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The title says it all! We live in a world with other people. How do we feel like we fit in... or not? These films are of people (and chickens) trying to figure it all out. Multi-national / In English or w/subtitles / 81 mins / Ages 8+
12-year-old Max is an entrepreneur at heart. Forced to relocate from Montreal to the countryside a new business idea is hatched. Does it take a village to create a chicken farm or does the farm create a village? The answer is a little scrambled! Canada / 2023 / In French w/subtitles/ 89 mins / Ages […]
What’s old is new again. One of Chaplin’s most acclaimed works that can make a child (or the child in us) laugh with abandon while truly empathizing with the everyday person trying to put a roof over their heads and food on their plate. USA / 1936 / No dialogue / 86 mins / All […]
Join us for a FREE after-school movie! Rated PG. Snacks provided too! Open to children ages 8 and up.
It is up to Ernest, a cranky old bear, and the creative whims of his mouse friend Celestine to bring music and joy back to the land of bears. When a mysterious, masked outlaw appears will alliances be formed? Anything is “bearable” if you have a good friend! France / 2022 / In English / […]
Miserable after her family moves to a small town, teenage aspiring journalist Itsy befriends Calvin, her strange, space-obsessed neighbor who believes his parents were abducted by aliens, and joins him on his journey to find them. USA / 2023 / In English and space alien / 87 mins / Ages 10+ for crass humor, bullying
Eleven-year-old Ama is a top student and aspiring swimmer who thinks of herself unequivocally as Dutch, but her parents are Senegalese asylum seekers. After her mother and brother are arrested Ama is forced to reevaluate who she is with the help of a.... porcupine?! Netherlands / 2022 / In Dutch w/subtitles / 93 mins / […]
A deadbeat dad returns home when hearing of the death of the woman he abandoned, only to be confronted by a small, scrappy, scowling girl. Dad is a grifter/trickster, and daughter is as well. What could possibly go wrong? UK / 2023 / In English / 84 mins / Ages 10+ for profanity, death of […]
While climate change is front-page news, in our own back pages many are grieving. Or mutely frightened. Or numb. Or outraged. Or isolated and feeling hopeless. Others may be oddly celebrating a future of climate disorder. This short-film festival explores the full range of human and artistic response to what may be coming next. Dramatic, […]
Pnina Pressburger presents Tapestry Artist Bonnie Schultz Platzer's slideshow & discussion about her tapestries inspired while serving in the Peace Corps. Tapestries woven on a vertical Gobelin loom have all been inspired by people known or photographed while living in Togo, Morocco, Kenya, in Vienna where she lived for nine years, and Providence where she […]
Join our youth advisory group for Anime Club every other Wednesday to watch your favorite anime, debate, read manga, learn about 3D printing cool figurines and more! For more information, please contact Kaia at 401-781-3136 or email kheimer-bumstead@clpvd.org.
Join us for a FREE after-school movie! Rated PG. Snacks provided too! Open to children ages 8 and up.
