Eye on Video: 2025 Film Showcase at Real Art Ways

  Real Art Way’s youth filmmaking program, Eye on Video, concludes with a free public screening on Thursday, July 31, at 7 pm, featuring each high school student’s short films. The showcase films investigate a broad range of contemporary topics that are of personal interest to the young filmmakers. Eye on Video has received generous support from The Common Sense Fund, Stanley Black & Decker, and the Gawlicki Family Foundation. Eye on Video provides teens with the opportunity to learn artistic skills from a Master…

In honor of Art House Convergence’s Art House Theater Day, we are offering RAW audiences a classic Fellini film for a one-time-only screening in our cinema. Art House Theater Day (AHTD) is an annual program of AHC that brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters – and independent film – contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires. 2025 marks the 6th annual Art House Theater Day, which launched in 2016…

This screening is presented in partnership with the American School for the Deaf, the first permanent school for the deaf in the United States and a nationally renowned leader in providing comprehensive educational programs and services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. There will be a special Q&A with Jeff Bravin, the Executive Director of the American School for the Deaf, on opening night – Friday, July 18, after the 7 pm screening. “An intimate and moving documentary that takes us through…

This screening is presented in partnership with the American School for the Deaf, the first permanent school for the deaf in the United States and a nationally renowned leader in providing comprehensive educational programs and services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. On Friday, July 18, 7 pm, we will present the film, followed by a Q&A with Jeff Bravin, the Executive Director of ASD. To attend this special screening event, we encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance.

“A gorgeous drama with an open, aching heart.” – RogerEbert.com “Because writer-director Sarah Friedland’s debut finds so much depth in its subjective approach to memory loss, it loses much of its stigma and discovers wonder in its place.” – AV Club “Familiar Touch” reveals itself to be less about the agonies of change than in the concessions we make to feel closer to our loved ones and ourselves.” – The NYT 98% on Rotten Tomatoes Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired…

“…a bold reshaping of the romcom.” – Arizona Republic Celine Song’s sophomore feature stars Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans in an attractive love triangle. Johnson plays a young New York City matchmaker whose lucrative business gets complicated as she finds herself torn between the perfect match (Pascal) and her imperfect ex (Evans).

“Really an extraordinary film.” – FilmWeek “…moving and intimate look at her (Janis Ian) life and genius as a musical storyteller. Kudos to director Varda Bar-Karfor crafting a documentary as direct and uncompromisingly honest as its subject.” – In Their Own League 100% on Rotten Tomatoes In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and released a year later, the song launched Ian’s career, but its subject matter ignited controversy, even…

“This film feels like the coziest of blankets enveloping you in the theater. However, you should expect a few jolts of static electricity as you snuggle into that blanket. After all, this touching, beautiful film is based on a novella by Stephen King.” – Boston Globe From childhood to adulthood, Charles “Chuck” Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

Agathe, hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions, finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in the legendary British Bookshop, Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. Invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to…

“When Hollywood meets humanity, powerful stories emerge. That’s what happens in Caregiving, a new PBS documentary that pushes back the curtain on one of America’s most underrecognized — and essential — roles: family caregivers.” – AARP.com (Read the full story here.) Join Connecticut Public, at Real Art Ways, for a free screening of national documentary, “Caregiving” from Executive Producer, Bradley Cooper! This event will feature excerpts of the film which explores the untold story of caregiving, intertwining intimate personal stories and revealing…