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Declare your independence from the mainstream. See provoking independent, foreign, classic films or documentaries. READ MORE to chip in. https://www.meetup.com/clevelandfilm/pay_du...
We meet at landmarks like the Cedar Lee, Capitol, Cinematheque, Art Museum, or a university/ library and often walk to a locally owned restaurant to engage others on the film's true meaning.
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Upcoming events
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THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE (2025) Dinner FIRST @ Home Bistro then film @ Cinematheque
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, USIt’s 1990. Iraq has invaded Kuwait and American military action is widely anticipated. Despite her best efforts to avoid the “honor”, nine-year-old Lamia is chosen to represent her school by baking a cake as part of the compulsory national celebration of President Saddam Hussein’s birthday. So she goes in search of the necessary ingredients amid stringent international economic sanctions. Cast almost entirely with first-time local actors, the film portrays both the omnipresent terror of Saddam’s dictatorship and the timeless way of life of Iraq’s southern marshes, unchanged for over 5,000 years.
“beguiling, heartbreaking” - San Francisco Chronicle
“a tragicomic gem” - Hollywood Reporter
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Winner of both the Director’s Fortnight People’s Choice Award and the Golden Camera Award at Cannes.
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7:15 Join us for dinner >>>>> FIRST <<<<< at Home Bistro, 12022 Mayfield Road between Random Road and Murray Hill Road in Little Italy. Click here for the menu
The restaurant is a five minute walk from the theater.
You can park for free in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid). From the parking lots, take a few steps south to Mayfield Road, then turn left and walk a short distance up the hill. Home Bistro is on the right just past Random Road, across from the Church.
8:55 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
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WTO/99 (2025) dinner afterwards at Sittoo's at Cinemathque
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, USAn immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization. This happen over 25 years ago, but I remember these events that took place well. I didn't dig the violence that happen in Seattle, but that is what hit the front page of the Los Angeles Times and the nightly world news during this period. This protest did make people aware that there were honest problems with the environment, wages in the USA, world poverty, and the growing world divided. In 2026, these problems have not been resolved and might be even worse than 1999. Please join the group for this film about the WTO protest in Seattle that still matters today. Meet just before you enter the film and at the same location. Walk to Sittoo's for dinner after the film.
https://cinematheque.cia.edu/movies/wto-99/HELP CHIP IN:
Meetup.com charges our group for use of this site. Please contribute $5-10 annually to help defray this and other costs. Any surplus is given to the Cleveland Cinematheque.
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Past events
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