PASSPORTS
Incredible, transporting new work from all over the world.
My Neighbor Totoro
- Sat, May 16
Run Time: 86 min. Language: Japanese
Tickets $15. Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Fancy Dance (1989)
- Sun, May 17
Run Time: 101 min. Language: Japanese
Tickets $15. Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
El Topo
- Thu, May 21
Run Time: 125 min. Language: Spanish
Tickets $15. The definitive cult “acid western,” a midnight movie that helped define underground cinema in the 1970s. Blending mysticism, spiritual allegory, and psychedelic imagery, El Topo turns the Western into a hypnotic desert quest for enlightenment.
The President’s Cake
- Sun, May 24
Run Time: 105 min.
Tickets $15. While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday. Winner of the Camera D’Or and Audience Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Oldboy
- Sun, May 24
Run Time: 120 min. Language: Korean
Tickets $15. Imprisoned by a sadistic captor for 15 years, Oh Dae-su survives only because of his will to get even with the villain who has made his life a living hell. But when he’s suddenly released without explanation, he embarks on a quest for revenge and finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque conspiracy.
Chez Jolie Coiffure x HairSpiracy
Run Time: 103 min. Language: French
Tickets FREE. Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the street. She accepts and pushes in with her camera. Sabine’s stories and the customers’ joys, worries, problems and fears bring depth and life into the premises. At times, it feels like the entire African quarter of Brussels had squeezed in. Laughter abounds, anecdotes and life stories elicit emotions, and a male visitor brings a touch of flirt into the salon.
Climax
- Sat, Jun 13
Run Time: 97 min. Language: French
Tickets $15. When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
- Sun, Jun 14
Run Time: 180 min. Language: French
Tickets $15. Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Parasite Smell-o-vision
- Thu, Jun 25
Run Time: 133 min. Language: Korean
Tickets $15. A special one-night-only, immersive, multi-sensory experience! During this special screening, Fumerie Parfumerie will be administering a special scent designed intentionally for the film, alongside the scenes it is intended to be smelled with.