Documentary

Join us for a screening of Seven Generations of Hope followed by a panel discussion and reception. When Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican youth return to their ancestral homeland, an unexpected partnership with Catholic sisters transforms both groups—proving that healing intergenerational trauma begins with choosing hope over history. Together, they find common ground in the seven generations principle: the idea that decisions made today should allow seven generations in the future to thrive. The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring representatives from the Westchester Land Trust, the New York Community Trust, the Dominican Sisters of Hope, filmmaker Joe Plante, and Tribal Members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.

In memory of our friend and patron, Clive Davis. More than mere biography, CLIVE DAVIS: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is a guided tour of a cultural revolution that deeply impacted the music industry through the career of a man who consistently caught the next wave before everyone else — if he didn’t just create the wave himself. From the ’60s to the rise of hip-hop, Davis discovered, mentored, or oversaw an incredible range of performers during his career including: Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Santana, Miles Davis, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, The Grateful Dead, Kenny G, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys. Many of them are featured, in both archival footage and contemporary interviews, to attest to Davis’ singular talent and blessed life, as well as the work that went into one to create the other. In Aretha’s words, Davis is “the greatest record man of all time,” and this film is definitive, ceaselessly entertaining proof.

In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off on a 6000-mile cross-continent mission - to find Lotta, the woman who had captured his heart. A love story like no other, THE CYCLE OF LOVE is an inspiring, heart-warming, epic true-life adventure about the search for self-belief and risking everything for what your heart tells you. Presented in English and Hindi with English subtitles.

The 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, the musical about the life of Jesus, starred a then-unknown cast of Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, and Victor Garber, et al, with Paul Shaffer serving as musical director – a crazy confluence of talent rivalling ‘Paris in the 20s.’ Featuring interviews with all the surviving members of the cast, as well as other show business luminaries who testify to the production’s profound and lasting influence, the film also makes use of never-before-seen-or-heard archives from the cast, including rare audio recordings of the musical itself, as well as the hilarious cast parties of the gang hanging out at Marty and Eugene’s apartment at 1063 Avenue Road late into the night, which will shed joyful new light on this magical time and place.

A Q&A with the filmmakers follows the film. Set against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan's America, Mario traces Mario Cuomo's journey from the son of Italian immigrants to the New York governor who championed government as a force for compassion. Weaved together through archival footage, reflections from his family, and excerpts from his personal diaries, the film portrays a leader shaped by humility, intellect, and the struggles of his parents' generation. His early legal battles defending working-class families against powerful interests became the foundation for his belief that politics should serve those without privilege. That conviction would guide him through decades of leadership defined by empathy, eloquence, and an unwavering sense of moral duty.

Ten states. 10,825 miles. 123 theaters. Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving. Between the stops along the way, Rustin poetically intersperses excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 classic film The Last Picture Show, as well as reflections on past and present hardships facing the film exhibition industry. The Last Picture Shows is not only a timely portrait of an industry in crisis, one facing the headwinds of consolidation, streaming, and the diminishing theatrical experience, but it also reminds viewers that even in vast cinema deserts, there are oases of community and gathering that remain, where the movie house continues to be a place of wonder, contemplation, and connection.