
CINEMA+ brings film screenings and programming together to facilitate new connections between film and the community! CINEMA+ programs can include discussions with the filmmakers or experts related to themes within the film, live music performances, presentations from other art organizations and community partners, and so much more!
See your film in a sharper focus with CINEMA+.
Sabbath Queen
February 23
Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad, and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation.
CINEMA+ With a post-screening discussion with director Sandi DuBowski via Zoom.
The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home
March 6
The Volunteers explores big philosophical and political issues through an unlikely subject: mountain rescue. The documentary is not an adventure film but rather is a philosophical meditation. The underlying premise is that mountain rescue organizations offer a positive, inspiring way of thinking about civic life, especially the relation between local attachment to place and universal human solidarity, that can help us transcend our political differences.
CINEMA+ With a post-screening discussion with producer and co-director Dr. Mark Weiner moderated by Dr. Charles Ziegler