Event Category: Film Screening

In 15th-century France, the evil archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo, develops a violent and unrequited love for the Roma Esmeralda and he instructs his charge, a hunchback named Quasimodo, […]

Inspired by a telephone phishing scam targeting the film director’s grandmother, Thelma imagines an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero. Using familiar tropes of the action genre in funny and age-appropriate ways the film renders a portrait of aging with agency, as 94-year-old Thelma tackles a crisis despite the doubts of her family.

Thelma is played by actress June Squib, also 94, in the first leading film role of her 70-year career.

(2024) 97 minutes, PG-13. Comedy, Action. Showing at 6 p.m. on Monday, November 4th in the Library’s Meeting Room. Shown with captions.

A romantic story that spans decades and continents; Touch follows one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.

(2024) 121 minutes, R. Romance, Drama. Showing at 6 p.m. on Monday, November 18th in the Library’s Meeting Room. The film contains dialogue in Icelandic, Japanese and English. Shown with captions.