Always Shine (2016) | May 24, 12:00 am

Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives forever. – Amazon

Director: Sophia Takal

Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine

Country: United States

Distributor: Oscilloscope

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Platform: Amazon Prime

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

Supa Modo (2018) | May 23, 7:00 pm

Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl, is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn, and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill. – Telescope Film

Director: Likarion Wainaina

Cast: Stycie Waweru, Nyawara Ndambia, Marrianne Nungo, Johnson Gitau Chege

Country: Germany, Kenya

Distributor: Juno Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 14 minutes

Platform: Video-On-Demand (Now available on Amazon Prime)

Special Programming: Family Films

Special Events: Centerpiece Gala

Take Me Somewhere Nice (2019) | May 23, 5:30 pm

Alma travels to Bosnia to bid farewell to a father she hardly knows. This starts a journey with an unknown destination in which the outwardly indifferent teen discovers herself and her country of origin. – MUBI

Director: Ena Sendijarević

Cast: Sara Luna Zoric, Lazar Dragojevic, Ernad Prnjavorac

Country: Netherlands, Bosnia, Herzegovina

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes

Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)

Selah and the Spades (2019) | May 23, 3:00 pm

Five factions run the underground life of Haldwell School, a prestigious east coast boarding school. At the head of the most powerful faction – The Spades – sits Selah Summers, walking the fine line between being feared and loved. – Amazon Prime

Director: Tayarisha Poe

Cast: Lovie Simone, Nekhebet Kum Juch, Ana Mulvoy-Ten, Jharrel Jerome, Jesse Williams, Celeste O’Connor

Country: United States

Distributor: Amazon Pictures

Rating: R

Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes

Platform: Amazon Prime

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

Filmmaker Conversations

Liz and the Blue Bird (2018) | May 23, 1:00 pm

Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are two close friends who are part of the Kitauji High School music club. Quiet and reserved Yoroizuka plays the oboe while lively and popular Kasaki plays the flute. The group has decided to play Liz and the Blue Bird, a song inspired on a fairy tale about the relationship between a girl and a bird. The musical piece puts both Mizore and Nozomi on the spotlight due to a solo part by Yoroizuka and forces the two girls to reexamine their friendship. – Hoopla

Director: Naoko Yamada

Cast: Atsumi Tanezaki, Nao Touyama, Ayaka Asai, Tomoyo Kurosawa

Country: Japan

Distributor: Shout! Factory

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Platform: Hoopla

Pachamama (2018) | May 23, 11:00 am

When a sacred statue is taken from his Andean village, a spirited boy who dreams of becoming a shaman goes on a brave mission to get it back. – Netflix

Director: Juan Antín

Cast: Andrea Santamaria, India Coenen, Saïd Amadis, Marie Christine Darah

Country: France, Luxembourg, Canada

Distributor: Netflix

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1 hour, 12 minutes

Platform: Netflix

Special Programming: Family Films