Film Events in Baltimore

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, invites a doubtful film crew to record her life just 34 days before she is due to enter prison. What starts as an intimate documentary portrait develops into a surreal, three-year examination of Holmes and the aftermath of her downfall.

A Talent For Murder

A mysterious young man from a New York publishing house travels to Switzerland to persuade renowned author Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment in her Ripley series.

The History of Concrete

The History of Concrete follows filmmaker John Wilson as he tries to turn an unlikely subject into a documentary. After completing a workshop on writing and selling Hallmark movies, Wilson attempts to apply its formula to a film about concrete, pursuing the material through New York construction sites, crumbling roads, public spaces, a massive industry convention, environmental concerns, and conversations with eccentric specialists. His investigation also leaves room for the many unexpected digressions that capture his attention.

The Devils

In seventeenth-century France, Father Urbain Grandier attempts to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu. His efforts are threatened when a sexually repressed nun accuses him of witchcraft.

Naza

Naza is an investigative documentary filmed at night from rooftops in Tel Aviv. It examines civilian casualties resulting from Israel’s military operations in Gaza and investigates the systems involved in the targeted killings of Palestinians.

Sense and Sensibility

Three sisters and their widowed mother are forced to leave their family estate and settle in a modest cottage. There, the sisters navigate the pleasures and pain of love, including romance, disappointment, and heartbreak.

Wildwood

Wildwood is a handcrafted fantasy adventure from LAIKA, set in a secret forest teeming with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and dangerous enemies. The story follows a girl who ventures into the forbidden wilderness to rescue her baby brother, becoming caught up in a high-stakes struggle that could determine the fate of an entire hidden realm.

The Social Reckoning

Featuring: Jeremy Allen White, Betty Gilpin, Mikey Madison

The Social Reckoning is an R-rated film following Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer who recruits Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz to expose the social network’s most closely guarded secrets. It is directed by Aaron Sorkin and stars Jeremy Allen White, Betty Gilpin, and Mikey Madison.

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Whalefall

Whalefall is a PG-13 survival thriller following a scuba diver who is searching for his father’s remains when he is swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale. Trapped inside the whale with his oxygen running out, he has only one hour to escape.

You Can See Everything

You Can See Everything is an R-rated documentary-style film centered on Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos. Just over a month before reporting to prison, Holmes invites a skeptical crew to record her life. The project grows from an intimate character study into an unsettling, reality-bending examination spanning three years.

Sun, Oct 25, 2026 · 6:00 PM

STARSTRUCK! w/ Cast & Crew Q&A

Starstruck! follows a once-prominent actress, Lauren Maiden, who is living in isolation and fighting to survive after the stalker who haunts her nightmares discovers where she is. The screening is advertised with a cast and crew question-and-answer session.

Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Portal to Hell (Dark Circuit Series)

Portal to Hell is the October installment of Dark Circuit, a monthly screening series presented in partnership with Four Time Film School Dropout. The series highlights festival discoveries, independent films, and emerging voices. This month’s screening has been moved to the end of the month to launch Halloween week.

Sat, Oct 24, 2026 – Mon, Oct 26, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Curse of the Demon

Curse of the Demon, also known as *Night of the Demon*, is a vintage British supernatural thriller about Dana Andrews’s skeptical American investigator. Although he initially dismisses the idea of a devil-worshipping cult operating in the English countryside, the threat eventually turns toward him. The film is praised for the way its atmosphere, suspense, and other elements come together, and it is also recommended for Kate Bush fans.

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Everybody to Kenmure Street (followed by panel discussion)

Featuring: Mayrene Benítez Mena, Dr. Peter Smith, Mark Jeevaratnam, Perla Hernandez

Everybody to Kenmure Street is a documentary about a remarkable act of community resistance in Pollokshields, Scotland. In May 2021, a dawn raid by the UK Home Office to detain people for deportation prompted hundreds of residents to take to the streets and prevent the removal of their neighbors in one of the area’s most diverse communities.

Fjord

Thu, Oct 29, 2026

Fjord follows a Romanian immigrant family living in Norway as they become the subject of an investigation and face intense scrutiny from the local judicial system.

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Possession

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Andrzej Żuławski’s intense psychological film follows a couple whose marriage disintegrates into paranoia, desperation, and disturbing transformations. Blending the emotional volatility of a domestic relationship drama with Lovecraftian horror and Cold War unease, *Possession* is known for its feverish energy and extreme performances. The screening is presented as a one-night engagement.

Everest: The Other Side

Thu, Oct 29, 2026

Everest: The Other Side follows elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson, whose relationship and shared passion for extreme climbing lead them toward an unprecedented objective: ascending and skiing the direct North Face of Mount Everest. Although thousands have reached Everest’s summit by Nepal’s southeast ridge, only a small number have climbed the North Face, and no one has successfully skied back down it. Already celebrated for remarkable achievements and familiar with the risks and losses of mountaineering, Morrison and Nelson put everything on the line for this exceptionally dangerous challenge.

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

Thu, Oct 29, 2026

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York follows Harry Lehman, an aging pickpocket whose livelihood is disappearing as cash-filled wallets give way to easily canceled credit cards. While struggling to support and care for his disabled wife, Rosie, Harry inadvertently steals and sells a valuable USB drive. He must then find a way to recover and return it before a vengeful crime family catches up with him.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 7:00 PM

CARRIE (1976)

Brian De Palma’s *Carrie* (1976) follows Carrie White, a withdrawn and sensitive teenager subjected to bullying by her classmates and abuse from her fanatically religious mother. As Carrie begins to realize she may possess supernatural abilities, her difficult life takes a dark and violent turn. This special big-screen screening celebrates the film’s 50th anniversary.

Fri, Oct 30, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Wild Horse Nine

Thu, Oct 29, 2026 – Sat, Oct 31, 2026

Wild Horse Nine is an early access screening set shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup. CIA agents Chris and Lee are sent from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. There, amid the island’s famous statues, their buried histories and new conspiracies emerge. Chris’s growing connection with two rebellious students further unsettles the mission and threatens to derail the group’s stay in the remote paradise.

M&T Bank Exchange

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Screening

401 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD

Join a live, audience-driven screening of the cult classic *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* in a new 4K restoration. The presentation includes a live shadow cast, audience participation, a costume contest, and more.

Maryland Hall

Annapolis Film Society Presents: Club Kid Screening

Mon, Nov 2, 2026 · 7:00 PM

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Annapolis Film Society presents a screening of *Club Kid*, a film written and directed by Jordan Firstman. The story follows a hard-partying New York City club promoter whose whirlwind lifestyle is disrupted when his previously unknown 10-year-old son arrives.

Sat, Oct 31, 2026 – Mon, Nov 2, 2026 · 11:30 AM

After Life

After death, ordinary Japanese people arrive at a disheveled office where they must choose one memory from their lives to take with them into eternity. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s quietly moving film follows the recently departed as they assemble their personal highlight reels, while the office staff, including Arata Iura and Erika Oda, confront their own complicated relationships with life, death, and memory.

Wed, Oct 28, 2026 – Mon, Nov 2, 2026

Rosemary’s Baby

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Rosemary’s Baby is part of the Senator Theatre’s Revivals series, which presents classic films on the big screen in the theatre’s restored main auditorium. Roman Polanski’s 1968 psychological horror film follows a young woman who begins to suspect that her neighbors have sinister plans for her pregnancy.

Red Emma's

Screening: "The Work" w/ former New Folsom Prison chaplain Greg Mellor

Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 6:00 PM

3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Greg Mellor

The Work is a screening of a prison documentary centered on a four-day men’s circle intensive at New Folsom Prison in Folsom, California. The film explores what happens when maximum-security prisoners and outside volunteers set aside their defenses and confront their wounds, fears, and shame. After the screening, attendees can join a circle conversation facilitated by Greg Mellor, a former New Folsom Prison chaplain.

Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 7:00 PM

November Mystery Trans Movie Night (presented by TRAC)

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM

TRAC’s November Mystery Trans Movie Night is a recurring community screening built around a surprise film featuring trans characters, trans filmmakers, and/or trans stories. The evening offers a chance to gather with the community, discover the film at the screening, and learn about upcoming trans-led events and ways to get involved.

Maryland Hall

Maryland Hall A/V Club Free Screening (November Edition)

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Maryland Hall’s A/V Club brings movie lovers together for a free screening of Charles Laughton’s 1955 film *The Night of the Hunter*, followed by a lively post-film discussion. The welcoming series is designed for audiences who enjoy experiencing classic films in community and sharing their reactions afterward.

Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM

CUBA AFTER CASTRO preceded by MATARON A PEDRO w/ Filmmaker Q&A

CUBA AFTER CASTRO is presented with the short film MATARON A PEDRO, followed by a filmmaker Q&A. The feature documentary examines Cuba’s revolutionary history and unsettled present through an interview with President Miguel Díaz-Canel, focusing on the leader responsible for guiding the country’s future. The accompanying 1930s-set short follows Puerto Rican labor activist Pedro Albizu Campos and his wife as they confront exploitative sugar-cane conditions, colonial power, and growing pressure from authorities determined to suppress dissent.

Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM

THE GREAT EXPERIMENT followed by conversation with filmmaker Steve Maing

Featuring: Steve Maing

The SNF Parkway presents *The Great Experiment*, a documentary examining American democracy through four years of observation across the United States, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Steve Maing. Filmed in black and white from 2017 through 2021, the film considers what happens when neighbors become estranged, shared spaces become contested, and the possibility of a common future grows uncertain.

Fatherland

Thu, Nov 5, 2026

Fatherland follows writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, an actress, writer, and rally driver, as they travel through a devastated Germany in a black Buick during the height of the Cold War.

La Bola Negra

Thu, Nov 5, 2026

La Bola Negra follows three men whose lives are linked by desire, pain, and inheritance across three distinct eras: 1932, 1937, and 2017.

Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Twin Peaks Season Two, Episodes 4-5

Featuring: Wendy Robie, David Lander

Twin Peaks returns for a one-night screening of Season Two, Episodes 4 and 5. The episodes bring an undercover food critic to town, find Nadine—played by Wendy Robie—dealing with an illness connected to television, and introduce the surprising reappearance of someone presumed dead, now hidden behind a conspicuous disguise. David Lander, known as Squiggy from *Laverne and Shirley*, also appears in a comic scene with a broad, old-school comedy feel, while the story moves through a series of increasingly serious capers.

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Wed, Nov 4, 2026 – Sat, Nov 7, 2026

David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts

David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts is a revealing art documentary about one of Britain’s most popular artists. Through intimate, in-depth interviews with Hockney, the film explores his international career and the major Royal Academy of Arts exhibitions that drew millions of visitors.

Sat, Nov 7, 2026 – Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Sabotage

Murphy Fine Arts Center (Morgan State)

Alfred Hitchcock’s *Sabotage* follows a sinister foreign agent operating in pre–World War II London while concealing his activities from his beautiful wife. The film is relatively restrained in its use of Hitchcock’s signature suspense set pieces, but it builds toward two especially powerful sequences, including one that permanently changed the stakes of cinematic storytelling.

NCEED School of Thought Scholar Series

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 · 6:00 PM

2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, MD

Featuring: Dr. Shannon Paige Clark

NCEED School of Thought Scholar Series presents a screening of *Stolen School*, a documentary about the 1967 closure of Foster School, an all-Black neighborhood school in Evanston, Illinois’s historically Black Fifth Ward. The film examines what the community lost through desegregation and follows former students, educators, residents, and community leaders as they work to reclaim the school’s history and legacy.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 7:00 PM

CAUGHT OUT THERE with Q&A and Panel Discussion

Featuring: Tahira Mahdi, Christopher A. Brown, Lawrence Brown, Sherella Cupid, Shawntay Stocks

CAUGHT OUT THERE follows Heartly and Malik, two star-crossed singles who sign up for a matchmaking service organized around the zodiac. Their search for romance takes an unexpected turn when they encounter extraterrestrials among the potential matches. This witty, high-energy comedy explores contemporary dating, platonic friendship, and an invitation from Black extraterrestrials to look beyond the familiar.

Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 9:00 PM

I Shot Andy Warhol

Mary Harron’s film follows Valerie Solanas, an aggressively outspoken lesbian writer who approaches Andy Warhol in hopes that he will support her work, only to eventually make him the target of her anger. The film offers a view of Warhol’s 1960s Factory scene through Solanas’s perspective, with Lili Taylor delivering passages from Solanas’s anti-man manifesto directly to the audience.

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Thu, Nov 12, 2026

William Greaves’s final film presents footage from a 1972 gathering he organized with prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Released a decade after the filmmaker’s death, the film revisits an event Greaves regarded as his most significant captured work.

Fri, Nov 13, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Teresita's Dream: Cuba's Battle Against Alzheimer's - Followed by Panel Discussion

Teresita’s Dream tells the personal and politically complicated story of Cuban scientist Teresita Rodríguez, who begins searching for an Alzheimer’s treatment after her mother receives a diagnosis. Working with a predominantly female team of scientists, Teresita’s effort to help her mother develops into research that could transform the treatment of the disease.

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 – Mon, Nov 16, 2026 · 11:30 AM

Vertigo

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Alfred Hitchcock’s *Vertigo* follows a haunted former detective who becomes increasingly consumed by obsession as he investigates a mysterious woman. The film’s unsettling atmosphere is intensified by Bernard Herrmann’s score, while its strange coincidences, psychological tension, and final shock draw viewers into the protagonist’s increasingly irrational state of mind.

Thu, Nov 19, 2026 · 9:00 PM

Twin Peaks Season Two, Episodes 6-7

Twin Peaks returns for a one-night screening of Season Two, Episodes 6 and 7. David Lynch appears on camera as Agent Cooper’s hard-of-hearing boss, while the story brings several major developments: characters meet grim fates, a disguised character is exposed, and one murderer is revealed, though not the killer viewers may expect. The episodes also feature Hank Worden, known for his work in numerous John Ford films and more than 200 acting credits.

Sat, Nov 21, 2026 · 7:00 PM

Who Killed Alex Odeh?

Featuring: Baltimore Artists Against Apartheid

Who Killed Alex Odeh? examines the unresolved 1985 assassination of Palestinian American teacher and community leader Alex Odeh, who was killed by a tripwire bomb in his Santa Ana, California, office. The documentary follows a renewed investigation as new leads surface, long-hidden records are uncovered, and the people and forces connected to the political killing are brought back into focus.

Sat, Nov 21, 2026 – Thu, Nov 26, 2026 · 11:30 AM

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