Wednesday, March 4, 2026
My Father’s Shadow    
Nigeria, United Kingdom 2025
Location: SilverCity
Showtimes: 6:30 & 8:30 pm​

Director: Akinola Davies Jr
Cast: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Godwin Chiemerie Egbo, Chibuike Marvelous Egbo  
Runtime: 94 minutes
Language: Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, English

Awards: British Independent Film Awards: Best Director, Akinola Davies; Cannes Film Festival: Caméra d’Or Special Mention; Chicago International Film Festival: Special Mention (Akinola Davies); Gotham Awards: Breakthrough Director; Outstanding Lead Performance (Sope Dirisu); International Film Festival of India: Special Recognition (Akinola Davies); 3 other wins, 31 nominations

“It is a rich, heartfelt and rewarding movie.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Akinola Davies Jr’s extraordinary debut feature is both intimate and epic. It’s a deeply personal family story set against the turbulence of 1993 Lagos during a pivotal national election promising a shift from military rule to democracy in Nigeria. 

When young brothers Remi and Akin unexpectedly accompany their oft-absent father to the city to collect his long-overdue salary, what unfolds is a rich journey through memory, masculinity, and a country on the cusp of fragile transformation.

Drawn loosely from Davies’ own experiences and co-written with his brother Wale, “My Father’s Shadow” is anything but conventional. The film begins in rural quiet and gradually delves into urban disarray, as the boys try to make sense of their father, the city, and the shifting codes of a world they’ve barely known. With elliptical pacing, poetic compositions, and a remarkable command of tone, Davies captures the sensory intensity of Lagos alongside the emotional tensions of paternal distance and political uncertainty.

Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù gives a quietly riveting performance as Folarin, a man both tough and tender, while real-life brothers Godwin Chiemerie Egbo and Chibuike Marvelous Egbo bring rawness, emotional depth, and grace to the screen. 

What emerges is not a story of easy reconciliation, but of slow recognition — the difficult work of seeing someone clearly, perhaps for the first time, and finding something in them more profound than expected.

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
A Private Life    
France 2025
Location: SilverCity
Showtimes: 6:30 & 8:30 pm​

Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Cast: Jodi Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira
Runtime: 107 minutes
Language: English, French with English subtitles

Five Nominations: Warsaw International Film Festival: Audience Award; Lumiere Awards, France: Best Actress (Jodi Foster); Best Soundtrack (Robin Coudert); AARP Awards: Best Actress (Jodi Foster); San Sebastian International Film Awards: Audience Award

“There’s a deliciously overripe, almost campy quality to much of “A Private Life” that’s expertly balanced by the intense focus of Foster’s performance.”—Peter Debruge, Variety 

Academy Award winner Jodie Foster stars in this scintillating, slyly comic psychological thriller from French director Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People's Children”), in which a suspicious death yields a series of twists that lead back to old grievances — and maybe even to past lives.

Lilian (Foster), an American psychoanalyst in Paris, is devastated to learn that her client Paula (Virginie Efira) has taken her own life. Or has she? Visits from Paula's furious widower Simon (Mathieu Amalric) and taciturn daughter Valérie (Luàna Bajrami), along with the discovery that files have been stolen from Lilian's office, suggest that Paula may have fallen victim to foul play.

Assisted by her ex-husband Gabriel (Daniel Auteuil), Lilian undertakes some amateur sleuthing. Her initial investigations prompt more questions than answers until a session with a hypnotherapist causes Lilian to wonder whether her relationship with Paula began in a previous incarnation.

Written by Zlotowski with Anne Berest (“Mythomaniac”) and Gaëlle Macé (“Little Jaffna”), “A Private Life” deftly rides the delicate line between intrigue and zaniness. 

Perfectly paced and loaded with diverting supporting turns — including a cameo by legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman — the film is partly a whodunnit and partly a story of revisited relationships, with a French-speaking Foster and Auteuil delivering effortlessly charismatic performances as long-time exes whose teamwork creates the film's other big mystery: why did these two ever break up