Join us as we present the new documentary from A24 titled Architecton, directed by Viktor Kossakovky.

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?

This simultaneously epic and intimate documentary is a meditation on architecture and how the design of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destructive tendencies.

Cloud,  the stylish and subversive new thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) has finally arrived at The Frida Cinema!

The story follows Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, Yoshii gradually attempts to disconnect from humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and entrusting duties to his new, devoted assistant.

Before long his life is plagued by a series of mysterious, sinister incidents that threaten to upend his success and bring about a most violent demise. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.

This August, The Frida Cinema proudly presents Greenaway & Nyman, a film series celebrating four of the most iconic collaborations between filmmaker Peter Greenaway and composter Michael Nyman.  Our series opens with the film that marked the beginning of their prolific and celebrated partnership, 1982’s The Draughtsman’s Contract. This film marked the beginning of a prolific and celebrated partnership, with Nyman’s driving, baroque score becoming an essential element of Greenaway’s distinct visual style.

Set in the lush English countryside at the close of the 17th century, The Draughtsman’s Contract is a labyrinthine tale of art, seduction, and deception. When Mrs. Virginia Herbert commissions a young, arrogant artist named Mr. Neville to produce a series of detailed drawings of her estate, their arrangement includes not only payment, but certain intimate privileges. As Neville obsessively sketches the grounds with mathematical precision, he begins to uncover cryptic clues and shifting allegiances that suggest a darker intrigue beneath the estate’s manicured surface.

Kicking off the August portion of our Arthouse 101: Japanese Cinema series is Kwaidan, director Masaki Kobayashi’s fascinating meditation on memory, regret, and the delicate boundary between the living and the dead.

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior’s reflection in his teacup.

Arthouse 101: Japanese Cinema is a curated 12-film trip through the evolution of Japan—from the quiet post-war resilience of the 1940s all the way to the radical reinventions of the 1990s. Each Monday this July-September, we will explore a new facet of this incredible nation’s cinematic journey throughout the 20th century! All films will be presented in their original Japanese language with English subtitles!

Fifteen years after it first shocked audiences and redefined the boundaries of art house cinema, Dogtooth returns in a stunning new 4K restoration to The Frida Cinema just in time to ruin your Summer. The breakthrough feature from visionary filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, The Favourite, Poor Things) is as provocative, surreal, and disturbingly funny as ever — now sharper and stranger than ever before.

Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes and an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Dogtooth is a razor-edged parable of control and conditioning. Isolated behind a fence and raised under a regime of invented truths, three adult siblings have never stepped beyond the boundaries of their family home. Language is manipulated, reality is manufactured, and any curiosity is punished with surgical precision.

With its stark visual style, bone-dry humor, and bursts of surreal violence, Dogtooth remains a landmark of weird Greek cinema — a film that startles, unsettles, and invites endless interpretation.