FILMSPOTTING FEST II
Filmspotting Fest returns with a curated lineup of films and special guests, bringing together critics, artists, and audiences for shared viewing experiences and live conversations. This year’s selections explore time — not just as subject, but as something embedded in the storytelling, through anticipation, memory, and the way the past presses into the present.
Tickets On Sale Now
Single Screening Tickets: $20
Saturday Festival Pass: $50
Saturday Festival Pass – Family: $45
Family members get exclusive meet & greet access
Prices shown at checkout include venue, ticketing, and processing fees required by the Athenaeum Center. These fees are set by the venue and ticketing platform and are not itemized separately.
Preferred Hotel / Link to Book: Hotel Felix
Screenings and guests are subject to change.
SAT 6.27 – ATHENAEUM CENTER
11:00AM | Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Introduction and post-screening conversation with author Carrie Rickey
Also: signing of A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
A real‑time portrait of a woman waiting for life‑altering news, Agnès Varda’s landmark film unfolds across a single afternoon in Paris, transforming fleeting moments into profound self‑reckoning.
3:00PM | KRISHA (2016) – 10th Anniv.
Introduction and post-screening conversation with writer/director Trey Edward Shults
A Thanksgiving gathering staged as a traumatic countdown, Trey Edward Shults turns a single family holiday into a bracing study of how the past refuses to stay past.
7:00PM | WEt Hot American Summer (2001) – 25th Anniv.
Introduction and post-screening conversation with actress Marguerite Moreau
David Wain’s delirious act of comic time travel looks back on youthful summers with absurd affection, turning nostalgia into something communal and joyous.
SUN 6.28 – MUSIC BOX THEATRE
11:00AM | 35mm! THE ROYAL TENEnBAUMS (2001) – 25th Anniv.
Introduction and post-screening conversation with critic Michael Phillips
Wes Anderson’s melancholy comedy is a study of family, failure, and the long afterlife of childhood wounds.
