Schedule:

7:00 PM: A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES

In Kurdish and Persian with English subtitles.

The youngest of a destitute Kurdish family has a terminal illness, and his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. In desperation, the eldest sister agrees to marry an Iraqi willing to care for the boy. At the border exchange, however, the family of the man rejects the sick boy, putting the siblings in a harrowing race against time.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Iran/France

Rare 35mm print courtesy of the TIFF Film Reference Library

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

Henry (Michael Rooker) is a psychopathic drifter who has coldly murdered a number of people for no particular reason and without any remorse. Leaving scores of bodies in his wake, Henry makes his way to Chicago, where his murderous streak continues and he settles into the rundown apartment of his drug-dealing former prison friend Otis (Tom Towles). Also moving into the space is Otis’s younger sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), who is fleeing from her abusive husband. Henry soon reveals his troubled childhood background to Becky, which resulted in Henry’s murder of his mother, the crime that landed him in prison. Unbeknownst to Becky, Henry continues to commit a series of random killings along with Otis, who has quickly developed a taste for murder…

Format: 35mm

Distributor: MPI

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: DODES'KA-DEN

In Japanese with English subtitles.

By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them-the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor-finds reasons to carry on.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Japan

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)