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THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR
Max Keegan
- 101 minutes
- 2025
- French with English subtitles
One Night Only! April 2
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!
Thursday, April 2 --- 7pm
PLEASE NOTE: No Ads - Films begin at posted showtimes
TWO PROSECUTORS
Sergei Loznitsa
- 118 minutes
- 2026
- Russian and Ukrainian with English Subtitles
April 3 - 5
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.
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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ALPHA
Julia Ducournau
- 127 minutes
- 2026
- French with English Subtitles
Final Show! April 5
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.
Sunday, April 5 --- 7pm
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MIROIRS NO.3
Christian Petzold
- 86 minutes
- 2026
- German with English Subtitles
April 10 - 12
During a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura, a young piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives a shocking car crash. Awakening in a nearby house, Laura finds herself in the care of a local woman, who tends to her with motherly devotion. As she recuperates, Laura begins to integrate herself into the lives of the woman and her initially reluctant husband and son. By turns haunted and hopeful, Laura and her adopted family reawaken to the world and come to find a strange harmony together. However, they cannot outrun the ghosts of the past, which begin to stir, as acclaimed director Christian Petzold (PHOENIX, TRANSIT) spins a modern gothic fairytale about the lies we tell ourselves and the strange ways that grief, connection, and humanity bind and sustain us. A hushed, enigmatic psychodrama, MIROIRS NO. simmers with mystery and mood as Paula Beer's transfixing performance anchors its exploration of fractured identity.
Showtimes TBA
THE LRG A/V SHOWCASE - Fantastic Planet Live Rescore
One Night Only! April 16
The Living Room Gallery and Reoccurring Rabbit present a cinematic evening at The Pageant Theatre!
Seattle's ambient jazz electronica trio THC.XLR will be performing a live rescoring of René Laloux's cult classic Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage) – the surreal animated masterpiece featuring alien worlds and existential themes.
MOONLIT CIRCUIT, featuring Taylor Gabel, Garret Davidson, and Paraic King, will be opening the event with immersive soundscapes and a story from not too distant future. There will also be a special sneak preview before our feature presentation!
LIMITED $10 online pre-sale HERE | $15 at the door
Thursday, April 16 --- Doors 7pm / Show 7:30
THE STRANGER
François Ozon
- 124 minutes
- 2026
- French with English Subtitles
April 17 - 19
Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. At her funeral, he faces scrutiny from all corners for his failure to perform his grief. This reputation for otherworldly detachment follows Meursault back to Algiers, where his tentative romance with Marie (Rebecca Marder) and his indifference to professional advancement frustrate those around him. As Meursault gets swept up in a cycle of escalating reprisals among his neighbors, tensions come to a head when he murders an Arab man on the beach. A Frenchman may offer many defenses for shooting an Arab in Algeria, but Meursault’s refusal of excuse or remorse shakes colonial society to its core. Photographed in sterling, sensuous black-and-white, François Ozon’s new take on Albert Camus’s classic novel of existentialist ennui is a landmark of adaptation, simultaneously faithful to the text and dedicated to discovering fresh perspectives in the margins.
Showtimes TBA
SMOKESCREEN: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Climate
FREE EVENT! Earth Day April 22
Earth Day Event — Chad Hanson Talk and Visual Presentation: Protecting Communities from Wildfires — It's Not About Logging Remote Forests
For decades, the U.S. Forest Service has been conducting large logging projects on public lands, telling the public that these mechanical thinning and post-fire logging timber sales will curb and stop wildfires so they will not reach towns. But several major wildfire tragedies and a lot of new science over the past decade have shown the Forest Service's approach to be not just misguided and ineffective, but counter-productive and dangerous. Dr. Chad Hanson, wildfire scientist with the John Muir Project and author of the book "Smokescreen" will discuss why the focus of the Forest Service and Congress on logging mature and old trees, and post-fire clearcutting, in forest wildlands is putting communities at greater risk. Dr. Hanson will describe a different path forward, one that will be far better for forest ecosystems, and will help save homes and lives from wildfires.
Free admission, donations accepted. Q&A to follow talk. Presented by John Muir Project, Plumas Forest Project and Feather River Action!
Wednesday, April 22 --- Doors 6pm / Presentation 6:30