The Girl with the Needle
Sep 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM

An Oscar®-nominated marvel of exquisite empathy, Magnus von Horn’s masterful vision of early 20th-century Denmark searches for tenderness and morality under fraught circumstances. Drawing on chilling true events that continue to resonate, this gothic parable is a visceral reckoning from the past.

In 1919, in a Copenhagen scarred by the first world war, a young woman’s already meager supply of luck runs out. Karoline loses her home, then her job as a seamstress. She is pregnant, destitute and desperate. A chance encounter with Dagmar, who runs an illegal adoption service, offers a lifeline, employment and perhaps even hope for the future. But hope, like everything in this arresting, factually based black-and-white drama, is threadbare, undernourished and rotten to the core.

Awards & Nominations
Nominee – 2025 Oscar Best International Feature Film, Nominee – Palme d’Or, Cannes
Film Festival, Nominee – Best Film, Polish Film Festival
Total 47 wins & 46 nominations

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Fallen Leaves
Oct 25 , 2026 at 6:30 PM

Moviegoing dreamers, there is hope for us still in this timeless, tender romance from living legend Aki Kaurismäki. Imbued with the filmmaker’s idiosyncratic playfulness and deadpan humor, this bittersweet comedy charmed even the most dour of critics and, delightfully, won the Jury Prize at Cannes.