Featured Films
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Saturday Church
Damon Cardasis / Opening Night and After Party / USA / 81 mins
Reminiscent of “La-La Land” meets “Moonlight”, this coming-out story features exhilarating and yet tender musical numbers. Saturday Church is the journey of Ulysses, a young gay man from the Bronx who comes to find his queer family on the piers of New York’s West Village.
Saturday Church (Premiere)
Cinépolis Chelsea
Wednesday, Oct. 11 7:00pm Buy Tickets -
A Change Of Heart (Presented by: American Airlines)
Kenny Ortega / Premieres / USA / 105 mins
Frustrated with the cards life has dealt him and the product of circumstances that have driven him to fear diversity, Hank (Jim Belushi) finds himself at odds with the diversifying demographics of his central Florida town. After suffering a heart attack, Hank is given a chance at survival- but will he accept the heart of a Puerto Rican drag queen?
A Change Of Heart
Cinépolis Chelsea
Saturday, Oct. 14 8:15pm Buy Tickets
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En El Séptimo Día
Jim McKay / Closing Night and After-Party / USA / 90 mins
Acclaimed director Jim McKay’s first film in over a decade is this timely, compassionate, often humorous look at life in New York as an undocumented Mexican immigrant.
En El Séptimo Día
Cinépolis Chelsea
Saturday, Oct. 14 6:30pm Buy Tickets -
Vico C: La Vida Del Filósofo
Eduardo Ortiz / Premieres / Puerto Rico / 120 mins
In Eduardo Ortiz’s (Los domirriqueños) latest, the rise to stardom of Reggaeton’s founding father, Vico C, is captured in vivid and exciting detail. A tale of redemption, Vico C rose to the top of the urban Puerto Rican rap movement only to fall into a dark world of drugs, imprisonment and near-death accidents.
Vico C: La Vida Del Filósofo
Cinépolis Chelsea
Saturday, Oct. 14 8:40pm Buy Tickets
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Hold On (Presented by: Joule Entertainment and Hispanicize Films)
Tarek Tohme / Premieres / USA / 90 mins
Inspired by true events, 'Hold On' tells the story of Sidney Rhodes, a talented mixed race singer who must fight to keep her personal dreams and family life alive while working at a small Los Angeles church.
Hold On
Cinépolis Chelsea
Thursday, Oct. 12 8:10pm Buy Tickets -
Most Beautiful Island
Ana Asensio / Premieres / USA / 80 mins
Most Beautiful Island is a psychological thriller set in the world of undocumented female immigrants hoping to make a life in NYC.
Most Beautiful Island
Cinépolis Chelsea
Friday, Oct. 13 9:00pm Buy Tickets
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