Films Week of Thursday, October 31, 2024-Wednesday, November 6, 2024


Pueblo (Acoma), Acoma Jar with Abstract Bird Design, early 1900s, clay, slip, and paints
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Through January 12, 2025

This traveling exhibition highlights Pueblo voices and aesthetics, offering an understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.

02 Nov Sat / 2024

  • Fighter in the Wind Film Poster
    Fighter in the Wind (Baramui paiteo)
    1 p.m.—2:30 p.m.

    Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun. Yang Dong-geun stars as real-life Korean-born Choi Yeong-eui as he arrives in 1938 Japan, hoping to become a fighter pilot, but ending up on a different path.

  • Handsome Guys Film Poster
    Handsome Guys (Haenseomgaijeu)
    7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.

    Misunderstood friends Jae-pil and Sang-gu appear to be tough guys, but are more often clueless. When they achieve their dream of buying a fixer-upper and living in the country, they come to the aid of a drowning girl yet are mistaken for kidnappers. The town is searching for the girl, police get involved, and a dark, ancient spirit is awakened in the men’s basement!

03 Nov Sun / 2024

07 Nov Thu / 2024

  • Tendaberry Film Image
    Tendaberry
    7:30 p.m.—9:30 p.m.

    Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    The opening-night selection is a kinetic portrait of Dakota (Kota Johan), a twentysomething New York City transplant adrift in post-pandemic Brooklyn. When her boyfriend (Yuri Pleskun) is called back to his native Ukraine to care for his ailing father, Dakota is forced to navigate the city and its hardships alone and pregnant.