Country: Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark Language: ArabicA young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite. Best Screenplay, 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: United States Language: EnglishSave your family or save humanity. Make the choice. While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.
Country: Iran Language: Persian, AzerbaijaniIn his new virtuosic sleight-of-hand — completed shortly before his imprisonment in July 2022 — Jafar Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, who has relocated to a rural border town in Iran to remotely direct a new film in nearby Turkey. While there, he finds himself thrust in the middle of a local scandal, confronting the opposing pulls of tradition and progress. Special Jury Prize winner, 2022 Venice Film Festival.
Country: Germany, United States, United Kingdom Language: German, FrenchWhen 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches. The first-ever German adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war classic. Received nine nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won four: Best International Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design.
Country: United States Language: EnglishYears after a lottery win, a West Texas single mother is alone, living hard at the bottom of a bottle. Nowhere left to go, she is forced to come home and confront her past. Official Selection, 2022 South by Southwest Film Festival. Nominated for Best Actress (Andrea Riseborough) at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: United States Language: EngilshWomen in an isolated religious community struggle to reconcile with their faith after a series of sexual assaults. Official Selection, 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: United States Language: EnglishSet in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. World Premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival where Cate Blanchett was awarded Best Actress. Received six nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress (Cate Blanchett).
Country: South Korea Language: Korean, ChineseThe closer you look, the harder you fall. A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains becomes attracted to the dead man’s mysterious wife. Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: United States Language: EnglishThe breaking story about the real impact of a long-ignored epidemic. A diagnosis of Chronic Lyme disease lands patients in the middle of a contentious medical debate and sparks an explosive investigation dating back to 1975 that shockingly reveals why ticks, and the diseases they carry, have been allowed to spread globally. Official Selection, 2022 Hot Docs
Country: United Kingdom, Japan Language: EnglishAn ordinary man discovers the extraordinary key to life. A veteran civil servant receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to move to the south coast and cram some fun into his remaining days. World Premiere, 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Nominated for Best Actor (Bill Nighy) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Kazuo Ishiguro) at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Language: EnglishEverything was fine yesterday. On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, events escalate after a lifelong friendship is ended with no explanation. Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Colin Farrell) at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. Received nine nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four acting nominations.
Country: Poland, Italy Language: Polish, Italian, English, FrenchEO, a gray donkey with melancholic eyes and a curious spirit, begins his life as a circus performer before escaping on a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside in a journey marked by absurdity and warmth in equal measure. Jury Prize winner, 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: United States, Canada Language: English, NorwegianThe first installment in John Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy” Man is The Warmest Place to Hide. Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims.
Country: Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, Greece Language: EnglishModels Carl and Yaya are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery of super-rich passengers. At first, all appears Instagrammable, but the cruise ends catastrophically and the passengers find themselves marooned on a desert island. Palme d’Or winner, 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Czech Republic Language: IcelandicFriends. Family. Sacrifice. A boy raised by a clairvoyant mother decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. Iceland’s official submission for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: United States Language: EnglishBill O’Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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: West Germany Language: GermanAn obsession gone mad. An essential art-horror experience that goes harder than you’d ever expect it to go. Join us for Fright Club Live on February 10 | Meet up with fellow horror movie lovers in The Torpedo Room and then join us at 9PM for the live recording of the Fright Club podcast hosted by George Wolf and Hope Madden followed by the presentation.
Country: United States Language: EnglishMemory burns. Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a childhood holiday with her father, trying to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t. Jury Prize winner at International Critics’ Week during the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Best Actor (Paul Mescal) at the 95th Academy Awards.
Country: United States Language: EnglishBeing dead is lonely as hell. A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences. Audience Award, 2022 Slamdance Film Festival
Country: China Language: Mandarin, Russian, English, Hindi, FrenchHumans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death. The highly-anticipated prequel to the 2019 Chinese sci-fi phenomenon, The Wandering Earth.
Country: Canada, Hungary, France Language: EnglishFind out what kind of a creature you really are. James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors. World Premiere, 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Country: United Kingdom, United States Language: EnglishBlessed be the curse. After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church’s account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.
Country: Canada Language: EnglishTwo children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished. Official Selection, 2022 Fantasia Film Festival.In partnership with the Greater Columbus Film Commission, Kyle Edward Ball will visit Gateway Film Center on Saturday, March 18, to premiere a 35mm version of his film. Encore 35mm presentation on Saturday, March 25 at 4:00pm.
