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This screening includes Eyes Wide Shut
7 pm
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing in Stanley Kubrick's final film. 25th anniversary screening!
This screening includes Titanic in 3D
7 pm
One heiress, one stowaway, a luxury cruise liner, and a giant iceberg. What could go wrong? Find out...IN 3D!
Sold Out
This screening includes The Boy and the Heron/Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka
7 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be no standby line for this sold-out screening. The magic of Miyazaki returns to our big screen! A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation in tribute to friendship, this screening will be the original Japanese-language version of the film, featuring the voice talents of Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, AIMYON, Ko Shibasaki, and more.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Road House
10 pm
Don't mess with Swayze.
This screening includes Transatlantic
4 pm
Kick off our five-film retrospective into the artistry and legacy of Oscar-winning cinematographer and director James Wong Howe on 35mm!
Sold Out
This screening includes The Boy and the Heron/Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka
7 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be no standby line for this sold-out screening. The magic of Miyazaki returns to our big screen! A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation in tribute to friendship, this screening will be the English dubbed version of the film featuring the voice talents of Christian Bale, Florence Pugh, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and more.
This screening includes The Conversation
7 pm
Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid thriller follows a secretive surveillance expert having a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. 50th anniversary screening.
This screening includes The Royal Tenenbaums
7 pm
Get to know the Tenenbaums as they get to know themselves in Wes Anderson's modern classic about family, feuding, and filial relations. All of the usual Anderson muses (and more) make this an ensemble of eccentricities not to be missed on the big screen!
This screening includes The Royal Hotel
7 pm
Kitty Green's gritty, nail-biting follow-up to The Assistant is a disquieting slow burn of a thriller, turning up the notch almost imperceptibly—until you realize it's somehow already at 11.
This screening includes Ravenous
10 pm
In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal. 25th anniversary screening!
4 pm
This is Hud! See Paul Newman truly sizzle in a superb performance as Hud Bannon, "the man with the barbed-wire soul—mean and magnificent ... alone and arrogant."
This screening includes The Royal Hotel
7 pm
Kitty Green's gritty, nail-biting follow-up to The Assistant, The Royal Hotel is a disquieting slow burn of a thriller, turning up the notch almost imperceptibly—until you realize it's somehow already at 11.
Producer Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Descendant
7 pm
This Sundance award-winning documentary follows the ancestors of the survivors of the Clotilda, a ship that brought captive Africans to Alabama more than 50 years after slavery was illegal in the U.S. Q&A with co-writer/co-producer Dr. Kern Jackson to follow.
US Premiere of New 4K Restoration
7 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.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Oldboy
7 pm
Park Chan-wook's Oldboy has served as inspiration for auteurs for nearly two decades. Be a part of its return to theaters for the first time in 20 years and see this cult classic restored and remastered in stunning 4K!
This screening includes Dream Scenario
10 pm
Hapless family man Paul finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. When his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
This screening includes Yankee Doodle Dandy
4 pm
James Cagney commands the screen in this epic biopic of musical legend George M. Cohan, who clawed his way from a family vaudeville act to Tin Pan Alley and, eventually, soaring success on Broadway.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Oldboy
7 pm
Park Chan-wook's Oldboy has served as inspiration for auteurs for nearly two decades. Be a part of its return to theaters for the first time in 20 years and see this cult classic restored and remastered in stunning 4K!
This screening includes The Trouble with Harry
1 pm
A dead body's refusal to stay buried unexpectedly leads to romance for two couples in this black comedy that became arguably Alfred Hitchcock's most offbeat and visually gorgeous film.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Peeping Tom
7 pm
A new 4K restoration of Michael Powell's provocative psychological cult thriller.
Just Announced
This screening includes Obscene Anger: Kenneth Anger and the Legacies of Censorship
4 pm
Explore the world of film, censorship, politics, and the work of Kenneth Anger with visiting scholar Dr. Whitney Strub.
This screening includes Fireworks + Scorpio Rising
7 pm
Celebrate the life and work of the iconoclastic filmmaker, artist, and provocateur Kenneth Anger with two of his most critical films. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Joyland
7 pm
Writer-director Saim Sadiq's lush and poignant debut feature explores the emotional intricacies and complexities of navigating love, desire, identity, and sexual rebellion in a repressive society. In 2022, Joyland became the first Pakistani film awarded the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes.
This screening includes Barbie
10 pm
Hi, Barbie! See *the* cinematic event of the year at your favorite local arthouse as Barbie and Ken invade the real world, Ken gets confused, and Barbie saves the day.
This screening includes The Thin Man
4 pm
Celebrate Valentine's weekend with one of Hollywood's most classic couplings! As Nick and Nora Charles, William Powell and Myrna Loy were the blueprint for delightful, witty rom-coms filled to the brim with chemistry and hijinks. 90th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Joyland
7 pm
Writer-director Saim Sadiq's lush and poignant debut feature explores the emotional intricacies and complexities of navigating love, desire, identity, and sexual rebellion in a repressive society. In 2022, Joyland became the first Pakistani film awarded the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes.
This screening includes An American Ascent
7 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.
This screening includes The Fly
7 pm
Experience the unlikely romance of David Cronenberg's classic film. Special Valentine's Day screening!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes After Yang
7 pm
In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down. A Q&A with author Alexander Weinstein will follow the screening.
This screening includes Anatomy of a Fall
7 pm
A gripping courtroom drama that meticulously dissects and deconstructs a fraught marriage layer by layer, creating an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of a conflicted relationship. Winner of the 2023 Palme d'Or.
This screening includes When Evil Lurks/Cuando acecha la maldad
10 pm
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in spreading the chaos.
This screening includes Go, Man, Go!
4 pm
James Wong Howe's rarely screened directorial debut feature film showcases the story of Abe Saperstein and the founding of the Harlem Globetrotters. Nominated for AFI's "100 Years, 100 Cheers" film list. 70th anniversary screening!
This screening includes Anatomy of a Fall
7 pm
A gripping courtroom drama that meticulously dissects and deconstructs a fraught marriage layer by layer, creating an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of a conflicted relationship. Winner of the 2023 Palme d'Or.
This screening includes Beyond Walls Shorts Program
7 pm
A collection of documentary shorts chronicling efforts toward prison abolition in the United States. Q&A to follow.
Just Announced, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
7 pm
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18 ½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
This screening includes Portrait of a Lady on Fire
7 pm
Céline Sciamma's mesmerizing historical drama follows the slowly simmering love affair of two women from distant worlds. Winner of the Queer Palm and Best Screenplay Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and voted one of the greatest films of all time in Sight & Sound's 2022 critics' poll.
New 2K Restoration
This screening includes Double Indemnity
7 pm
The iconic film noir and its story of fraud, suspicion, and double-dealings celebrates its 80th anniversary.
This screening includes Passages
10 pm
Elevated by a remarkable Franz Rogowski performance, Passages adds another smart, deeply humanistic film to director/co-writer Ira Sachs' estimable filmography.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Reimagining Safety
4 pm
This vital documentary explores the impacts of modern policing and incarceration in the U.S., while also examining the work of balancing safety with sustainability and equity. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Body Heat
7 pm
The unofficial remake of the noir classic Double Indemnity finds Kathleen Turner—in her big screen debut—seducing a seedy lawyer with the hidden agenda of having him kill her rich husband. Q&A on intimacy coordination in film to follow.
This screening includes Tori and Lokita + Terra Mater
7 pm
The Dardenne brothers return with one of the most acclaimed films of the year, a tale of exile, loss, and the unbreakable power of chosen family. Preceded by a Rwandan short that looks for spaces of healing in a world defined by waste. Q&A to follow!
This screening includes Woman in Motion
7 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 Little Women
7 pm
One of the great adaptations of Louisa May Alcott's novel featuring a who's who of actresses.
This screening includes Dicks: The Musical
10 pm
An uproarious musical-comedy riff on The Parent Trap that follows a pair of identical twins who conspire to reunite their divorced and disturbingly deranged parents. Winner of TIFF's People's Choice Midnight Madness Award.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes All That Breathes
4 pm
Join us for an afternoon of wildlife encounters onscreen and off! Bloomington's own WildCare Inc. will kick off the preshow with a special feathered friend (or two) ahead of a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes with Q&A to follow!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Little Women
7 pm
Greta Gerwig's Oscar-winning adaptation of the literary masterpiece, featuring an incredibly stacked cast. Q&A on the role of ensemble casting to follow.
This screening includes Romeo & Juliet
1 pm
This first-of-its-kind original film production from the National Theatre stars Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor as Juliet and Romeo in Shakespeare's tragic tale of star-crossed young lovers.
This screening includes Marat/Sade
7 pm
In an asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean-Paul Marat's last days through a theater play where the actors are the patients.
Just Announced
This screening includes The Zone of Interest
7 pm
Jonathan Glazer's Oscar-nominated portrait of the seemingly mundane life of a family whose complicity in the Holocaust reveals an unsettling brutality.
This screening includes CamperForce + Nomadland
7 pm
From award-winning documentarian Brett Story and Oscar-winner Chloe Zhao come two stories of the human toll of society's obsession with convenience.
Just Announced, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Girl in the Yellow Scarf
7 pm
An essential documentary that takes viewers beyond the headlines and inside the drama of one of Indiana's most notorious Civil Rights-era murders with exclusive eyewitness accounts, case documents, and historical perspectives. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
This screening includes The Mahabharata
7 pm
A captivating adaptation of the Hindu epic as imagined by award-winning director Peter Brook.
This screening includes Otherness: The Films of Priyanka Das
7 pm
Director Priyanka Das will re-familiarize you with the experience of otherness, her films stunning visual journeys in search of a definition of oneself among others.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Hottest August
7 pm
Named one of the best films of 2019, The Hottest August is a film about climate change disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
4 pm
With its vignettes of communities desperate for prison jobs, people paying huge fines for minor offenses, and more, Brett Story's film weaves a portrait of a culture where jail is part of daily life. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Brett Story
7 pm
A conversation with award-winning documentarian Brett Story.
This screening includes Lord of the Flies
7 pm
When a group of schoolboys are marooned on a desert island, anarchy abounds as the thin veneer of "civilization" quickly erodes.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
7 pm
Told through intimate interviews, archival footage, and diary excerpts, discover the incredible and forgotten history of Yugoslav cameraman Stevan Labudović's mission to make films to support the Algerian anti-colonial effort and counter French propaganda in the 1960s. Q&A with filmmaker Mila Turajlić to follow.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Between the Rains
7 pm
With unprecedented access to the Turkana people, this moving and stunningly photographed coming-of-age story reveals the grave threats facing one of the world's oldest communities. Q&A with filmmaker Andrew H. Brown to follow.
4 pm
A poetic and unflinching cinematic memoir in which a young Afro-Latina stares down historical, societal, and generational trauma. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes The Taste of Mango
7 pm
In this cinematic love letter flowing through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family's unspoken past. Q&A to follow.
Just Announced
This screening includes Harold and Maude
7 pm
A special screening in celebration of Peter LoPilato, Harold and Maude is Hal Ashby's classic black rom-com about two unlikely people coming together just when they need it most.
7 pm
A breathtaking documentary that serves as both a poignant exploration of one family's pain and a thoughtful indictment of the prison-industrial complex. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Pitch Black
7 pm
Get in the mood for the April 8 total solar eclipse with our special First Thursdays screening of this eclipse-centric 2000 sci-fi classic!
Standby Only, World Premiere, Live Music Event
This screening includes Double Exposure 2024
7 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be a standby line for this sold-out screening. 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.
Sold Out, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
8 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be no standby line for this sold-out screening. The definitive documentary about cultural icon William Shatner, with director Alexandre O. Philippe and star William Shatner in person.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Thomas Antonic
4 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
7 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!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
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!
This screening includes The Muppets
7 pm
The Muppets' biggest fan reunites the gang to save their theater in this heartwarming family classic.
This screening includes All That Jazz
4 pm
Musing on his own obsessions with sex, pills, art, and death, Bob Fosse's sublime musical goes beyond the razzle dazzle of show business to spectacular effect. 45th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Robby Müller: Living the Light
7 pm
Intertwining archival material with excerpts of his oeuvre, this extraordinary film essay about cinematographer Robby Müller exemplifies why his groundbreaking work has inspired generations.
Standby Only, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
7 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be a standby line for this sold-out screening. Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic Hoosier football story with a brand-new Director's Cut with director David Anspaugh, writer Angelo Pizzo, and subject Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger in person!
This screening includes The Greenest Building
7 pm
Is demolition in the name of sustainability really the best use of natural, social, and economic resources? Or is it resulting in devastating environmental and cultural consequences? Q&A to follow.
New 2K Restoration
This screening includes Reefer Madness
4 pm
Becoming an ironic cult hit in the '70s, this 1936 camp classic hysterically warns the public of the horrors of marijuana and is an early example of the exploitation genre.
New 4K Restoration, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes A Question of Color
7 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 The Exiles
7 pm
Revisiting her unfinished documentary about the exiled leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, filmmaker Christine Choy reckons with the legacy of that moment in China's history. Virtual Q&A with Choy to follow.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Christine Choy
6 pm
An evening with acclaimed director Christine Choy, one of the first major Chinese American woman filmmakers.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Who Killed Vincent Chin?
8 pm
An Oscar-nominated documentary chronicling the web of racism, capitalism, violence, and civil rights that lie at the heart of one family's search for justice. Virtual Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
Student Showcase
This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2024
7 pm
New work from IU student filmmakers!
New 4K Restoration
4 pm
Creating brilliance out of its simple premise, this early Spielberg thriller heralded the arrival of a filmmaking giant.
Just Announced
This screening includes Is There Anybody Out There?
7 pm
This Accessibility Awareness Month, follow filmmaker Ella Glendining as she explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as a disabled person in a non-disabled world. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
12 pm
Two teens go on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after receiving a time machine. 35th anniversary screening!
1:40 pm
Pop quiz, hotshot: what happens when you combine Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and a bomb on a bus? An iconic action classic, of course! 30th anniversary screening.
This screening includes The Lake House
3:40 pm
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock reunite in this romantic drama about two people who exchange letters despite living two years apart.
This screening includes Point Break
5:25 pm
The human spirit is very much alive in Kathryn Bigelow's absurdly thrilling and thrillingly absurd film about an undercover F.B.I. agent pursuing a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
This screening includes Bram Stoker's Dracula
7:35 pm
Francis Ford Coppola sinks his teeth into Stoker’s immortal tale, crafting a lavish and operatic spectacle unlike any Dracula adaptation you’ve ever seen.
This screening includes John Wick
9:45 pm
The bruising, stylish revenge flick that kicked off the sleekly violent franchise. 10th anniversary screening!
This screening includes The Virgin Suicides
7 pm
The Lisbon sisters and their burgeoning womanhood are bursting at the seams in Sofia Coppola's confident and captivating directorial debut. 25th anniversary screening.
This screening includes The Night of the Hunter
4 pm
Led by the sinister Robert Mitchum, this masterwork is a dark fairy tale mixed with eerie expressionist cinematography, creating the ultimate battle between good and evil.
This screening includes The Talented Mr. Ripley
7 pm
With Hitchcockian suspense, impossibly gorgeous aesthetics, and an unsettling performance from Matt Damon, this adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famous novel is a thriller you won't forget. 25th anniversary screening.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes The Rules of the Game/La règle du jeu
4 pm
A new 4K restoration of one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's classic is a scathing critique of the discreet lack of charm in the bourgeoisie. 85th anniversary screening.
This screening includes 10 Things I Hate About You
7 pm
If you don't fall in love with the unlikely (albeit predictable) pairing of Patrick Verona and Kat Stratford, well then, Shakespeare and IU Cinema may not be exactly for you. 25th anniversary screening.
This screening includes V for Vendetta
7 pm
What fresh dystopian hell is this? "Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot."
This screening includes O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4 pm
Set in Depression-era rural Mississippi, the Coen Brothers deftly create a world unto itself in this clever adaptation of Homer's epic The Odyssey, replete with escaped convicts, hidden treasure, a one-eyed Bible salesman, sirens, cyclops, and a kick-ass soundtrack.
This screening includes Brazil
7 pm
Can the corruptions and absurdities of the contemporary world and its contemptible and mind-numbing bureaucracies be ameliorated through a rich fantasy life? Sam Lowry sure as hell hopes so.
This screening includes Rio Bravo
4 pm
Howard Hawks helms one of the greatest Westerns of all time, featuring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, and Angie Dickinson. 65th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Magnolia
7 pm
One day’s sprawling network of chance encounters and coincidences bring life-changing results in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ambitious and enigmatic work on human connection. 25th anniversary screening.
6 pm
A fascinating meditation on the multifaceted persona of celebrity chef, author, and activist Padma Lakshmi.
This screening includes Joy Ride
10 pm
One of the funniest movies of 2023 hits our screen as four friends travel through China on a truly wild trip complete with NBA stars, K-Pop hits, smugglers, shots, and deeply felt heart and friendship.
This screening includes AfroFeminist Futures at the End of the Anthropocene
6:30 pm
Join scholar Moya Bailey as she contemplates the state of humanity with a planet that is in crisis.
This screening includes All About My Mother/Todo sobre mi madre
7 pm
Pedro Almodóvar's poignant melodramatic masterpiece on unconditional love, survival, and redemption, overflowing with riveting performances and unforgettable characters. 25th anniversary screening.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Chungking Express/Chung Hing sam lam
4 pm
The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of '90s cinema and the film that made director Wong Kar-Wai an instant icon. 30th anniversary screening.
This screening includes IU Cinema Open House
3:30 pm
Discover all that your neighborhood movie theater has to offer at the IU Cinema Open House with swag, treats, games, and more!
This screening includes Mad Max: Fury Road
7 pm
The exhilarating, award-winning, post-apocalyptic enviro-action film is back on the big screen AND IN 3D! What a lovely day.
This screening includes Volunteer Callout Meeting
4 pm
Learn about volunteering for IU Cinema, where you'll meet great friends and watch free movies! What more could you ask for?
Sold Out, Producer Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Batman
7 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be no standby line for this sold-out screening. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of Batman, the film that kickstarted one of the most successful and acclaimed franchises to date. Q&A with producer Michael Uslan to follow!
This screening includes Dumb Money
7 pm
A crowd-pleasing dramatization of real-life stock hijinks featuring Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Nick Offerman, America Ferrera, Seth Rogen, and more in its stacked cast. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
7 pm
John le Carré's precise and ruthless Cold War thriller adapted into one of the most compelling and hard-edged spy epics there is.
This screening includes Love Lies Bleeding
7 pm
Lust, love, and violence form a perfect concentric circle in this gripping neo-noir from Rose Glass, with searing turns by Kristen Stewart and Ed Harris and a knockout debut by newcomer (and IU alumna!) Katy O'Brian.
This screening includes His Girl Friday
4 pm
All bets are off in Howard Hawks’ wily, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy as newspaper editor Cary Grant creates all sorts of chaos to entice his star reporter and ex-wife Rosalind Russell back into his life.
This screening includes Love Lies Bleeding
7 pm
Lust, love, and violence form a perfect concentric circle in this gripping neo-noir from Rose Glass, with searing turns by Kristen Stewart and Ed Harris and a knockout debut by newcomer (and IU alumna!) Katy O'Brian.
Just Announced
This screening includes CatVideoFest 2024
1 pm
Watch the best cat videos the internet has to offer and support the Monroe County Humane Association!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Runner
7 pm
An award-winning story of human connection told with melancholic lyricism and moodily filmed in Indiana. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
This screening includes The Russia House
7 pm
Intrigue abounds when a British publisher, a mysterious woman, and a manuscript containing nuclear secrets collide in Cold War-era Moscow.
This screening includes The Eternal Memory/La memoria infinita
7 pm
An uplifting yet heartbreaking love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond. 2024 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
This screening includes To Catch a Thief
4 pm
Transport yourself to Alfred Hitchcock’s French Riviera, where the views are gorgeous, the people look like Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, and the wealthy are targets for a clever jewel thief. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes The Eternal Memory/La memoria infinita
7 pm
An uplifting yet heartbreaking love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond. 2024 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
This screening includes Driven to Abstraction
1 pm
In this documentary thriller, follow a twisting investigation of the art world's greatest scandal of the 21st century.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Around the World in 4 Days
7 pm
Go behind the scenes and on the stage of the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival with this endearing snapshot of the Bloomington mainstay. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
This screening includes The Constant Gardener
7 pm
A widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.
This screening includes I Saw the TV Glow
7 pm
Blurring even further the faded, wispy lines separating real life and screen life in today's culture, Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature will practically force you to yearn for an immediate re-watch. Good thing we're screening it twice!
This screening includes Charade
4 pm
Often called “the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made,” Stanley Donen’s stylish romantic thriller offers unexpected twists, cozy ‘60s aesthetics, and the heaven-sent duo of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes I Saw the TV Glow
7 pm
Blurring even further the faded, wispy lines separating real life and screen life in today's culture, Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature will practically force you to yearn for an immediate re-watch. Good thing we're screening it twice!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The 24th
7 pm
The compelling—and timely—true story of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment and the struggles they faced that led to the Houston Riot of 1917. Q&A with filmmaker Kevin Willmott to follow.
This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Kevin Willmott
4 pm
A conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter, producer, and director Kevin Willmott.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes BlacKkKlansman
7 pm
Told with Spike Lee's trademark verve and humor, this surprisingly true story of a Black police officer's undercover operation within the KKK is an outrageous and biting indictment of American racism. Q&A with the film's co-writer Kevin Willmott to follow.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Black God, White Devil
7 pm
Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, this film is one of the Cinema Novo movement's most uncompromising statements on current social issues and the universal problem of mindless fanaticism. 60th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Hundreds of Beavers
7:30 pm
Join us at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater for this riotous slapstick epic about the frostbitten battle between one man and the diabolical beavers who stand between him and survival.
This screening includes The Others
10 pm
Supernatural shivers and twisty turns abound in Alejandro Amenábar's stylish and atmospheric Gothic horror.
This screening includes Bringing Up Baby
4 pm
Love and lunacy abound as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant pratfall their way in and out of shenanigans in Howard Hawks’ beloved screwball comedy.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Black God, White Devil
7 pm
Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, this film is one of the Cinema Novo movement's most uncompromising statements on current social issues and the universal problem of mindless fanaticism. 60th anniversary screening.
New 2K Restoration
This screening includes Pandora's Box/Die Büchse der Pandora
1 pm
Celebrate Silent Movie Day with the incomparable Louise Brooks in her most famous role in G.W. Pabst's classic tale of naiveté, lust, and violence. 95th anniversary screening.
Just Announced
This screening includes Creative Collaborations Meet & Mix
5:30 pm
Join us for this Meet & Mix to discover more about how our Creative Collaborations program works, meet potential programming partners & enjoy tasty hors d’oeuvres at The Vault Pub! Space limited, R.S.V.P. required.
This screening includes The Big Short
7 pm
Three separate but parallel stories are told in this scathingly funny and Oscar-winning explanation of the U.S. mortgage housing crisis of 2007. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Sugarcane
7 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.
7 pm
Violence surrounds a slain cartel gunman's son during each stage of his life in this compelling and visceral coming-of-age story. Winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.
This screening includes The Brood
10 pm
A singular, nightmarish vision of fractured family relationships that could only come from the mind of master filmmaker David Cronenberg. 45th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Children's Film Festival Seattle 2024: Best of the Fest Animation Showcase
4 pm
Embark on an adventure around the world with the Children's Film Festival Seattle's Best of Fest showcase of delightful animated short films from each corner of the globe.
7 pm
Violence surrounds a slain cartel gunman's son during each stage of his life in this compelling and visceral coming-of-age story. Winner of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.
This screening includes Gladiator
1 pm
Ridley Scott's sword-and-sandal epic serves up riveting action, intense drama, and a star-making turn from Russell Crowe that will leave you plenty entertained.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes 20 Days in Mariupol
7 pm
Winner of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, 20 Days in Mariupol offers a grueling but vital look at the devastating impact of war. Q&A to follow.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Newsreel: A Polyphonic History of 1968
7 pm
A selection of work from the legendary Newsreel collective, a national political network and infrastructure of radical media, revolutionary life, and full-time protest that was embedded in the most insurrectionary trends of its time. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Newsreel: Documenting a Movement and Its Cinema
4 pm
A discussion with filmmakers, scholars, and activists Matt Peterson and Giulia Gabrielli about their work to document, archive, and advance the legacy of the legendary Newsreel collective.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes In the Mouth of Madness
7 pm
The Weird Studies podcast is back with horror godfather John Carpenter's wild and beloved cult classic of nightmarish (and bloody) literary inspiration. 30th anniversary screening.
This screening includes High Fidelity
7 pm
What came first, the music or the misery? That's the question music-obsessed record-store owner Rob Gordon wonders as he excavates his past romances after his latest break-up.
This screening includes The Lunchbox
7 pm
Warm, affectionate, and sweet, The Lunchbox is a clever crowd-pleaser starring cinematic treasure Irrfan Khan. Q&A to follow.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Food, Inc. 2
7 pm
In this sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our vulnerable food system. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Mother/Madeo
7 pm
Straddling family drama, horror, and comedy, this Bong Joon-ho stunner boasts a deft grasp of tone and plenty of eerie visuals. 15th anniversary screening.
This screening includes L.A. Confidential
7 pm
Curtis Hanson's searing neo-noir tackles police corruption, the dark underbelly of Classic Hollywood, and the fight for the soul of the City of Angels alongside star-making performances from a stellar ensemble cast.
This screening includes Oddity
10 pm
A brutal murder, a nearby asylum, a wooden man, a vengeful medium, and an isolated Irish farmhouse combine in one of the most unexpected—and scariest—horror films of 2024.
Live Music Event
This screening includes L'Inferno
7 pm
Indie chamber music group Montopolis returns to IU Cinema with their frighteningly unique score for what has been called cinema's first feature-length horror film, a vividly surreal adaptation of Dante's Inferno.
This screening includes This is Not Financial Advice
7 pm
Glauber Contessoto gambled his life savings on a joke cryptocurrency and became "The Dogecoin Millionaire." While it may look easy to get rich online, it’s even easier to lose it all. Q&A to follow. IU Cinema celebrates National First-Generation College Students and National Transfer Student Week!
This screening includes The Cost of Convenience
7 pm
Every day, billions of people use internet platforms under the false pretense that they are free, but what does it really mean to live a life this "connected?" Join us for this U.S. Media Literacy Week screening to explore and highlight the power of media literacy education and its essential role in education all across the country. IU Cinema celebrates National First-Generation College Students and National Transfer Student Week!
This screening includes The Nice Guys
7 pm
Simply the best "1970s buddy cop-neo-noir-comedy-starring-Ryan Gosling-and-Russell Crowe-that-is-beloved-by-cinephiles-critics-and-the-internet-alike" there is.
This screening includes Train to Busan/Busanhaeng
10 pm
It's a non-stop, high-octane, and totally wild fight for survival for the passengers on a train from Seoul to Busan once a zombie outbreak takes over South Korea.
This screening includes The Fast and the Furious
12 pm
They've got the adrenaline, the wheels, and the extreme need for speed. Relive the unforgettable Dom and Brian meet-cute that changed the streets of the world forever!
This screening includes 2 Fast 2 Furious
2 pm
The thrill ride that began with The Fast and the Furious takes an explosive new turn in 2 Fast 2 Furious! It's the nitro-fueled answer to the question "How fast do you like it?"
This screening includes The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
4 pm
Justin Lin supercharges the Fast films in his first of five directorial stints for the franchise, creating a beloved entry in the series with the introduction of fan-favorite character Han. You drift? You will after this one!
This screening includes Fast & Furious
6 pm
Reunited and it feels so good! Dom and Brian (and the family!) team up once again to do things in and to cars literally no one else should never, ever, ever try to do at home.
This screening includes Fast Five
8 pm
The fifth installment of the franchise trades L.A. for Brazil as the Fast films burst through as a staple on the global blockbuster market. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson joins the party, and the sumbitch brings the law along.
This screening includes Fast & Furious 6
12 pm
FF6 transforms our favorite street racers into bona fide international superspies, complete with flying cars, intricate fight scenes on moving vehicles, and more buddy-cop banter and bad guys than you can shake a racing flag at.
This screening includes Furious 7
2:20 pm
Hunted by their biggest baddie bent on revenge yet, Dom and crew fight to keep the family together in an in-your-face assault of awesomeness.
This screening includes The Fate of the Furious
4:50 pm
Anarchist cyber-baddy Cipher (Charlize Theron) amps up the bad-guy energy and pulls Dom and crew back into globe-trotting criminal chaos, all in the name of, you guessed it, Family.
This screening includes F9: The Fast Saga
7:20 pm
Ooooh! Back story! No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past.
This screening includes Fast X
9:50 pm
Legacy is everything in this penultimate installment of the Fast franchise, which starts at 11 and never lets off the pedal.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes A Conversation with David Ehrlich
7 pm
Join influential and award-winning film critic David Ehrlich for a frank and wide-ranging conversation on all things blockbusters, including the impact of blockbuster filmmaking on independent film, film criticism, audience culture, moviegoing, and more.
This screening includes The Raid: Redemption/Serbuan maut
7 pm
This acclaimed film brings breathtaking and relentless action to the big screen with expert pacing and editing—it's maximum entertainment that will make you ask, "How'd they do that?!"
This screening includes Keynote: "'Say His Name:' Blackbusters in a Post-DEI World"
4 pm
Join us for this insightful deep dive into the world of Black horror.
This screening includes Candyman
7 pm
An incisive, visually thrilling approach to the horrors of gentrification and the deep scars of the past combined with the chills that come from the minds of director Nia DaCosta and producer Jordan Peele.
7 pm
It's a Found Footage Freakout Double Feature with one of this year's best new horror films and a classic that helped start it all.
This screening includes Tootsie
4 pm
An unemployed actor masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role in this classic comedy that was nominated for nine Academy Awards.
This screening includes Taboo and Transgression
7 pm
Unapologetically sensual, explicit, and controversial, this program features an incendiary short by provocateur Nick Zedd and a long-lost film about forbidden desire and sexuality from Charles Henri Ford.
This screening includes Creative Collaborations Q&A and Prep Session
2 pm
Register for this informal Q&A to learn more about IU Cinema’s Creative Collaborations program and come prepared with questions about applying!
This screening includes Long Shot
7 pm
When journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush Charlotte Field as she prepares to run for president, Charlotte hires him as her speechwriter and sparks fly in this clever and unexpected rom-com.
This screening includes Death Becomes Her
7 pm
Age—and death—are no match for science, dedication, and concealer in this cult camp classic starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis.
This screening includes The Long Goodbye
7 pm
Robert Altman's idiosyncratic film ranks among the smartest and most satisfying Marlowe mysteries, complete with a compelling lead performance from Elliott Gould.
World Premiere, Live Music Event
This screening includes Queen Kelly
7 pm
Known for its storied production history and subsequent appearance in Sunset Boulevard, experience Erich von Stroheim's infamous, decadent melodrama starring Gloria Swanson and accompanied by the world premiere of a new and original score. 95th anniversary screening.
This screening includes The Great Indian Kitchen
7 pm
A woman's life is turned upside-down as she struggles to be the submissive wife that her new husband and his family expect her to be. Q&A to follow.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7 pm
He said he'd be back! While John Connor may be the future leader of the Resistance, he isn't getting anywhere without his mom Sarah.
This screening includes Inherent Vice
7 pm
Stoner hippie and private detective Doc Sportello gets wrapped up in 1970s Los Angeles’ criminal underworld while investigating the disappearance of a former girlfriend. 10th anniversary screening.
10 pm
One mobster, two secret lovers, and millions of dollars ratchet up the drama in the Wachowskis' stylish, twisty neo-noir.
Just Announced, 4K Restoration
This screening includes The Third Man
4 pm
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Carol Reed, Robert Krasker, and Graham Greene combine talents to create one of the finest films ever made, back in theaters as a 4K restoration in honor of its 75th anniversary.
This screening includes Catechism-ically Flawed
7 pm
A blend of impressionistic camerawork, sumptuous cinematography, and deeply felt examinations of queerness, this program of films by Su Friedrich and Paula Gauthier is an intimate study of sexual expression and repression.
This screening includes Ravening/Aamis
7 pm
A lonely, married woman bonds with a younger man over their shared love of unusual foods, but as their excursions become more adventurous, their relationship takes a dark turn. Q&A to follow.
Just Announced, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes All the President's Men
7 pm
The enthralling true story of how journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward exposed one of the biggest political scandals in American history. Q&A with Carl Bernstein to follow.
This screening includes Grease 2
7 pm
Is Grease 2 the most controversial pick in our sequels series? Yes. Do we have any qualms about it? Absolutely not. Stephanie Zinone is a feminist icon; no questions will be taken at this time.
This screening includes The Handmaiden/Ah-ga-ssi
7 pm
Class politics, sex, and power intwine in acclaimed director Park Chan-wook's hyper-stylish psychological thriller.
This screening includes My Own Private Idaho
7 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.
Just Announced, Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Mountains
7 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 Magic Mike XXL
7 pm
Look, Steven Soderbergh started it; we're merely doing the important work of rightly honoring the second chapter of an enduring cinematic legacy.
This screening includes Paddington 2
4 pm
Be a bear. Do crimes.
Just Announced, New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Paris, Texas
7 pm
40th anniversary screening of New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders’ profoundly moving character study presented as a new 4K restoration.
1 pm
Andrew Scott stuns in this one-man retelling of Chekhov’s classic black comedy Uncle Vanya.
Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes All Static & Noise
7 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.
This screening includes The Godfather Part II
7 pm
One of the best films—let alone sequels—of all time, full stop. 50th anniversary screening.
7 pm
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, Carol follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York.
This screening includes The Nightmare Before Christmas
10 pm
"This looks like fun, this looks like fun, oh, could it be I got my wish?" If your holiday wish was to see Tim Burton's ghoulishly delightful Christmas classic on our big screen, then YES, yes indeed!
Just Announced
7 pm
Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner at Cannes, Anora is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern-day Cinderella story.
Just Announced
This screening includes Twilight
12 pm
What in the Forks is going on with these Cullens? See the 2008 film that started it all!
Just Announced
This screening includes The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2:15 pm
Bring on The Wolf Pack!
Just Announced
This screening includes The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
4:45 pm
Bella, you in danger, girl.
Just Announced
This screening includes The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
7 pm
Rosemary's Baby's got nothing on Renesmee.
Just Announced
This screening includes The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
9:30 pm
All hell breaks loose! The vampire wars have truly begun! Cullens vs. Volturi: who do you think will spider-monkey their way to the top?
Standby Only
7 pm
40th anniversary screening. Was it Miss Scarlet with the candlestick in the library? Or Prof. Plum with the knife in the conservatory? There's only one way to find out: by catching this beloved classic on the big screen! Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Pacific Rim in 3D
7 pm
Beloved director Guillermo del Toro crafts the ultimate conundrum: a heartfelt story of friendship and loyalty combined with killer kaiju-on-mega robot showdowns—IN 3D!
This screening includes Green Border
7 pm
An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis at the Belarus-European Union border, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multiple perspectives. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
This screening includes Nosferatu
7 pm
Surrender to the darkness.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes The Fall
10 pm
A transcendent visual experience unlike anything you've experienced before combines with a timeless talk about the power of storytelling in this stunning 4K restoration of a hidden cinematic gem.
This screening includes Green Border
4 pm
An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis at the Belarus-European Union border, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multiple perspectives. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
This screening includes Juliet of the Spirits/Giulietta degli spiriti
7 pm
Fellini's symbolic, surreal, and opulent take on the culture of the swinging 1960s by way of the director's favorite preoccupations: sex and love, life and death, and fantasy and reality. 60th anniversary screening.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Flowers of Ukraine
7 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 Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Zurawski v. Texas
7 pm
The true story of a group of women—led by IU alum Amanda Zurawski—who took on the State of Texas in a fight for their lives and their human rights. Q&A with Zurawski to follow!
This screening includes The Seed of the Sacred Fig
7 pm
Shot entirely in secret, The Seed of the Sacred Fig deconstructs the rampant injustice, misogyny, and paranoia of living in the totalitarian religious patriarchy of Iran. Winner of a Jury Special Prize and FIPRESCI Award at Cannes Film Festival.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Flesh for Frankenstein
7 pm
Filmmaker Paul Morrissey's fleshy, flashy, and over-the-top cult film is among the most original and transgressive interpretations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
This screening includes The Substance
10 pm
The Cannes winner for Best Screenplay that shook audiences to their core with its uncompromising vision and biting satire that asks: have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?
This screening includes The Seed of the Sacred Fig
4 pm
Shot entirely in secret, The Seed of the Sacred Fig deconstructs the rampant injustice, misogyny, and paranoia of living in the totalitarian religious patriarchy of Iran. Winner of a Jury Special Prize and FIPRESCI Award at Cannes Film Festival.
This screening includes Satyricon/Fellini-Satyricon
7 pm
Rome: before Christ, after Fellini. The Italian master's series of first-century mythical tales.
This screening includes Mami Wata
7 pm
When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land. Q&A to follow!
7 pm
Academy Award-winning writer/director Andrea Arnold returns to the big screen with a magical and dizzying coming-of-age tale.
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.
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!
4 pm
Academy Award-winning writer/director Andrea Arnold returns to the big screen with a magical and dizzying coming-of-age tale.
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.
Just Announced
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just Announced
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Producer Scheduled to Appear
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!
Just Announced
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.
Just Announced
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Standby Only
7 pm
SOLD OUT—STANDBY ONLY. Join filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe and actor/comedian Patton Oswalt for a wide-ranging conversation on art, influence, and the inescapable power of film.
Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
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.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
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!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
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!
2K Restoration
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.
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.
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.
Just Announced
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This screening includes Mambar Pierrette
7 pm
A graceful, neorealist portrait of a Cameroonian seamstress and the rich community that surrounds her.
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.
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.
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.
Just Announced, New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Ghost in the Shell/Kôkaku Kidôta
7 pm
Cyborg super agent Major Motoko Kusanagi reporting for duty! Charged with rooting out dangerous "ghost hackers" to prevent a criminal cyber takeover, can Kusanagi and her elite team track down the Puppet Master and save the day? 30th anniversary screening.
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.
World Premiere, Student Showcase
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.
Just Announced
This screening includes We Want the Funk!
1 pm
A delightful journey through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
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.
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.
This screening includes AAPI Movement Short Film Festival
7 pm
Showcasing the Asian American and Pacific Islander community through film.
This screening includes Monsters
7 pm
The feature debut of Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla, and the upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth) and one of the best low-budget sci-fi films of the millennium. 15th anniversary screening.
Just Announced
This screening includes Nickel Boys
7 pm
This stunningly inventive Best Picture Oscar nominee, adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is hands down one of the best films you'll see all year.
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.
Student Showcase
This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2025
7 pm
Catch the latest and greatest new work from IU student filmmakers.
Just Announced
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.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
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!
Just Announced, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes One Day in April
7 pm
A chronicle of the triumphs and failures of four teams competing to win the Little 500, this documentary is a bittersweet portrait of life in the Midwest and the drama from training through race day. Q&A with the director to follow!
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.
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This screening includes I'm Still Here/Ainda Estou Aqui
7 pm
Walter Salles' history-making Oscar winner makes its Bloomington debut with a powerhouse performance by Fernanda Torres and a gripping story of the search for justice under dictatorship.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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This screening includes Children of Men
7 pm
No children. No future. No hope. In the year 2027, 18 years since the last baby was born, Clive Owen is in a race against time to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for.
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This screening includes 2025 New York Dog Film Festival
4 pm
A collection of short films celebrating the love between dogs, their people, and the animal welfare groups that bring them together.
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This screening includes The Shrouds
7 pm
The latest from master David Cronenberg takes his study of techno-body horror one step beyond: into the grave.
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.
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.
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.
