The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center has added three just-released films that can be streamed online in the Opera House Screening Room.

The Opera House Screening Room provides movies and other digital programming online to its patrons in the wake of the continued COVID restrictions. The cost of streaming the films varies, depending on the film. The revenue generated is shared by the Opera House and the film studios.

“Since we have not yet reopened, this is one way of providing our patrons with access to programming, and of generating income for the Opera House,” said Rick Davis, Opera House executive director.

Featured on Mother’s Day on CBS Sunday Morning, Duty Free is “a tender love poem from son to mother” (CBS News). After a 75 year-old immigrant mother is fired without cause from her lifelong job as a hotel housekeeper, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life. As she struggles to find work, he documents a journey that uncovers the economic insecurity shaping not only her future, but that of an entire generation.

Tickets to view Duty Free are $12 per household.

Los Hermanos/The Brothers is “a remarkable film about a family ensnared in geopolitics and two brothers who lead very different lives and yet never lose their instinctual connection” (San Francisco Chronicle). Two Cuban-born brothers, both virtuoso musicians – Aldo and Ilmar L¯pez-Gavil’n – live on opposite sides of the geopolitical chasm that separates the U.S. and Cuba. Although they lead very different existences, the brothers have an instinctual connection. Following their parallel lives in New York and Havana, the film offers an amazingly heartfelt – though often startling – view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family. In capturing their momentous reunion and electrifying first performances together, the film shows how family bonds can transcend politics. Featuring an electrifying, genre-bending score composed by Aldo and performed with his brother, Ilmar, and with guest appearances by maestro Joshua Bell and the Harlem Quartet. Some scenes were filmed at the Chautauqua Institution.

Tickets to view Los Hermanos/The Brothers are $10 per household. It is available for screening beginning Friday.

Also available for screening beginning Friday, Rockfield is the tale of how two Welsh farming brothers turned their dairy farm into one of the most successful recording studios of all time, producing four decades of legendary rock music.

Fifty years ago, deep in the Welsh countryside, brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward were starting out in the family dairy farming business. But they yearned to do something different – they wanted to make music. So they built a studio in the attic of their farmhouse and started recording with their friends. Kingsley’s new wife, Ann, left her job in the local bank to do the books, and they continued farming all the while. Animals were kicked out of barns and musicians were moved into Ann’s spare bedroom. Inadvertently, they’d launched the world’s first independent residential recording studio: Rockfield. Rockfield’s reputation spread like wildfire, quickly garnering international acclaim as the place that bands wanted to record. From Black Sabbath, Hawkwind and Queen, to Simple Minds, Iggy Pop and Robert Plant, and later Oasis, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers and Coldplay – hundreds of artists have recorded there over the decades.

Tickets to view Rockfield are $10 per household.

Still showing is “a warm hug of a film” The Outside Story; About Endlessness, a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty; and Our Time Machine, about an artist’s response to his father’s dementia diagnosis. And screening for free is JCC Professor Traci Langworthy’s For The Vote: Two Profiles in Woman’s Courage, which tells of Dunkirk’s Elnora Babcock and Jamestown’s Edith Ainge and the role each played in the long-fought battle for women’s right to vote.

The Opera House Screening Room is found on the Opera House web site at www.fredopera.org. Links for each film take the patron to third-party studio sites for ticket purchase. Tickets are per household and patrons are able to view films on nearly any mobile device, smart TV, laptop or computer.

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House is a member-supported not-for-profit organization located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia. Currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, the theatre is offering a variety of digital program offerings.