Cinema 10

Fall 2025 SchedulE

All films take place at the Roxy Movie Theater at 20 Main St. in downtown Potsdam, NY and begin at 7:15pm unless otherwise indicated.

9/15 NY International Children's Film Festival:  Celebrating Black Stories & Big Kids Flicks (various countries, years, directors) 65 + 61 min 

Cinema 10 proudly presents two programs from the New York International Children’s Film Festival: BIg Kid Flicks and Celebrating Black Stories. Featuring 9 vibrant short films, the screening includes boundary pushing animation as well as live-action pieces that are as complex as they are fun for the whole family. 

9/22     Sorry Baby (United States/Spain/France, 2024, d. Eva Victor)  103 min R

After being sexually assaulted by a writer/professor that she admires, Agnes attempts to rebuild her life by taking in a stray kitten. Debut writer and director Eva Victor also stars in the film, which features John Carroll Lynch (Zodiac, 2007) and Louis Cancelmi (The Irishman, 2019) in supporting roles. “Less a black comedy than an indispensable reinvention of the so-called trauma plot, this grounded post-MeToo story is navigated with a light sprinkling of humour and the utmost grace.” (Miriam Balanescu, Empire Magazine)

9/29     On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (United Kingdom/Zambia/Ireland/United States, 2024, d. Rungano Nyoni) 99 min PG-13

After discovering the dead body of her uncle, Shula and her family plan the man’s funeral while unearthing long-buried family secrets. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl was written and directed by Rungano Nyoni, who won the Best Director award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Rooted in the middle-class culture of Zambia, the film is “...cathartic, confident… [and] brushes against the universality of death, while sharing the specificity of Zambian mourning rituals to a global audience.” (Thelma Adams, AARP). 

10/6   The 46ers  (USA, 2015, d. Blake Cortright) 25 min intro by director + 65 min

                              46er panel after film

Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, The 46ers is a love-letter to the Adirondack High Peaks. Director Blake Cortwright chronicles some of the people who find meaning and majesty in their pursuit of hiking all 46 Adirondack High Peaks. Speaking to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Cortwright said of the film’s genesis, “I think people are ready for something a little more substantive and slower paced, that’s a little more immersive... The Adirondacks aren’t just content — they’re an experience.”
                                                                     

10/20    Wolf Children / Ôkami kodomo no Ame to Yuki  (Japan, 2012, d. Mamou Hosoda)117 m PG

After her werewolf partner is killed, Hana must leave the city to raise her two half-wolf children alone in the countryside. Wolf Children comes from the writer/director and studio behind Belle (2021) which Cinema 10 screened for free in Ives Park. Praised for its stunning animation and attention to detail, the film won the 2013 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. 

10//27   Rocky Horror Picture Show (United States, 1975, d. Jim Sharman) 100 min R    

Innocents Brad and Janet get more than they bargained for when they ask to use a phone at a castle outside Denton Ohio on a dark and stormy night.  The fan-favorite musical cult-classic celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025. Infamous for its crowd-participation and shadow-acting, Cinema 10 reminds attendees to please keep the rice to a minimum and to pick up after themselves.  Costumes and sing-alongs are welcome.         

11/3   Friendship (United States, 2024, d. Andrew DeYoung) 100 m R

An awkward advertising agent (Tim Robinson) turns his world upside down when he tries to make friends with his new neighbor (Paul Rudd). Fans of Robinson’s hit Netflix show I Think You Should Leave will find familiar black comedy in a film that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Clarrise Loughery of The Independent praised Robinson’s performance, saying “There are few better at capturing the existential terror of having to talk to other people and then making us laugh about it.”

11/10     I Saw the TV Glow (United States, 2024, d. Jane Schoenbrun)  100 min  PG-13

When teenagers Owen and Maddy bond over a mysterious television program, their friendship becomes too difficult to survive. A film rooted in the nature of identity and the power of nostalgia, I Saw the TV Glow is an existential trip that verges on horror as Owen’s grip on reality begins to dissolve. Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair 2021) has been praised for their Lynchian instincts in presenting a film about gender dysphoria that is “claustrophobic, unwholesome and brilliant.” (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian). 

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  11/17    It Was Just An Accident/Yek tasadef, (Iran/France/Luxemburg, 2025, d. Jafar Panahi) 105 m PG-13 

A chance accident in Iran results in a man’s kidnapping by men who believe that he was the person who tortured them in captivity. It Was Just an Accident is the latest film from one of Iran’s most famous and controversial directors, Jafar Panahi, who has repeatedly run afoul of the country’s authorities for his work. Winner of the 2025 Palm d’Or at Cannes 2025, the film has “no wasted shots and no squandered moments… because it understands that cinema is life, imbued with the power to rediscover the past, to protect the present, and to imagine a future.” (Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com). 

12/1     Universal Language / Une langue universelle (Canada, 2024, d. Matthew Rankin)  89 min  NR

The film unfolds in three disparate parts whose characters unexpectedly collide, including a hapless tour guide, two women who find money frozen in ice, and a man who is traveling to see his mother after quitting his job. Described as an absurdist-comedy-drama, Universal Language is a “gently funny, gently moving, slightly surrealist little comedy that’s aimed at two groups of people: Canadians, specifically but not exclusively those who know Winnipeg, and aficionados of Iranian cinema.” (Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times)

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.

All screenings are at the Roxy in downtown Potsdam and begin at 7:15pm unless otherwise indicated.

Our mission:

Cinema 10 has three main goals: 1) to bring films to the area which are significant artistically, socially or politically, but which generally are not popular enough in the mass market to reach our theaters, with an emphasis on current international and American independent films; 2) to increase cultural diversity in an area relatively isolated culturally and ethnically; 3) to increase the public's awareness of film as an art form.