ANNIE SPRINKLE AND BETH STEPHENS — PLAYING WITH FIRE
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens are touring the country with their sui generis documentary PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY, the third their a series of ecosexual films.
DAVID PABLOS — EN EL CAMINO
A remarkable twist to the standard lovers-on-the-run genre, EN EL CAMINO—screening twice at the 2026 Hola Mexico Film Festival—is an explicit revelation of both the tenderness and extreme brutality of life on the road, laying bare a world where affinities
FILIPIÑANA
Meticulous in sound design and choreography, with a rich visual formality that gives fresh meaning to the term “sunshine noir,” a deliberate and inevitable sense of torpor overwhelms FILIPIÑANA’s mise en scène.
CARLA SIMÓN — ROMERÍA
In her third feature, Carla Simón once again draws a fictionalized veil over an autobiographical armature, paying gentle tribute to lives cut short and dreams unrealized.
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK — 4K RESTORATION
Join filmmakers Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, and Steak House for special 4K restoration screenings of BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, an essential missing link in cinema’s buddy-film genre.
PETE OHS — ERUPCJA
ERUPCJA—a descendant of the narrated works of Varda, Godard, Rohmer, et al, that delights in and pays tribute to the mythologies we create around the poetry of happenstance—is a chosen-family affair joining the writing and acting talents of Charli xcx,
MASCHA SCHILINSKI — SOUND OF FALLING
Director Mascha Schilinski’s SOUND OF FALLING—an affective incantation of images and narrative voices—illuminates memory’s unreliability with imaginative force and style.
SATYAJIT RAY — THE 4K RESTORATION OF DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST
“Working with Satyajit Ray was like stepping into the mind of a quiet genius—every word, every gesture mattered, and he had this rare ability to make you discover depths in yourself you didn’t know existed.” — Simi Garewal
ALMODÓVAR AT THE ACADEMY MUSEUM — MATADOR RESTORATION PREMIERE
“I’m fed up being linked to seediness. Beauty in all its manifestations is going to be key in MATADOR.” — Pedro Almodóvar, 1986
IRA SACHS — PETER HUJAR’S DAY
On December 19, 1974, enlisted by writer Linda Rosenkrantz to describe the previous day for posterity, Peter Hujar accidentally captures an entire world in a few hours of considered recollection—now given elegiac, 76-minute form by Ira Sachs in his moving