Country: United States Language: EnglishCloverfield director Matt Reeves crafted an ambitiously grim Batman for our time, with Robert Pattinson as the titular dark detective and Zoë Kravitz as a fierce and focused Selina Kyle. Received three nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
New year, new universe. An aging Chinese immigrant is just trying to finish her taxes. Instead she is continuously swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world. This surreal and exhilarating exploration of identity and existence won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. | Country: United States | Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Country: United States Language: EnglishIn the Nee brothers’ wildly comedic refresh of the genre, a reclusive romance novelist and her cover model are swept up in a cutthroat jungle adventure. World Premiere at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.
Country: France Language: French, Mandarin, EnglishFour young people fall in and out of love while figuring out their lives in Paris. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, based on stories by Adrian Tomine. World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Country: United States, FranceLanguage: American Sign Language, English As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.Siân Heder’s CODA won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the 94th Academy Awards.
Country: FranceLanguage: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Anissa Daoud’s short film Le Bain/The Bath.With this closely observed double portrait of an aging French film star and the young Black woman he hires as his new bodyguard, first-time feature writer-director Constance Meyer breathes new life into the odd couple theme, bearing witness to a passing of the torch from the legendary Gérard Depardieu to the formidable young actress Déborah Lukumuena. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022.The beauty of filmmaker Maxime Roy’s stirring debut resides in the way it dispels this notion of losers and winners without pulling any punches about the difficulties of life on the fringes. The extraordinary performance by lead actor and co-screenwriter François Créton, whose own struggles with addiction inspired the character of Michel, doesn’t leave us any choice but to love him. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Country: Switzerland Language: GermanA few days in the lives of two young people on the verge of change. The Zürcher brothers follow their 2013 fest hit The Strange Little Cat with an emotional tale crafted in their signature cinematic language.
Winner of Best Director at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival.
World Premiere, SXSW 2022. In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives. | Country: United States | Language: English
Country: FranceLanguage: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Moly Kane’s short film Les Tissus Blancs/Sër Bi.Aided by the intimate camera work of cult American cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time) and ebullient performances by two of French cinema’s most engaging young actresses, Souheila Yacoub (Climax) and Déborah Lukumuena (Divines), Volpé gives us a story of death that is bursting with life, a fresh take on the restless nights of Paris, and an ode to the power of female friendship. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Country: United States Language: EnglishDangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease in Marvel’s latest anti-hero story.
