Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

The Film Center is proud to partner with National Theatre Live to present world-class performances filmed live on Britain’s most exciting stages. Be one of the first to see The Book of Dust, an imaginative new production set several years before Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass”.

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: English

In 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: United States, France
Language: 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: France, Belgium, Niger
Language: French

Presented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022

With this intimate portrait of a village in the semi-arid plains of northern Niger, internationally acclaimed Senegalese-French actress and activist Aïssa Maïga reveals the devastating effects of global warming on remote populations. A crucially important film about the injustices of climate change, it also raises essential questions about education and the rights of women. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.

Country: United States
Language: English

Cloverfield 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.

Country: France
Language: French, Mandarin, English

Four 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: France
Language: French

Presented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022.

While writer-director Emilie Carpentier captures our attention—and emotions—with a charming tale of first love between two young people from different backgrounds, her real subject here is the dawning of political and social awareness at the cusp of maturity. In capturing Adja’s gradual decision to step up and fight for her future, she pays tribute to the courage of a generation for whom the fight for environmental justice is an urgent matter of survival.

Country: Switzerland
Language: German

A 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.

Country: France, Kosovo
Language: French

Presented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Julien Goudichaud’s short film Confinés dehors/Locked Out.

Though only twenty years old, Bajrami displays a distinctly personal approach to filmmaking, perceptible both in the film’s autobiographical aspects and in her impressionistic manner of accumulating apparently banal moments to catch the fleeting sensations of adolescent rage and hope. Selection of Cannes Film Festival 2021 and TIFF 2021.

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: United States
Language: English

Dangerously 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.