Cinema

March 13, 2014, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM John Schlesinger’s look at the streets of New York and the relationship between two small-time hustlers played by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman has become one

Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she’s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate.

March 20, 2014, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM John Schlesinger followed his Academy Award–winning Midnight Cowboy with this sophisticated and highly personal take on love and sex.

March 26, 2014, 7:00pm – 9:00pm Video Shorts curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez & Cristina Ghetti. Participating Artists from MIAMI, FL, USA: Moira Holohan, Cristina Pettersson

March 5, 2014, 9:00 PM – 10:45 PM Shored Up is the story of our coasts where life on the edge of a rising sea has placed our towns and cities on the front lines of climate change. Following frustrated scientists,

March 22, 2014, 6:30pm – 9:30pm A unique collaboration between two independent pioneers of film and music, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller is a new “live documentary” by Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green

March 27, 2014, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Based on Nathanael West’s novel, The Day of The Locust is an unflinching decrial of 1930’s Hollywood, told in grand and magnificent detail by director John Schlesinger. William Atherton is a

February 27, 2014, 4:15, 6:30 & 8:45 pm The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been fraught with opposing narratives, moral ambiguities, and often filtered through the lens of geopolitics. With the powerful Omar, a current Foreign Oscar nominee and Grand Jury Prize winner from the Cannes Film Festival, audiences get to see an intensely human story told from the Palestinian perspective. From Golden Globe … +

In conjunction with the Oscar-nominated Omar, the Gables Cinema presents a pair of screenings on Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2 at 1:00 pm each day

March 1, 2014, 2:00pm Shot and edited with stylistic references to Hollywood action epics, Yael Bartana’s film Inferno (2013) addresses the building of a grandiose replica of Solomon’s Temple by a Neo-Pentecostal Church in São Paulo.

Following a four year separation, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his estranged French wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo)’s request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure

February 28, 2014, 5:00pm In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. The story begins with Cynthia Lent, 14, finding herself frozen and embarrassed because her very first menstrual cycle hits her seconds before a crowded swim meet.

February 14, 2014 This darkly comic thriller from Paraguay follows Víctor, a 17-year old delivery boy, as he frantically makes his way through the central market in Asuncion carrying a dangerous load. With a breakneck pace and the fresh touch of new filmmakers, 7 Cajas exudes a youthful exuberance and a creative energy that makes it a terrific crowd pleaser. It’s a … +

The “switched at birth” urban legend and the Nature-vs-Nurture debate provide Hirokazu Kore-eda with a fresh opportunity to revisit his ongoing preoccupation with family dynamics and parent-child relationships in contemporary Japan.

January 28, 2014 Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) Executive Director, Jaie Laplante will announce and discuss the Festival’s 2014 program highlights including CINEDWNTWN Galas presented by Miami Downtown Development Authority, Knight Competitions,

February 8, 2014 Presented in partnership with New World School of the Arts and Miami International Film Festival, Horn Please is a documentary film from first-time directors Shantanu Suman (graphic designer) and Istling Mirche (producer).

Jan12th, 8:00 pm Robert Redford stars in All Is Lost, an open-water thriller about one man’s battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea.

O Cinema Wynwood. December 19 – 22, 2013. Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the Riot Grrrl movement.

O Cinema Wynwood. December 27 – 29, 2013. From Michel Gondry, the innovative director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, comes this unique animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky.

Coral Gables Cinema. December 13 – 19, 2013. John Sayles, the dean of American indie filmmakers and a two-time Academy Award nominee, brings his latest movie, Go For Sisters, to the Coral Gables Art Cinema for its exclusive South Florida premiere run beginning Friday, December 13. 

Miami Beach Cinematheque. November 19, 2013, 6:00 p.m. Porfirio is a film about the remarkable real-life Porfirio Ramirez, a small-town Colombian bar owner who dabbled in connections with FARC in the ’90s but now lives as a paraplegic after being shot in the spinal cord during a police raid, and plays himself in Alejandro Landes’s unique fusion of bio-pic and cinéma vérité.