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Recent reviews

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  You Burn Me 2024

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Join us on 3/28 for an intimate screening of this new film by Matías Piñeiro, courtesy of our good friends at Cinema Guild! Afterglow will have wine and refreshments for purchase, and we’ll be bringing the good vibes. Longer than a short, shorter than a feature, and shot on a beautiful 16mm Bolex camera, You Burn Me will be the perfect fit for the café setting. You can buy tickets and read more about the film by visiting our website, hardlight.online . It's only $10! Please join us for the Virginia Premiere of this wonderful film

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  No Other Land 2024

  Watched 01 Mar 2025

  it was a beautiful evening sharing this with the people of Richmond, Virginia. Palestine will be free in our lifetime

Popular reviews

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  Through the Olive Trees 1994

  Watched 24 Jan 2025 1

  Playing at Secret Flowers on Davis Ave on 1/25! Abbas Kiarostami's last film revolving around the village of Koker, this is a wonderful film about the art of filmmaking. We'll have refreshments and snacks for sale, as well as a cute raffle featuring a cinephile's care package as the prize. Join us, won't you?

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  Dahomey 2024

  Watched 10 Feb 2025 4

  we'll be showing this at Afterglow Coffee Co-operative on 2/21! It will be free entry ! This was one of the best films of 2024, so we'd love to see you there!