Events › Leontine Cinema Presents "Eve's Bayou"

Leontine Cinema and the Downtown Library are happy to present a special after-hours screening of Eve's Bayou, in the atrium of the South Building!

Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10-year-old black girl, Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett), discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade. The philandering of her suave doctor father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson), creates a rift, throwing Eve's mother, Roz (Lynn Whitfield), and teenage sister, Cisely (Meagan Good), into emotional turmoil. Eve, though, manages to find some solace with her quirky psychic aunt, Mozelle (Debbi Morgan).

Rated R for sexuality and language - for more information about the movie, check out the IMDb page!

Leontine Cinema
In August 2024, Garin Pirnia founded Leontine Cinema Collective, possibly the only film group in America focused on women directors. Leontine screens monthly at Esquire Theatre, but also has screened at Woodward Theater, Cincinnati World Cinema, Par-Projects, The CAC, and many more venues in Cincinnati. Named after the progressive 1930s director Leontine Sagan, Leontine Cinema showcases diverse women-directed films, with an emphasis on films centering on feminism, and social justice.