Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular short films.

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: Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark
Language: Norwegian

One woman’s quest for love and meaning in the modern world.

Joachim Trier’s 2021 Cannes prize winner received nominations for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards.

Country: United States
Language: English

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

Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English

A dramatic, musical adaptation of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac. Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.

Joe Wright’s Telluride 2021 selection received a nomination for Best Costume Design at the 94th Academy Awards.

What happens when you invest in the future of fashion? A new documentary from Columbus Fashion Alliance.


Before the premiere, join us for a reception in the Festival Lounge at 12:30pm and a featured exhibit in the Gallery at Gateway Film Center.

Country: United States
Language: English

In the late nineteenth century, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. Sundance 2021

Country: United States
Language: English

Fortune favors the bold.

Country: United States
Language: English

There’s more than one way to lose your life to a killer.

Don’t miss the final Fincher film featured this February at the Film Center.

Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular short films.

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.

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: Butan
Language: Dzongkha

With one year left in his teaching contract, an aspiring musician is transferred to the most remote school in the world.

Pawo Choyning Dorji’s Palm Springs audience award winner received a nomination for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.

Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular short films.

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: 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: Norway
Language: Norwegian

An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.

Country: Unites States
Language: English

In a future where the state monitors and taxes citizens for the contents of their dreams, an unassuming dream auditor stumbles across a chance at love and freedom. Sundance 2021