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Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes En résidence surveillée/Under House Arrest
From 7–7:00 pm
The only feature-length film directed by Paulin Vieyra, this film shows an African state faced with political and economic difficulties. Q&A with Stéphane Vieyra to follow.
Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
From 7–7:00 pm
Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ousmane Sembène's explosive epic explores the tensions among tradition, religion, and politics in precolonial Senegal. Q&A with Alain Sembène to follow.
Student Showcase
This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2025
From 7–7:00 pm
Catch the latest and greatest new work from IU student filmmakers.
This screening includes We Need to Talk About Kevin
From 4–4:00 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.
This screening includes Girls State
From 7–7:00 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.
This screening includes The African American Dance Company Presents: HIStory, HERstory, Our Story
From 7–7:00 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.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Flowers of Ukraine
From 7–7:00 pm
The unexpectedly inspirational story of how a woman’s fight to hang onto her land takes a turn after Russia attacks Ukraine. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes All Static & Noise
From 7–7:00 pm
Human Rights Day screening. Survivors and their families risk everything to expose the truth of China's Uyghur detention and "re-education" camps. Q&A to follow.
Just Announced, Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Mountains
From 7–7:00 pm
A beautifully acted and observant portrait of a family and their community, Mountains marks an impressive debut by director Monica Sorelle. Q&A with the lead actors to follow!
This screening includes My Own Private Idaho
From 7–7:00 pm
A tantalizing glimpse of a talented director and his stars all at the top of their respective games, Gus Van Sant's loose reworking of Henry IV is smart and audacious.
This screening includes Sugarcane
From 7–7:00 pm
Indigenous Peoples' Day screening. An investigation into abuse and missing children at a Native residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Runner
From 7–7:00 pm
An award-winning story of human connection told with melancholic lyricism and moodily filmed in Indiana. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
Student Showcase
This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2024
From 7–7:00 pm
New work from IU student filmmakers!
New 4K Restoration, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes A Question of Color
From 7–7:00 pm
One of the first documentaries to interrogate the attitudes that Black Americans have about their own appearances. Q&A with filmmaker Kathe Sandler to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Thomas Antonic
From 4–4:00 pm
Spend an evening with filmmaker, poet, and scholar Thomas Antonic.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss
From 7–7:00 pm
A triumphant portrait of the pioneering Beat poet, jazz performer, writer, and painter ruth weiss who continued breaking rules until the end. Q&A with filmmaker Thomas Antonic to follow!
This screening includes Woman in Motion
From 7–7:00 pm
In this amazing true story, NASA's struggle to recruit experts gets an unlikely assist from Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols and launches a campaign to recruit the first Black, Latino, and Asian people to go to space.
This screening includes An American Ascent
From 7–7:00 pm
A team of African-American climbers take on the challenge of summitting North America's highest mountain in this enthralling documentary. Q&A to follow.
US Premiere of New 4K Restoration
From 7–7:00 pm
The world premiere of a new 4K restoration of Jessie Maple's classic of Black cinema and the earliest surviving feature-length film directed by a Black American woman. Q&A to follow.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Smile4Kime
From 4–4:00 pm
Two friends transcend time, space, and death to find hope and resilience through their struggles with mental health. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War
From 7–7:00 pm
Inspired by a comment from a fellow Vietnam War veteran ("He was just like me, trying to get home"), Ron Osgood set out on a journey from present to past and back again to find related stories from all sides of the war. Q&A with Osgood to follow!
Just Announced
This screening includes The Color of Pomegranates
From 7–7:00 pm
In celebration of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov's centennial, join us for this surreal and impressionistic biopic of Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, as told through his poems and Parajanov's captivating images. Q&A to follow!
Producer Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Dawn to Despair - "The Dilemma"
From 4–4:00 pm
A fictionalized portrait of the labor movement and Communist Party in 1930s Costa Rica that is told through the intimate dynamics of a working-class family. Q&A with producer/writer Jeffrey L. Gould to follow.
Standby Only
This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2023
From 7–7:00 pm
New work from IU student filmmakers! All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be a standby line for this sold-out screening.
This screening includes Belly of the Beast
From 7–7:00 pm
When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons, they wage a battle against the Department of Corrections. Q&A to follow.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Shouting Down Midnight
From 7–7:00 pm
An urgent documentary that simultaneously chronicles Texas State Senator Wendy Davis' 2013 filibuster of an antiabortion law and its reverberations in catalyzing a new generation of women's rights advocates and activists, particularly in underserved BIPOC communities. A conversation with the filmmaker to follow.
This screening includes Never Rarely Sometimes Always
From 7–7:00 pm
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy in IU alum Eliza Hittman's critically acclaimed, award-winning film. Q&A to follow.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
From 7–7:00 pm
A playful and important documentary that smartly interrogates the historical and cultural notions about women and money. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Naked Acts
From 7–7:00 pm
Join director Bridgett M. Davis for a screening of her germinal film about the intersections of self-love, family history, the film industry, and discovering one's worth. 25th anniversary screening!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Playing With Fire
From 7–7:00 pm
Go behind the scenes with Grammy-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell, who forms her own baroque orchestra to acclaim after being told no one would hire a woman conductor. A Q&A with Sorrell and executive producer Gina Maria Leonetti will follow the screening.
Just Announced, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Bei Bei
From 7–7:00 pm
A searing documentary that focuses on the transformative struggles of those who can become pregnant and the legal, political, and cultural battles revolving around their sexuality, reproductive health, and justice. Followed by a Q&A with special guests!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema
From 7–7:00 pm
A call-to-action documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow the screening.
This screening includes Pasolini
From 7–7:00 pm
A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Swing Vote
From 7–7:00 pm
A new U.S. Supreme Court Justice faces a critical decision in a post-Roe v. Wade world. Followed by a Q&A with special guests.
Just Announced
This screening includes Eat Your Catfish
From 7–8:14 pm
Filmmakers Adam Isenberg and Noah Amir Arjomand are scheduled to be present for a post-screening Q&A moderated by IU Professor Emerita Kathleen Gilbert.
Sold Out, U.S. Premiere
This screening includes Henry Glassie: Field Work
From 7–8:45 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be no standby line for this sold-out screening. Writers Henry Glassie and Pravina Shukla are scheduled to be present.
Just Announced
This screening includes The B1G Story: George Taliaferro
From 4:15–5:08 pm
This screening includes Collective
From 7–8:49 pm
Cancelled
This screening includes The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
From 7–8:17 pm
Due to issues with screening rights, this film program is cancelled.
Just Announced
This screening includes Donbass
From 7:01–9:03 pm
This screening includes Acasa, My Home
From 7–8:26 pm
This screening includes SECS Shorts #2: Holes and Wholes
From 7–8:33 pm
This screening includes SECS Fest Midwest Feature: One Last Time
From 10–11:12 pm
This screening includes SECS Shorts #1: Carnal Delights
From 7–8:27 pm
Just Announced
This screening includes Ouvrir la voix (Speak Up)
From 7–9:02 pm
Filmmaker Amandine Gay and Producer Enrico Bartolucci are scheduled to be present for a conversation moderated by Dr. Elena Guzman.
This screening includes And Then They Came for Us
From 7–7:51 pm
Filmmaker Abby Ginzberg and one of the film’s subjects, Satsuki Ina, will be present for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A.
Just Announced
This screening includes Made-Up Story / Worst Woman
From 7–9:04 pm
Following the screening, there will be a pre-recorded conversation between filmmaker Kim Jong-Kwan and film critic Darcy Paquet.
This screening includes A Conversation on Paulin Vieyra
From 7–8:15 pm
Join us for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A with the IU Black Film Center & Archive.
This screening includes Paulin Vieyra Shorts Program
From 7–8:47 pm
This screening includes Paulin Vieyra Shorts Program
From 12–1:47 am
Only those registered for the February 10 virtual conversation on Paulin Vieyra will have access to the shorts program.
