Join us as we settle into 2023 and back into the seats of the Capitol Theatre! We have four great films to show you…
Join us as we settle into 2023 and back into the seats of the Capitol Theatre! We have four great films to show you next month, including three brand-new titles and one insightful documentary from WIFF 2022 programming. Mark your calendars for January 11-13, 2023.
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It’s 1968 in the city of Chicago. The city and the nation are poised on the brink of violent political upheaval, and suburban housewife Joy leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. When Joy’s pregnancy leads to a life-threatening condition, she must navigate a medical establishment that is unwilling to help. Her journey to find a solution to an impossible situation leads her to the “Janes,” a clandestine organization of women who provide Joy with a safer alternative—and in the process, change her life.
Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy takes the reins as director and executes a riveting narrative, partially based on true events surrounding the Jane Collective, who provided thousands of abortions during a four-year period through their covert and precise mobilization. Call Jane poses urgent questions about systemic barriers, the ever-shifting nature of politics and the struggle for women to maintain control of their bodies.
In director Elegance Bratton’s inspirational and deeply moving retelling of his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. As he battles deep-seated prejudice and the gruelling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.
In 1920, against all odds, Paul Deschanel, an idealist unknown to the general public, is elected President of the French Republic. His first steps in power are impressive. He makes a series of audacious proposals: abolition of the death penalty, the right to vote for women, and universal suffrage! But the cynicism of the political world, the game of institutions and the violence of media campaigns catch up with him and soon derail him. One evening, he falls off a train and vanishes… The whole world wonders: what happened to the French President?
As the pandemic exposes even greater social and economic inequities in the United States, A Decent Home is the first documentary to focus on mobile home parks and the injustices faced by park residents.
A Decent Home addresses urgent issues of class and economic (im)mobility through the lives of mobile home park residents who can’t afford housing anywhere else. They are fighting for their dreams—and their lives—as private equity firms and wealthy investors buy up parks, making sky-high returns on their investments while squeezing every last penny out of the mobile homeowners who must pay rent for the land they live on.
A Decent Home focuses on the residents of Denver Meadows in Colorado, who are trying to save their low-income park from being shut down by an owner who wants to rezone the land and sell it for millions. The film examines urgent issues of inequity and affordable housing through the stories of the residents of Denver Meadows.
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