FILM LINEUP

After Antarctica

Documentary / 104 min / USA / 2021

Director: Tasha Van Zandt

"After Antarctica" follows legendary polar explorer Will Stegerʼs lifelong journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes to the polar regions of our planet. After a lifetime of landmark expeditions across both poles, no one alive has seen more of the polar world.

Aftersun

Narrative / 98 min / UK, USA / 2022

Director: Charlotte Wells

At a vacation resort, Sophie treasures rare time with her father. Twenty years later, Sophie's recollections of their last holiday become a portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't. Special presentation of A24.

The Allnighter

Narrative / 79 min / USA / 2022

Director: Aimee Graham

When an astrophysics student loses priceless research to an auto theft, he makes a bargain with a woman at a local pawn shop in order to get it back. The woman drags him to the desert where the two unwittingly play integral roles in healing old wounds. MIDWEST PREMIERE

Always, Lola

Narrative / 87 min / USA / 2022

Director: Jeffrey Crane Graham

After popular high school senior Lola dies, her best friends reunite on their annual camping trip to honor her, only to discover murky secrets around her death that threaten to unhinge both her memory and their friend group.

American Pain

Documentary / 106 min / USA / 2022

Director: Darren Foster

The rise and fall of twin bodybuilders from Florida who become the kingpins of the largest oxycodone trafficking network in US history. This is the story of the greatest drug racket since the "cocaine cowboys" and the moment the opioid epidemic flipped into overdrive.

An Accidental Life

Documentary / 86 min / USA / 2022

Director: Henna Taylor

After surviving a near fatal climbing accident, speed climber Quinn Brett must not only rediscover how to use her body without the use of her legs, but also how to access the joy that is so central to her being.

Anacoreta

Horror / 85 min / Canada / 2022

Director: Jeremy Schuetze

An actress heads on a mountain trip with her boyfriend to meet his friends for the first time. As they head out it becomes clear that he is filming his latest project, and he has more planned than they realize.

Anonymous Sister

Documentary / 94 min / USA / 2021

Director: Jamie Boyle

Filmed over thirty years, "Anonymous Sister" is director Jamie Boyle's chronicle of her family's fall into opioid addiction, providing a poignant and timely study of what it means to experience life in all its beauty and pain.

MIDWEST PREMIERE