We're starting 2025 with an exciting and eclectic selection of titles! We've got an art documentary that plays like a political thriller, two intimate portraits of extraodinary mothers, a family drama with a touch of magical realism starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, a rowdy rock and roll story about an all-girl punk band led by Gina Gershon, and more. Here's everything coming to Kino Film Collection in January.
Premiering on January 2
Call Her Applebroog
Beth B., US, 2016
This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (“Exposed”). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
Mounia Akl, Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar, 2022
Nadine Labaki stars in this award-winning near-future drama about a close-knit family who have built a mountain refuge from the environmental crisis, only to have their serenity intruded upon by a government sponsored landfill that threatens to upend their relationships and way of life.
Premiering on January 9
Exhibition
Joanna Hogg, UK, 2013
In Joanna Hogg’s “Exhibition” an artist couple’s living and working patterns are disrupted by the imminent sale of their modernist dream home they have loved and lived in for two decades. They begin a process of saying goodbye to their shared history under the same roof. The upheaval causes anxieties to surface where wife D struggles to control personal and creative aspects of her life with H.
The Tree
Julie Bertuccelli, France, Australia, 2010
Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in Julie Bertuccelli’s achingly beautiful mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Blindsided by her husband’s sudden death, Dawn and her four young children struggle to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house.
Premiering on January 16
Taking Venice
Amei Wallach, US, 2024
In 1964, at the height of the Cold War, a group of political and art world insiders embark on a plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale. Deftly pulling off maneuvers that could have come from a Hollywood thriller, the American team leaves the international press crying foul and Rauschenberg questioning the politics of nationalism that sent him there.
The Divine Order
Petra Volpe, Switzerland, 2017
This uplifting, crowd-pleasing Tribeca Film Festival winner is set in Switzerland in 1971, where despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women were still denied the right to vote. When unassuming and dutiful housewife Nora is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town’s suffragette movement.
Premiering on January 23
Prey for Rock & Roll
Alex Steyermark, US, 2003
This fist-pumping LGBTQ+ touchstone and rock and roll cult classic stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who worries she may never make it big. Along with bandmates played by Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty, and Shelly Cole, she has spent years of struggle playing gigs up and down the Sunset Strip. But when that break finally arrives, their lives are turned upside down.
The Disappearance of My Mother
Beniamino Barrese, Italy, 2019
An iconic fashion model who was a muse to Warhol and Dalí in the 1960s, and a radical feminist in the 1970s, Benedetta Barzini is fed up with all the roles life has imposed on her and wants nothing more than to disappear. But her filmmaker son Beniamino wants to keep her close for as long as possible – or, at least, as long as his camera keeps running.
Premiering on January 30
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Eric Rohmer, France, 1989
Éric Rohmer’s breezy, witty film traces the exploits of two young women—one an ethnology student from the city, the other an unsophisticated aspiring artist from the country. Reinette and Mirabelle become instant friends upon meeting in the first of four vignettes, and become roommates in Paris. Throughout the remaining stories, they encounter many of the inevitable characters of a modern city.