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Program Series

Summer Night Cinema: True Stories

Made possible by Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein.

This year’s edition of Summer Night Cinema celebrates some of the best and latest documentary features and shorts, delving deep into the worlds of art, politics, technology and more from across the globe.

Still from Daughters

Daughters

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail in this eight-year documentary journey.

Tue Jul 16 2024 7:30 PM

Artist Frida Kahlo laying in the grass

Frida

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo.

Tue Jul 23 2024 7:30 PM

Still from FLIPSIDE

Flipside

Filmmaker Chris Wilcha attempts to revive the record store he worked at as a teenager while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years in this strange and expansive meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices of trying to live a creative life.

Tue Aug 6 2024 7:30 PM

A man in military camouflage holds a small ceramic dragon figurine

Porcelain War

Following Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey, Porcelain War captures the dissonance between the horrors of war and the fragile beauty of nature and artistic practice.

Wed Aug 14 2024 7:30 PM

Still from Winding Path

True (Short) Stories

A night of the best recent documentary shorts, including 14 Paintings, Alok, Ekbeh, Merman, Salone Love, The Smallest Power, and Winding Path.

Thu Aug 22 2024 7:30 PM