RAAC Movie - Anora
2025-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA, 22740, United States
Anora is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film, written, directed and produced by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora, a stripper from Brooklyn, New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch, Vanya, played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The Cinderella fairytale story quickly becomes threatened, taking many twists and turns, once the wedding news reaches Russia, and Vanya’s parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Anora swept the Academy Awards, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. It also won the prestigious Palme D’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The RAAC film is free, but donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - I'm Still Here
2025-07-18 19:00 - 21:00
RAAC’s July movie is the 2024 drama, I’m Still Here, based on the 2015 autobiography written by Brazilian novelist and screenwriter, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, about his father–Rubens Paiva–a dissident politician who went missing, and was murdered during Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971. The film depicts the impact of Paiva’s disappearance on his family’s life, especially on the writer’s mother, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), an activist coping with the loss of her husband, Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello).
Among the film’s many accolades, Torres became the first Brazilian, South American and Portuguese-speaking actor to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture–Drama. The film also won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, becoming the first-ever Brazilian-produced film to win an Academy Award.
The RAAC film is free, but donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - Emilia Perez
2025-08-08 19:00 - 21:00
RAAC’s next movie is the Oscar-winning film, Emilia Pérez. The film follows a Mexican cartel leader–played by Karla Sofia Gascón–who aims to disappear and transition into a woman with the help of a lawyer–played by Zoe Saldaña.
Among its numerous accolades, the film won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Saldaña) and for Best Original Song (“El Mal”), and Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Foreign Language Film. Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Mark Ivanir, and Edgar Ramirez also appear in starring roles.
he RAAC film is free, but donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - Sing Sing
2025-09-05 19:00 - 21:00
RAAC will screen the critically acclaimed, award-winning film, Sing Sing on September 5th.
Directed by Greg Kweder, this inspiring story is based on the real-life “Rehabilitation Through the Arts” program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison. The film is about a group of inmates who find purpose and whose lives are transformed through the power of artistic expression, when they form a theater group and stage an original comedy. The stellar cast includes professional actors Colman Domingo, Sean San Jose and Paul Raci, alongside many real-life formerly incarcerated men who were themselves alumni of Sing Sing’s arts program, including Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin.
Named one of the top ten films of 2024, numerous accolades include National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor (Domingo), Academy Awards Best Actor nomination for Domingo, and British Academy Awards nominations for Best Actor (Domingo) and Best Supporting Actor (Maclin).
The RAAC film is free. Donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - Black Bag
2025-10-24 19:00 - 21:00
RAAC will screen the critically acclaimed 2025 British spy thriller Black Bag, 7PM, Friday, October 24, at Little Washington Theatre, 291 Gay Street, Washington, VA. Twists, turns, mystery and intrigue abound as a counter intelligence officer with the National Cyber Security Center is given one week to investigate the leak of top-secret software program code. The film is directed by Steven Soderbergh and features a stellar cast including Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page and Pierce Brosnan.
Though the RAAC film is free, donations are appreciated to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - Being There
2025-12-19 19:00 - 21:00
This satirical comedy, directed by Hal Ashby and based on the 1970 novel by Jerzy Kosinski, is about a simple gardener named “Chance”, played by the iconic Peter Sellers, who improbably mutates into “Chauncey Gardiner”, an influencer among America’s movers and elites. The film is a profound social commentary on media lords, and the people of privilege and power they follow.
Earning an Academy Awards’ Best Actor nomination for his starring role, Sellers demonstrated his comic mastery as Chauncey, bolstered by an all-star cast that includes Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas, winner of the Academy Awards’ Best Supporting Actor.
Film accolades include the British Academy Film Award for Best Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium. In 2015, the Library of Congress selected Being There for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
Though RAAC film screenings are free, donations are always welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - When Harry Met Sally
2026-01-16 19:00 - 21:00
RAAC’s January movie is the critically acclaimed 1989 romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally. Directed by Rob Reiner and starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and Bruno Kirby, the film follows the title characters from the time they meet in Chicago and share a drive to New York City, through twelve years of chance encounters, and addresses the question, “Can men and women ever just be friends?”
Written by Nora Ephron, the film received the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Ranked as one of the top comedy films in American cinema, other accolades include Academy Award, WGA Award and Golden Globe nominations.
Though the RAAC film is free, donations are always welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.

RAAC Movie - Beauty and the Beast
2026-02-13 18:00 - 20:00
In celebration of unexpected love on the Eve of Valentine’s Day, RAAC will show Jean Cocteau’s 1946 classic “La Belle et La Bete,” or Beauty and the Beast, at the Little Washington Theatre, at 6 o’clock on Friday February 13 ( a test run of an earlier start for RAAC movies). Based on the 18th century fairy tale, the story unfolds like a beautiful but disturbing departure from the ordinary, with plenty of special effects created without any of today’s computer-assisted techniques.
Cocteau’s treatment of the eerie romance has been called “realism of the unreal. ” Audiences can watch a credible, if dreamy, young woman’s journey from horror to empathy to love for the beast, who has taken her hostage as part of a shocking deal imposed on her father when he is staggered by a business failure. Jean Marais plays the lonely, misunderstood beast, as well as two competing suitors for the affection of Belle, played by Josette Day.
Reports of the filming experience in post-war France add to the fascination. Marais would endure five hours of make-up time, with fur strips attached to his face and hefty incisors inserted in his mouth. And during the production period, Cocteau himself was stricken by a painful skin disorder requiring penicillin every three hours.
This French film includes subtitles, and RAAC provides hearing assistance, helpful in taking in the French dialogue and the sumptuous score by the French composer Georges Auric.
This special evening is free, but RAAC welcomes donations to cover productions costs.

RAAC Movie - Hamnet
2026-04-10 19:00 - 21:00
RAAC’s second April movie will be Hamnet, the acclaimed Shakespeare-related film whose lead, Jessie Buckley, accepted the Oscar for best actress for her role as Agnes Shakespeare. Hamnet, had multiple Oscar nominations, including best picture and best adapted screenplay. Hamnet director Chloé Zhao was nominated for best director. The film carries the name of Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, whose death was the inspiration of the play many consider the master playwright’s best, Hamlet. Max Weiss, critic of Baltimore, said “The film is thoroughly imbued with that blend of mysticism and naturalism.”

RAAC Movie - Train Dreams
2026-04-18 18:00 - 20:00
On Saturday, April 18 at 6PM (so viewers can set out for dinner after the movie ends), RAAC will screen the celebrated four-time Oscar nominee, Train Dreams. Train Dreams is an American period drama directed by Chris Bentley, adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones.. Set in Idaho, the story traces the 80-year life of Robert Grainier. Orphaned as a child, Robert drifts through life, finding work on railroad and logging projects, witnessing tragedies, including the deaths of fellow workers, and enduring the destruction of his family cabin. He eventually settles into a quieter existence, reflecting on life’s fleeting moments and maintaining a spiritual connection to lost loved ones.
Recognized as one of the top ten films of 2025, the film is celebrated for its cinematic artistry, evocative storytelling, and deeply human performances, establishing it as a standout work of contemporary American cinema.
Among the film’s many accolades, notable awards include: Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Cinematography at the Film Independent Spirit Awards; and nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Song, at the 2026 Academy Awards.
Though the RAAC film is free, donations are welcome to help offset production costs. Hearing assistance will be available.

RAAC Movie - Sentimental Value
2026-06-20 19:00 - 21:00
Sentimental Value is a multi-layered Norwegian drama directed by Joachim Trier that earned the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, a historic win for Norway following years of nominations. The movie follows an aging filmmaker embarking on what will likely be his final work. The making of the film involves a return to a family home he left decades earlier, and a traumatic history during his own childhood. The superb acting by the women playing his estranged daughters make this a psychologically nuanced film, whose brilliant ending affirms that art can reconcile and integrate all that history has left broken and damaged. Starring Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning.
Though the RAAC film is free, donations are welcome to offset production costs. Hearing assistance is available.
