Winner of the Queer Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. On first glance, Leyla and Tristan seem like a happy young couple. But when they travel to a mysterious, remote island, a game of identities begins, which changes everything. | Country: Germany | Language: German with English subtitles

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

Revenge gets ripped. A drifting bodybuilder and a reclusive gym employee fall hard for each other with devastating consequences in Rose Glass’s explosive thriller out of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English

2023 Cannes Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Actor winner. From legendary director Wim Wenders, a sweet slice-of-life drama about a janitor in Tokyo. Nominated for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. | Country: Japan, Germany | Language: Japanese, English

Long live the fighters. The sequel to the Academy Award-winning Dune (2021). | Country: United States, Canada | Language: English

Academy Award winner, Best Adapted Screenplay. TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison’s writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. | Country: United States | Language: English

Bonus content coming March 22! Academy Award winner, Best Animated Feature. A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. Opening film of the 2023 Toronto Film Festival. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

A battle of gigantic proportions looms in the neon underground of New York City. These are the armies of the night, and tonight they are after the Warriors – a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader’s death. Columbus late-night legend, Fritz The Nite Owl hostsThe Warriors (1979). The film will screen, breaking every 20 minutes or so for Fritz’s on screen host segments providing trivia about the making of the film and other fun anecdotes. | Country: United States | Language: English

Seven-time Academy winner, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (Murphy). This is Christopher Nolan’s pulse-pounding story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, filmed in a combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, French

Four-time Academy Award winner, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. She’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. This is the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Winner of two Golden Globes and named Best Film at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. | Country: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | Language: English

World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Film Festival. A father and his teen son contend with a cross-country move and an unexplained epidemic that causes people to mutate into animals. | Country: France, Belgium | Language: French with English subtitles

Academy Award winner, Best International Feature and Best Sound. 2023 Cannes Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Prize winner. The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. | Country: United State, United Kingdom, Poland | Language: German, Polish, Yiddish

Best Director, 2023 Fantastic Fest. A talented stop-motion animator is consumed by the grotesque world of her horrifying creations with deadly results. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English