Films

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

On Halloween eve, Cinematique brings you the original 1974 horror classic: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Fri

Oct

30

2026

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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American Doctor

United by a shared oath to save lives, three American doctors—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—work in a besieged hospital in Gaza and return to the United States to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind.

Jengo's Playhouse

Sun

Nov

01

2026

1:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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TheyDream

After 20 years of chronicling his Puerto Rican family, a director and his mother face devastating losses.

Fri

Nov

06

2026

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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Hen

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, Hen follows a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

Jengo's Playhouse

Fri

Nov

13

2026

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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Hot Wieners and Coffee Milk

On the night before Halloween in a small New England town, a local hot wiener delivery driver attempts to get out of work on time for a holiday tradition he’s kept since childhood.

Thu

Nov

19

2026

9:00 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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CAPE FOUR

An ex-convict stalks a family through four mashed together retellings of Cape Fear, where 1962, 1991, 1993 and 2026 remix into a glitchy casserole of vengeance and vibes.

Thu

Nov

19

2026

11:15 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage

An athlete, artist, and activist, Romare Bearden defied boundaries placed on Black men of his generation.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

10:15 am

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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CAITY

Along with her newly sober father Paul, 16-year-old Caity prepares for the new Halloween season of their family-owned haunted house.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

1:00 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Under a Million Stars

Experts and homeless neighbors alike bust myths about Seattle’s homelessness crisis in a deeply reported, humanistic dispatch from the front lines. Homelessness was declared a civil state of emergency in Seattle in 2015.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

1:15 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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Daughters of the Forest

Deep in Mexico’s mushroom-rich forests, two women from indigenous communities have become mycologists.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

4:00 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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The Virgins

Two studious, straight-arrow high school teens set out on a covert weekend of experimentation, unknowingly attracting the attention of two emboldened incels.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

4:15 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Everything Else Is Noise

Rosa, a contemporary music composer, agrees to give her first television interview at her colleague Tere’s apartment to keep it secret from her husband.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

4:15 pm

Thalian Hall

310 Chestnut St

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in love, in memory

After losing her firstborn son to gun violence, a mother gathers cherished memories and erased histories to connect his death to her city’s haunting legacy of racism.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

6:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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Nerdcore: Making it Anyway

Born from internet culture and fueled by a shared love of video games, anime, and pop culture, nerdcore music evolved from a niche online subgenre into a thriving global community of independent…

Fri

Nov

20

2026

6:45 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Capsized

Nicole's discovery of an eviction notice shatters her family's houseboat vacation, forcing them to confront their patriarch's troubles, lost homes, and fractured identities through a turbulent…

Fri

Nov

20

2026

7:00 pm

Thalian Hall

310 Chestnut St

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Clovers

The denizens of a strip-mall casino in Asheboro, North Carolina endure two tumultuous years.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

9:45 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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Ten Will

Tennessee Williams aka TEN WILL, a recently released convict, must race against time to register as a sex offender.

Fri

Nov

20

2026

10:00 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Jackrabbit

Investigative reporter George moves to New York, but needs a roommate. Knowing no one else in the city except her childhood best friend Trish, George agrees to move in with Trish’s city bestie,…

Sat

Nov

21

2026

10:00 am

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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What Will I Become?

More than 50% of transgender boys have attempted suicide. Through two life stories, directors Lexie and Logan unravel why their community is particularly vulnerable to living and dying quietly.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

10:15 am

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight

Three seemingly disconnected stories unfold across New York City.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

1:00 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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Joybubbles

Joybubbles discovers he can manipulate the telephone system by whistling a magic tone.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

1:15 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story

Four friends reunite when the album they made as pre-teens becomes a cult hit on the internet and scores a record deal twenty years later.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

3:45 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Test

The unforgettable, striking, and emotionally raw story of Eddie, a young bodybuilder struggling to define himself in a community with limited opportunity.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

4:00 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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Henry's Ebb

Henry runs away from an abusive home with his imaginary best friend, Ebb. The journey tests their friendship, as well as Henry’s inner 'need' for Ebb as Ebb’s control and manipulation over Henry…

Sat

Nov

21

2026

4:00 pm

Thalian Hall

310 Chestnut St

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White Lightning

A gritty, funny, and uniquely American story about second chances, legacy, and what it takes to outrun your past.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

6:45 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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13 Demands

In the 1960s, students across the United States ignited a movement that challenged the nation to live up to its promises of equality and justice.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

7:00 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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Riptides

In a sun-kissed beach town south of the border, burnout Airbnb manager Toby (Steve Little) has perfected a life of booze, bong hits and very little ambition.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

7:00 pm

Thalian Hall

310 Chestnut St

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There Should Be Flowers

After the death of her high school sweetheart, a teen spirals into dangerous and violent behaviors fueled by hallucinations and memories of her lost love.

Sat

Nov

21

2026

9:45 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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Bagworm

After a sexually frustrated hammer salesman steps on a rusty nail, he must determine whether the world’s sudden and violent turn against him is real or the result of an infection consuming his body…

Sat

Nov

21

2026

10:00 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Papertown

When the paper mill that defined Canton, North Carolina announced it would close, the town had just three months before its largest employer—and a core part of its identity—was gone.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

10:30 am

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Sisterhoodship, leanne rucker has cancer

This documentary follows the transformative journey of two sisters—Christine Rucker and her younger sister, LeAnne Rucker—following LeAnne's cancer diagnosis.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

10:45 am

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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A City in the Forest

When a private police foundation in Atlanta tries to raze an urban forest to build the country’s largest police training facility, a diverse, decentralized, and intersectional movement defends the…

Sun

Nov

22

2026

1:00 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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The Snake

When an ungovernable 40 something wild child collides with her venomous mother, her life blows up spectacularly leaving her newly evicted, partially single, and in bed with her best friend’s husband.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

1:15 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story

Four friends reunite when the album they made as pre-teens becomes a cult hit on the internet and scores a record deal twenty years later.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

4:00 pm

The Pointe 14

2223 Blockbuster Rd

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Little Doors

In a quietly apocalyptic world a lonely woman discovers a small wooden door on the side of her body and must decide whether or not to open it.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

4:15 pm

Coastline Center – Blue

501 Nutt St

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Can I Kick It? : Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

An event featuring a live music soundtrack by DJ 2-Tone Jones of Shaolin Jazz. Four baby turtles come in contact with a mysterious substance called ooze and are transformed into human-sized crime fighters.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

4:30 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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CAITY

Along with her newly sober father Paul, 16-year-old Caity prepares for the new Halloween season of their family-owned haunted house.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

7:30 pm

The Pointe 14

2223 Blockbuster Rd

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Secret Screening

Who knows?! Come and find out.

Sun

Nov

22

2026

8:00 pm

Coastline Main

501 Nutt St

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Always Looking: Titus Brooks Heagins

Always Looking explores the work of photographer Titus Brooks Heagins and the challenging questions his photos pose about the systemic neglect of society’s most vulnerable communities of color.

Jengo's Playhouse

Fri

Dec

11

2026

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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Backside

Over the span of one racing season, the strikingly intimate Backside foregrounds the lives and actions of immigrant workers who look after prized racehorses at Churchill Downs barns in Louisville…

Fri

Feb

19

2027

7:30 pm

Jengo’s Playhouse

815 Princess St

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