OutNebraska - Prairie Pride Film Festival 2024 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 | DOUBLE FEATURE >> SEAT 31 | Dir. Kimberly Reed | Documentary | 2024 | 13 min ▷ Montana’s House floor had already prompted concerns regarding fairness before the arrival of Zooey Zephyr, but these claims gained a nationwide audience after the swift censure of the transgender state lawmaker in 2023. After she declared that those voting in favor of Montana’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors would have blood on their hands, conservative lawmakers refused to let Zephyr speak on any bills. >>THIS TIME | Dir. Robert Vaughn | Drama/Comedy | 2024 | 132 min ▷ THIS TIME is a fun coming-of-age film following Grace, a closeted 16 year old girl. When her father passes away, Grace begins discovering cryptic clues about his secret life through his old journal. Knowing she’ll soon be forced into conversion therapy, Grace makes a daring break for it at her father’s funeral, taking his ashes with her in a stolen hearse.

SHOWING OCTOBER 19-20, 2024 | Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons. Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. American tenor Ben Bliss costars as the Wyoming rancher Eric in a production by Michael Mayer that brings this story to life in a high-tech staging which presents a variety of perspectives on the action. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera.

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - FRIDAY OCTOBER 18 | One of the pillars of the “giallo” horror genre, Mario Bava’s moody and hyper-saturated BLOOD AND BLACK LACE takes place at an Italian fashion house filled with backstabbing, blackmail, and a faceless maniac who is murdering the models. 1964 | 88 min | Not Rated (viewer discretion advised for scenes of gore, violence, & drug use)

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - FRIDAY OCTOBER 18 | A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after witnessing the brutal murder of a psychic. The kinetic camerawork and over-the-top gore that made Dario Argento famous are on full display, but the addition of a compelling, complex story makes DEEP RED a giallo masterpiece. 1975 | 127 min | Rated R for violence, gore, & frightening scenes

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - SUNDAY OCTOBER 20 | When long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years in the Bermuda Triangle, the Addams family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But Fester’s unusually “normal” behavior raises suspicions that things are not what they seem. Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, and Christina Ricci star in this dark comedy classic from director Barry Sonnenfeld. 1991 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 for comic violence, dark themes, & suggestive content

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - SUNDAY OCTOBER 20 | After marrying the charming and seductive Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), young heiress Edith (Mia Wasikowska) is swept away to a remote gothic mansion haunted by dark secrets and ghostly visions. 2015 | d. Guillermo Del Toro | 120 min | Rated R for bloody violence, some sexual content & brief strong language

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - SUNDAY OCTOBER 20 | Screened just once in 1976 before it was banned and lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema is one of the most astonishing works of the country’s prerevolutionary New Wave. A hypnotically stylized murder mystery awash in atmosphere, CHESS OF THE WIND unfolds in an ornate, candlelit mansion where a web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares the heirs to a family fortune. 1976 | d. Mohammad Reza | 93 min | Not Rated | Farsi with English subtitles

LIVE PERFORMANCE - FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 - 7:30PM | Featuring musicians Terry Donahue and Roger Clark Miller, The Anvil Orchestra – formerly The Alloy Orchestra – performs unique live musical accompaniment to silent films, transforming the viewing experience for audiences across the United States and abroad. THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI: A crazed doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in this quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema from director Robert Wiene.

LIVE PERFORMANCE - SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 - 7:30PM | Featuring musicians Terry Donahue and Roger Clark Miller, The Anvil Orchestra – formerly The Alloy Orchestra – performs unique live musical accompaniment to silent films, transforming the viewing experience for audiences across the United States and abroad. A PAGE OF MADNESS: A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife in this surreal experimental silent horror gem from director Teinosuke Kinugasa.

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 | A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves inside an old farmhouse to escape a horde of flesh-eating ghouls in George A. Romero’s slyly political and highly influential directorial debut that started the zombie film genre. 1968 | 96 min | Rated R for violence, gore, & frightening scenes

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 | New 4K Restoration. A group of stranded travelers (Melvin Douglas, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart) stumble upon a strange old house and find themselves at the mercy of a highly eccentric and potentially dangerous family. This humorous and atmospheric thriller from Director James Whale features an unforgettable post-Frankenstein horror role for Boris Karloff and became the template for all spooky-house chillers to come. 1932 | 72 min | Not Rated

ROSS FRIGHT FEST - SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 | After surviving a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances, Mary begins seeing visions of a fiendish man who lures her to a deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. CARNIVAL OF SOULS offers delightfully chilling proof that when it comes to telling an effective horror story, less can often be so much more. 1962 | d. Herk Harvey | 80 min | Rated PG for frightening themes