Film Schedule

Buffalo, New York, is a union town first, a coffee town second. In 2021, when local Starbucks baristas had had enough of low wages, insufficient health insurance, and other workplace inequities, the call was "No contract, no coffee." The fight for the right to unionize Starbucks has now spread nationally to some 600 stores, led not by union bosses but by brave ... more

This Sundance award-winning documentary about ordinary citizens spontaneously uniting to resist a hostile immigration raid could hardly be timelier here. May 13, 2021, happened to be Eid, an important holiday for the diverse Glasgow neighborhood of Pollokshields, yet that was the day the Home Office chose to execute a surprise dawn arrest of two men who had ... more

"I cannot vote today. Ask me why," reads the homemade sandwich board sign that D.C. native Lisa Rice wears on primary election day. Passing voters ask, and this good-natured election reformer has answers and petitions to sign. Like the fastest-growing contingent of voting Americans, Lisa is a registered Independent and therefore unable to vote in party primaries—that ... more

"Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world," said Paulo Freire. Featuring newly unearthed archival footage of Brazil in the 1960s, this fascinating excursion into Freire's early work shows how he implemented the ideas of democratic, non-hierarchical education that made him an internationally revered education philosopher. ... more

"The role of a revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible," Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) was known for saying. She was a novelist, filmmaker, professor, and editor of the groundbreaking 1970 literary anthology The Black Woman, but none of these accomplishments defined her; she referred to herself simply as a "culture worker." "She swept into ... more