CASE 137: East Coast premiere @ Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series
When:
Monday, Apr 06, 2026 7:00p -
9:30p
Monday, Apr 06, 2026 7:00p -
9:30p
Where:
West Newton Cinema
1296 Washington Street
West Newton, MA 02465
Admission:
$14 in advance; $16 at the door; 8 films for $96. Memberships also available.
Hosted by:
Categories:
Date Idea, Food, LGBTQ+, Movies
Event website:
https://belmontworldfilm2026.eventive.org/films/case-137-699cbd51261b98c5b4408afd
Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series, "Thicker than water," explores the ties that bind—and sometimes limit us— through an intimate and far-reaching collection of stories about families in all their complexity. Across cultures and continents, these films ask what we inherit, what we carry, and what we owe one another.
The series unfolds over eight consecutive Mondays at the West Newton Cinema, at 7:00 PM. After a two-week break, the series returns in June with three additional remarkable films in recognition of World Refugee Awareness Month and Pride Month.
All of the selections were official entries at the world’s major film festivals, with several receiving top honors. The films span four continents and feature ten different languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Darija, Dutch, French, Greek, Greenlandic, Quechua, Spanish, and Ukrainian—reflecting the many voices and vantage points that shape our shared human story.
In Case 137 a criminal case takes a personal turn, when a police officer in the internal affairs unit in Paris is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. Nominated for the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival and by the director of The Night of the 12th, which swept the Cesar Awards in 2023.
SPEAKERS: Leonard Kesten, regarded as one of the state’s leading authorities on alleged police misconduct and a founding partner at BHPK Law, and Jack Zanini, a retired prosecutor who served as Legal Counsel and Chief of Appeals at Suffolk (Boston) and as First Assistant District Attorney at Plymouth, who has participated in many reviews of police use of force investigations, including death cases.
