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  AFS Doc Days

  Austin Film Society’s annual spotlight on new nonfiction films presents a real conundrum: Which of the 10 selected works are you going to prioritize? Because they all sound pretty terrific. How about opening night selection Middletown, about high schoolers investigating an environmental scandal, from the Boys State filmmakers? (Bonus: They’re doing a post-film Q&A with KUT’s Jerry Quijano.) Or Friday’s Mistress Dispeller, Elizabeth Lo’s documentary tracking a wild-sounding quadrangle: a husband, his mistress, his wife, and the woman she hires to go undercover and break up the affair? Or Sunday’s Architecton, an A24 art film about concrete? Excellent choices, all. Maybe go for the win and hit all 10. – Kimberley Jones

  May 1 - 4

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  Love & Pop (1998)

  Though this film is Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno’s first-ever live-action motion picture, his North American fans never got a taste of his early DV styles. (DV here meaning digital video, since those consumer-grade cameras filmed most of the movie.) Rejoice then, lovers of Anno’s coming-of-age tales and late Nineties Nippon, as distributor GKids released a 2K restoration back in late February, stopping first in NYC. Based on Ryū Murakami’s novel Topaz II, the 1998 feature heads south for an appearance at AFS’s new-cult-classic series Lates. – James Scott

  May 2-3 & 5

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  PJ Raval + UT Austin’s Queer Media Production Screening

  Queer culture is under attack, and many institutions seem to be folding rather than lending their support. Not so UT’s Radio-Television-Film program, as the film school continues to spotlight marginalized voices. Like the long-running East Austin Stories class, Call Her Ganda filmmaker PJ Raval’s Queer Media Production course empowers students to tell lesser-told stories, here by “embrac[ing] queerness as an artistic sensibility, mode of artmaking, and a form of creative boundary pushing.” Catch the work of Raval’s students at this special one-night showing of their original short films, and read more about it in this week’s Qmmunity coulmn. Oh, and make sure to bring a dish for the potluck. – Richard Whittaker

  Fri., May 2

  Hyperreal Film Club