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Friday, June 26, COLD SWEAT presents the perfect double feature for a first date… or a last 💔 🎹 THE PIANO TEACHER (2001) Michael Haneke and Isabelle Huppert craft a cold, devastating portrait of repression, obsession, and emotional self-destruction set within Vienna’s classical music world. 🪡 AUDITION (1999) Takashi Miike’s legendary slow-burn nightmare begins as an awkward romance before spiraling into one of the most infamous finales in horror history. Tickets already selling fast! $14 single | $20 double feature 🎟️ 🔗🔝

Sunday is the big day! FAMILY SUNDAY! This May 17th, we have a big day planned for you and your little ones: 10:30 am – MY FIRST MOVIES, film shorts for ages 2-6 🎥🍿 11:25 am – MAKE AND PLAY, art activities for kiddos and their parents 🖍🎨 & 02:00 pm – FAMILY MATINEES screening of RATAOUILLE 🐭🍲 03:50 pm – ANIMATION LAB, a hands-on stop-motion activity involving food 🍜🍕 Two different programs, one big day of fun! Don't miss out! 🎟🎟🎟 and more info 🔗🔝

This Sunday! We're bringing back a Pixar classic: RATATOUILLE (2007). Follow our favorite rat Remi as he chases his cooking dreams and teaches us a timeless lesson: Anyone can cook. This is part of our FAMILY SUNDAYS series. After the screening, stop by the ANIMATION LAB! There'll be a hands-on activity where kids and families can create their own mini stop-motion films using food. 🥪🥞 Screening is May 17 at 2 pm. 🎟🎟🎟 and more info 🔗🔝

It’s satire month in June at @facetschicago ! You won’t want to miss these Must-Watch Indies! 🦆 CHICAGO PREMIERE — Described by Romanian auteur Radu Jude as the best film of the year, provocateur Nadav Lapid’s YES is a biting, pitch black satire that takes a blistering and unflinchingly critical look at modern Israeli society. Screens Saturday, June 13 - 8:00 PM – Intro, Sunday, June 14 - 6:00 PM, Thursday, June 18 - 8:30 PM, Saturday, June 20 - 7:30 PM, and Sunday, June 21 - 6:00 PM 📝 Structured in four chapters, writer/director Simón Mesa Soto’s absurd tragicomedy A POET is a satirical, yet empathetic look at the cost of living a creative life under the crippling weight of late stage capitalism. Screens Saturday, June 13 - 5:00 PM – Intro + Q&A with Robert Daniels, Sunday, June 14 - 3:30 PM, Saturday, June 20 - 2:30 PM, and Sunday, June 21 - 1:00 PM 🍒 Meredith Alloway’s satirical slasher FORBIDDEN FRUITS, starring Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, and Lola Tung, is a glorious entry into what Rue Morgue magazine calls “girl horror” for the post-girl boss feminism era. Screens Saturday, June 13 - 2:00 PM – Intro, Sunday, June 14 - 1:00 PM, Thursday, June 18 - 6:00 PM, Saturday, June 20 - 5:00 PM, and Sunday, June 21 - 3:30 PM Tickets at 🔗⬆️ or box office.

This June, our Must-Watch Indies lineup brings together three satirical films with three wildly different targets. ⚡ YES (Chicago Premiere) - A biting, pitch black satire that takes a blistering and unflinchingly critical look at modern Israeli society. 🍒 FORBIDDEN FRUITS — Meredith Alloway's satirical slasher starring Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, and Lola Tung 📝 A POET — A satirical, yet empathetic look at the cost of living a creative life under the crippling weight of late stage capitalism.

Coming to MY FIRST MOVIES? Looking for fun, creative, and hands-on activities for you and your little ones? Join us for MAKE AND PLAY! 🎨🖍 This Sunday, after MY FIRST MOVIES, we open up the studio for kids and parents to bring stories to life through hands-on activities and experiences. Through creativity and imagination, we bring everyone together to become little artists. 🖼 MY FIRST MOVIES and MAKE AND PLAY are part of our monthly series FAMILY SUNDAYS. This month's programming is Sunday, May 17. Shorts start at 10:30am, with activities starting afterwards at 11:25am. 🎟🎟🎟 and more info 🔗🔝

Are you ready for MARTYRS?🩸 Pascal Laugier’s infamous 2008 shocker screens this Friday, May 15 at 9pm and remains one of the most harrowing, debated, and unforgettable experiences in modern horror. What begins as a brutal revenge story spirals into something far more existential, pushing past extremity into a bleak meditation on suffering, transcendence, and the limits of the body itself. 🎟️ $14 single | $20 double feature with FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701 (1972)

This Thursday, May 14 Anime Club celebrates the golden age of tape-trading and video store discoveries with our first-ever VHS NIGHT — featuring BIOHUNTER (1995), a grotesque, over-the-top body-horror OVA that captures everything great about late-night ’90s anime rentals. 🍜 Cup noodle bar in between films. Members only! Sign up 🔗🔝

Join us for our free networking event, The Industry Hobnob, on May 17th. From 5-8pm at @facetschicago ! Featuring special guest Emma Thatcher (@emmathatcherr )

We’re coming home! Join us for the Chicago premiere of my latest feature PUPPYGIRL followed by a cast & crew Q&A.

PILLION starts today @facetschicago as part of this month’s Must-Watch Indies! “The story of that one relationship that defines a person, the one that finally reveals to them what they want out of sex, love, and life. We can all relate to that.” – Odie Henderson, The Boston Globe A superb romantic comedy with a BDSM twist, Harry Lighton’s directorial debut PILLION, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, offers a frank portrait of sexual coming-of-age and first love from a point of view rarely depicted on screen. Based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones, this dom-com follows the sexual coming-of-age of a shy, introverted gay man named Colin (Harry Melling), who works a menial job, sings in a barbershop quartet, and lives with his parents in London after he meets a drop dead gorgeous and enigmatic biker name Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). When an initial hookup on Christmas Day develops into something more, Ray introduces Colin to the misunderstood world of BDSM and a relationship that will change his life forever. Deliriously romantic, explicitly sexual, and deceptively tender, Lighton’s BAFTA-nominated film is a refreshingly modern queer rom-com that tackles intimacy, desire, and love with a wry, insightful, and ever so slightly melancholic touch. Stars Melling and Skarsgård have never been better. PILLION premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival where Lighton won the Best Screenplay award. The film screens Sunday, May 10 at 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 16 at 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 17 at 5:00 PM, and Thursday, May 21 at 6:30 PM. Tickets at 🔗⬆️ or at the box office!

Hot girls love New French Extremity 💖🩸⛓️✨ Excited to be psychologically obliterated by Martyrs on the big screen next Friday at @facetschicago 👭🏚️