Schedule:

4:00 PM WILD DIAMOND
Runtime: 103 minutes

Liane (Khébizi), a working-class teen in the south of France, lives for social media and aspires to Kardashian glitz styled from tawdry shoplifted booty.  Selected to compete for the Palm d’Or in the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, WILD DIAMOND represents a daring new generation of go-for-broke French female directors.  Although her online persona is brash and cartoonishly sexy, Liane is paradoxically an innocent, never more so than when she is led on by the scout for a TV reality show in search of new talent.  Writer/director Riedinger poignantly creates a unique portrait of a wannabe influencer hungry for the endless fame of the internet.  In French with English subtitles.

7:00 PM NEVER ALONE
Runtime: 85 minutes

Many heroes of Jewish resistance to the Nazis are still relatively unknown decades after WWII.  In the hands of Klaus Härö (THE FENCER), the story of a risky maneuver by Jewish Helsinki businessman Abraham Stiller to save the lives of eight refugees comes to the screen with immense heart and impressive period veracity.  Even as Finland appeared to be a haven for Jews fleeing the Nazis, the government forms an alliance with Nazi Germany against Russia.  Stiller, wealthy, respected, and well-connected in political circles, calls in every favor and puts his life, reputation and business on the line to mount a clandestine mission to save the eight Jewish men scheduled for deportation to a death camp.  In Swedish, Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, English, Finnish and German with English subtitles.