This Is Not A Fiction Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

7:00 PM: EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974

In Japanese with English subtitles.

When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw, intensely personal documentary as a way to both maintain a connection to the woman he still cared for and to make sense of their complex relationship. Granted at times shockingly intimate access to Miyuki’s personal life, Hara follows her wayward journey toward liberation as she explores her sexuality with both men and women, becomes pregnant and raises a family as a single mother, and grows increasingly disenchanted with the constraints of traditional social structures.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

Cost: $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

10:00 PM: MEN OF WAR

In May 2020, a ragtag group of roughly 60 insurrectionists led by American mercenaries attempted to infiltrate Venezuela by boat to overthrow the regime of Nicolás Maduro. Dubbed Operation Gideon, it was a tragicomedy that failed. The film pitch would be “Rambo meets Fyre Fest” only that doesn’t begin to cover the multiple layers of this documentary. The narrative echoes decades of covert US interventions in Latin America, only this time fashioned in the Trump era.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: NEON

COUNTRY: USA/Canada

Cost:  $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.