June 1
Special Engagements

One night only!

In the early 2000s in Toronto, a group of creative young musicians collectively known as Broken Social Scene got together and soon became a worldwide phenomenon. Cinematographer and friend Stephen Chung was there, behind the lens of his camera, capturing it all. Words were not his strong suit, but his camera was. Friendships, relationships, business and art...Stephen lovingly documented the highs and lows of a band who only wanted to create music on…

June 1
Special Engagements / SPX Presents

SPX Presents: NO STRAIGHT LINES: THE RISE OF QUEER COMICS
The road for queer comics from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance was fraught with challenges. The restrictive Comics Code of 1954 censored same-sex images from mainstream comics, and even the comix underground that emerged in the 1960s, supposedly embracing “free love,” initially excluded queerness. NO STRAIGHT LINES chronicles the journeys of five scrappy LGBTQ artists — Alison Bechdel,…

June 1, 3
2025 Spanish Cinema Now!

[SOY NEVENKA]
Shortly after completing her degree in economics, 23-year-old Nevenka Fernández (Mireia Oriol) s the city council of Ponferrada, a small Spanish city, as its financial advisor. The capable young woman relishes the opportunity to make a name for herself while helping the city’s residents — until the popular mayor, accustomed to getting what he wants, sets his lascivious eyes on her. Amidst this harassment, Nevenka takes the unprecedented step of suing…

June 1, 2
2025 Spanish Cinema Now!

[TARDES DE SOLEDAD]
In his mesmerizing latest film, uncompromising Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra (PACIFICTION, AFI FEST 2022) enters the Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain, with established contemporary bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey to construct a documentary portrait teeming with confrontations. A primitive, brutal and highly ritualized custom, each corrida de toros will see the violent death of either the bullfighter or the bull. In the van to and from the…

May 31, June 1
2025 Spanish Cinema Now!

[LA INFILTRADA]
Fresh out of the police academy, Mónica Marín (Carolina Yuste, JOKES & CIGARETTES) gets the assignment of a lifetime when she is asked to go undercover to infiltrate the Basque separatist group ETA. Forced to cut ties with her friends and even her family, she moves to San Sebastían under the name Arantxa, with her boss and fixer Ángel (Luis Tosar, CELL 211, EVEN THE RAIN) as her only to…

May 31, June 1
2025 Spanish Cinema Now!

[CASA EN FLAMES]
Acclaimed comedy director Dani de la Orden (YOU KEEP THE KIDS) returns with a dark family comedy, set in Catalonia’s Costa Brava, that features an all-star cast of Spanish actors, including Emma Vilarasau, Maria Rodríguez Soto, Enric Auquer, Macarena García, Alberto San Juan and Clara Segura. Overbearing matriarch Montse (Vilarasau) gathers her dysfunctional family at her beach house under the guise of prepping it for sale. Daughter Júlia (Soto)…

May 31, June 3
2025 Spanish Cinema Now!

[LOS TORTUGA]
Pablo Larraín regular Antonia Zegers (THE CLUB, A FANTASTIC WOMAN, EL CONDE) stars in a touching two-hander about a mother and daughter reeling from a grievous loss and financial hardship. Delia (Zegers), a Chilean immigrant, drives a taxi across Barcelona to herself and her college-bound daughter, Anabel (newcomer Elvira Lara), after the sudden death of Julián, her Spanish husband. Though mother and daughter love each other, they process their…

May 31, June 2
2025 Spanish Cinema Now!

In her directorial debut, renowned Spanish actress Paz Vega (SEX AND LUCÍA) mines her own Andalusian childhood to tell the story of a young girl awakening to the dangers inside her own home. It is the summer of 1984 in Seville, the Spanish football team has advanced to the quarter finals of the European Championship and seven-year-old Rita (Sofía Allepuz) dreams of visiting the beach and escaping the scorching heat with her…

May 30, 31, June 3
2025 Spanish Cinema Now

[EL LLANTO]
Like any other college student, Andrea (Ester Expósito, ELITE) is inseparable from her cell phone. But while video chatting with her long-distance boyfriend, she discovers a terrifying presence in her apartment, one that is only visible through the camera’s lens. A frantic search through her camera roll reveals this haunting has been going on for a long time. Consumed by fear and a determination to find the origins of…

May 30, June 2
2025 Spanish Cinema Now

Opening Night | Q&A with filmmaker Carlos Marques-Marcet and post-screening reception hosted by SPAIN arts & culture

[POLVO SERÁN]
A daring, romantic and frank musical about life and death, THEY WILL BE DUST finds septuagenarian Claudia (Ángela Molina, THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, BROKEN EMBRACES) facing a terminal illness diagnosis head-on. Refusing to relinquish control over her own life, she makes the unimaginable choice to end her time on this planet. Her devoted…

May 30, 31, June 2, 4, 5
WorldPride on Screen

In the unfathomable depths of a coal mine, laborers Nam (Pham Thanh Hai) and Viet (Dao Duy Bao Dinh) have found a boundless love. Wrapped in darkness, their bodies intertwine, soaking up their last moments together before they are drawn apart. Dreaming of a better life outside the mine, Nam readies himself for a dangerous journey: to be smuggled in a shipping container to Europe. But before he leaves, he…

May 30, 31, June 3–5
WorldPride on Screen

[FRESA Y CHOCOLATE]
Set in contemporary Havana, this tale follows the evolving relationship between David (Vladimir Cruz), an avid but naïve Castro er, and Diego (Jorge Perugorría), an outgoing, anti-establishment gay artist who is immediately interested in David upon meeting him at a café. David is encouraged to spy on Diego while Diego teaches him about art and literature and the repression of gay people by the government David s. As their…