Schedule:

1:00 PM YANIV

Consider a Bronx high school drama teacher getting around budget cuts by funding the school’s spring musical with illegal gambling loot.  That’s the wacky plot premise cooked up by writer/director Carmi and co-writer/actor Ducoff, partners in crime since the fourth grade.  Desperate for funding, teacher Bernstein (Ducoff, a real-life NYC high school teacher) gets tipped off to a high-stakes underground gambling ring where Yaniv, “the Blackjack of the Jewish people,” is the game of choice.  The catch?  The secret basement nightclub is run by and for a tight-knit group of Hasidic men, and Bernstein and his pal Jonah don’t have a ghost of a chance at passing, until…the pair don Orthodox disguises complete with fake beards, and it is game on.

4:00 PM JULIE KEEPS QUIET JULIE ZWIJGT

A scandal rocks an elite tennis academy where a popular coach is suspended under suspicion of sexually grooming his teen proteges.  News of the suicide of one of them breaks and all eyes are on Julie, the young rising star long perceived to be his favorite.  While not primarily a sports film, the vigorous and beautifully shot match sequences provide an apt metaphor for a conflict that plays out wrenchingly in Julie’s head.  First-time actress and real-life tennis champ Van den Broeck turns in a remarkable performance as Julie, a talented but isolated young woman struggling with conflicting loyalties and a guilty secret as her future hangs in the balance.  The official Belgian submission for 2025 Oscar consideration.  In Dutch and French with English subtitles.

7:00 PM EX-HUSBANDS

Griffin Dunne (AFTER HOURS, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON) leads a predominantly male ensemble cast in a wryly humorous tale revolving around questions of women and the lack thereof.  There’s a straight line drawn between soon-to-be-married and soon-to-be-ex for three generations of men in the Pearce family.  Elderly patriarch Simon (Benjamin) has recently exited a 65-year union; grandson Nick is heading for the altar with a load of doubts, and the marriage of father-of-the-groom Peter (Dunne) is in the rearview mirror.  Nick and pals head for a stag weekend in a Mexican resort, where Peter shows up as the uninvited guest.  Soul-searching starts at the bottom of a glass for this gang and romance may be on the menu for Peter.

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