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  Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

  Newly in the news as one of many Austin arts organizations impacted by the National Endowment for the Arts’ slash-and-burn of arts funding, Cine Las Americas deserves our support now more than ever. But hey – we’re getting plenty in return: namely, a top-flight film festival celebrating Latine/x, Indigenous, and Latin American voices. But wait, there’s more! This year, Cine is launching its first-ever concurrent conference, with fireside chats, workshops, and more taking place May 16-17. See some terrific movies, learn from industry vets like Elizabeth Avellán and David Blue Garcia, and feel good about supporting a community thrown under the bus by the Trump administration. Them’s wins all around. – Kimberley Jones

  May 15 - 18

  AFS Cinema

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  National Theatre Live: Vanya (2024)

  On film and stage, he’s played Hamlet, Ripley, Moriarty, and Hot Priest; here, he adds eight more roles to the canon, all within the same show. Andrew Scott plays the entire cast of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya – including the urbane Serebryakov, his much younger second wife Yelena, his dowdy daughter Sonya who’s been stuck running the family estate, the doctor Sonya loves unrequitedly, and poor old Uncle Vanya. This radical rethink – adapted by Simon Stephens, directed by Sam Yates – first ran in 2024 in London, which is where this live taping derives from. An Off-Broadway stint concludes May 11, so the film version is almost certainly the closest you’ll get to the swooningly received production. – Kimberley Jones

  May 9 & 15

  Alamo Drafthouse Mueller

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  Special Screenings

  

  Cine Las Americas International Film Festival

  Newly in the news as one of many Austin arts organizations impacted by the National Endowment for the Arts’ slash-and-burn of arts funding, Cine Las Americas deserves our support now more than ever. But hey – we’re getting plenty in return: namely, a top-flight film festival celebrating Latine/x, Indigenous, and Latin American voices. But wait, there’s more! This year, Cine is launching its first-ever concurrent conference, with fireside chats, workshops, and more taking place May 16-17. See some terrific movies, learn from industry vets like Elizabeth Avellán and David Blue Garcia, and feel good about supporting a community thrown under the bus by the Trump administration. Them’s wins all around. – Kimberley Jones

  May 15 - 18

  KLRU, Permitting & Development Center

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  Hail Satan? (2019)

  Every time a god botherer starts talking about “religious freedom,” it’s a no-brainer that they mean “… for evangelicals, preferably Southern Baptist or some kind of wacky prosperity gospel megachurch.” But what if they were forced to take those words literally? That’s exactly what happened when the Satanic Temple told the Oklahoma Legislature, “OK, you can have the Ten Commandments on the Capitol grounds, but only if we can have a statue of Baphomet.” Catch director Penny Lane’s brilliant examination of political pranksterism in the name of the First Amendment. Presented by Serpent Tattoo and Occult Shop. – Richard Whittaker Read a full review of Hail Satan?.

  Thu., May 15

  Hyperreal Film Club

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  Special Screenings

  

  Cine Las Americas

  Newly in the news as one of many Austin arts organizations impacted by the National Endowment of the Arts’ slash-and-burn of arts funding, Cine Las Americas deserves our support now more than ever. But hey – we’re getting plenty in return: namely, a top-flight film festival celebrating Latine/x, Indigenous, and Latin American voices. But wait, there’s more!This year, Cine is launching its first ever concurrent conference, with fireside chats, workshops, and more taking place May 16-17. See some terrific movies, learn from industry vets like Elizabeth Avellán and David Blue Garcia, and feel good about supporting a community thrown under the bus by the Trump administration. Them’s wins all around. It all kicks off Wednesday with opening night film Take It Away, Adrian Alejandro Arredondo and Myrna Perez’s documentary about Johnny Canales, the Tejano singer and taste-making host of The Johnny Canales Show.

  Wednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18

  AFS Cinema, Austin PBS, and City of Austin PDC Center