HOLD ONTO ME: East Coast premiere @ Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series

When:
Monday, May 04, 2026 7:00p -
9:30p

Where:
West Newton Cinema
1296 Washington Street
West Newton, MA 02465

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Admission:
$14 in advance; $16 at the door; 8 films for $96. Memberships also available.

Hosted by:
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belmontworldfilm Belmont World Film

Categories:
Date Idea, Food, LGBTQ+, Movies

Event website:
https://belmontworldfilm2026.eventive.org/films/hold-onto-me-69978f6629a44e745069ab70

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 Hold Onto Me, it's summer, and 11-year-old Iris is running wild through the streets with her older friend Danae when she learns her estranged father, Aris (Dogtooth star Christos Passalis), is back in town for his own father's funeral. Determined to know him, Iris tracks him down to a dilapidated shipyard, where he’s been keeping to himself. What begins as a stubborn attempt to reconnect slowly unfolds into a fragile bond. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.


Followed by a discussion led by The Arts Fuse film critic Tim Jackson and his wife, psychotherapist Suzanne Jackson.

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