Masks are encouraged during our movie screenings (subject to change depending on current mandates by the State). We will also provide hand sanitizer and remind patrons to perform basic hygiene practices while attending.

PLEASE NOTE:  TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.  Please bring your Hold My Ticket confirmation with your current state ID and check in at the Guild Box Office NO LATER THAN 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOW. If you do not have your receipt, please make sure you have your ID. We will have a list at the box office. If we have a sold-out performance or event, tickets will be released for resale to our standby list if you have not checked TEN MINUTES AFTER THE SHOW STARTS. Thank you for your punctuality!

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Dir. Michael Apted - 1992 - 119m - No Matinees

A SOVEREIGN MIND PRODUCTIONS / NATIVEZINE PRESENTATION SPONSORED BY AMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY!

Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard and Graham Greene star in this powerful murder mystery with all the style and suspense of Witness. Kilmer stars as Ray Levoi, a hotshot FBI agent who's thrust into a strange new world when he is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. Hand-picked because of his part-Sioux ancestry, Levoi is teamed with a legendary older agent (Shepard) to capture a radical Indian protester. But once on the reservation, Levoi encounters the irreverent local sheriff (Greene), and the tribe's religious leader (Chief Ted Thin Elk), who knows secrets about Levoi's own lost heritage. And as Levoi's awareness of the native culture grows, so does his belief that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man. A crackerjack mystery and a personal triumph of the heart.

"Stylishly balancing thrills, mysticism and political outrage, Apted's produced his most absorbing movie since Coal Miner's Daughter." - David Ansen, Newsweek

"ties together in ways that whisper of a deep, organic logic, both the humanly visible as well as the existence of unseen, other-dimensional realities that were commonplace in early American tribal life." - Mark Jackson, Epoch Times

"Behind the fiction... is a very real history of conflict between Indian activists and the FBI, which culminated in the Wounded Knee siege of 1973..." - Sean Axmaker, Turner Classic Movies Online

A fascinating murder mystery story that at the same time brings to our attention the plight of the modern Indians living on the reservation." - Dennis Schwartz, Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

"Unique film set on Native American reservation and featuring Val Kilmer." -Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

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Dir. Scott Fivelson - 2023 - 95m - NO MATINEES

“That’s just the way it was back then.” - Oskar Knight, Jr.

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The slap that Will Smith unceremoniously presented to Chris Rock was nothing compared to how the Oscars treated the Most Nominated Director in History, Oskar Knight, for most of his career. But in the end, did Knight finally take home the gold?  Like with The Exorcist, please don’t tell anyone what happens during the last 10 minutes…!

From writer/director Scott Fivelson comes the new Hollywood comedy biopic, Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story, starring the late, great Lenny Von Dohlen (Twin Peaks, Tender Mercies, Electric Dreams) as legendary director, Oskar Knight. 

Also starring a cavalcade of stars from throughout the decades of Hollywood, including Academy Award Winner Margaret O’Brien, International Emmy Winner David Suchet, Joaquim de Almeida, Julianna Guill, Rudolf Martin, Kristina Anapau, Randall Batinkoff, Lawrence Pressman, Maya Stange, Julian Flynn, Jon Provost (the original “Timmy” from TV’s Lassie), Noel Neill (the original “Lois Lane” from TV’s Superman), and many more. 

The film, which won Fivelson the Breakthrough Director’s Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and actor Jay Gillespie Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, brought composer Ted Reedy the award for Best Song (“Theme from Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story”) at the Garden State Film Festival. With inventive cinematography and editing by David Polcino and a score that also includes  “Walkin’ My Karma” by acclaimed singer-songwriter Junior Burke and “Bright Morning Star” by BBC Radio 2 awarded Irish folk artist Cara Dillon.

Come relive the story of Hollywood in a way it’s never been told before. He probably never should have made Oskar Knight’s Moby Dick, but he did make They Came in Low. 

It’s Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story.

“Delightfully crafted, engagingly funny… Sandwiched somewhere between This Is Spinal Tap and Sunset Boulevard, this unique biopic is the story of one of the greatest Hollywood directors that you’ve never heard of — Oskar Knight.” - The Ryder Magazine and Film Series

“Genuinely funny… Portraying the gigantic legacy left behind by Fivelson’s filmmaking legend Oskar Knight, the picture shows not only a satirical view on near-enough a hundred years of film history, but also in its details and accuracy demonstrates a true love and respect for cinema.” - Filmotomy

“In this highly entertaining biography, deftly and warmly directed by Los Angeles writer/director Scott Fivelson… it all seemed so real that I felt transported back to that era. That’s how engaging this film is… Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story is one of the best films I have seen in years and it is truly not to be missed.” - The Metropolis Planet

“Beyond everything else, Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story is a love letter to Old Hollywood… Indeed, I think Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story could be destined to be a classic itself.” - A Shroud of Thoughts

"I thought it was a documentary going into it, and the funny thing is that it’s not a documentary… It was a documentary, but not… Incredibly well-done – it blew me away… You guys have gotta see this… Was very, totally original…  I’ve not seen a film like this.” - Kazzy Creates & Reacts

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Dir. Jared Hess - 2004 - 86m - ALL SEATS $10

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Join New Mexico Entertainment for the April Movie Night screening of Napoleon Dynamite. Early bird ticket purchasers have the chance to win door prizes from local businesses and organizations around town including a custom poster created by artist Jeremy Montoya.

STORYLINE: In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico (Jon Gries), shows up to keep an eye on him. With no safe haven at home or at school, Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president. (Google)

NME MOVIE NIGHT IS A LIMITED-SEAT EVENT. It is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED that you arrive NO LATER THAN 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOW to choose your seats and have time to grab something at concessions. Thank you!

COVID PROCEDURES:  The Guild Cinema is a mask-friendly venue. Masks are encouraged during our movie screenings (subject to change depending on current mandates by the State). We will also provide hand sanitizer and remind patrons to perform basic hygiene practices while attending.

PLEASE NOTE:  TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.  Please bring your Hold My Ticket confirmation with your current state ID and check in at the Guild Box Office NO LATER THAN 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE SHOW. If you do not have your receipt, please make sure you have your ID. We will have a list at the box office. If we have a sold-out performance or event, tickets will be released for resale to our standby list if you have not checked TEN MINUTES AFTER THE SHOW STARTS. Thank you for your punctuality!

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Dir. Lina Wertmuller - 1975 - 116m - NO MATINEES - Italy - Italian w/English subtitles

Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.

"Lina Wertmuller's audacious art-house hit is at once ruthless, sadistic and cynical -- it's also very funny, using its black comedy trappings to unearth laughs where none should exist." - Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

"It's a stimulating movie that provokes thought and emotion in perfect cadence." - Dale Pollock, Santa Cruz Sentinel

"Intriguing...absorbing and mysterious" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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Dir. Richard Donner - 1976 - 111m - ALL SEATS $10

A DARK ROOM HORROR SPECIAL!  ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE AVAILABLE SOON!

A timeless, bone-chilling thriller set to Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar-Winning Original Score!

American diplomat Robert (Gregory Peck) adopts Damien (Harvey Stephens) when his wife, Katherine (Lee Remick), delivers a stillborn child. After Damien's first nanny hangs herself, Father Brennan (Patrick Troughton) warns Robert that Damien will kill Katherine's unborn child. Shortly thereafter, Brennan dies and Katherine miscarries when Damien pushes her off a balcony. As more people around Damien die, Robert investigates Damien's background and realizes his adopted son may be the Antichrist. 

"One of the finest horror films of the 1970s." - Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy

"Delivers splendidly." - Jacoba Atlas, Los Angeles Free Press

"Rich with forbidding details and impressive scare tactics." - Mike Massie, Gone With The Twins

"Directed by Richard Donner at a pace that creates moods of fear punctuated by sly and devilish humor. The climactic scene alone should win him any award for which he is nominated; it is, perhaps, the most chilling final 20 minutes ever put on film." - Ed Barnard, Philadelphia Gay News

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Dir. Nicholas Meyer & Tyler Chandler - 2022 - 90m approx. - NO MATINEES

A DOSED MOVIE / GOLDEN TEACHER FILMS INC. SPECIAL!  GET ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE NOW!

BONUS:  POST-SCREENING TALK / Q&A ON TUESDAY APRIL 25th

An award-winning documentary that has been called “raw and insightful” (Forbes) and “must see” (RogerEbert.Com).

Laurie, a terminally ill cancer patient and loving mother of four, is granted the right to legally use magic mushrooms to treat her end of life anxiety. She then embarks on a remarkable journey of personal transformation and healing while exploring lesser known possible cures for cancer, like cannabis oil. (Watch the trailer below)

DOSED 2: The Trip of a Lifetime features: Dr Gabor Maté, Paul Stamets, Dennis McKenna, Dave Phillips, Sharan Sidhu, Ben Lightburn, Chino Julian, Garyth Moxey, Dr Rob Sealey, Dana Larsen, Tyler Chandler, Nicholas Meyers, and Laurie and Glenn Brooks.

Many thanks to Louis from Mycology Now and organizations like TheraPsil, The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary, Filament Health and Numinus for being part of Laurie's inspiring journey.

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Dir. Bill Basquin - 2023 - 84m - NO MATINEES

POST-SCREENING IN-PERSON TALK/Q&A WITH THE DIRECTOR!

A feature-length film meditation on vulnerability and interdependence. The film is composed of multiple digital and analog formats: 16mm film, HD video, infrared stills, inter-titles, drawings, and sound recordings. Basquin structured The filming of From Inside of Here around a series of camping trips in the Gila Forest, which is a site for the reintroduction of the endangered Mexican Grey Wolf.

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Dir. Charlie Minn - 2023 - 80m - Director in Person!

A DOUBLEWAVE PRODUCTIONS / CHARLIE MINN SPECIAL PRESENTATION ONE NIGHT ONLY!

On Jan 24th, 2022 in Albuquerque, NM a massage parlor owner Sihui Fang was brutally gunned down inside her business. Acclaimed filmmaker Charlie Minn("A Nightmare in Las Cruces") explores her senseless murder along with a larger picture of Asian hate that has creeped into America.

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Dir. Michael Glover Smith - 2023 - 97m

Starring Wendy Robie (Twin Peaks), Francis Guinan (Steppenwolf Theater Ensemble member), Cameron Scott Roberts (The Walking Dead), Melissa DuPrey (Grey’s Anatomy), Clare Cooney (Chicago Med), Keith D. Gallagher (Orders), Emily Lape (Mercy’s Girl), Elizabeth Stam (Bleed American)!

A comedy/drama about three days in the life of a modern American family. Karen Frank (Wendy Robie) and her husband David (Francis Guinan) are retirement-age progressive activists who have lived in the same Victorian home in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood for 30 years. It's the house in which their four children grew up and where two of their children, adult sons Benji (Cameron Scott Roberts) and Rod (Keith D. Gallagher), still live. On the eve of Benji’s graduation from college, daughters Evonne (Clare Cooney) and Norma (Emily Lape) return home from out-of-state for a weekend celebration. Evonne brings her daughter, Emma (Arielle Gonzalez), and newly separated wife, Lucia (Melissa DuPrey); Norma arrives alone, with thoughts of wasted potential as she reconsiders her suburban life; Rod, an unemployed burnout, pines for Sarah (Heather Chrisler), the “cam girl" ex who left him years ago; and all Benji wants to do is escape the party to rendezvous with Hekla (Elizabeth Stam), a free-spirited actress he met the night prior. As David and Karen announce the potential sale of their home, each member of the Frank family finds their bonds with the others being tested – and strengthened – in surprising ways.

“Featuring a brilliant and eclectic cast of talented veterans and relative newcomers, this is a wickedly funny, occasionally poignant and authentic-to-its-core drama/comedy about three eventful days in the life of a totally relatable extended family." (***1/2 stars out of four) — Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

"His intimate, actor-driven dramas are set not merely in the real world, but in specific locales, with dialogue testifying to the fact that both the characters and the place have histories that still weigh on them in the present. The movies are ragged and imperfect, alternate awkward and sublime, but when they hit, they strike deep and tear you up." (*** stars out of four) — Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

"Crucial Viewing: Smith gracefully interweaves the lives of all four siblings, their liberal Baby Boomer parents, and a handful of other characters as they come together amiably and unhurriedly, employing the time-honored scenario of the big family gathering to consider how many of us live at the dawn of the 2020s." — Ben Sachs, Cine-File

"One of the first great films I've seen in 2022...an impeccably cast, superbly directed and utterly captivating ode to the spontaneity and resilience of human connection." — Matt Fagerholm, Indie Outlook

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Dir. Nikias Chryssos - 2023 - 91m - Greece & Germany - in Greek & German with English subtitles - ALL SEATS $8

An offbeat dystopian thriller/coming-of-age tale about two young siblings engulfed in a secret community obsessed with soap, located on a remote Greek island. Award-winning director Nikias Chryssos follows up on his success with the story of a young and feverish boy named Paul who must challenge the obsessive community that surrounds him in order to free his sister from the nefarious conspirations of the cult leader, Fust. Funny, bizarre, poetic and tender, A Pure Place is a tale about love, rebellion and what it means to be actually clean.

“One of the most radical genre films in germany in the last years.“ – Epd Film

 “Part fable, part lynchian nightmare, and an equal dose of a socialist parable, a pure place is a deftly constructed satiric horror that never ceases to amaze.“ – Joonatan Itkonen, Toisto Magazine Finland

 “An unsettling and darkly witty allegorical fairy tale of ex-nazis, mad messianic ambition, and arcane cult activity in the greek islands.” – Grimmfest, UK

 “Slickly stylised ‘cult’ movie exposes the fascistic flaws and filth in one man’s insular utopia.” – Projected Figures, UK

“A satire of which you never understand to what extent it should be taken seriously and a cutting story at the service of a fairytale and at the same time disturbing style. It is no coincidence that chryssos has been called the german gaspar noé and one of his inspirations is lanthimos, when already in 2015 his first film the bunker was germany’s answer to dogtooth . We add some midsommar folklore and nicholas winding refn’s neon lights, and a pure place is ready to wield its spell, amidst intoxicating images of greek mythology and the classical music that accompanies them. At pure place shows the totalitarian mechanisms of cults, sects and other religious communities. It is a caustic farce about the obsession with cleanliness of our time, a study of a rigid society reproduced on a small scale, a complicated multi-layered and then again pleasantly clear, terrible and funny at the same time. Behind the surface of the genre lies a political allegory that includes the terror of the national socialists, as well as other ideological currents, who want to realize their ideas about what they see as a pure world, and by any means necessary.” – The Hot Corn, Italy

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Dir. Anthonee Smith - 2023 - 81m

At The The Show the Fruitbird gang has tons of new surreal comedy shorts to share to the mammalian world. 

Summer With Sasquatch Special Look - Fruitbirdfilms first narrative feature and has been in production since 2020. Here we share a glimpse of what we have been working on. Director: Anthonee Smith.  Run Time: 9 Min 34 Sec

ZergyZ - We are proud to showcase music videos from local musician ZergyZ's need2sleep and BABYWEEDV3.  Director: Isaiah Velasquez & Shawn Maestas.  need2sleep: 3 Min, BABYWEEDV3: 2 Min 20 Sec

Tranquility Wizard -  We are proud to showcase a music video from local musician Tranquility Wizard titled Junipers Tale.  Director: Kenneth Vigil.  Run Time: 3 Min 35 Sec

Sitcom Show - On the 3rd episode of Fruitbird TV, Pete Casserole continues his mayoral campaign and Wombo gets lost!  Director: Anthonee Smith.  Run Time: 29 Min 39 Sec

The Zoo - One day The Narrator can't tell if he is dreaming or alive as he wonders through a surreal zoo.  Directors: Anthonee Smith, Kenneth Vigil.  Run Time: 8 Min 1 Sec

The Museum - The Narrator learns the hard truth of his reality from some new bony friends.  Directors: Anthonee Smith, Kenneth Vigil & Robert Velasquez.  Run Time: 12 Min 57 Sec

The End - After destroying the world from buying a soda from a sketchy dinosaur, The Narrator finally takes a stand to say no to war.  Director: Anthonee Smith, Kenneth Vigil, & Robert Velasquez.  Run Time: 11 Min 53 Sec

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