Sentimental Value at Real Art Ways

December 16, 2025 - December 18, 2025

“It’s a movie that sneaks up on you like great fiction, blending theme and character in a way that allows it to live in your mind after you see it, rolling around what it means to both the people in it and your own life.” – RogerEbert.com“It’s hardly a guilty pleasure movie, though its sheer pleasantness comes with a certain pang of conscience: should cinema this intelligent be this much fun to watch?” – Daily Telegraph (UK)“Sentimental Value is about… Find out more

December 12, 2025 - December 18, 2025

“thanks to Hikari’s elegant direction, a nimble and melancholic script by Hikari and Stephen Blahut, and the tenderhearted and attuned performances by an ensemble led by Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, and Akira Emoto, this is a beautiful and contemplative film, with lovely messaging and a couple of sly twists.” – RogerEbert.com“It’s a testament to the cast, the screenwriting and Hikari that all these narrative threads weave together for an uplifting message about our need to connect with others and be… Find out more

December 11, 2025 - December 18, 2025

“The very epitome of traditional awards season material, Nuremberg is intelligent, serious-minded, impeccably honourable stuff…” – Financial Times“You can feel archival poring that went into the research. It lends authenticity and intellectual rigour to this extraordinary, century-defining event. Crowe and co do the rest.” – Time Out“It wants to educate and inspire as well as entertain, and isn’t shy about those ambitions.” – RogerEbert.comAs the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist gets locked in a dramatic… Find out more

December 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025

 Real Art Ways is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.This is screening for one day only, on Monday, December 1, in our video gallery. The videos will loop between 1-9 pm. Meet Us Where We’re At features newly commissioned videos by Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria), Hoàng… Find out more

November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025

 In recognition of World AIDS Day, you’re invited to a community screening of Derek Jarman’s final feature film, BLUE. A single field of radiant blue fills the screen while Jarman, facing AIDS in the final month of his life, speaks of illness, intimacy, and eternity. With only voice and color, BLUE becomes a meditation on presence and absence, on the body in decline, and the spirit in defiant bloom.The 2:00 pm screening will take place at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum… Find out more

November 28, 2025 - December 4, 2025

“This is a gorgeous, touching film that transports you in swelling operatic fashion, per Fabbro’s tradition.” – San Jose Mercury News“An emotional tale…with a fairytale and nolstagic touch.” – Rolling Stone“…a feast for the senses!” – ForbesA modern fable about truffles, sustainability, and family. Trifole, set in the Alba White Truffle region of Italy, tells the adventure of a young woman looking for her own path who reconnects with her ailing, truffle-hunting grandfather and nature. Eventually, she bonds with her… Find out more

November 17, 2025 - November 19, 2025

“If anyone has the right to make a revenge fantasy, it’s Jafar Panahi. And yet, this movie isn’t that. Panahi doesn’t make statement films; he makes question films, designed to instigate soul-searching and debate.” – Washington Post“Once you arrive at the ultimate destination — a primal, furious cinematic scream at all the injustices that have happened in Iran and throughout the globe — you will never forget it. This is essential viewing and essential filmmaking.” – San Jose Mercury News“It… Find out more

November 14, 2025 - November 20, 2025

“Rather than leaning on caricatures or stereotypes, the film gives each person’s perspective a respectful hearing. The added element of Wang’s subterfuge is what keeps it all fresh.” – The New York Times“It’s about the mysteries of the human heart. Its exploration of these subtle depths is sensitive, as are its conclusions.” – RogerEbert.com“Mistress Dispeller is a bittersweet take on bittersweet feelings that is also a fascinating showcase of the familial, cultural and societal rules and rituals in China.” –… Find out more

November 14, 2025 - November 20, 2025

“Sachs presents his characters’ intellect and emotion, their artistic energy, as inseparable from physicality: he avoids the cliché of talking heads and realizes the idea of talking bodies.” – The New Yorker“The result is a charming experiment that should delight those who like their pleasures both nostalgic and voyeuristic.” – The New York Times“Peter Hujar’s Day doesn’t ask big questions – it creates an ephemeral, meditative space that invites them.” – Filmspotting“The film is a surprisingly beautiful and subtle tribute… Find out more

November 14, 2025 - November 20, 2025

“Bugonia is one of the best films in recent memory to capture what it feels like to be alive right now. Because of that, it is Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkest and most timely work.” – The Independent (UK)“Lanthimos’s hand is steady as he spins us deeper into chaos, always withholding just enough to keep us questioning what’s real.” – Chicago Reader“Proof that not every new movie is a cookie-cutter audience pleaser. Expect the unexpected in a sublimely ridiculous corporate kidnap caper… Find out more