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Previous Films ~WORK IN PROGRESS~ From 2013 to 2023, Paula programmed hundreds of films for Cinema Detroit, as many as 5 or 6 a week, across genres, from the commercial to the experimental and locally made and every budget in between. This Previous Films page is handy for recalling the name of that...

Since losing our space in July 2023, Cinema Detroit has continued to offer access to a wide variety of films. Most of these are exclusive to us and would not otherwise be seen in the City of Detroit or even the Metro area. We pay other organizations to use their spaces, we pay distributors for film rights, and we no longer sell concessions, which was a major source of revenue. We need your support to keep going. Please give today!

Check out More Cinema Detroit Merch on Bonfire and shop official merchandise today! Featuring limited edition custom apparel, printed with care in the USA just for you.

Since losing our space in July 2023, Cinema Detroit has continued to offer access to a wide variety of films. Most of these are exclusive to us and would not otherwise be seen in the City of Detroit or even the Metro area. We pay other organizations to use their spaces, we pay distributors for film rights, and we no longer sell concessions, which was a major source of revenue. We need your support to keep going. Please give today!

Since losing our space in July 2023, Cinema Detroit has continued to offer access to a wide variety of films. Most of these are exclusive to us and would not otherwise be seen in the City of Detroit or even the Metro area. We pay other organizations to use their spaces, we pay distributors for film rights, and we no longer sell concessions, which was a major source of revenue. We need your support to keep going. Please give today!

Check out More Cinema Detroit Merch on Bonfire and shop official merchandise today! Featuring limited edition custom apparel, printed with care in the USA just for you.

Check out More Cinema Detroit Merch on Bonfire and shop official merchandise today! Featuring limited edition custom apparel, printed with care in the USA just for you.

Since losing our space in July 2023, Cinema Detroit has continued to offer access to a wide variety of films. Most of these are exclusive to us and would not otherwise be seen in the City of Detroit or even the Metro area. We pay other organizations to use their spaces, we pay distributors for film rights, and we no longer sell concessions, which was a major source of revenue. We need your support to keep going. Please give today!

Ali, an Iraqi doctor seeking asylum falls for Katie, an emerging New York gallerist, and they begin a new romance together. When disturbing news from Baghdad comes back to haunt Ali in the midst of his asylum process, Ali becomes increasingly torn between the new life he’s starting with Katie and the life he left behind.FestivalsWoodstockSan DiegoMinneapolis-St. PaulHollywood Arab Film FestivalUnited States. 2024.Directed by Oday Rasheed.English and Arabic with English subtitles. Running time 108 min.Doors open at 3:30 p.m. 

Since losing our space in July 2023, Cinema Detroit has continued to offer access to a wide variety of films. Most of these are exclusive to us and would not otherwise be seen in the City of Detroit or even the Metro area. We pay other organizations to use their spaces, we pay distributors for film rights, and we no longer sell concessions, which was a major source of revenue. We need your support to keep going. Please give today!

Ali, an Iraqi doctor seeking asylum falls for Katie, an emerging New York gallerist, and they begin a new romance together. When disturbing news from Baghdad comes back to haunt Ali in the midst of his asylum process, Ali becomes increasingly torn between the new life he’s starting with Katie and the life he left behind.FestivalsWoodstockSan DiegoMinneapolis-St. PaulHollywood Arab Film FestivalUnited States. 2024.Directed by Oday Rasheed.English and Arabic with English subtitles. Running time 108 min.Doors open at 3:30 p.m. 

FILMMAKER JENNIFER RUTH IN ATTENDANCEUniversities are meant to be places where ideas can be argued without fear. Yet as Israel’s war on Gaza grinds on, that ideal feels increasingly fragile. Across the United States, administrators discipline students for protest, lawmakers threaten faculty, and new visa restrictions target Palestinian students. These are reminders that the space for dissent is narrowing fast,The Palestine Exception looks squarely at this crisis of academic freedom. Through archival footage and candid interviews with scholars including Judith Butler, the film follows students and professors as they demand a ceasefire and divestment from companies tied to Israel. Their movement, already the largest U.S. anti-war uprising since the 1970s, meets a swift backlash, exposing what activists call the “Palestine exception,” where speech and assembly rights end the moment Israel is named.The film resonates with today’s headlines while telling a story of campuses as both refuge and battleground, of personal and collective histories colliding, and of the stubborn insistence that a university remain a place for truth-telling, even when power wants silence.USA. 2025Directed by Jan Haaken & Jennifer Ruth,In English.Running time 70 min.Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Presented with