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31 screenings found
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 Gregg 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.
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.
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.
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.
Just Announced
This screening includes Caterpillars/Makongo
7 pm
An outsider community struggles against the odds for education. Q&A to follow!
Just Announced
This screening includes Desrances
7 pm
A man and his daughter search for their missing family amidst a civil war in Abidjan. Q&A to follow!
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
New work from IU student filmmakers!
Just Announced
This screening includes Escape the Week Mega Marathon
12 pm
Join us for 12 hours of back-to-back movies featuring the enigmatic, the inimitable, the one and only Nicolas Kim Coppola, a.k.a. Nic Cage.
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.
