Join us for a unique public screening discussing the “severance” medical procedure from Apple TV’s hit show Severance, featuring a screening of episode two followed by a presentation from Dr. Vijay Agarwal, neurosurgeon and lead medical consultant on the show. Fans of Severance and science enthusiasts alike won’t want to miss this free screening! Registration is required.

World Premiere, 2024 SXSW. One small ember can burn down everything. In his stunning feature directorial debut, Dev Patel stars as Kid, a young man on a quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to victimize the poor and powerless. | Country: United States, Canada, Singapore, India | Language: English

A prequel to the iconic 1976 classic. A woman’s faith is shaken when she discovers a chilling plot in Rome aimed at bringing forth the embodiment of evil, prompting her to question everything she believes. | Country: United States, Italy | Language: English

World Premiere at SXSW 2024. Welcome to the frontline. An adrenaline-fueled thrill ride through a near-future fractured America balanced on the razor’s edge. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English

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

Official Selection, 2024 Berlin Film Festival. After tracing a strange ailment to a remote gravesite, a team of supernatural experts soon discovers what happens when you mess with the wrong grave. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean with English subtitles

World Premiere, Panic Fest 2024. Your biggest fear just got bigger. After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet—and fight for her family’s survival—when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster. | Country: Australia | Language: English

A cinematic adventure into the heart of the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth. When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Cinema is a record of existence. In this elegiac tribute to the iconic Kim’s Video Store in New York City, what starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection. | Country: United States, Italy | Language: English, Italian, Korean

Brought together one fateful night, Pazu and Sheeta must unlock the mystery of the legendary floating castle. A timeless story of courage and friendship full of high-flying adventure and stunning animation. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

World Premiere, Cannes Film Festival 2023. Set in the 1980s in the clandestine world of the tombaroli, or tomb robbers, La Chimera (2024) tells the story of a young English archaeologist caught up in the illegal trafficking of ancient finds. | Country: Italy, France, Switzerland | Language: Italian, English

New York is a disease. Meet the cure. When the President crash lands on the island of Manhattan, now a maximum security prison, Snake Plissken is sent in to rescue him…or die trying. | Country: United States | Language: English|

Wenders brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in his Cannes Palme d’Or winner, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard. Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family. | Country: West Germany, France | Language: German, English, French, Turkish

HUMP! Film Festival is back with an all-new line-up of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The carefully curated program is a cornucopia of body types, shapes, ages, colors, sexualities, genders, kinks, and fetishes—all united by their common humanity and a shared spirit of playful sex-positivity.

Join us for a happy hour reception in The Festival Lounge followed by a screening and Q&A with director Mickey Keating and producer and star Joe Swanberg. A young woman arrives in the Chicago suburbs and begins to suspect that something terrible has happened to her missing cousin, but soon realizes that her greatest fears don’t even begin to scratch the surface. | Country: United States | Language: English

The lead visual effects artist on Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) makes his directorial debut. Nominated for an audience award at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival, the film follows a father and his twin teenage sons as they fight to survive in a remote farmhouse at the end of the end of the world. | Country: Ireland, United States, Canada | Language: English

When there’s no more room in HELL, the dead will walk the EARTH! For one weekend only, celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the ultimate zombie classic as it was meant to be seen – on the big screen! | Country: United States, Italy | Language: English, Spanish

Cannes Palme d’Or winner. Wenders brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard. In the film, Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family. | Country: West Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, Spanish

Returning to the Film Center on 6/6 at 6pm with prerecorded new content: an intro from star David Dastmalchian and a post-screening discussion between Dastmalchian and Kevin Smith. | A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. World Premiere at SXSW 2023. Winner of Best Screenplay at Sitges Film Festival. | Country: Australia, United States, United Arab Emirates | Language: English

World Premiere, Fantasia Film Festival 2023. A fine artist named Charlie wreaks chaos in his small town when he becomes a warewolf that doesn’t remember the violent crimes he commits. With only papers to report the havoc the next day, the town is in disarray as they try to piece together what or who the culprit is. | Country: United States | Language: English