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A Two-Day Experience to Reclaim Your Voice, Your Story & Your Power

November 6th & 7th, 2026 | The Frida Cinema | Orange County, CA

What if the next chapter of your life begins with one decision: start reclaiming.

Reclaim Your Power is an immersive two-day experience designed to inspire you to reconnect with who you are, what you carry, and what becomes possible when you stop giving your power away.

Walk the red carpet and join Dr. Azadeh Atzberger, L.H.D., founder of Power With-IN Publishing, speaker, best-selling author, educator, and transformational leader, alongside an incredible lineup of speakers and thought leaders for two unforgettable days of stories, connection, insight, inspiration, and transformation.

From acclaimed filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida, Cold War) comes Fatherland, a striking new black-and-white portrait of postwar Germany, starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler.

In the summer of 1949, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann returns to Germany after years of exile, embarking on a road trip with his daughter Erika across a country split between East and West. As they travel from American-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar, old wounds resurface and difficult questions emerge about national identity, artistic responsibility, and what it means to return home when the place you remember no longer exists.

With Pawlikowski’s signature visual precision and Hüller’s quietly commanding performance, Fatherland transforms a journey across a fractured nation into an intimate reckoning of guilt and the complicated bonds between parents and children. A true standout at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Pawlikowski once again finds extraordinary emotional weight in what remains unsaid.

Just added: Helena Odeh, daughter of Alex Odeh, will be joining us before the 8:30PM screening on 11/5 to introduce the film! 

Who Killed Alex Odeh?, the powerful new documentary from directors Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans, is coming to The Frida Cinema for a limited run on November 5th-10th.

In October 1985, Santa Ana, California was shaken by a brazen act of political violence when Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a beloved teacher and community leader, was killed by a tripwire bomb planted in his office. Despite substantial evidence and identified suspects, the case was never solved. Who Killed Alex Odeh? reopens the mystery, tracking a renewed investigation in real time as new leads emerge, long-buried records come to light, and the forces behind a political assassination are finally confronted.

Alex Odeh was a Palestinian-born American citizen, a father of three, a teacher, a poet, and an advocate for Arab American civil rights and peaceful coexistence.

According to Carnegie Mellon University and Grand Central Art Center, the statue of Alex that sits outside of the Santa Ana Public Library (just a ten minute walk from The Frida Cinema) is the only public monument to an Arab American in the United States.

“Get the funk up!” Our Unsung 80’s Soundtracks series continues with Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman – or what happens when a movie studio also owns the recording contract of a pop superstar!

One of the defining films of its decade, Batman stars Michael Keaton as billionaire Bruce Wayne, who secretly spends his nights stalking the streets of Gotham City as the costumed vigilante Batman.  As Batman closes in on dastardly villain Joker (Jack Nicholson, oozing charismatic menace), he also finds himself drawn to photojournalist Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger). With Burton’s gothic visual style, Danny Elfman’s soaring score, and Oscar-winning Art Direction-Set Decoration by Anton Furst and Peter Young, Batman proved that a comic-book movie could be dark, stylish, and strange, while also humorous and wildly entertaining.

Batman is something of an unusual entry in the soundtrack canon, with two very different albums coming out of the film. Danny Elfman’s orchestral score became one of the most recognizable superhero themes ever written, while Prince was brought in to create a separate album of songs inspired by the film. The resulting Batman soundtrack became a massive commercial success, spending six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and spawning hits including “Batdance,” “Partyman,” and “Scandalous.” The album was conceived around the Joker and Vicki Vale, with Burton reportedly giving Prince a rough cut of the film to inspire the songs. Elfman’s score and Prince’s album rarely appear together in the film, but both became essential parts of the movie’s identity, making Batman one of the biggest soundtrack phenomena of the 1980s.

See It On 16mm is digging in the woods, the Ozarks, and Appalachian trails to find the most obscure 16mm film reels about our myholigical friend, Bigfoot aka Sasquatch, to hit the big screen on Saturday, November 7th at The Frida Cinema!

They’re presenting the Secret Bigfoot Triple Feature! That’s right, folks! 3 films. 3 Bigfoot 1970s deep cuts. All on original 16mm prints!

The doors will open at 5:00PM and the films begin at 6:00PM. There will be a 15 minute intermission between each film. Tickets are $20. Frida Cinema membership discounts and comp passes do not apply!

Our Spielberg Summer series ventures off-path and into the Fall as we visit the future in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a haunting Science Fiction fairy tale that stands among the director’s most ambitious and deeply misunderstood works.

In a world where advanced robots live alongside humans, a young android named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed with the ability to love. When he is abandoned by the family he was created to join, David embarks on an extraordinary journey to become “real,” believing it is the only way to win back the affection he longs for.

Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick and ultimately realized by Spielberg, A.I. is an unsettling vision of technological loneliness. Over two decades later, its questions about what it means to love feel more relevant than ever, revealing a far more profound than many audiences recognized upon its release.

Infinite space. Infinite terror.

Paul W.S. Anderson’s terrifying sci-fi horror classic Event Horizon returns to the big screen at The Frida Cinema as we conclude our tribute to Scream King Sam Neill! 

In 2047, a rescue crew led by Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) investigates a spaceship that vanished seven years ago and has mysteriously reappeared near Neptune. With its original designer, Dr. Weir (Sam Neill), along for the ride, the crew soon discovers that some things are better left lost in space.

A box-office flop turned cult favorite, Event Horizon asks the important question: What if a haunted house went to Hell? Join us for a deep-space descent into madness, and whatever you do, don’t answer the knocking…