Art Cinema

February 27, 2014, 4:15, 6:30 & 8:45 pm The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been fraught with opposing narratives, moral ambiguities, and often filtered through the lens of geopolitics. With the powerful Omar, a current Foreign Oscar nominee and Grand Jury Prize winner from the Cannes Film Festival, audiences get to see an intensely human story told from the Palestinian perspective. From Golden Globe … +

In conjunction with the Oscar-nominated Omar, the Gables Cinema presents a pair of screenings on Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2 at 1:00 pm each day

March 1, 2014, 2:00pm Shot and edited with stylistic references to Hollywood action epics, Yael Bartana’s film Inferno (2013) addresses the building of a grandiose replica of Solomon’s Temple by a Neo-Pentecostal Church in São Paulo.

Following a four year separation, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his estranged French wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo)’s request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure

February 28, 2014, 5:00pm In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. The story begins with Cynthia Lent, 14, finding herself frozen and embarrassed because her very first menstrual cycle hits her seconds before a crowded swim meet.

February 14, 2014 This darkly comic thriller from Paraguay follows Víctor, a 17-year old delivery boy, as he frantically makes his way through the central market in Asuncion carrying a dangerous load. With a breakneck pace and the fresh touch of new filmmakers, 7 Cajas exudes a youthful exuberance and a creative energy that makes it a terrific crowd pleaser. It’s a … +

The “switched at birth” urban legend and the Nature-vs-Nurture debate provide Hirokazu Kore-eda with a fresh opportunity to revisit his ongoing preoccupation with family dynamics and parent-child relationships in contemporary Japan.

January 28, 2014 Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) Executive Director, Jaie Laplante will announce and discuss the Festival’s 2014 program highlights including CINEDWNTWN Galas presented by Miami Downtown Development Authority, Knight Competitions,

February 8, 2014 Presented in partnership with New World School of the Arts and Miami International Film Festival, Horn Please is a documentary film from first-time directors Shantanu Suman (graphic designer) and Istling Mirche (producer).

Jan12th, 8:00 pm Robert Redford stars in All Is Lost, an open-water thriller about one man’s battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea.

O Cinema Wynwood. December 19 – 22, 2013. Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the Riot Grrrl movement.

O Cinema Wynwood. December 27 – 29, 2013. From Michel Gondry, the innovative director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, comes this unique animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky.

Coral Gables Cinema. December 13 – 19, 2013. John Sayles, the dean of American indie filmmakers and a two-time Academy Award nominee, brings his latest movie, Go For Sisters, to the Coral Gables Art Cinema for its exclusive South Florida premiere run beginning Friday, December 13. 

Miami Beach Cinematheque. November 19, 2013, 6:00 p.m. Porfirio is a film about the remarkable real-life Porfirio Ramirez, a small-town Colombian bar owner who dabbled in connections with FARC in the ’90s but now lives as a paraplegic after being shot in the spinal cord during a police raid, and plays himself in Alejandro Landes’s unique fusion of bio-pic and cinéma vérité.

Coral Gables Art Cinema. November 22 – December 6, 2013. Dallas Buyers Club stars one of today’s true matinee idols, Matthew McConaughey, as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, tough-talking and loudly bigoted Texas electrician, rodeo cowboy and ladies man. Suddenly his life is turned upside-down when he is told he is HIV-positive, extremely ill, with just thirty days left to live.

Miami Beach Cinematheque. November 22 – 27, 2013, 7:00 p.m. It all began in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. A world-class contemporary art collection built by a postal clerk and a librarian that outgrew its modest home, has now spread throughout America.

From November 1 through 14, 2013. One of this year’s most acclaimed and accomplished films, 12 Years a Slave, will start its South Florida first run engagement at the Coral Gables Art Cinema on Friday, November 1st.

Coral Gables Art Cinema. From October 25 through 27, 2013. South Florida’s film festival scene is expanding with the launch of the first annual Miami International Children’s Film Festival. Presented by the Coral Gables Art Cinema, the event will take place October 25 to 27, 2013 at the cinema, in partnership with the prestigious New York International Children’s Film Festival.

Directed by Randy Moore / 2013 / 90 mins.Miami Beach Cinematheque. From October 11 through 23, 2013. This is the clandestine project that rocked the latest Sundance Film Festival with buzz like no other film, since the director Randy Moore shot the film secretly, without permission or permits, in the Disney theme parks, avoiding security on a daily basis.

Miami Beach Cinematheque. From September 11 through 22, 2013. A very varied group of people are in a precarious situation aboard a plane flying to Mexico City. A technical failure (a kind of justifiable negligence, even though it sounds contradictory, but that’s what human actions are) has endangered the lives of the passengers on Peninsula Flight 2549.

Miami Beach Cinematheque. From September 11 through 14, 2013. Notorious writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and acclaimed director Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo) join forces for this explicitly erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex and surveillance.