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Marc By Sofia

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A portrait of two kindred spirits working at the top of their game, supporting each other creatively through the years and drawing closer through their mutual passions, Marc by Sofia is a charming and loving tribute to what it means to stay up all night talking on the phone about Fassbinder, Fosse, and Fiorucci with that one special person in your life who just gets it.

André Is an Idiot

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A celebration of life filled with raw honesty, surreal bursts of imagination, and brazen irreverence, André Is an Idiot shows us what it really means to live happily, truthfully, and hilariously. In this Sundance award-winning documentary, André Riccardi sets out to chronicle his final journey after receiving a diagnosis he could have prevented, through comedic vérité storytelling and fantastical stop-motion interludes.

A Raisin in the Sun

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Based on the 1959 foundational Chicago play penned by the legendary Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun is a portrait of the experience a generation of Black families endured on the front lines of demanding recognition of their personhood while planting seeds of stability through one family’s battle of homeownership on the the shifting sands of integration on Chicago’s South Side. Realized for the screen in 1961 by director Daniel Petrie and made iconic through the unforgettable performances of a cast led by Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, the film exposes the torturous reality of what happens to a dream deferred.[…]

ASCO: Without Permission

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ASCO: Without Permission profiles the extraordinary, LA-based, Chicano art group ASCO, and through a genre-defying approach, reimagines what is possible today in art and cinema while celebrating an iconoclastic group that was far ahead of its time.

Cooley High

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Set in early 1960s Chicago, Cooley High follows two best friends as they navigate their senior year at Cooley Vocational School near Cabrini-Green. Between everyday adventures, neighborhood tensions, and dreams of the future, they imagine lives far beyond the confines of their community.
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