Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, Days and Nights in the Forest is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale.

Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends, Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee), Hari (Samit Bhanja), and Shekhar (Rabi Ghosh), drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural “tribal lands,” where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family: the soulful yet mischievous Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) takes to the overconfident Ashim, while her widowed sister-in-law Jaya (Kaberi Bose) grows closer to the bookish Sanjoy. At the same time, Hari, fresh off a break-up, woos a Santal girl named Duli (Simi Garewal); and Shekhar, despite his own penchant for gambling, tries to rein in his companions’ boozy hedonism.

Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), Days and Nights in the Forest touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak.

Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive. Funding provided by the Golden Globe Foundation. Special thanks to Wes Anderson and Sandip Ray.

We’re getting revenge for Park Chan-Wook’s Academy Award snubs this year the only way we know how: bringing back a bona fide Frida Cinema classic–his 2016 twist-filled psychological drama The Handmaiden. 

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

A meticulously-crafted and lush tale of deception, The Handmaiden is the ultimate film about desire amongst shifting loyalties.

Celebrate the brilliant comic artistry of Catherine O’Hara with another perfectly paired double feature of two more Christopher Guest mockumentaries: Best In Show and For Your Consideration!

Best in Show: Hopeful dog owners, over-invested handlers, and very good boys descend on a prestigious canine competition, where obsessive pride and barely contained neuroses threaten to steal the spotlight from the pets themselves.

For Your Consideration: A small indie film suddenly gains awards buzz, sending its cast and creators into a spiral of anxiety and showbiz fantasy as Hollywood hype rewrites their lives in real time.

Whether its a high-strung pet parent clinging to ribbons and routines or a fragile actress daring to believe her moment has finally arrived, O’Hara once again proved her unmatched ability to balance razor-sharp satire with real emotional stakes. No one played delusional, and deeply human quite like she did, and these two films showcase that gift at its funniest and most poignant.

There will be a ten minute intermission between each film. One ticket gets you access to both movies!