COMING SOON
ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU
- Fri, Jan 16
- Sun, Jan 18
Director: Cherien Dabis Run Time: 146 min. Release Year: 2025 Language: Arabic
Starring: Adam Bakri, Cherien Dabis, Maria Zreik, Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri
Suns Cinema and the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival (DCPFAF) are proud to present the DC premiere...
EDDINGTON
- Sat, Jan 17
Director: Ari Aster Run Time: 148 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Deirdre O'Connell, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Micheal Ward, Pedro Pascal
Hindsight is 2020.
AMREEKA
- Sun, Jan 18
Director: Cherien Dabis Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 2009
Starring: Alia Shawkat, Hiam Abbass, Jenna Kawar, Melkar Muallem, Nisreen Faour
Life's best adventures are journeys of the heart.
DEBUT, OR OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED
- Tue, Jan 20
Director: Julian Castronovo Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Julian Castronovo, Philippa James, Rebecca Benoit, Song Hui
Presented by FILAMENT A young filmmaker named Julian stumbles on a hidden book tied to a vanished art...
THE RED SPECTACLES
- Tue, Jan 20
- Fri, Jan 23
Director: Mamoru Oshii Run Time: 116 min. Release Year: 1987 Language: Japanese
Starring: Hideyo Amamoto, Hideyuki Tanaka, Machiko Washio, Shigeru Chiba, Tessyo Genda
What dream are you welcoming?
WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS
- Wed, Jan 21
Director: Mikio Naruse Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 1960 Language: Japanese
Starring: Daisuke Katō, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai
The tree sprouts no matter how strong the wind blows.
THE FACE OF ANOTHER
- Wed, Jan 21
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1966 Language: Japanese
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida, Machiko Kyō, Mikijiro Hira, Tatsuya Nakadai
A staggering work of existential science fiction, The Face of Another dissects identity with the sure hand of a surgeon....
THE BROOD
- Thu, Jan 22
Director: David Cronenberg Run Time: 92 min. Release Year: 1979
Starring: Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar
The Ultimate Experience in Inner Terror.
FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
- Thu, Jan 22
Director: Paul Morrissey Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 1973
Starring: Arno Jürging, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren, Udo Kier
We dare you to see...
ALPHAVILLE
- Fri, Jan 23
Director: Jean-Luc Godard Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1965 Language: French
Starring: Akim Tamiroff, Anna Karina, Christa Lang, Eddie Constantine, Howard Vernon
Suddenly the word is Alphaville... and a secret agent is in a breathless race against the Masters of the Future.
HARAKIRI
- Sat, Jan 24
Director: Masaki Kobayashi Run Time: 135 min. Release Year: 1962 Language: Japanese
Starring: Akira Ishihama, Masao Mishima, Shima Iwashita, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurō Tamba
What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.
RAN
- Sat, Jan 24
Director: Akira Kurosawa Run Time: 160 min. Release Year: 1985 Language: Japanese
Starring: Akira Terao, Daisuke Ryû, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Tatsuya Nakadai
The Greatest Shakespeare Film.
PUNISHMENT PARK
- Sun, Jan 25
Director: Peter Watkins Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1971
Starring: Carmen Argenziano, Katherine Quittner, Kent Foreman, Luke Johnson, Patrick Boland
One of the most controversial films ever made.
SAMBIZANGA
- Sun, Jan 25
Director: Sarah Maldoror Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 1973 Language: Lingala
Starring: Benoît Moutsila, Dino Abelino, Domingos de Oliveira, Elisa Andrade, Jean M'Vondo
A revolutionary bombshell by one of Africa’s first female directors, Sarah Maldoror’s electrifying chronicle of Angola’s awakening independence...
MY FATHER IS COMING
- Tue, Jan 27
Director: Monika Treut Run Time: 82 min. Release Year: 1991
Starring: Alfred Edel, Annie Sprinkle, Michael Massee, Michael Waite, Shelley Kästner
“A cheerful cornucopia of kinkiness where genders and sexual preferences aren’t simply bent—they’re twisted into corkscrews.” – The...
SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN
- Tue, Jan 27
Director: Elfi Mikesch, Monika Treut Run Time: 84 min. Release Year: 1986 Language: German
Starring: Carola Regnier, Georgette Dee, Mechthild Großmann, Sheila McLaughlin, Udo Kier
A ticket to a masochistic wonderland
A NEW LOVE IN TOKYO
- Wed, Jan 28
- Sat, Jan 31
Director: Banmei Takahashi Run Time: 115 min. Release Year: 1994 Language: Japanese
Starring: Aya Sugimoto, Hiromitsu Suzuki, Reiko Kataoka, Sawa Suzuki, Tomorowo Taguchi
Life, love, sex, work, play… there are so many ways to tie them up.
GHOSTKEEPER
- Wed, Jan 28
Director: Jim Makichuk Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 1981
Starring: Georgie Collins, Les Kimber, Murray Ord, Riva Spier, Sheri McFadden
Who Next Becomes The Keeper Of The Beast That Lives On Human Flesh?
I AM NOT A WITCH
- Thu, Jan 29
Director: Rungano Nyoni Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2017
Starring: Dyna Mufuni, Gloria Huwiler, Henry B.J. Phiri, Maggie Mulubwa, Nellie Munamonga
Presented by Britt Sankofa! In her BAFTA award-winning debut feature, Rungano Nyoni crafts a satiric feminist fairy-tale set...
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
- Thu, Jan 29
Director: Rungano Nyoni Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Blessings Bhamjee, Doris Naulapwa, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini, Susan Chardy
Presented by Britt Sankofa On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the...
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB
- Fri, Jan 30
Director: Hugh Wilson Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 1996
Starring: Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Maggie Smith, Sarah Jessica Parker
Don't get mad. Get everything.
REDS
- Fri, Jan 30
Director: Warren Beatty Run Time: 195 min. Release Year: 1981
Starring: Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Jerzy Kosiński, Warren Beatty
Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!
THE MOTHER & THE BEAR
- Sat, Jan 31
Director: Johnny Ma Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Amara Pedroso, Jonathan Kim, Kim Ho-jung, Lee Won-jae, Susan Hanson
One heart sleeps, another awakens.