Films this week 2/6/2026 to 2/12/26
by Gary Palmucci | 6th February 2026 | Gary's Corner
This is that time of awards season, following last month’s announcement of Academy Award nominations, when virtually every major nominated film is on a screen somewhere in the city, and personal appearances by their key creators are at a fever pitch.
New Plaza Cinema this weekend is no exception. starting with Friday afternoon’s 4 pm screening (note the adjusted start time from some earlier schedule postings) of The Voice of Hind Rajab, with its director Kaouther Ben Hania – who joined us two years ago with her Oscar-nominated Four Daughters- on hand for Q&A moderated by my colleague Abbe Harris.
At 6 pm Friday we’ll welcome David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, co-directors of Best Documentary Feature nominee Mr Nobody Versus Putin, about a Russian grade school teacher who secretly chronicled his small town school’s transformation into a war recruitment center during the 2022 Ukraine invasion.
We’ll have two additional screenings of the film this weekend; Saturday’s show may also feature Q&A, please consult our website for updates.
Other Oscar nominees onscreen here will include Blue Moon (Ethan Hawke, Best Actor candidate); Sentimental Value (nine nominations including Best Picture, Director, and all four of its principal actors), in a special version that features a coda with candid cast interviews; and another Best Documentary selection, the Iranian-set Cutting Through Rocks, which may also have a Q&A – again, please consult our late-breaking website info.
And in our ongoing efforts to program a diverse selection of features examining the Gaza conflict, we’ll present this weekend the first uptown screening of Holding Liat. The NY Times’ Nicolas Rapold last month wrote:
“Brandon Kramer’s festival-acclaimed documentary Holding Liat opens on the Israeli-American Yehuda Beinin receiving information that his middle-age daughter, Liat, is still alive after she and her husband, Aviv, were kidnapped from their kibbutz in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel. Yehuda vents about “crazy people” leading both the Israeli and Palestinian sides, and Kramer’s often surprising film proceeds to air the differing viewpoints among Yehuda, his wife and his family in the wrenching weeks that follow.”
Holding Liat’s co-producer and director of photography Yoni Brook will join us after the screening for a discussion .
And reprising this weekend, Ralph Fiennes in the ever- popular The Choral, along with – in its fifth month on our wide screen -SHTTL, with Q&A from its inexhaustible lead actor Moshe Lobel.
The documentary Shuffle, originally scheduled to screen this weekend, has been indefinitely postponed.