AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
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CatVideoFest 2025 ()
Runtime: 1 hr. 15 mins.
CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. CatVideoFest is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, and raises money for cats in need through partnerships with local cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters to best serve cats in the area.

Folktales ()
Runtime: 1 hr. 46 mins.
In Norse mythology, the three “Norns” are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans’ futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. FOLKTALES tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional “gap year” learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world. Guided by patient teachers and a yard full of heroic Alaskan huskies, they discover their own potential and develop deep relationships with the land, animals and humans around them. Through intimate verité storytelling and exhilarating cinematography, Ewing and Grady examine humans on the cusp of adulthood, finding themselves at the edge of the world.

Ran 40th Anniversary ()
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao
Runtime: 2 hr. 42 mins.
Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.

In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa) (PG)
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Runtime: 1 hr. 38 mins.
Hong Kong, 1962. The city is tranquil and courteous, but divided between indigenous Cantonese Chinese and immigrants from mainland China. Through coincidence, Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, moves into an apartment building occupied mainly by Shanghainese at the same time as Su Li-zhen, a secretary, while their spouses are away. When Chow finds out their respective spouses are having an affair, the two of them grow closer as they commiserate, finding more and more excuses to spend time with each other.

The Godfather: Part II (R)
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro
Runtime: 3 hr. 20 mins.
Continuing saga of the Corleone family as they move to Nevada and make the casino business their major income source under the leadership of the increasingly paranoid and malevolent Michael, whose reign as the "Don" is juxtaposed against the parallel tale of his father's escape from Sicily as a young boy and his subsequent rise to power in New York's Lower East Side during the turn-of-the-century.

Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) (NR)
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca
Runtime: 1 hr. 45 mins.

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (Gojira, Ebira, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto) ()
Cast: Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno
Runtime: 1 hr. 27 mins.

High Society (1956) (G)
Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 mins.
Heiress Tracy Lord is engaged to one man, attracted to another and, just maybe, in love again with her ex-husband in this efferevescent musical reinvention of Philip Barry's play The Philadelphia Story featuring an endlessly delightful Cole Porter score.

Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu?) (1996) ()
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka
Runtime: 2 hr. 15 mins.
Last year's smash hit in Japan tells the warm, frequenty funny story of an uptight Japanese worker whose midlife crisis takes him on a journey of personal discovery in a Tokyo dance class.