An annual tradition and the official kick-off of the 2022 Awards Season at the Film Center.

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese, English, Korean Sign Language, German, Mandarin, Tagalog, Korean, Indonesian

Nishijima Hidetoshi is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cannes 2021 multi-prize winner received 4 nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Country: United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand
Language: English

A domineering, magnetic rancher responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass.

Jane Campion’s Venice 2021 prize winner received 12 nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Country: United States
Language: English

After 11 years, the Jackass crew is back for their final crusade. Some people never learn.

Country: France, Mexico, Sweden
Language: English, Spanish

A wealthy man attempts to abandon his life while vacationing in Acapulco. Venice 2021

Country: United States
Language: English

The story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s famous visit to Maui, Hawaii in 1970 and the ill-fated LSD-infused movie “Rainbow Bridge”, one of the most controversial independent films ever made. Nominated for Best Music Film at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish

Two women with unplanned pregnancies forge a bond in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Pedro Almodóvar’s 2021 Venice Film Festival selection received nominations for Best Original Score and Best Actress for Penelope Cruz at the 94th Academy Awards.

Country: United States
Language: English

Set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film follows a high school student who is also a successful child actor.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest received 3 nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Country: United States
Language: English

A stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. SXSW 2021 prize winner

Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, United States, Slovenia, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Finland
Language: Danish, English, Dari, Russian, Swedish

Recounted mostly through animation, a man on the verge of marriage opens up about his journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Sundance 2021 winner received 3 nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best International Feature.

Winner of six Academy Awards. Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. Premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. | Country: Canada, Hungary, United States | Language: English

Country: United States
Language: English

An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

We’re thrilled to be among a select number of venues screening this special black-and-white version of Nightmare Alley from Guillermo del Toro.

Country: United States
Language: English

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.

Joel Coen’s 2021 New York Film Festival selection received 3 nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Denzel Washington.

Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

A story of love, laughter and loss through the eyes of a young boy amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s in Northern Ireland.

Kenneth Branagh’s TIFF 2021 prize winner received 7 nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village, but when she enters “U”, a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer. Cannes 2021

Country: United States
Language: English

David Fincher’s second feature film. Two homicide detectives hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the seven deadly sins.