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Event name

Film Fest

When

Mon 08 / 25 / 2025
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Who can attend

Members only

Price

FREE

AUGUST: The Glorias, available on YouTube, Amazon Prime, Apple+TV

This 2020 biographical drama about Gloria Steinem, directed and produced by Julie Taymor, follows the life of journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the US.  She is played by four actors at different stages of her life. The film is based on Steinem’s book “My Life on the Road.”

SEPTEMBER:  I’m Still Here, 2024, available on Netflix

97% on the Tomatometer, this film received critical acclaim for Fernanda Torres’ performance (she received a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination)  as “a mother and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband” during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

OCTOBER:  The Wedding Banquet, available on YouTube, Amazon Prime, Apple+TV

The Wedding Banquet is a 2025 “joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness, and family expectations.” (Rotten Tomatoes).