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The Independent Picture House

4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte, NC 28213

Website: https://independentpicturehouse.org/

Alpha (R)

Cast: Melissa Boros, Tahar Rahim
Runtime: 2 hr. 8 mins.

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

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Fantasy Life (R)

Cast: Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet
Runtime: 1 hr. 31 mins.

An anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for the girls’ mother (Amanda Peet), an actress in a rocky marriage.

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (PG-13)

Runtime: 1 hr. 44 mins.

From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.

Dead Lover ()

Cast: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie
Runtime: 1 hr. 35 mins.

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love

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Late Shift ()

Cast: Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen
Runtime: 1 hr. 31 mins.

Nurse Floria works with passion and professionalism in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital. Her every move is perfect. She has an open ear for patients, even in the most stressful situations, and is immediately on hand in an emergency – ideally. But in the harsh reality of her daily routine, things are often unpredictable. When she starts her late shift one day, a colleague is absent from the fully occupied, understaffed ward. Amidst the hustle and bustle, Floria looks after a seriously ill young mother and an old man desperately waiting for his diagnosis with the same care and routine as a private patient with extra demands. But as the night progresses, her work becomes more and more of a race against time.

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By Design (NR)

Cast: Juliette Lewis, Mamoudou Athie
Runtime: 1 hr. 32 mins.

Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If only she could be someone’s favorite thing. When she and the chair swap forms, Camille learns that she is better liked as an inanimate object than she was as a person: her mother (Betty Buckley) finds her to be a better listener, and her best friends (Samantha Mathis and Robin Tunney) enjoy a newfound, friction-free rapport. As the chair, Camille is unable to speak or move and winds up in the hands of Olivier (Mamoudou Athie), a minimalist bachelor who gradually becomes romantically fixated on his elegant new possession. Narrated by Melanie Griffith, this modern fable celebrates the messiness of female interiority with deadpan humor, surrealist flourishes, and interpretative dance numbers. An absurdist spin on the body-swap comedy, By Design is a bold new work from singular filmmaker Amanda Kramer.

Palestine 36 ()

Cast: Hiam Abbass, Kamel El Basha
Runtime: 1 hr. 59 mins.

In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem. Amidst an anti-colonial revolt, and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Europe, all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. Palestine's Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards.

Sirat (R)

Cast: Sergi Lopez, Bruno Nunez Arjona
Runtime: 1 hr. 54 mins.

A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

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Tender Mercies ()

Cast: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper
Runtime: 1 hr. 32 mins.

A burnt-out country singer gets a chance to pick up the pieces of his troubled life with help from a young widow he meets in a Texas motel.

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