Archive of Shows from the Athena Cinema
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Mythological TalesThe Moon BirdDirector: Myles McLeod, Greg McLeod 15 min. United KingdomA dark fairytale about an orphan girl called Teardrop who inherits magical powers from her late parents. A terrible sorceress ’Experimentia’ desires the magic for herself and pursues Teardrop for her own evil ends. Teardrop must outwit the sorceress with the help of a magical bird created after one of her tears binds with the moon.
Director: Jorge Morais Valle 20 min. Spain |
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Thrills and Chills : Eight Scary ShortsNobody Wants to Be AfraidDirector: Alex Moeller 10 min. U.S.A.Our blurred vision finds lost children and seemingly familiar places, while an impending sense of terror waits on the edges.
Director: Dominika Dlugokecka 23 min. Poland |
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Eyes Wide OpenDirector: Haim TabakmanRated Not RatedIn Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he meets Ezri, a handsome twenty-two year old student, and soon falls in love with him. He then starts to neglect his family and community life, swept away by his love and lust for Ezri. Meanwhile, paralleling this relationship, a neighboring shopkeeper persists in seeing a man of her own choosing, even though she’s been promised... This film was shown on Saturday, April 24th 2010 View This Film |
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The Most Dangerous Man in America : Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon PapersDirector: Judith Ehrlich and Rick GoldsmithRated Not RatedIn 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. Hailed as a hero, vilified as a traitor, and ostracized by even his closest colleagues, Ellsberg risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan. This riveting story of one man’s profound change of heart is also a piercing look at the world of government secrecy as revealed by the ultimate insider. Marked by a landmark battle between America’s greatest newspapers and its... This film was shown on Saturday, April 24th 2010 View This Film |
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Saint MisbehavinDirector: Michelle EsrickRated Not RatedPlaying at Stuart's Opera House This film was shown on Saturday, April 24th 2010 View This Film |
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Do Ask, Do Tell : Eight LGBT Short FilmsNon-Love-SongDirector: Erik Gernand 8 min. U.S.A.On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
Director: Wendy Weinberg 8 min. U.S.A. |
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Buick RivieraDirector: Goran RusinovicRated Not RatedIn English and Bosnian, with English subtitles Two Balkan refugees meet by chance in the American Midwest and come face to face with the ethnic and religious hostilities of their former home and of their own tormented pasts. Will the freedom they enjoy in their new home help them overcome their basic distrust of one another? Seventeen years after he left Bosnia for America, Hasan is still unemployed but can’t muster the energy to do anything about it. Married to policewoman Angela with whom he won’t discuss how... This film was shown on Saturday, April 24th 2010 View This Film |
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The Reckoning Preceded by The Magnitude of the Continental DividesThe Magnitude of the Continental DividesDirector: Christopher Coleman 6 min. U.S.A.The Magnitude of the Continental Divides is an animation exploring the ways we define ourselves and our nations. It is a journey between many locations in various states of withdrawal and aggression. Borders become weaponized and damage is always dealt from afar. The individual is caught in the midst, unable to separate themselves, unable to define identity without place.
Director: Pamela Yates 98 min. U.S.A. |
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Rachel Is Preceded by Bob Seger Rocks and Q & AQ & ADirector: Mike Rauch, Tim Rauch 4 min. U.S.A.In February 2006, 12-year-old Joshua Littman, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, interviewed his mother Sarah at StoryCorps. Their one-of-a-kind conversation covered everything from cockroaches to Sarah’s feelings about Joshua as a son.
Director: Timothy Tamisiea 15 min. U.S.A. |
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The Last Happy Day and Not Reconciled : Two Films About History and MemoryThe Last Happy DayDirector: Lynne Sachs 38 min. U.S.A.During WWII, the US Army Graves Registration Service hired the filmmaker’s Hungarian cousin, Dr. Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones -- small and large -- of dead American soldiers. This half-hour experimental documentary work, which resonates as an anti-war meditation, is composed of excerpts of Sandor’s letters to Sachs’... |
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L\'apello Preceded by El EncargadoEl EncargadoDirector: Sergio BarrejÓn 8 min. SpainMartin is put in charge of his class during the teacher’s absence. He must write on the blackboard the names of those who speak. An easy job... until the class bully starts talking.
Directors: Emilio Briguglio, Federico Rozas 81 min. Italy |
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Off and RunningDirector: Nicole OpperRated Not RatedWith white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers — one mixed-race and one Korean—Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she’s always known. She begins staying away from home, starts skipping school, and risks losing her shot at the college track career she had always dreamed of. But when Avery decides to pick up the pieces of... This film was shown on Saturday, April 24th 2010 View This Film |
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The Secret of KellsDirector: Tom Moore and Nora TwomeyRated Not RatedYoung Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisline, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the barbarians closing in, will Brendan’s determination and artistic vision... This film was shown on Saturday, April 24th 2010 View This Film |
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Visionary LightsSunstreams Test, Horizon’s L’edge, SuntracksDirector: Michael Rudnick 11 min. U.S.A.Three studies of light, time and shadow.
Director: Beth Block 26 min. U.S.A. |
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Henri-Georges ClouzotâDirector: Serge BrombergRated Not RatedIn French with English subtitles In 1964, director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique, The Raven, The Wages of Fear, The Picasso Mystery) chose Romy Schneider, age 26, and Serge Reggiani, 42, to star in L’enfer (Inferno). Reggiani was to play Marcel Prieur, the manager of a modest hotel in provincial France who becomes possessed by the demons of jealousy. The result is astonishing color expressionism which attempts to capture on celluloid Clouzot’s own anxiety. Fueled by bouts of the director’s own insomnia and... This film was shown on Saturday, April 24th 2010 View This Film |
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Poetry, Music, FilmDrumheadDirector: Alan Coltman 4 min. United KingdomSean Bean narrates Wilfred Owen’s ’Strange Meeting’ in this short anti-war film. In the theater of both world wars, young men grew old before their time in a grim Never Never Land where desertion, ’cowardice’ and even falling asleep at ones post were considered crimes that carried the ultimate penalty.
Director: Lin Ling Zha 4 min. U.S.A. |
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Movies for Slightly Older KidsThe Bake Shop GhostDirector: Lorette Bayle 17 min. U.S.A.In a haunted bakeshop, a determined young woman struggles to find the perfect recipe to satisfy a hungry spirit. Based on a best-selling children’s book, this film provides enchantment for all ages.
Director: Lucas Martell 6 min. U.S.A. |
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DogtoothDirector: Giorgos LanthimosRated Not RatedIn Greek with English subtitles
The father, the mother and their three kids live at the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The kids have never been outside that fence. They are being educated, entertained, bored and exercised in the manner that their parents deem appropriate, without any influence from the outside world. They believe that the airplanes flying over are toys and that zombies are small yellow flowers. The only person allowed to... This film was shown on Friday, April 23rd 2010 View This Film |
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Skatopia: 88 Acres of AnarchyDirector: Laurie HouseSkatopia is an Appalachian farm where hardcore skating, punk rock and hillbilly culture collide. Mad-Max style demolition derbies and spontaneous car burning accompany all night skate sessions. Pain is a badge of honor. Tony Hawk calls Skatopia a "rite of passage" for hardcore skaters. Skatopia’s owner, Brewce Martin, dreamed of a place where he could live and breathe skating... a place where people forget their "outside" lives by plunging into high-energy craziness. A continual work-in-progress, this rural farm is a mecca for skaters who want to live outside society’s rules. The movie celebrates the...This film was shown on Friday, April 23rd 2010 View This Film |
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AjamiDirector: Scandar Copti and Yaron ShaniRated UnratedIn Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
A powerful crime drama set on the streets of Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood – a melting pot of cultures and conflicting views among Jews, Muslims and Christians – and told through the eyes of a cross-section of the city’s inhabitants: a young Israeli (Shahir Kabaha) fighting a criminal vendetta against his family, a Palestinian refugee (Ibrahim Frege) working illegally to finance a life-saving surgery, a Jewish police detective (Eran Naim)... This film was shown on Friday, April 23rd 2010 View This Film |
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