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Opening Night feat. Pakistani nacho feast by Khana!
Zed (Riz Ahmed) is a British Pakistani rapper who, on the cusp of his first world tour, is struck down by an illness that forces him to face his past, his family, and the uncertainty of his legacy.

Plus tapas tasting!
Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, a mother and daughter bluff and grift to fund their extravagant daily life—with impending eviction never too far from sight. Official Selection, 2021 Sundance Film Festival; Opening Night, 2021 New Directors/New Films.

The latest in Matías Piñeiro's series inspired by the women of Shakespeare's comedies is his most structurally daring and visually stunning work to date. Isabella is a film about the ongoing battle between doubt and ambition that never discounts the possibility of a new beginning.

After a shocking incident upends her marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation, in this incendiary drama about art, desire, and the modern family from director Pablo Larraín.

While protests rage in the streets, Marianne’s high society family prepares for her wedding. But soon the party is unable to keep the reckoning at bay, and what follows is a swift disintegration of law and order defined first by class lines, then by disastrous government recapitulation.

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. With its pulsating score, visceral imagery, and some of the most haunting performances ever captured on screen, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

Plus truffle dinner with Bunny Bunny!

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. Starring Nicolas Cage and Alex Wolff.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Todd Haynes, “The Velvet Underground” shows just how the group became a cultural touchstone representing a range of contradictions: the band is both of their time, yet timeless; literary yet realistic; rooted in high art and street culture.