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For nearly fifty years, the Southern Circuit has worked with Screening Partners to connect independent filmmakers with community audiences throughout the South for screenings and conversations around compelling stories, important topics, and the art of filmmaking. Each screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker(s).

The Nick & All Good Books invite you to explore iconic stories on the page and the big screen. Read the book, watch the film at The Nick, and join us for a post-screening discussion on how these unforgettable tales come to life in two powerful forms. Grab your copy at All Good Books and get ready for a new way to experience storytelling!

Generational Trauma and Familial Horror dissects the complicated power dynamics and shared societal burdens of parents and children. Across this three-film series, mothers and their daughters are haunted by the oppressive legacies of religion, patriarchy, and familial expectation—forces they both resist and unknowingly reproduce. In all three films, mothers bequeath heavy cultural burdens to the next generation. Maternal instincts clash with ingrained prejudices as troubled matriarchs push their daughters into the horrific realities of womanhood.

Based on Jay Anson's 1977 book, The Amityville Horror follows George and Kathy Lutz, a young couple who move their family into a house in Amityville, New York where a mass murder took place a year earlier. What follows over the next 28 days became one of the most debated alleged paranormal cases in American history.

NUTS! is a feature length documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station. Using animated reenactments, interviews, archival footage, and a hilariously unreliable narrator, NUTS! traces Brinkley’s rise from poverty and obscurity to the heights of celebrity, wealth and influence in Depression-era America.

As the first elected councilwoman of her remote Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi fearlessly breaks patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.

Documentarian Ross McElwee originally set out to make a travelogue of sorts tracing General William T. Sherman's infamous scorched-earth march through the Confederacy in the latter stages of the Civil War. Instead, haunted by a recent breakup with a girlfriend, McElwee ends up documenting his progress -- or lack thereof -- in starting a new relationship. His journey then becomes one of self-reflection and self-discovery rather than a historical/sociological exploration.

The award-winning debut feature film of internationally acclaimed Australian director Baz Luhrmann and the first in his Red Curtain trilogy. Scott Hastings is a ballroom dancer with innovative steps and a penchant for breaking the rules. His impulsive behaviour on the dance floor causes him to lose his Waratah Championship partner, Liz Holt. Fran, from the beginners’ class and waiting in the wings, offers to be Scott’s new partner. They set off on a journey to prove the judges wrong and to dance their own steps at the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Championships.

Presented by OCD SC, join us for screenings of two short films about life with OCD, followed by a talkback with local specialists.

While transgender men are rarely visible in the cultural imagination, amid tropes of transition and turmoil, the filmed interpretation of Scott Turner Schofield’s live work of the same name generated 127 pieces of short content (Steps) that deeply explore themes such as childhood, masculinity, love, sex, death, and survival.

An epic, lyrical ode to amateur filmmakers who raise the quotidian to the highest levels of art, FLICKERING GHOSTS OF LOVES GONE BY is a personal and historical exploration of the home movie in all its unvarnished glory. Upon inheriting an enormous collection of amateur films, André Bonzel incorporated the work of complete strangers into a narrated montage of his own family’s century-long moving-image scrapbook.

A special 30th anniversary screening of Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy transplants the story to a modern-day city called Verona Beach, where the Capulets and Montagues are rival crime families.

The 3rd annual film partnership between The Nick and Jill Smith and Associates Counseling to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month. Jill Smith chooses a film - often a smaller budget or indie film - that showcases a mental health angle or struggle for us to ponder, together.

Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.