Films

Actually, Iconic: Richard Estes

Admired by artists ranging from Salvador Dali to Chuck Close, Richard Estes avoided media attention throughout his career but has been called the “king of…
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Adam

Abla runs a modest bakery from her home in Casablanca, where she raises a young daughter. Their routine is interrupted by Samia, a pregnant woman…
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Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

Human rights become profoundly personal when Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous artist, transforms Alcatraz Island prison into an astonishing expression of socially-engaged art focused on…
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Anbessa

In this coming-of-age tale set in changing Ethiopia , a young boy, Asalif, finds himself caught between the ancient and the new as he attempts…
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Arab Blues

After 10 years of living in Paris, Selma returns home to Tunis and, despite the bewilderment of everyone in town, she’s steadfast in her resolve…
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Asymmetry

The summer is boiling hot, and the streets of Belgrade are empty as we watch the lives of three seemingly random couples gradually intertwine. As…
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Black Conflux

Set in Newfoundland in 1987, Black Conflux is a dreamy account of two young lives on a fateful collision course. Fifteen-year-old Jackie is navigating from…
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De Lo Mio

Two “ride or die” sisters raised in NYC reunite with their estranged brother in the Dominican Republic to clean out their late father’s childhood home.…
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Drought

It’s 1993 and North Carolina is experiencing a historic drought. Autistic teen Carl, fascinated by weather, predicts that a storm will soon hit nearby. His…
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Finster

Finster illustrates the life of legendary folk artist Howard Finster, who demonstrated that art can thrive outside of museums and galleries, in ordinary places and…
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Freeland

An aging pot farmer finds her world shattered as she brings in what could be her final harvest, fighting against the threat of eviction as…
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Hungry to Learn

This film by Soledad O’Brien and Geeta Gandbhir introduces the faces behind an American crisis–college students so strapped to pay tuition that they can’t afford…
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Lina from Lima

In this collision of social realism with fantastical, Busby Berkeley-inspired musical sequences, Peruvian domestic aide Lina works for a wealthy Chilean family. With Christmas around…
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Love Sarah

A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother’s dream of opening a bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of…
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Love Type D

Sasha Collington returns to RiverRun with her debut feature, developed from the short Lunch Date, a 2013 festival selection. Love Type D introduces us to…
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Narrowsburg

Narrowsburg, NY was poised to become the “Sundance of the East”–or so the Castellanos would have locals believe. When a glamorous French movie producer and…
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Navigating Thru

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 7:30 pm gates open, show begins at dusk Marketplace Cinemas Drive-In 2095 Peters Creek Parkway Winston-Salem, NC 27127 Buy tickets Every…
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Once Upon a River

It’s 1978 and Margo Crane, a fifteen year-old part-Native teen, must take to Michigan’s Stark River on an odyssey reminiscent of Huck Finn after a…
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The Other Lamb

Life with Shepard (Game of Thrones‘ Michiel Huisman) is the only life Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has ever known. Their self-sufficient community possesses no modern technology,…
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The Perfect Candidate

When Maryam, a young Saudi doctor, is prevented from attending a conference without a male guardian’s approval, she seeks help from a relative but inadvertently…
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Pigeon Kings

Pigeon Kings takes us through the backyards of South Central Los Angeles, where men are devoted to tumbling pigeons. We watch as enthusiasts train birds…
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Queen of Lapa

A proud transgender sex worker since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz, now fifty-nine, shapes a new reality in her “hostel” by housing a new…
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Remembering Shakespeare

Remembering Shakespeare asks the simple question–what lines of Shakespeare do you remember and why? This documentary film engages participants in a dialogue about memory, memorization…
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The Seer and the Unseen

Against a spectacular Icelandic landscape, this film follows a “seer” who communicates with a parallel realm of huldufólk–invisible spirits of nature that much of Iceland…
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The Swallows of Kabul

This arresting animated feature premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and is set in Kabul, Afghanistan during the summer of 1998. In love despite…
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This Little Land of Mines

This Little Land of Mines is about the resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear yet unexploded bombs from…
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Three Summers

Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums (played by the peerless Regina Casé of RiverRun 2015 award-winner The Second Mother) relies on her…
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