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This may, in fact, be the best film — and the best performance— of the year. But there’s only one way you can find out, and that’s to find out by seeing it on the big screen.

Enjoy it one year after its Sundance debut and Grand Jury Prize 2023 win — and see for yourself the performances, story and artistry that will leave you speechless.

A Thousand and One
Directed by A.V. Rockwell . 2023. 116 minutes. 

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.