Events for Sunday, November 3, 2024

Come join us for a special screening of Spike Lee's powerful documentary, 4 Little Girls, presented by the Oakland Symphony. This in-person event will be held at The New Parkway Theater.

Shawn Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches memorializes the “Four Little Girls” killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. Spike Lee’s acclaimed 1997 documentary provides the context for the work, which the Oakland Symphony and Kedrick Armstrong will perform on Friday, November 8, at the Paramount Theatre.

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Our comedy shorts program returns with a selection of sharp, witty, and imaginative films that serve as conduits for social commentary. This year's characters must deal with increasingly absurd situations in pursuit of simple (and some not-so-simple) desires, whether they are trying to steal a kiss, manage a construction site, or bring a horse up to an apartment. However, their efforts are thwarted by the people around them, who are not so understanding of their endeavors...

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Tell Them About Us follows the lives of seven teenage girls as they embark on a journey of adolescence in Eberswalde, a provincial city in East Germany, just 55 km from Berlin. As newcomers to the area, the girls find themselves navigating not only the typical challenges of teenage life—friendships, school, and self-discovery—but also the complexities of adapting to a new culture and environment. Thrown into a world that is both unfamiliar and often unwelcoming, the girls grapple with the nuances of their identities as immigrants and refugees. Their experiences of displacement, cultural adjustment, and the pressures of assimilation add layers of complexity to their coming-of-age narratives. Despite these challenges, they find solace and strength in their shared bond as they strive to carve out a place for themselves in their new home and community. Parallel to their daily lives, the director facilitates workshops where the girls explore their hopes, dreams, and fears through writing, music, and acting, afterwhich, they write scenes in order to stage in front of the camera. These scenes are turned into dream sequences where the girls envision themselves ahead, as a way to process painful experiences and playfully translate them into future perspectives.

Arzé is a struggling single mother living in Beirut with her agoraphobic older sister and teenage son, Kinan. Supporting the family by making homemade pies delivered on foot by her son, Arzé knows that the business can only sustain them for so long. In a move of desperation, she steals her sister’s cherished bracelet to pawn for the down payment on a delivery scooter. But disaster strikes when the scooter is stolen, jeopardizing her only way to provide for her family. Up against a ticking clock to either find the scooter or a way to pay for it in full, Arzé and Kinan embark on a wild journey through the turbulent but vibrant, multiethnic Levantine capital in pursuit of the pilfered moped.

In 2023, Sean Whalen filmed his directorial debut, and hired Matt Montgomery score the film, and L-Mo 415 to perform the END Credits music. We're so happy to be able to show the movie for all our friends and family at THE NEW PARKWAY, our favorite Indie Theater, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Sean, Matt, and L-Mo 415 will all be in attendence, and we hope that you'll join us for a great creature-feature horror-comedy film that we've put a ton of our heart and soul into.

Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.

A fading celebrity decides to use a black-market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.