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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.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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

Couture

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

Lucky Strike

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.

Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

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.

Waves

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.