Belmont World Film

06/11/2026

Enjoy complimentary iced ginger tea, courtesy of Comfort Kitchen, one of Boston’s most culturally significant restaurants known for its global menus spanning the African diaspora, in the West Newton Cinema lobby prior to the PROMISED SKY (East Coast premiere) @ Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series on Monday, June 15. Please join us in friendship one last time this season to see and discuss one of the world's most engrossing films. Get tickets at https://bit.ly/PromisedSkyfilm.

06/09/2026

We are grateful to Xan Weber of the International Institute of New England and human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha for speaking at our screening of LOST LAND on Monday. An impactful film and discussion! Thanks also to Belmont Against Racism for co-presenting the film.

06/05/2026

Don't miss the East Coast premiere of LOST LAND, the first-ever Rohingya language film and winner of the Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival, on Mon., June 8 at 7 PM at the West Newton Cinema.

In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, four-year-old Shafi and his nine-year-old sister Somira leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia. The first-ever Rohingya-language film and featuring an all-Rohingya cast. Winner of the Special Jury Priz...

06/03/2026

Kicking off and with a film that encompasses both observances: the East Coast premiere of ENZO. With many thanks to for leading an engaging and interactive discussion after the film. With thanks to the for their support and to our co-presenters the @iinewengland and

05/29/2026

Belmont World Film kicks off its observance of Pride & World Refugee Awareness Months on Monday, June 1 at 7 at the West Newton Cinema with the riveting French drama ENZO (East Coast premiere) @ Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series, set overlooking the gorgeous Mediterranean Sea in La Ciotat in the South of France. Check it out at the link below!

In this riveting drama set along the breathtaking South of France, a 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship. There he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world. Premiered at the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film F...

05/27/2026

Starts Monday, June 1: Belmont World Film's observance of Pride & World Refugee Awareness Months featuring 3 extraordinary films from 3 different continents. Save on admission with a “passport card,” just like the low-cost passport card for travel to Canada, that saves you $6 off the normal price of $42.

Seeing six or more films? Our "passport" includes eight admissions with no extra fees (a $16 savings), and it can be shared by two people at each screening.

05/25/2026

Our first rescheduled screening of SIX DAYS IN SPRING on May 21 featured a rich discussion with Haleigh Burgon, a PhD candidate in French and Francophone studies at Boston University whose research investigates how women writers and creators use representations of motherhood and memory. If you missed this screening there's another one on Tuesday, May 26 at 7 PM. Apparently the dress code for the event was “striped shirts” — and West Newton Cinema Assistant Manager Jordyn Southworth and Belmont World Film Executive Director Ellen Gitelman got the memo independently.

05/25/2026

Thanks to everyone who turned out for the North American premiere of PORTE BAGAGE (luggage rack) on Monday, May 18 and to our discussion leader, Brandeis University Research Fellow Ian VanderMeulen for a fascinating conversation about the dynamics of one Dutch family's road trip to their Moroccan homeland. Photos by Jennifer Cogswell. Part of the Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts supported by Spark Newton.

05/25/2026

What better way to experience a film about a Moroccan family than to have a Moroccan meal beforehand! Stuffed eggplant, chicken kebab with couscous and North African spiced cauliflower topped off by scrumptious and delicate Moroccan cookies from Casablanca The House of Pastry. Photos by Jennifer Cogswell See separate post for photos from PORTE BAGAGE (North American premiere) @ Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series.

05/22/2026

Join Belmont World Film on Tuesday, May 26 at 7 PM at the West Newton Cinema for the RESCHEDULED North American premiere of SIX DAYS IN SPRING, shot in St. Tropez and starring popular French actress du jour Eye Haidara, followed by a discussion led by Northeastern University Research Fellow Tiffany Bailey Rahman. Pass it on and see you there!

On a whim, a single mother--who is determined to give her twin boys a spring vacation after her original plans collapse—trespasses at her former in-laws’ luxury villa on the Riviera, a place she once called home. Joined by the twins’ soccer coach, secretly her boyfriend, they cautiously savor ...