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7 pm
When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know couple must decide whether to maintain their traditional Quechuan way of life or admit defeat and relocate to the city. Sundance award winner.
This screening includes Possessor
10 pm
A mysterious agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
4 pm
When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know couple must decide whether to maintain their traditional Quechuan way of life or admit defeat and relocate to the city. Sundance award winner.
This screening includes Love & Anarchy
7 pm
When a friend is murdered by the Fascists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist sex worker plot to assassinate Mussolini.
This screening includes Mean Streets
7 pm
50th anniversary screening! A powerful tale of urban sin and guilt that marks Scorsese's arrival as an important cinematic voice and features electrifying performances from Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro.
This screening includes The X-Files
7 pm
The first feature-length film from the acclaimed television show follows Mulder and Scully as they must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.
This screening includes Leonor Will Never Die/Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago
7 pm
When Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, she suddenly becomes the action hero of her unfinished screenplay. Winner, Sundance Special Jury Prize.
This screening includes Night of the Comet
10 pm
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
This screening includes Leonor Will Never Die/Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago
4 pm
When Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, she suddenly becomes the action hero of her unfinished screenplay. Winner, Sundance Special Jury Prize.
This screening includes All Screwed Up/Tutto a posto e niente in ordine
7 pm
In this hilarious satire that covers everything from gentrification, immigration, class mobility, and gender politics, workers from southern Italy relocate to Milan and adjust to life in the city.
This screening includes IU Cinema Open House
3 pm
Get to know your neighborhood movie theater at the IU Cinema Open House—games, swag, treats, and more!
Just Announced
This screening includes Skinamarink
7 pm
The sensational new indie horror film audiences can't stop talking about!
This screening includes Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
7 pm
Three friends decide to turn their fantasy vacation into reality after one of their friends gets engaged in this audience and critical favorite.
This screening includes Decision to Leave/Heojil kyolshim
7 pm
A young widow grieving the death of her spouse arouses suspicion and more in this neo-noir thriller, the latest from Park Chan-wook, who won Best Director at Cannes in 2022.
This screening includes The Love Witch
10 pm
An absorbing visual homage to a bygone era, arranged subtly in service of a thought-provoking meditation on the battle of the sexes.
This screening includes Decision to Leave/Heojil kyolshim
4 pm
A young widow grieving the death of her spouse arouses suspicion and more in this neo-noir thriller, the latest from Park Chan-wook, who won Best Director at Cannes in 2022.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Swept Away/Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto
7 pm
A trip into the Mediterranean Sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
This screening includes Mulholland Drive
7 pm
David Lynch's love letter to Hollywood that twists across Los Angeles in a venture beyond dreams and reality.
This screening includes Rear Window
7 pm
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of our City Lights series with Hitchcock's classic paranoid whodunit. Q&A to follow—read on for more!
This screening includes Saloum
7 pm
In this genre-bending historical thriller, three skilled mercenaries are on the lam after escaping the 2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d’état. While seeking refuge near Senegal’s Saloum River, a mysterious energy from the beyond does not want to see them escape.
This screening includes The Menu
10 pm
Featuring an ensemble that includes Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, and John Leguizamo, The Menu serves up black comedy with plenty of flavor.
This screening includes Saloum
4 pm
In this genre-bending historical thriller, three skilled mercenaries are on the lam after escaping the 2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d’état. While seeking refuge near Senegal’s Saloum River, a mysterious energy from the beyond does not want to see them escape.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Seven Beauties/Pasqualino Settebellezze
7 pm
The film that saw Wertmüller become the first woman ever nominated for a Best Director Oscar. A low-level thug kills a man and manages to escape imprisonment by joining the military. After going AWOL, he soon finds himself a German POW where he will do anything in order to survive.
This screening includes Mapplethorpe: The Director's Cut
1 pm
A nuanced portrait of an artist at the height of his craft, along with the self-destructive impulses that threatened to undermine everything he prized.
This screening includes Malcolm X
7 pm
Anchored by a powerful performance from Denzel Washington, Spike Lee's biopic of legendary civil rights leader Malcolm X brings his autobiography to life with an epic sweep and a nuanced message.
This screening includes Camera Loosely: Maria Denolt Presents a History of Photography
4 pm
Join visiting art critic Maria Denolt for an immersive workshop on the role of the camera, photography, and media at the Eskenazi Museum of Art.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Naked Acts
7 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!
This screening includes The Gluttony of Light
4 pm
Join artist, performer, and writer Dani Lamorte for a reading from their forthcoming book on queerness, art, media, and rurality.
This screening includes Queer Time, Queer Space: Jubilee + New Queer Shorts
7 pm
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness a dystopian London overrun by a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk. Preceded by three shorts from up-and-coming queer filmmakers.
This screening includes Showgirls
10 pm
Nomi arrives in Las Vegas with only a suitcase and a dream of becoming a showgirl. But as she ascends to the top, Nomi begins to wonder if it's all worth it. Paul Verhoeven’s legendary camp cult classic is a delirious, frenetic satire of the American dream.
This screening includes They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
4 pm
In the midst of the Great Depression, dance marathon contestants will do anything to win. Nominated for nine Oscars.
This screening includes Handmade: The Films of Stacey Steers
7 pm
Fine artistry, animation, and filmmaking collide in the award-winning handmade cinema of Stacey Steers.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
7 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!
7 pm
Led by Cate Blanchett's note-perfect performance, Tár riffs brilliantly on the discordant side of fame-fueled power.
This screening includes A Man Escaped
4 pm
A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.
This screening includes Mara Mattuschka: Painting on Celluloid
7 pm
A retrospective of selected work by actress, painter, professor, performance artist, and producer Mara Mattuschka, one of the most important artists working in experimental cinema today.
This screening includes Henry V
1 pm
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power.
This screening includes Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7 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
This screening includes ELEMENTS: A Short Anthology
4 pm
An IU alum brings a slice of queer Bay Area life back to Bloomington.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Totally F***ed Up
7 pm
The film that launched Araki onto the scene as a major voice in the New Queer Cinema movement, it chronicles the lives of six gay teenagers living as a chosen family. It’s queer avant garde meets John Hughes.
This screening includes Diva Worship: Trevor, Flaming Creatures, Mala Mala
7 pm
Three films that celebrate the role of the diva in queer communities as both entertainers and for queer identity creation.
This screening includes Diva Legends Dance Party
10 pm
Hang out with IU Cinema at The Back Door for an epic dance party celebrating your favorite divas!
This screening includes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
4 pm
This winner of the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, is a bone-deep look at photographer Nan Goldin's fight against addiction and the institution responsible for her pain through her gritty lens.
This screening includes Exposing Muybridge
1 pm
Ambition, betrayal, murder, deception… and the birth of moving pictures! The first feature documentary to bring the fantastical story of the trailblazing 19th-century photographer to life.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Shouting Down Midnight
7 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.
4 pm
Filmmaker, artist, and researcher Johanna Tesfaye interrogates the imperial archive as a project and process of power.
This screening includes Terminal Island
7 pm
In an alternate future, criminals are sentenced to life on the barren Terminal Island. There, two groups fight for control over the nascent society, as the Rebels struggle to remake the island into a better world than the one that banished them.
World Premiere, Live Music Event
This screening includes Double Exposure 2023
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.
This screening includes Belly of the Beast
7 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 Stephanie Rothman Jorgensen Program
7 pm
A conversation with pioneering Stephanie Rothman, one of the few women directing films in the 1970s. Rothman will discuss her trailblazing career and filmic work.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Student Nurses
7 pm
Four nursing students navigate the social, political, and cultural turmoil of the early 1970s in Stephanie Rothman's signature ensemble drama. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
This screening includes The Velvet Vampire
10 pm
Lee and his wife Susan accept the invitation of mysterious Diane to visit her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware that Diane is a vampire, realize that they are both objects of her seductions.
New 4K Restoration, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Memories of Underdevelopment
7 pm
One of the first Cuban films to achieve significant success abroad, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s intimate and densely layered film is a landmark work of the country’s cinema. Q&A to follow—read on for more!
This screening includes Walkabout
7 pm
With its harrowingly beautiful depiction of the Australian Outback and spare narrative of culture clash, Walkabout is a survival epic.
This screening includes Rafiki & Pumzi
7 pm
Two young Kenyan woman are forced to choose between love and safety when love blooms between them. Preceded by the short Pumzi, a sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after the water war.
This screening includes Drunktown's Finest
7 pm
Three young Native Americans try to escape from the hardships of life on a reservation.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Pure Grit
4 pm
An exuberant tale of a queer Shoshone woman who faces more than her share of troubles but is sustained throughout it all by her love of extreme bareback horse racing. Q&A with the filmmaker and the film's subject to follow!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Gone with the River/Dauna: Lo que lleva el río
7 pm
Fighting against the traditions of her culture and the expectations of her community, Dauna must choose between a frustrated life with a husband she loves or devoting herself to the education she wants. Q&A to follow—read on for more!
This screening includes The Crucible
1 pm
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma).
This screening includes The Last Wave
7 pm
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself.
This screening includes Do It In the Dark!
4 pm
Harrison Apple from the Pittsburgh Queer History Project comes to Indiana University to share their work as a after-hours nightclub archivist and oral historian.
This screening includes The Tracker
7 pm
Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition with the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman.
Producer Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Card Counter
7 pm
This revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator (Oscar Isaac) turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past. Q&A with producer Braxton Pope to follow.
This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2023
7 pm
Virtual Program
This screening includes Establishing Shot Watch Party
7 pm
Join our intrepid Establishing Shot bloggers for a conversation about an eclectic group of films.
