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🎸🔥 Thursday, July 2, Optical Noise presents the special US premiere of JAWBREAKER — the definitive documentary on legend...
05/29/2026

🎸🔥 Thursday, July 2, Optical Noise presents the special US premiere of JAWBREAKER — the definitive documentary on legendary Swedish d-beat pioneers Anti-Cimex — featuring a live performance by

Formed by teenagers in 1981, Anti-Cimex helped create and define the sound of Scandinavian hardcore punk, influencing generations of raw punk bands worldwide. From recording songs in a chicken coop to induction into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame, JAWBREAKER traces the band’s chaotic history through rare archival footage, intimate interviews, and a surprisingly tender, dreamlike approach to one of punk’s most brutal sounds. 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in 🔗🔝

🌆 VISIONS OF OSHII 🌆On Thursday, June 11, Anime Club spotlights Mamoru Oshii with a members-only double feature of polit...
05/28/2026

🌆 VISIONS OF OSHII 🌆

On Thursday, June 11, Anime Club spotlights Mamoru Oshii with a members-only double feature of political paranoia, dreamlike sci-fi, and haunting meditations on memory, technology, and reality itself.

Learn more & sign up: https://facets.org/programs/visions-of-oshii/

Next Friday, June 5th, join us for the Opening Night at the African Diaspora International Film Festival Chicago 2026 🌧️...
05/27/2026

Next Friday, June 5th, join us for the Opening Night at the African Diaspora International Film Festival Chicago 2026 🌧️✨

First, the moving short DAUGHTERS follows three generations of Black women fighting to break cycles of intergenerational trauma and protect their family’s future, programmed by Tyler Balentine. Then, the Chicago Premiere of CAN YOU STAND THE RAIN — a soulful, emotionally charged reunion drama where old friends come together after the death of the person who once held them all together, forcing long-buried dreams, regrets, and truths to rise to the surface.

Buy tickets & passes 🎟️ https://facets.org/programs/adiff-opening-night-daughters-can-you-stand-the-rain/

Screening this June: A POET is a wry, deeply human portrait of failure, ego, and the strange compulsion to keep creating...
05/26/2026

Screening this June: A POET is a wry, deeply human portrait of failure, ego, and the strange compulsion to keep creating even when the world stops listening. By turns painfully funny and quietly devastating, the film captures the absurdity of the artistic life with remarkable tenderness. Part satire, part existential spiral, and one of the sharpest indie discoveries of the year.

Saturday, June 13 screening preceded by an introduction from Must-Watch Indies series programmer Marya E. Gates and a post-screening Q&A with RogerEbert.com Associate Editor Robert Daniels. 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in 🔗🔝

📼🐄 Our Staff Picks series gets wonderfully weird on Wednesday, June 24 with Oscar Harding’s A LIFE ON THE FARM (2022).Th...
05/23/2026

📼🐄 Our Staff Picks series gets wonderfully weird on Wednesday, June 24 with Oscar Harding’s A LIFE ON THE FARM (2022).

This bizarre, hilarious, and strangely haunting documentary uncovers the homemade VHS tapes created by eccentric English farmer Charles Carson in the 1990s — videos that play like part pastoral documentary, part accidental nightmare.

Presented with the Found Footage Festival, this special screening features Harding and Found Footage Fest co-founder Joe Pickett in person, plus a pre-show VHS presentation from Pickett himself. The feature will also screen on VHS. 🎟️ https://facets.org/programs/found-footage-presents-a-life-on-the-farm/

Celebrate 35 years of MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE (1991) with us on Wednesday, June 17 ahead of the icon's 15th studio album ...
05/22/2026

Celebrate 35 years of MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE (1991) with us on Wednesday, June 17 ahead of the icon's 15th studio album release 🖤

Directed by Alek Keshishian and originally released internationally as "In Bed with Madonna", the film captures the icon at the height of the Blonde Ambition era through stunning black-and-white backstage footage and electrifying full-color performances.

Featuring a curated pre-show of iconic Madonna music videos before the film. Screens as a part of our Staff Picks series. 🎟️ https://facets.org/programs/madonna-truth-or-dare-35th-anniversary/

05/22/2026

It's melancholy, it's cynical, it's Béla Tarr’s SÁTÁNTANGÓ (1994). This Sunday, our ESSENTIALS series presents SÁTÁNTANGÓ in its full 7-hour glory. In light of Béla Tarr’s recent passing, this presentation serves as a tribute to a true artist who believed in cinema and the unforgiving worlds it can bring to anyone.

🎟FREE for Members, $20 for General Admission🎟
More info 🔗🔝

Béla Tarr's austere 7-hour epic SÁTÁNTANGÓ (1994) screens this Sunday, May 24thLong before it was widely accessible in t...
05/19/2026

Béla Tarr's austere 7-hour epic SÁTÁNTANGÓ (1994) screens this Sunday, May 24th

Long before it was widely accessible in the states, FACETS championed film, becoming the first to release it on DVD in the US and helping introduce Tarr’s monumental cinema to new audiences. Its history is deeply tied to our founder, Milos Stehlik, whose passion for bold, uncompromising filmmaking shaped our programming from the beginning.

Now, in the wake of Tarr’s recent passing and in celebration of our anniversary month, we’re honored to bring this towering achievement back to the theater where it belongs. 🎟 https://facets.org/programs/satantango/

On June 12, alterotics and Optical Noise present THE FUTURE IS A F**K — six porn/art shorts featuring films by Iris Glit...
05/15/2026

On June 12, alterotics and Optical Noise present THE FUTURE IS A F**K — six porn/art shorts featuring films by Iris Glitzer, Vex Ashley, Ryan Suites, Jazzy Boho, Pedro Lavin, plus the premiere of alterotics’ latest film, CHARACTER SYNDROME.

Then, descend into LADIES OF THE NIGHT: LES VAMPYRES + THE BLACK GLOVE, a double feature of dark sapphic eroticism from Venezuelan underground filmmaker Maria Beatty. Influenced by German Expressionism, film noir, gothic subculture, and surrealism, Beatty’s lush black-and-white films transform fe**sh and forbidden desire into something hypnotic, dreamlike, and dangerously intimate.

$14 single | $20 double feature 🎟🎟🎟 and more info 🔗🔝

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