Groundbreaking Non-Fiction
ASCO: Without Permission
- Today, Jun 28
Today, Jun 28 @ 4:00 pm: With Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger in Person!
Director: Travis Gutiérrez Senger Run Time: 90 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Gronk, Harry Gamboa Jr., Nao Bustamante, Patssi Valdez, Willie Herron, Zoe Saldaña
From executive producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna this inspiring triumph of creativity challenges the limits of documentary conventions to tell the story of a revolutionary Chicano art group who turned 1970s LA into their defiant canvas.
With Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger at the Sunday, June 28th screening!
We Are Pat
- Today, Jun 28
Director: Ro Haber Run Time: 92 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Abby McEnany, Esther Fallick, Julia Sweeney, Kevin Nealon, Molly Kearney
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome filmmaker Ro Haber along with comedy icons Julia Sweeney and Harper Steele, and all-around legend Alan Cumming for an extra special screening of the massively entertaining, endearing, and thought-provoking documentary We Are Pat!
Underland
- Wed, Jul 1
- Thu, Jul 2
- Fri, Jul 3
Director: Rob Petit Run Time: 79 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2026 Language: English and Spanish with English subtitles
Starring: Sandra Hüller
An astonishing and hypnotic glimpse beneath the surface of the Earth we travel alongside several ‘astronauts of the underworld’ into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe.
Coroner to the Stars
- Sat, Jul 11
- Sun, Jul 12
Director: Ben Hethcoat, Keita Ideno Run Time: 85 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Cyril Wecht, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, George Takei, Janice Hahn, Rosalind Marks
Join us in the microcinema for a fascinating documentary at the intersection of Hollywood, morbid curiosity, and the American immigrant experience, Coroner to the Stars - a chronicle of the extraordinary journey of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the former Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner whose groundbreaking autopsies forever shaped American culture.
With director Ben Hethcoat in conversation with Adrienne Hill on Sunday, July 12th!
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
- Tue, Jul 14
Director: Sophie Huber Run Time: 76 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2013
Starring: David Lynch, Debbie Harry, Harry Dean Stanton, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, Wim Wenders
Join Vidiots as we celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of the legendary Harry Dean Stanton with a special screening of the critically acclaimed, unusually poetic documentary Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction with director Sophie Huber in person!