Country: Canada, France, Belgium
Language: English, French

The brief life of a fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted German-Jewish painter growing up in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, United Kingdom, China, Switzerland
Language: English, Spanish

The Film Center is thrilled to present select screenings on 35mm film.

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. Jury Prize Winner at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

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: France
Language: French, English

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s liché-shattering feature debut follows spirited and romantic thirty-something Anaïs in her manic search for stability. World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Country: Iceland, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Language: English

Explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father. A bloody revenge epic and breathtaking visual marvel, The Northman finds celebrated genre filmmaker Robert Eggers expanding his scope without sacrificing any of his signature style.

Country: Canada
Language: English

A dissatisfied woman abandons her career and her family when she gets the chance to compete in a bizarre and dangerously flawed contest. The prize: a brand new habanero-orange compact SUV. World Premiere at the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival.

Country: United States
Language: English

Feature adaptation of the animated short film interviewing a mollusk named Marcel, an anthropomorphic seashell outfitted with a single googly eye and a pair of miniature shoes. Ohio Premiere, 2022 Cinema Columbus. Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.

Country: United States
Language: English

The most Nicolas Cage movie ever. Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters.

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

Directed by veteran animator Takayuki Hirao and produced by brand-new animation studio CLAP, Pompo the Cinephile is a rollicking, exuberant ode to the power of the movies, and the joys and heartbreak of the creative process.

Country: Finland, Sweden
Language: Finnish

12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief. Premiered at Sundance 2022.

Country: United States
Language: English

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields. Audience Award winner at SXSW 2022. Ohio Premiere at the Gateway Film Center as part of Cinema Columbus 2022.

Country: United States
Language: English

Ohio Premiere presented at the Film Center as part of Cinema Columbus 2022, accompanied by short Walls Cannot Keep us From Flying.

This documentary tells the story of one man and the protest that would spark debate across our nation. In 2016 Colin Kaepernick’s unprecedented protests against the National Anthem fueled a debate that has extended all the way to today.

Country: France, Belgium, Monaco
Language: French

Ohio Premiere presented at the Film Center as part of Cinema Columbus 2022.

Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten. Gaspar Noé’s immersive split-screen meditation on mortality follows the last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia. World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game. The writer-director’s haunting debut feature had its World Premiere at Sundance and its Midwest Premiere at Gateway Film Center as part of Nightmares Film Festival 2021. | Country: United States | Language: English