Genre: Documentary

Free Show: Wed Oct 18th, 6:00 pm with discussion to follow. Hosted by NAMI VT; Anxious Nation explores the epidemic of anxiety and why we are such an anxious nation. The film lifts the shroud of shame around mental health, while giving emotional insights into how anxiety shows up in our children’s lives, impacts families and what parents’ contributing role may be in the journey. While there is no cure for anxiety, we can learn to manage it, so it doesn’t define us.

Told through the personal experience of notable Negro League umpire Bob Motley, the pic explores Black baseball as a stage for some of the world’s best athletes, an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and the unintended consequences of MLB integration. The rise and fall of the Negro Leagues follows the arc of race history in the United States. Featuring interviews from Negro League players like Buck O’Neil and Hall of Fame Inductees Monte Irvin, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron, The League celebrates some of the 20th century’s best athletes and entrepreneurs while grappling with America’s difficult march toward equality, including a discussion on the dissolution of the Negro League, which led to the downturn of hundreds of Black-owned businesses.

Special Event Screening; date TBD: The stories of four service men and women, whose grit, smarts, and perseverance are on full display as they allow cameras to witness their most deeply personal, inevitably tense, raw, and honest therapy sessions in real—time. The film seeks to bring understanding to how the human mind responds to trauma, to what a diagnosis of PTSD means, and how PTSD can impact daily life, far removed from a military setting.

Upstairs and Downstairs; Check individual showtimes for auditorium designation: The life and times of Yankee Yogi Berra, whose unique personality and unforgettable Yogi-isms sometimes got in the way of his being recognized as one of baseball’s very greatest catchers.

**Savoy’s Queer Film Festival** Discussion with trans historian Juniper Oxford and trans elder Marina Brown after the film.

Special Screening event with Director Trip Jennings!

Special one night screening event:  May 1st 7:00pm

Explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy.

This special event screening is being hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace of VT/NH and will feature a panel discussing following the screening.
The tape-recorded words “erase it” take on new weight in the context of history and war. When the state of Israel was established in 1948, war broke out and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in its aftermath. Israelis know this as the War of Independence. Palestinians call it “Nakba” (the Catastrophe). In the late 1990s, graduate student Teddy Katz conducted research into a large-scale massacre that had allegedly occurred in the village of Tantura in 1948. His work later came under attack and his reputation was ruined, but 140 hours of audio testimonies remain.