Art House Café Film Series (click to see this weeks film)

This film series brings art house film flavor to your Tuesdays. Meet new friends and hear from special guests who are film experts. Enjoy light refreshments. Have a discussion after the film.  

June 23: Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) In this year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary, a Russian teacher witnesses and secretly records the militarization of his small-town primary school during the Ukraine invasion. 1 hr., 30 min. (NR)

June 30: Sight (2023) When a brilliant eye surgeon is called on to help a child blinded by an abusive parent, it reawakens traumatic memories of his childhood during the Cultural Revolution in China. Based on a true story, this moving drama stars Terry Chen, Greg Kinnear, and Natasha Mumba. 1 hr., 43 min. (PG-13)

July 7: Brimstone & Glory (2017) This visually enthralling documentary captures the skill, passion, and peril of the National Pyrotechnics Festival in Tultepec, a small Mexican town where most of the population has crafted fireworks for generations. In Spanish with English subtitles. 1 hr., 7 min. (NR)

July 14: The Summer Book (2024) Glenn Close gives another fine performance as the grandmother of a small child coming to grips with the loss of her mother during a quiet summer on a small island in Finland.  1 hr., 30 min. (NR)

July 21: Into the Amazon (2018) An expedition into the South American rainforest becomes a test of courage in this American Experience documentary, relating the harrowing 1914 journey taken by Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. 1 hr., 53 min. (NR)

July 28: Róise & Frank (2022) In this charming Irish film, an unusually persistent stray dog shows up at the doorstep of a grieving widow who comes to believe that it may be her reincarnated husband. Directed by Rachael Moriarty, the movie stars Brid Ni Neachtain and Cillian O’Gairbhi. In Gaelic with English subtitles. 1 hr., 24 min. (NR)