About

Your Hometown Arthouse Theater - Serving IU and Bloomington for 15 Years!

 

One of the nation’s most prestigious arthouse cinemas, IU Cinema is an academic unit and public arthouse theater that uses film and cinema studies for intellectual edification and cultural emancipation. Screening on 2K 3D, 4K digital, 35mm, and 16mm, our ~200 programs per year offer a robust, curated slate of screenings, class visits, mentorship and masterclass programs, lectures, conferences, and campus visits from an expansive roster of industry professionals, artists, and scholars from across the globe.

IU Cinema is committed to using cinema to create tangible, material outcomes in the service of purposefully cultivating transformative educational, cultural, and community work that benefits all peoples.

IU Cinema - Film for All. 

Films and much more

Our ~200 annual program include movies of all kinds and multiple to engage more deeply with film, culture, the world, and our community.

You can hear from prominent filmmakers and scholars, see rarely shown titles, and enjoy one-of-a-kind programs, like the premiere of a score for a silent movie. Because we want our events to be inclusive and accessible, about half of them are free.

An theatrical experience like no other

Superior picture and sound quality. Smiling, knowledgeable faces at the door. Comfy crimson seats. Films you can not see anywhere else. Once you see a film at IU Cinema, you won’t want to go anywhere else.

A theatrical experience like no other

Superior picture and sound quality. Smiling, knowledgeable faces at the door. Comfy crimson seats. Films you can not see anywhere else. Once you see a film at IU Cinema, you won’t want to go anywhere else.

For students, it’s a wonderful life

At IU Cinema, students have many chances to learn about the film industry and put their talents and skills to use.

Students can screen their films, lead discussions with filmmakers, curate programs, have filmmakers critique their work in masterclasses, work as projectionists, write for our blog, promote events, volunteer as ushers, and more.

Volunteer at IU Cinema

Since IU Cinema opened in 2011:

3,500+public programs

1,700+free events

360,000+audience members served

Indiana University Cinema is just incredible. . . . There’s nothing like it anywhere else. For a film junkie, this is nirvana.

Joseph Bernard, visual artist and filmmaker
A conductor and musicians in an orchestra pit
An audience watches a black and white film.

During a 2017 screening of The Scar of Shame, Renèe Baker conducted a live, world-premiere performance of a new orchestral score she composed for the film. The musicians were students in IU’s Jacobs School of Music.

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