The Pageant Theatre

THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR

Max Keegan

  • 101 minutes
  • 2025
  • French with English subtitles

      One Night Only! Thursday, April 2
    • 7pm
    • PLEASE NOTE: NO ADS - FILMS BEGIN AT POSTED SHOWTIMES

    First 40 admissions FREE! (Regular admission price after 40, so come early!)

    Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears in the midst of a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd who struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy who becomes obsessed with tracking the bears. Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR is a modern folktale about tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world. An unforgettable and visually stunning documentary, don't miss this event screening!

TWO PROSECUTORS

Sergei Loznitsa

  • 118 minutes
  • 2025
  • Russian and Ukrainian with English Subtitles

      Friday, April 3
    • 4:45pm and 7:30pm
    • Saturday, April 4
    • 4:45pm and 7:30pm
    • Sunday, April 5
    • 1:30pm and 4:15pm
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    Summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic state lawyer (Alexander Kuznetsov) pushes past the prison's leery authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik (Aleksandr Filippenko). The young attorney, determined to expose the miscarriages of justice that landed the man in confinement, finds the eye of the state turned on him instead, as an ever-tightening net encircles his investigation. Set at the height of the great purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest triumph is a chilling and darkly humorous, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism.

ALPHA

Julia Ducournau

  • 127 minutes
  • 2025
  • French with English subtitles

      Final Show! Sunday, April 5
    • 7pm
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    Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. A gorgeous, quasi-ghost story, Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s new film ALPHA is a haunting meditation on girlhood, grief and medical anxiety. Stunning and beautiful.

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