Upcoming Films & Events

This screening includes Bird

7 pm

Academy Award-winning writer/director Andrea Arnold returns to the big screen with a magical and dizzying coming-of-age tale.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2024

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes The Beast

7 pm

Punctuated by a career-defining, three-role performance by Léa Seydoux, The Beast poignantly conveys humanity’s struggle against dissociative identity and emotionless existence.

Year released:

2024

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes The Babadook

10 pm

A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home. 10th anniversary screening!

Year released:

2014

Series:

Not-Quite Midnights

This screening includes Bird

4 pm

Academy Award-winning writer/director Andrea Arnold returns to the big screen with a magical and dizzying coming-of-age tale.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2024

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes When a Stranger Calls + The Sitter

7 pm

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again in this tense thriller. Q&A to follow.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1979/1977

Series:

Re:Made

This screening includes Paradoxical Thinking: The Films of David Lynch

10 am

Celebrate the life and work of the world’s most influential filmmaker with a free multi-film marathon.

Year released:

Various Years

Series:

Additional Films and Guests

This screening includes All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

7 pm

A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman's life from award-winning poet, photographer, and filmmaker Raven Jackson.

Rating:

PG PG

Year released:

2023

Series:

AfroFutures: Black Women and Cinematic Storytelling

This screening includes The Taste of Things

7 pm

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel delight in this delectable, simmering, and sensuous romance. Winner of Best Director at Cannes Film Festival.

Year released:

2023

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes True Romance

7 pm

Tony Scott and Quentin Tarantino’s blood-soaked, bullet-riddled valentine to true love combines high-velocity action and unforgettable snappy dialogue with a murderers’ row of sensational performances from a stunning ensemble cast.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1993

Series:

Additional Films and Guests

This screening includes Godzilla Minus One/Gojira -1.0

10 pm

One part Spielbergian emotional drama, one part political thriller, one part Oscar-winning visual spectacle, all Godzilla.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

2023

Series:

Not-Quite Midnights

This screening includes The Taste of Things

4 pm

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel delight in this delectable, simmering, and sensuous romance. Winner of Best Director at Cannes Film Festival.

Year released:

2023

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes Roma

7 pm

A fluid, unconnected, and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1972

Series:

Michael A. McRobbie's Choice

This screening includes Exhibiting Forgiveness

1 pm

Beautifully rendered by writer/director Titus Kaphar, Exhibiting Forgiveness is a profound reflection on fractured relationships and the ways we heal.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2024

Series:

Art and a Movie

This screening includes 2025 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Documentary

4 pm

The Oscars shorts return to IU Cinema! Don't miss your chance to see the Oscar-nominated short films as they were meant to be seen—on the big screen—ahead of the Academy Awards telecast on March 2.

Year released:

2025

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes Milisuthando

7 pm

An invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging from a woman who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.

Year released:

2023

Series:

AfroFutures: Black Women and Cinematic Storytelling

This screening includes Perfect Days

7 pm

A deceptively simple film about noticing and savoring the tiny joys of our everyday, ordinary lives. Nominated for a 2024 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

Rating:

PG PG

Year released:

2024

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes Chasing Amy

7 pm

Writer-director Kevin Smith tackles an array of thorny themes with a mixture of sensitivity and raw honesty in this story of a man who discovers he's not his dream girl's perfect match.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1997

Series:

Re:Made

This screening includes Kneecap

10 pm

When fate brings teacher JJ into the orbit of hoods Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a group like no other: a trio rapping in their native Irish to save their language from centuries of British oppression.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2024

Series:

Not-Quite Midnights

This screening includes Perfect Days

4 pm

A deceptively simple film about noticing and savoring the tiny joys of our everyday, ordinary lives. Nominated for a 2024 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

Rating:

PG PG

Year released:

2024

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes Chasing Chasing Amy

7 pm

A film that examines the complex legacy of Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy on LGBTQ+ people and its life-saving impact on director Sav Rodgers. Q&A with the film's producer to follow!

Year released:

2023

Series:

Re:Made

This screening includes 2025 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Animated

1 pm

Be in the best position to win your Oscar pool! Enjoy the Oscar-nominated short films as they were meant to be seen—on the big screen—ahead of the Academy Awards telecast on March 2.

Year released:

2025

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes 2025 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action

4 pm

Short films, tall screen. See all the Oscar-nominated short films the way they were meant to be viewed—nearly two stories high!—ahead of the Academy Awards telecast on March 2.

Year released:

2025

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes Earth Mama

7 pm

A pregnant single mother embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family in this singular debut feature from filmmaker Savanah Leaf. Q&A to follow!

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2023

Series:

AfroFutures: Black Women and Cinematic Storytelling

This screening includes The African American Dance Company Presents: HIStory, HERstory, Our Story

7 pm

Go behind the scenes of the African American Dance Company with an intimate look at their annual intensive workshop and a collection of dances from their 50-year history. Q&A to follow.

Year released:

2024

Series:

Additional Films and Guests, Screen Share

This screening includes Rumours

7 pm

The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2024

Series:

Additional Films and Guests, New Americas Cinema

This screening includes Ratatouille

4 pm

A timeless story of a dedicated but struggling underdog trying to make it in the business he loves with an unusual twist: he's an anthropomorphic rat who also happens to be a culinary genius.

Rating:

G G

Year released:

2007

Series:

CINEkids International Children's Film Series

This screening includes Whiplash

7 pm

Damien Chazelle's electrifying drama about an aspiring jazz drummer with riveting performances from Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons, who won an Oscar for his intense work as Teller's abusive instructor.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2014

Series:

Staff Selects

This screening includes Hamlet (Encore)

1 pm

Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by more than 900,000 people worldwide, the original 2015 broadcast returns for an encore. 10th anniversary screening.

Year released:

2015

Series:

National Theatre Live

This screening includes Nosferatu with Radiohead: A Silents Synced Film

7 pm

F.W. Murnau's classic brought to new life with a soundtrack by iconic indie rock band Radiohead.

Year released:

2024

Series:

Additional Films and Guests

This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents: Alexandre O. Philippe and Patton Oswalt

7 pm

Join filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe and actor/comedian Patton Oswalt for a wide-ranging conversation on art, influence, and the inescapable power of film.

Series:

Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series, Alexandre O. Philippe: Chain Reactions

This screening includes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

10 pm

Experience the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre as it was meant to be seen— in true grindhouse style! Presented by special guests Alexandre O. Philippe and Patton Oswalt.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1974

Series:

Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series, Alexandre O. Philippe: Chain Reactions

This screening includes Chain Reactions

7 pm

Winner of the 2024 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Documentary on Cinema, Chain Reactions explores our pull toward to the horrific and the enduring impact of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Q&A with the director to follow!

Year released:

2024

Series:

Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series, Alexandre O. Philippe: Chain Reactions

This screening includes Night of Fear

10 pm

Ozploitation and the Australian New Wave combine in this chilling horror cult classic that was a key inspiration for Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre—don't miss a chance to see this underscreened gem!

Year released:

1972

Series:

Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series, Alexandre O. Philippe: Chain Reactions

This screening includes Farrebique, or the Four Seasons

4 pm

A lyrical and soulful documentary about a family's relationship to their farm, the nature that surrounds them, and the inevitable modernity that will forever erase their way of life.

Year released:

1946

Series:

City Lights Film Series

This screening includes The Mummy

7 pm

Juggling laugh-out-loud humor, swashbuckling action, chilling special effects, and swooning romance with equal parts sincerity and style, The Mummy offers all the thrills you could want.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

1999

Series:

Staff Selects

This screening includes The Manchurian Candidate

7 pm

John Frankenheimer's masterwork of conspiracy and twisted loyalty finds an American POW brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for an international Communist plot.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

1962

Series:

I Like to Watch: Voyeurism in Cinema

This screening includes The Brutalist

7 pm

The epic Cannes and Golden Globe-winning story of art, immigration, architecture, and filmmaking that reveals how the world we design is inextricable from our personal experience.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2024

Series:

New Americas Cinema

This screening includes Girls State

7 pm

A look at what American democracy would be like in the hands of teenage girls as part of an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up. Q&A to follow.

Year released:

2024

Series:

Additional Films and Guests, Screen Share

This screening includes The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen

7 pm

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2006

Series:

I Like to Watch: Voyeurism in Cinema

This screening includes Blade Runner (Final Cut)

7 pm

Los Angeles, The Future: Tyrell Corp technologies run the city through their replicant program. When four replicants go rogue, a blade runner is tasked with tracking them down and in the process uncovers the dark truth about Tyrell's utopic technology.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1982

Series:

5X Series

This screening includes Eyimofe (This is My Desire)

4 pm

A moving and honest drama about a man and woman's quest for better lives in Lagos, Nigeria. Q&A to follow.

Year released:

2021

Series:

New African Cinema

This screening includes Dahomey

7 pm

With a rigorous yet fantastical approach, filmmaker Mati Diop provocatively uncovers the restitution and repatriation of a stolen legacy. Q&A to follow.

Year released:

2024

Series:

New African Cinema

This screening includes We Need to Talk About Kevin

4 pm

A masterful, disquieting blend of drama and horror from filmmaker Lynne Ramsay that will stay with you long after the credits roll. Q&A to follow.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2011

Series:

Additional Films and Guests, Screen Share

This screening includes Mambar Pierrette

7 pm

A graceful, neorealist portrait of a Cameroonian seamstress and the rich community that surrounds her. Q&A to follow.

Year released:

2024

Series:

New African Cinema

This screening includes Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea

1 pm

Dive into the extraordinary life of artist H.C. Westermann, a Marine veteran who navigated the profound traumas of war by making art and subsequently became a hero to generations of artists.

Year released:

2023

Series:

Art and a Movie

This screening includes Blow Out

7 pm

Brian De Palma mixes Hitchcock and Antonioni together for this raw and suspenseful story of surveillance and political intrigue.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1981

Series:

I Like to Watch: Voyeurism in Cinema

This screening includes Blade Runner 2049

7 pm

30 years after the events of Blade Runner, LAPD Officer K unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2017

Series:

5X Series

This screening includes Only Angels Have Wings

4 pm

A potent combination of humor, romance, and action from legendary director Howard Hawks starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Rita Hayworth.

Year released:

1939

Series:

City Lights Film Series

This screening includes Double Exposure 2025

7 pm

Experience world premieres of new short films with original scores, the result of the magic which happens when pairing film-production students with student composers and sound designers who collaborate on the creation of a new film.

Year released:

2025

Series:

Double Exposure

This screening includes Midnight Special

7 pm

Writer/director Jeff Nichols collaborates with the enigmatic and stoic Michael Shannon in this sci-fi thriller about a father trying to save his son who has unique powers.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

2016

Series:

Beyond First Contact

This screening includes Total Recall

7 pm

What happens when you combine the frenetic direction and satirical mind of Paul Verhoeven with the imagination of Philip K. Dick? A futuristic, fast-paced rush that never slacks. 35th anniversary screening.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1990

Series:

5X Series

This screening includes AAPI Movement Short Film Festival

7 pm

Showcasing the Asian American and Pacific Islander community through film. Q&A with one of the filmmakers to follow!

Year released:

2023-2024

Series:

Movement: Asian/Pacific America

This screening includes Monsters

7 pm

The feature debut of Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla, and upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth) and one of the best low-budget sci-fi films of the millennium. 15th anniversary screening.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2010

Series:

Beyond First Contact

This screening includes Screamers

7 pm

During an interplanetary war, a military commander is charged with negotiating a fragile peace, but his mission is threatened when the primitive robots built to kill enemy combatants gain sentience. 30th anniversary screening.

Rating:

R R

Year released:

1995

Series:

5X Series

This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2025

7 pm

Catch the latest and greatest new work from IU student filmmakers.

Year released:

2025

Series:

Additional Films and Guests

This screening includes The Count of Monte Cristo/Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

4 pm

This new adaptation of Dumas' classic has won over critics and audiences alike with its sweeping and grand visuals, thrilling story, and epic scale.

Year released:

2024

Series:

International Art House Series

This screening includes How to Blow Up a Pipeline

7 pm

Drawing inspiration from climate scholar Andreas Malm's book of the same title, our Earth Day screening is a wakeup call for every generation. Q&A with the film's screenwriter to follow!

Rating:

R R

Year released:

2023

Series:

Additional Films and Guests

This screening includes Minority Report

7 pm

In the future, the PreCrime unit stops crimes before they happen. But when the unit's leader finds himself framed for a future murder, he uncovers a sprawling controversy that threatens the program, the city, and the safety of everyone in it.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

2002

Series:

5X Series

This screening includes Umberto D.

4 pm

Anchored by Carlo Battisti's moving performance, Vittorio de Sica's deeply empathetic character study is a bracing glimpse into the lives of the downtrodden.

Year released:

1952

Series:

City Lights Film Series

This screening includes Dr. Strangelove

1 pm

Seven-time BAFTA winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world-premiere adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece. Filmed live from the Noël Coward Theatre.

Year released:

2024

Series:

National Theatre Live

This screening includes Edge of Tomorrow

7 pm

Doug Liman's epic sci-fi action thriller unfolds in a near-future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault—and only Tom Cruise can do the stunts to save us! But even he's not good enough to do it on the first try. Live. Die. Repeat.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

2014

Series:

Beyond First Contact

This screening includes Union

7 pm

Heralded as the most important win for labor since the 1930s, Union captures the Amazon Labor Union's historic grassroots campaign to unionize thousands of their co-workers and take on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies. Winner of U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award at Sundance. May Day screening.

Year released:

2024

Series:

New Americas Cinema

This screening includes Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

12 pm

Visionary director J.J. Abrams brings forth the motion picture event of a generation, breathing new life into a timeless classic. 10th anniversary screening.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

2015

Series:

Escape the Week Mega Marathon

This screening includes Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

3 pm

The Star Wars saga continues as new heroes and galactic legends go on an epic adventure, unlocking mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

2017

Series:

Escape the Week Mega Marathon

This screening includes Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

6 pm

In the riveting conclusion of the landmark Skywalker saga, new legends will be born—and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.

Rating:

PG13 PG-13

Year released:

2019

Series:

Escape the Week Mega Marathon