USA
Director: Julian Grant

From Chicago filmmaker Julian Grant comes this “neo-noir musical crime drama.” Benji is set up to take the fall for an ill-fated kidnapping, but still finds time to sing when he isn’t hastily bandaging injuries or trying to determine the motivations of a stripper with questionable loyalties. Mixing visual styles and utterly defying any attempt at clear categorization, this catchy, gritty film is not to be missed.

English, 84 min

Cuba
Director: Lester Hamlet

In a diverse and cosmopolitan contemporary Havana, young Arthur meets and falls in love with Cecilia, a beautiful prostitute. Their idyllic aspirations for love and happiness quickly meet with complications. Fable is ultimately a moving, sincere exploration of the possibilities for love in a city defined by economic and social adversity.

Spanish with subtitles, 92 min

Jordan
Director: Said Najmi

In the deserts of Petra, Jordan, Mfadi struggles to decide whether to stay in his humble home or move his family to the city in a carefully observed study of a people and their changing way of life.

Part of: Shorts 5: Spotlight Middle East

Arabic with subtitles, 16 min

Canada
Directors: Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math

Everyone has a dream, and for Sigurdur Hjartarson, it is the Icelandic Phallological Museum. Having established the pre-eminent shrine to the penises of the world’s diverse species, his collection is only missing one vital piece: that of a human being. Chronicling his bizarre but sincere quest, The Final Member reveals the lecherous elderly Icelandic man and eccentric American who are vying to claim a very unique “world’s first.”

English and Icelandic with subtitles, 75 min

USA
Director: Robert Zemeckis

In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award®-winner Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane. Flight stars Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, and John Goodman, among others.

6:30 pm Red carpet
7:00 pm Screening
10:00 pm Reception, LuxBar (18 E. Bellevue Pl.)

English, 138 min