The Medford Public Schools are hosting two presentations of the documentary "If They Had Known," a 35-minute film that focuses on the risks of current party culture. It is not a film about addiction. It is a candid film spoken by kids, to kids about the risks of recreationally mixing prescription drugs with alcohol. The film is an honest and emotional account of a real event -- the death in 2015 of 19-year-old Clay Soper of Winchester after mixing alcohol…

The Medford Public Schools present the second showing of the documentary "If They Had Known," a 35-minute film that focuses on the risks of current party culture. It is not a film about addiction. It is a candid film spoken by kids, to kids about the risks of recreationally mixing prescription drugs with alcohol. The film is an honest and emotional account of a real event -- the death in 2015 of 19-year-old Clay Soper of Winchester after mixing alcohol…

Sanctuary United Church of Christ presents its monthly Faith and Film program. Bring your own beer, wine or soda and experience the places where pop culture meets faith. Attendees watch a current film, followed by a discussion about themes of morality, faith, and humanity led by local theologians and community leaders. This month's film is described as "an essential film for now" and "an emotional powerhouse, too powerful to resist...impossible to forget.” Screening and discussion led by Rev. Anastasia Kidd and…

Community Baptist Church invites you to a screening of the film "The Encounter." Five strangers are forced to re-examine their life choices after finding themselves stranded at a mysterious, isolated diner with a man who somehow has all of the answers to their most pressing problems. From the callous businessman to the unhappily married couple, the desperate runaway, and the solitary woman, each of these lost souls faces an existential dilemma that has thrown their lives into chaos. But the…

The final day of the monthlong Women Take the Reel Film Festival features a showing of "Women’s Lives In View," short films produced by Jennifer Burton and Five Sisters Productions. A question-and-answer session with with director Jennifer Burton will follow. This annual film festival is a collaborative effort among MIT Women's and Gender Studies departments involved in the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (as well as select institutions/universities aligned with its mission) that features films…

Tufts University presents a noontime screening of the film "Othello in the Seraglio: The Tragedy of Sümbül the Black Eunuch." Set in a 17th-century Istanbul coffeehouse, “Othello in the Seraglio” reimagines Shakespeare’s Othello as a former African slave, a powerful but aging Ottoman Eunuch who for years was overseer of the Sultan’s harem. The story is told by a traditional storyteller and a cast of 11 instrumentalists and singers. The film’s narrative is carried by a mix of music in early…

Community Baptist Church invites you to a screening of the film "The Shack." After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression that causes him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths…

Sanctuary United Church of Christ presents its monthly Faith and Film program. Bring your own beer, wine or soda and experience the places where pop culture meets faith. Attendees watch a current film, followed by a discussion about themes of morality, faith, and humanity led by local theologians and community leaders. This month's film asks viewers to take another look at what they think they know about politics, religion and other things we like to argue about, and asks nothing more than…