Join us for a very special SoupyFest Series event featuring a screening of Westerly’s Gold: Sweet, Spicy, and Full of Tradion – a new feature-length documentary on Westerly Soupy from filmmakers Chris Walsh and Betty-Jo Cugini.
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
As part of our Black Voices series the UNITED and Westerly ARC present a screening of Julie Dash’s visionary film Daughters of the Dust, featuring a printed historical companion to the film.
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
Film
Secret Mall Apartment
Opens March 28
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.
The Watch Hill Conservancy presents a special screening of the 2021 Green Planet Award winning documentary Beneath the Polar Sun followed by a talk back with directors Stephen Smith and Diana Kushner and Chris Horvat, Lead Scientist and Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University.
Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world while embarking on a quest with an unexpected, expert crafter.
An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to color the present.
Film
Warfare
Opens April 11
A platoon of Navy SEALs embark on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.
Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater’s film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
As part of our Black Voices series the UNITED and Westerly ARC present a screening of Barry Jenkins’ film adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, followed by a post-film discussion about Baldwin and his work.
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Film
Sinners
Opens April 18
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.
Christian Wolff applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief’s murder.
Film
Misericordia
Opens April 25
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss’s funeral, Jérémie’s stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot’s shady intentions.
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
Film
Bob Trevino Likes It
Opens May 2
When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life.
Film
A Nice Indian Boy
Opens May 9
When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.
Film
The Friend
Opens May 16
Follows a story of love, friendship, grief and healing, about a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend and mentor.
