2026 (USA, France, UK) 116 minutes

Directed by: Danny Boyle

In this explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of tabloid news, Jack O’Connell (Sinners) stars as Larry Lamb, the editor tapped by Australian entrepreneur Ruport Murdoch (Guy Pearce) to take over the former British broadsheet The Sun. Set in the late 1960s, Ink chronicles the growing rivalry between The Mirror and Lamb’s newly ascendent The Sun, and the bitter internal disputes between Murdoch and the move-fast-and-break-things Lamb.With some of the anarchic spirit of Trainspotting transported to the pin-striped suits of Fleet Street, the center of the British newspaper industry, director Danny Boyle’s latest thrill ride is a fast-paced drama about the roots of a sordid media industry rooted in giving the people what they want, but which festers and spirals out of control.

2026 Venice Film Festival – Nominated Golden Lion
2026 Telluride Film Festival

Incline Village Cinema – December 4 – 7:15pm

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2026 (France, USA, Poland, Italy) 115 minutes

Directed by: James Gray

Set in 1986 Queens and Brooklyn, is an authentically drawn New York story and a master class in escalating tension, charting the tragic domestic fallout after family man and engineer Irwin (Miles Teller), who aspires to middle-class comforts, is pulled into a shady deal by his brother, Gary (Adam Driver), a former NYPD cop. Gary thinks he can make a killing on a scheme with Russian criminals dumping oil down by the Gowanus Canal, assisting them to work around regulations; instead Gary ends up endangering his brother, as well as Irwin’s sons and wife Hester (Scarlett Johansson), who is going through her own private crisis. Torn between brotherly love and marital loyalty, Irwin discovers he’s ensnared in forces far beyond his control. With its vivid period detail and marvelous, deeply moving trio of lead performances, Paper Tiger is a frightening portrait of pollution in all forms—and the human bonds that can save us from the brink of despair.

2026 – Cannes Film Festival – Nominated Palme d’Or
2026 – Critics Choice Awards – WON – Best Producer
2026 – Mill Valley Film Festival – WON – Maverick Director Award

Incline Village Cinema – December 3 – 6:00pm

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2026 (USA) 110 minutes

Directed by: Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson became extreme sports stars in 2018 when they were the first to ski down Lhotse, the Everest-adjacent, fourth tallest mountain in the world. For their next challenge, the couple intended to scale Everest’s rarely attempted north face and then ski down from the summit. After a tragedy, Morrison presses on alone. His tenacity and spiritual intensity in overcoming grief, not to mention the awesome physical obstacles posed by Everest makes him one of those rare true-life adventurers whose exploits go farther than fiction. Everest: The Other Side captures Morrison’s extraordinary and risky 2025 ascent in images made all the more compelling because co-director Jimmy Chin is climbing next to Morrison, facing many of the same perils. Chin’s cinematography—along with that of Clair Popkin and Christopher Murray—and Morrison’s epic determination add up to a thrilling documentary.

2026 Critics’ Choice Awards – Nominated for Best Feature Documentary, Best Cinematography and Best Music Score

Incline Village Cinema – December 5 – 5:30pm

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2026 (USA) 98 minutes

Directed by: Nanette Burstein

For many, cosmologist Carl Sagan was the face of space exploration, scientific inquiry, and insatiable curiosity, his enthusiasm contagious. Nanette Burstein’s fascinating documentary reveals the man behind the legend. Sagan’s involvement in the Voyager satellite program that was instrumental not only in discovering details about Earth’s neighboring planets but also paved the way for serious discussion about extraterrestrial life catapulted the university professor and NASA advisor into the stratosphere. But with additional fame as an iconoclast (author of Cosmos, activist against nuclear proliferation) came a heavy toll: a fractured family life and difficulty adapting to his role in it, until he met his soulmate, Anne. In this absorbing evocation of Sagan’s life, Burstein employs home movies, audio archives, candid testimonials, and extraordinary space photography to tell the story of a true globalist who loved being an ambassador for the human condition, the spread of knowledge, and our relationship with the universe.

2026 Telluride Film Festival – US premiere

Northstar Villages Cinemas – December 4 – 5:30pm

2025 (USA) 76 minutes

Directed by: Emmett Malloy

An intimate look into Jack Johnson’s evolution from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician. The documentary traces how his early years making surf films with close friends became a foundation for a much broader creative life, capturing moments in and out of the water that later surfaced in his songwriting. Blending rare footage from those formative surf films and Johnson’s personal and family archives with present-day reflections, the film weaves together how lived experience, friendship, and exploration shaped the sound and stories behind the music.

2026 SXSW Film Festival – World Premiere

Incline Village Cinema – December 6 – 4:45pm

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2026 (USA) 50 minutes

Directed by: Scott Young

Donner Summit is more than the site of an infamous tragedy – it is a place where Indigenous history, westward migration, the railroad, highways, and generations of travelers converged to help shape California and connect America.

DONNER SUMMIT: GATEWAY TO A NATION tells the sweeping story of one of the most consequential mountain passes in American history. Long before emigrant wagons crossed the Sierra, the region was part of the ancestral homeland of the Washoe people. 

Later came westward migration, the Donner Party, the Gold Rush, the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese workers who carved a route through the granite, followed by automobiles, highways, skiing, and the modern interstate.

Incline Village Cinema – December 4 – 4:45pm

2026 (USA) 102 minutes

Directed by: David Booth Gardner

Deep in the breathtaking rainforests of Indonesia, an existential battle rages, to save Earth’s third-largest tropical rainforest from massive destruction caused by the palm oil boom, and with it, the future of the planet. This visually stunning, emotionally unsettling documentary captures the passion and purpose of Native people battling multinational corporations to save their homeland. Disturbing scenes reveal how illegal logging for the world’s most sought-after vegetable oil takes a devastating toll on lives and our planet’s climate. Filmed over nine years with a mostly Indonesian crew, David Booth Gardner captures activists overwhelmed by the race to save their lush jungles and endangered tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans from smuggling, poaching, and the displacement of villagers, all under the watch of hovering drones. Inspiring and unnerving, this doc opens our eyes to these faraway battles, encouraging us all to lean in, speak up, and get involved in fighting corporate depredation for our global consumption. Executive produced by Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) and produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society.

2026 Dances With Films – Grand Jury Award – Best Feature Documentary

Incline Village Cinema – December 6 – 8:00pm

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2026 (USA, Palestinian Territories, Malaysia, Qatar, Denmark)

Directed by: Poh Si Teng

In American Doctor, filmmaker Poh Si Teng follows three US physicians—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—striving to alleviate suffering in Gaza as the war shatters its medical infrastructure. What begins as an urgent mission of care becomes a searing confrontation with the limits of neutrality—ftc doctors shoulder impossible choices, witnessing profound suffering while navigating the dangers of a war zone. The film grapples with reconciling professional duty with civic obligation, and private anguish with public responsibility. As the documentary moves between operating rooms and American corridors of power, what emerges is a taut, deeply human portrait of courage, conscience, and the high price of speaking out in the face of injustice—an urgent, unflinching work that demands to be seen.

2026 – Sundance Film Festival – Nominated – Grand Jury Prize
2026 – SXSW – Nominated – Audience Award
2026 – Sydney International Film Festival – Won – Best International Documentary

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 4 – 7:30pm

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2026 (Romania, Norway, France, Sweden) 146 minutes

Directed by: Christian Mungiu

Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve give superbly restrained performances as a married couple who have immigrated from Romania to a small seaside town in Norway with their five children. Members of a conservative Pentecostal religious sect, the outsiders are initially accepted into their progressive community, but they soon fall under suspicion from the local townsfolk after an allegation of parental abuse. Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions. Fjord returns the director to many of his recurring themes: the freedom of the individual within contemporary political systems, the culture clash between modernity and tradition, and how human care can imperceptibly evolve into a form of control. Romania’s entry in the Academy Awards race for Best International Feature Film.

2026 Cannes Film Festival – WON – Palme d’Or and FIPRESCI prize
2026 San Sebastian Film Festival – Nominated Best Film

Incline Village Cinema – December 5 – 8:15pm

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2026 (France, Japan, Germany, Belgium) 196 minutes

Directed by: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Marie-Lou (Virginie Efira), the newly appointed director of an elder care facility in Paris, promotes a radical new flagship program that prioritizes respect and empathy over profit and aims to treat not just the body, but also the mind and soul, of patients with dementia and other cognitive disorders. Though she meets some resistance from staff and board, Marie-Lou finds a true kindred spirit in Mari (Tao Okamoto), a theater director from Kyoto with terminal cancer whose latest stage work moves Marie-Lou on a profound level. Bonded by artistry, kindness, and moral clarity, the women embark on a friendship that constitutes its own sort of love story, joining forces to bring dignity to the nursing home’s residents and compassion to one another. Like Marie-Lou’s humane philosophy about health care, Hamaguchi’s film demands time and consideration, rewarding the viewer with an almost transcendent faith in humanity to overcome the strictures of our economic and political systems.

2026 – Cannes Film Festival – WON – Best Actress – NOMINATED – Palme d’Or
2026 – Chicago International Film Festival – WON – Best Screenplay
2026 – Mill Valley Film Festival – WON – Best Actress
2026 – San Sebastian International Film Festival – WON – Best Director

Japan’s entry for the 2027 Academy Awards Best International Feature Film

Incline Village Cinema – December 6 – 1:00pm

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2026 (Mexico, Spain) 98 minutes

Directed by: Diego Luna

Multi-hyphenate director/producer/actor Diego Luna adapts Mexican writer Brenda Navarro’s acclaimed novel for his fourth feature, a powerful and unconventional immigration drama about a young Mexican woman who journeys to Spain with her brother to join the mother who left them behind as children. When the promise of a fresh start gives way to familial fractures and tough realities, the film takes its protagonist in unexpected directions to reconcile her past with her dream of a future.

San Sebastian Film Festival – Nominated Best Film
Morelia Film Festival – Nominated Best Film

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 5 – 3:00pm

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2026 (USA, Nigeria) 125 minutes

Directed by: Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri

In this tender, quietly virtuosic adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway, twin filmmakers Arie and Chuko Esiri transport Virginia Woolf’s great 1925 novel to contemporary Nigeria, where the affluent Clarissa (Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo), is getting her opulent home ready for an elaborate party. These preparations send Clarissa into reverie over her past and the unresolved loves of her youth, while, as in Woolf’s book, the film expands to follow the parallel story of Septimus (Fortune Nwafor), a soldier suffering from PTSD, in this case after his experiences fighting the country’s Boko Haram jihadist insurgency. The directors demonstrate their wizardry for intricate, overlapping narratives, retaining the spiritual essence of Woolf’s themes—memory and time, modernity and progress, class and privilege—while placing them in an enriching, new cultural context.

2026 Cannes Film Festival – Premiere – Nominated – Audience Award
2026 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated – Best Feature Film
2026 Stockholm Film Festival – Nominated – Best Feature Film

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 5 – 5:00pm

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(USA) 89 minutes

Directed by: Tom Donahue

This documentary combines over 230 interviews, extensive archival footage, animated stills and documents to tell the untold tale of the Hollywood casting director. It is a celebration of the casting profession, highlighting its previously unsung role in film history. It focuses on casting pioneer Marion Dougherty, an iconoclast whose exquisite taste, tenacity and gut instincts brought a new kind of actor to the screen that would mark the end of the old studio system and help usher in this revolutionary new period. This is perhaps arguably the greatest assemblage of talking-head star power in any documentary ever made – featuring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Diane Lane, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, John Lithgow, Oliver Stone, Paul Rudd, Jon Voight, John Travolta and others. In 2026, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the first Academy Award for Achievement in Casting – long long overdue.

Introduced by director Tom Donahue and Robert Roussel who co-wrote Marion Dougherty’s personal memoir entitled MY CASTING COUCH WAS TOO SHORT

Incline Village Cinema – December 5 – 3:30pm

2026 (USA) 99 minutes

Directed by: Judd Ehrlich

A fierce, funny, and deeply provocative film following the legendary Jane Elliott, still challenging audiences in her 90s to confront bias with unflinching honesty. It’s the kind of film that sparks conversation the moment you walk out of the theater. And what makes this film so unforgettable is not just the history—it’s the woman at the center of it. In the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, a small-town schoolteacher made a radical choice—to turn a classroom into a living experiment that would expose the reality of prejudice in a way no lecture ever could. That moment would ripple across decades. But this film isn’t about the past—it’s about right now. We meet Jane Elliott on the road, in real time—commanding rooms, disarming audiences with humor, and then hitting with truths that are impossible to ignore. She’s sharp, unpredictable, often hilarious—and completely fearless.This is not a history lesson—it’s a live wire. A moving, unforgettable portrait of a woman who refuses to soften, step back, or stay silent—and a film that dares all of us to lean in just a little closer.

2026 Sundance Film Festival – Premiere
2026 Boulder International Film Festival – WON – Best Film
2026 Cleveland International Film Festival – WON – Best Documentary
2026 Sonoma International Film Festival – WON – Audience Award

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 6 – 5:30pm

2026 (USA) 100 minutes

Directed by: William Greaves and David Greaves

It is a film we thought we’d never get to see: a documentary culled from footage shot by director William Greaves in August 1972 of the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance, all gathered together at Duke Ellington’s New York apartment to reminisce about and debate their movement’s legacy. At long last, Greaves’ son David completes his late father’s passion project, 50-year-old footage becoming 2026’s signature cinematic event. Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a tapestry of intimate, electric conversation between actors, writers, and others who helped shape the creative flowering of Black artists in the 1920s and ‘30s. But what’s remarkable—and also sobering—is how much of their exchanges touch on the racism and economic inequality still plaguing America in the 21st century. Much like the Oscar®-winning Summer of Soul, this nearly forgotten hangout brings history alive and emerges as a vital cultural landmark. It’s a party like no other—one full of brilliant personalities and bracing ideas.

2026 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated Golden Eye
2026 Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards – Nominated Best Documentary Feature
2026 BFI London Film Festival – Nominated Best Documentary Film

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 6 – 5:30pm

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2026 (USA) 95 minutes

Directed by: Viridiana Lieberman and Quin Wilson

Jean-Michel Basquiat burned brightly in his 27 years—and still does in a legacy both artistic and personal reflected in this touching and at turns heartbreaking and buoyant documentary (the only one officially approved by Basquiat’s estate and family) centered around reminiscences by the painter’s surviving sisters, Lisane and Jeanine. The siblings relate stories of life at home in the family’s Brooklyn brownstone, their brother’s early interest in drawing, and the difficulties that arose when their parents separated. To augment these memories and catalog his rise in the art world, the film employs exceptional archival footage and key voices of contemporaries, including Fab 5 Freddy, Kenny Scharf, and Arthur Jafa. As these artists express what Basquiat meant to them and to the downtown NYC demimonde, Lisane and Jeanine speak to how affable, kind, gregarious, and flawed their sibling was. The result is very much a multidimensional portrait of the artist, but even more, the portrait of an endlessly fascinating man.

2026 Tribeca Film Festival – Best Editing
2026 Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards – Nominated Best Documentary

Incline Village Cinema – December 5 – 1:30pm

2026 (USA) 112 minutes

Directed by: Dawn Porter

With her trademark command of complex social issues and deeply human storytelling, veteran documentarian Dawn Porter examines the Harlem Park Three—teenagers wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for the 1983 murder of a Baltimore middle schooler. Inspired by Jennifer Gonnerman’s New Yorker reporting, the investigative documentary tracks how police coerced 13 and 14-year-old witnesses into fabricating testimony, and how the state’s case collapsed 36 years later in 2019, when those same witnesses formally recanted. Interweaving archival footage, graphic novel-style animation, and tense legal depositions, the film moves past the courtroom to capture the profound emotional toll on the trio, boys who became men behind bars, separated from their families and the world outside. Exploring the possibility of reconciliation between the exonerated and a key childhood witness, Porter ultimately asks what justice, accountability, and healing can look like in the wake of America’s longest combined wrongful conviction.

2026 Sundance Film Festival – Premiere
2026 Mill Valley Film Festival – WON – Audience Award Best Documentary

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 5 – 7:30pm

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2026 (USA) 88 minutes

Directed by: Noah Segan

In a star performance of effortless command and charisma, John Turturro plays Harry, an aging petty thief from the Bronx who knows his professional days are numbered: the tactile craft of the pickpocket has become increasingly irrelevant in a digital world. Yet he must still make ends meet, especially in caring for his severely disabled wife. When Harry swipes the wallet of an ill-chosen mark (Will Price), however, he is thrust into a borough-hopping race against time to put things back in their right place. Building to a poignant climax, writer-director Noah Segan’s elegant love letter to both New York and to bygone cinematic eras recalls both the 1970s, with its grungy urban antiheroes, and the 1990s, in its American indie ethos.

2026 Sundance Film Festival – Premiere
2026 Telluride Film Festival
2026 Zurich Film Festival – WON – Golden Eye Award

Incline Village Cinema – December 6 – 6:15pm

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2026 (Czechia, Spain, Iran, UK) 95 minutes

Directed by: Pegah Ahangarani

Filmmaking seems to run through Pegah Ahangarani’s veins. Her parents are both noted for their work behind the camera, while she’s been a screen actor since childhood, finding stardom at age 15 in 1999’s The Girl in the Sneakers. But in this unique decades-spanning nonfiction, the focus is not on professional history, but on the collision between personal and political spheres. Assembled entirely from preexisting footage and errata, it charts the often-cruel fates of immediate family, relatives, and mentors from before the 1979 Iranian Revolution—which many hoped would bring liberation—through successive crackdowns on dissent under the Islamic Republic. Some ultimately fled the country; others were less fortunate. Complete with harrowing glimpses from the midst of protests violently quelled by police, this first-person account laments a homeland that’s suffered under authoritarian control for the now-exiled director’s entire life. It’s a graceful tally of serial rebellions and disillusionments.

2026 Cannes Film Festival – WON – Golden Eye Documentary Prize
2026 Woodstock Film Festival – WON – Best Documentary Feature
2026 Montclair Film Festival – WON – Best Documentary

Incline Village Cinema – December 3 – 8:15pm

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2026 (France, Belgium) 90 minutes

Directed by: Louis Clichy

In this gorgeously hand-painted coming-of-age tale, 11-year-old Christophe lives with his struggling farming family in the rural Beauce region in France in the late 1980s. In addition to a stern, demanding father, the boy is further plagued by a sudden physical instability, requiring an iron body brace that keeps him ramrod-straight. Despite this, Christophe finds moments of joy, love, and surprising heroism. Louis Clichy has made a deeply personal directorial debut of rustic beauty and spiritual grace; every loving brushstroke brings a sense of detailed authenticity to his vision, based on memories of growing up working-class in the French countryside amid vast farmlands, electric towers, and churches. Accompanied by an ethereal score of classical organ and choral music, Iron Boy is a delicately transporting story of a young boy’s emergence into individuality, and a family film of rare nuance.

2026 Cannes Film Festival – WON – Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 6 – 3:30pm

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2026 (USA) 85 minutes

Directed by: Zac Hersh and James Rich

REDEMPTION RIVER is a local Christian film shot in Placer County. As part of our commitment toward bringing film production to our region, this presentation is in partnership with the Placer County Film Commission.

ABOUT THE FILM: Stranded after a rafting accident, a couple on the brink of collapse must come together to escape the unforgiving wilderness.

2026 SacTown Film Festival – WON – Best Director, Best Actress, Supporting Actress
2026 Purpose Film Festival – WON – Best Picture
2026 International Christian Film Festival – WON – Best Actress

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 6 – 1:30pm

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2026 (USA) 30 minutes

Directed by: Alfonso Campos

LITTLE CHAPLIN is the poetic and stylized story of a 15-year-old autistic girl, Emma, who uses her love of Charlie Chaplin to escape the emotional toll of her parents’ unraveling marriage. When she befriends Daz, an eccentric older teen who recognizes her hidden brilliance, Emma begins to find new ways to express herself. As her family reaches a breaking point, Emma must decide whether she can finally make her voice heard.

2026 SacTown Film Festival – WON – Best Director, Best Actress, Supporting Actress
2026 Purpose Film Festival – WON – Best Picture
2026 International Christian Film Festival – WON – Best Actress

Incline Village Cinema – December 4 – 5:30pm

2026 (USA, Bhutan) 20 minutes

Directed by: Pawo Choyning Dorji

In Bhutan’s Himalayas, yak herders have long told their children that wherever glaciers rise, snow lions live: mythical guardians whose fur is white as snow and whose manes are blue as the morning sky. The story has taught generations to revere the mountains and understand that all life is interconnected. When legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma travels to Bhutan, filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji weaves his journey around this ancient folktale. Together, they venture to Lunana, one of the world’s most remote settlements, where a young highlander girl longs to hear the snow lion’s roar as glaciers recede before her eyes. 

Incline Village Cinema – December 5 – 5:30pm

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2025 (USA) 15 minutes

Directed by: Zach Johaneson

BORROWED FROM THE EARTH tells the story of the powerful connection between the Blackfeet people and horses, and how that life-giving relationship remains alive today. Throughout their histories, both horse and Indigenous people have been corralled — horses by fences and Indigenous people onto reservations. Yet centuries-long attempts to subdue both ultimately strengthened the bond between them.

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 6 – 1:30pm

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