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    28th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival

    Main Library Auditorium

    Join cinephiles around the world for a unique event. 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents will gather for one reason… to view and vote on the Finalist Films eligible for the 2026 Oscars.  Free and open to the public. Watch the trailer and learn more at manhattanshort.com   Saturday, September 27, 2025 […]

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    28th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival

    Main Library Auditorium

    Join cinephiles around the world for a unique event. 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents will gather for one reason… to view and vote on the Finalist Films eligible for the 2026 Oscars.  Free and open to the public. Watch the trailer and learn more at manhattanshort.com   Saturday, September 27, 2025 […]

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    The Berry Pickers: A Novel

    Main Library Auditorium

    A Mi’kmaq family’s summer picking blueberries in Maine takes a devastating turn when 4-year-old Ruthie goes missing. Decades later, her brother Joe and a woman named Norma become entangled in uncovering the painful truth about Ruthie’s disappearance, exploring themes of family, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood trauma across generations.

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    A Touch of Evil (1958)

    Main Library Auditorium

    Mexican cop Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) and his new American wife (Janet Leigh) are crossing the border into California as Orson Welles executes a 3 1/2-minute continuous crane shot, one of the cinema’s most famous opening scenes. A bomb goes off and Vargas finds himself investigating the incident alongside American detective Hank Quinlan (Welles). Forget […]

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    Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

    Main Library Auditorium

    Mao’s Last Dancer is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin. Cunxin was plucked from a poor Chinese village at the age of 11 by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, […]

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    Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

    Main Library Auditorium

    In 15th-century China, Tan Yunxian, a female physician, defies societal constraints to practice medicine alongside her female physician grandmother. Despite restrictions on women’s education and mobility, she forms deep bonds with her sworn sisters and becomes a groundbreaking healer, treating women’s ailments with skill and compassion in a world that attempts to limit her potential.

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