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Venue Location: Community School Blood Road follows the journey of ultra endurance mountain bike athlete Rebecca Rusch and her Vietnamese riding partner, Huyen Nguyen, as they pedal 1,200 arduous miles along the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail through the dense jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Their Goal: to reach the newly discovered crash site and final resting place of Rebecca’s father, a U.S. Air Force pilot shot down over Laos some 40 years earlier. ...less

Venue Location: Liberty Theatre Naledi tells the true story of a baby elephant born into a rescue camp in the Botswana wilderness. When she’s suddenly orphaned at one month, the keepers and scientist looking after the herd become tireless surrogate mothers to keep her alive. Camp scientist Mike Chase knows the stakes. He has launched the most ambitious census ever of African elephants across the continent; a last ditch effort to help them survive. ...less

Venue Location: Nexstage Theatre An in-depth conversation with the indigenous voices of the Idaho community and Standing Rock movement. The panel includes Dr. LaNada War Jack, Sarah Sunshine Manning and Cody Lucich. War Jack is a Ft. Hall tribal member and long time activist and educator. Manning is a Duck Valley tribal member and from a family of leadership. Lucich is from the Maidu nation and a conscious filmmaker. All are a part of the Standing Rock movement and will bring the spirit of water protection to this powerful evening. Moderated by Native filmmaker and Idaho-raised Heather Rae. Panel will include clips from Lucich's documentary 'Akicita' about the Standing Rock uprising. SCREENING: Saturday, 7:45│nexStage ...less

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Venue Location: Cinetransformer Lola Kirke shines as Joey, an aimless young woman searching for a direction in her small town in rural Pennsylvania. A visit to an Army recruiting office appears to provide her a path but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna, a rough and tumble housewife neglected by her long-haul trucker husband, that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipated. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer Jill, a lonely, distraught housewife with four unruly children, paces on her dining room table with a belt around her neck, contemplating a desperate end to her wretchedness. Her husband, Bill, is as oblivious to Jill’s growing terror that she will do something destructive as he is to the panic at his unraveling company. When Jill’s psyche finally breaks, she takes on a vicious new canine persona. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House A comedy about a small town on the night of Orson Welles’s legendary, 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast -- the hoax that terrified millions into believing Martians were invading America. As the citizens of one New Jersey town are faced with what they believe is their last night on Earth, their lives will change forever. An alien invasion movie where the aliens never show up. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Buster was once Jonah, a hard-working husband and father whose job as the night-shift concierge at a hotel took its toll on his mood and, consequently, his marriage to the sensitive and long-suffering Marty — until a chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter changed the course of their lives forever. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer Ray LaPine and his loquacious, liquored-up salesman Pinky Steuben are trying to make it through the biggest shopping day of the year, again. The two men find themselves trapped while merely keeping the store alive for their wealthy, amoral, and absent boss. Ray gets word of a big change coming to the business. Ray must act immediately to save himself from the sinking ship before he loses the little chance he has for a better life. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Starring Viola Davis as an embattled family court judge with a fraught marriage of her own; Hayden Panettiere as a recent law-school grad flung into a custody case; and Catalina Sandino Moreno plays the single mother at the center of the case who risks losing her two children over an ill-timed argument. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer Dave builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation. Dave's girlfriend Annie leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. Once inside, they find themselves trapped in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer Director: Jordan Peele Writer: Jordan Peele Producers: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick Cinematography: Toby Oliver Music By: Michael Abels Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Root A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend's mysterious family estate. 103 min. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Deep in the heart of New York's ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community, Menashe, a kind, hapless grocery store clerk, struggles to make ends meet and responsibly parent his young son, Rieven, following his wife Leah's death. Meanwhile, though Menashe seems to bungle every challenge in his path, his rabbi grants him one special week with Rieven before Leah's memorial. It's his chance to prove himself a suitable man of faith and fatherhood, and restore respect among his doubters. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Annette and Elliot are a mostly happy, moderately neurotic LA couple. Rather than embracing their differences, Annette can only compare their relationship to their happy couple friends. This cannot be endorsed by Annette's beautiful but romantically troubled best friend, Baker, who is very well-versed on the bleakness of the LA dating scene. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three-years-old. Along the way, she establishes other unexpected connections: her father's ailing former second wife , her bitter half-sister Tanya and her caregiver girlfriend, and two local barflies. A stranger in the City of Angels, Lexi’s reckless searching leads to cautious discoveries in this atmospheric and introspective quest. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Lee Hayden is an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy, until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte, and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy, all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Fourteen-year-old David reluctantly travels to Montana for his annual visit with his father, Cal, who has planned the boy’s first big game hunt. Cal tries to connect with David by recounting the story of his own first kill on his last hunting trip with his now long-dead father. After their trip is disrupted by a chance encounter with a grizzly bear, a wounded Cal realizes they must both rely on David’s strength and resilience to survive. ...less

Venue Location: Nexstage Theatre - Beyond the Wall follows five formerly incarcerated men who are attempting to rebuild their lives with little support from our criminal justice system. The characters’ stories revolve around one central figure, a former prisoner named Louie Diaz, who works with each man to help him maintain his sobriety and his freedom. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House For years, Sonia Warshawski has been an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless people who once felt their own traumas would leave them broken forever. But when Sonia is served an eviction notice for her iconic tailor shop, she’s confronted with an agonizing decision: either open up a new shop, or retire. For a woman who admits she stays busy “to keep the dark parts away”, facing retirement dredges up fears she’d long forgot she had, and her horrific past resurfaces. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Red Bull Media House Film Blood Road follows the journey of ultra endurance mountain bike athlete Rebecca Rusch and her Vietnamese riding partner, Huyen Nguyen, as they pedal 1,200 arduous miles along the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail through the dense jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Their Goal: to reach the newly discovered crash site and final resting place of Rebecca’s father, a U.S. Air Force pilot shot down over Laos some 40 years earlier. ...less

Venue Location: Nexstage Theatre Former priest Charlie Hardy is 75 years old and has no money or political experience. But none of that dissuades this 21st-century Don Quixote from running for the US Senate in his home state of Wyoming. Charlie’s courage to run a principled campaign against money in politics attracts a ragtag group of young volunteers determined to challenge the status quo. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer For four young athletes at a failing high school in distressed Huntsville, Alabama, wrestling is about more than winning; it’s about breaking the limits imposed by their circumstances. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House FINDING OSCAR is a feature-length documentary about the search for two little boys who offer the only living evidence that ties the Guatemalan government to the devastating Dos Erres Massacre. In a country built on impunity, it will take this dedicated team more than thirty years to uncover the truth and find justice. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister is doing well. But in the back of his mind he suspects there must be something more. He decides to turn himself into a design project. Can he redesign his personality to become a better person? Is it possible to train his mind to get happier? He pursues 3 controlled experiments of meditation, therapy, and drugs, grading himself along the way. But real life creeps in and confounds the process. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransformer With the United States gripped in the panic of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be “security risks” and issues an executive order directing all agencies of the government to fire any employees who are discovered to be gay or lesbian. But this little-known witch hunt thrusts an unlikely hero into the forefront of what would become the modern LGBT rights movement. ...less

Venue Location: Community School Naledi tells the true story of a baby elephant born into a rescue camp in the Botswana wilderness. When she’s suddenly orphaned at one month, the keepers and scientist looking after the herd become tireless surrogate mothers to keep her alive. Camp scientist Mike Chase knows the stakes. He has launched the most ambitious census ever of African elephants across the continent; a last ditch effort to help them survive. ...less

Venue Location: Cinetransfomrer Many people know about the disaster in Flint, Michigan, where thousands were poisoned by government negligence. What they do not know is that this tragedy is part of a larger, much lesser known story that began in Detroit. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, fast-rising water fees resulted in thousands of residents without access to water in their homes, and precipitated Flint’s disastrous decision to draw water from the Flint River. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Rory Kennedy’s TAKE EVERY WAVE captures the remarkable and unconventional life of legendary big wave surfer Laird Hamilton. More than an athlete with Hollywood good looks, Hamilton proved himself a true innovator, pushing conventions to the extreme and reinventing surfing throughout his career. A pioneer in both tow-in surfing and foil boarding, he distinguished himself from surfing legends of the time who wanted to maintain the purity of the sport. ...less

Venue Location: Nexstage Theatre World-renowned Himalayan expedition leader Gerry Moffatt embarks on a 4,000-mile solo motorcycle adventure across the Himalayas for his 50th birthday, intent on exploring changes he’s seen over 30 years of guiding. Inspired to finally revisit a river that almost killed him 20 years ago, Moffatt finds gratitude and closure in the crucible of one of the most dangerous whitewater canyons on the planet. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos and lions march closer to extinction each year. Their devastating decline is fueled in part by a global desire to consume these majestic animals. Trophy investigates the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation. Through the eyes of impassioned individuals who drive these industries, the film grapples with the consequences of imposing economic value on animals. ...less

Venue Location: Opera House In Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Michael King’s WHEN WAR COMES HOME, three soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress (PTS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) face the toughest battle of their lives – trying to find a way to readjust to life with their families and build a healthy future out of a present that is wracked by pain, stress and loss. ...less

Venue Location: Community School ASPHYXIA CUL-DE-SAC KAREN. MUSCLE THRESHER WADE ...less