Film: Bitterroot

Film: Bitterroot (2024, dir. Vera Brunner-Sung, USA, 105 minutes)

Divorced and recently laid off, a middle aged Hmong man avoids the pressure to remarry by spending his days drinking, singing, and foraging for coveted morel mushrooms to make ends meet, while caring for his aging mother on the family farm in rural Montana.

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All showings Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium. Admission is free.

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This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts.

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Additional Events

Aug

Film: To a Land Unknown

Two Palestinian cousins grow increasingly desperate enduring hardship in the underbelly of Athens, all the while dreaming of someday making it to Germany.

7:00pm Macfarlane Auditorium

Sep

Film: I, the Song

A teacher in Bhutan’s capital is accused of appearing in a non-consensual pornographic video and sets out to prove her innocence, only to find that her lookalike from the video has disappeared from her hometown and left behind the mystery of a lost sacred song.

7:00pm Macfarlane Auditorium

Sep

Film: Pig at the Crossing

After a young man abruptly dies in an accident, he finds himself in an unfamiliar realm between death and rebirth in which he must face the consequences of his past actions, choose to right his wrongs, and let go of his attachment to his former self.

7:00pm Macfarlane Auditorium

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