This April, come to FACETS and celebrate Earth Month with our Art House Environmentalism Screening Series running from April 1st-15th. Programmed by our Customer Service Rep Perry Ruhland, each selection contemplates humanity’s modern disconnection from the natural world. To accompany Perry’s screening series, here are ten films we have curated to reflect different elements of how humanity lives with nature… or has corrupted it. From across the world and via a variety of genres, each one makes a statement on a dimension of environmental concerns. From sustainability concerns to sheer disaster, these films reflect the vantage of their artists grappling with

Two screening series are currently running at the FACETS Cinema this month, making for an opportune and coincidental pairing of two films with different perspectives on the nature of belonging. Rebecca Hall’s film Passing, part of our If We Picked the Oscars series, screens on March 18th-20th and Paris Blues is showing on the 20th as one of the films in our Tribute to Sydney Poitier. Both film series are programmed by Charles Coleman, FACETS Film Program Director, and this is a unique chance to experience two carefully curated films in conversation with one another on the same weekend. Passing DIRECTED BY

Oscar season has arrived in earnest and while the Academy is in the news for shortening the ceremony, FACETS has the cure for the frustrations of the grand ceremony we both love and hate. The Oscars can’t reward everything in a given year but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect either! We see shutouts every year, films that were nominated but lost in the voting for one reason or another. But what about omissions, those films which are entirely overlooked by the Academy in a given year, despite seeming like a shoo-in for a specific category? To accompany our If We Picked