Independance Day
Please note that the museum will be closed on Saturday, July 4 in recognition of Independence Day.
Please note that the museum will be closed on Saturday, July 4 in recognition of Independence Day.
Ticketed event
Contributor members ($600) and above and Modern Contemporaries
August 8; tour at noon on location at AT&T Stadium
More information to come. Please check back at a later date.
Films are shown in the Modern’s auditorium and capacity is limited to the first 250 people. Tickets are $5 for adults (FREE for members and children under 16) and are available at the Museum’s admission desk or online here.
Directed by Eran Riklis
NR; 107 minutes; English and Persian with English subtitles
"With Reading Lolita in Tehran ... [filmmaker Eran Riklis] adds an understated yet generally absorbing ... entry to his oeuvre, warmly transposing [Azar] Nafisi’s experience in post-revolution Iran onto the screen with sensitivity." —Tomris Laffley, Variety
Directed by Alice Winocour
R; 103 minutes
"Alice Winocour’s captivating fashion drama Couture is a quiet, observational picture about creative women finding solace in one another." —Robert Daniels, Screen Daily
Directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Documentary; 118 minutes
"A delightful and thoroughly unlikely progression through one of the most colorful artistic moments in recent history." —The Hollywood Reporter
Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer
Documentary; 91 minutes
“An entertaining bio-doc that puts due emphasis on Oliver’s writing, in all its elegant and empathetic simplicity … [The film] makes an affecting case for her work and gives us a vivid look at her world.” — Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal
Directed by Rod Davis Lurie
R; 102 minutes
A wounded American soldier (Scott Eastwood) fights to survive behind enemy lines during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge. To evade capture and find his way back to his unit, he must rely on his instincts, spy craft, and a hand-held radio. The film also stars Colin Hanks and Aunganue Ellis-Taylor.
Directed by Ilana Trachtman, 2024
89 minutes
When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history was born.
Directed by Jiří Mádl, 2024
131 minutes
A historical thriller set during the 1968 Prague Spring, focusing on journalists at Czechoslovak Radio who defied Soviet censorship. The film follows Tomáš, a technician forced by the StB, the Czech secret police, to spy on his colleagues in order to protect his younger brother, as they fight for free speech during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.