World Premiere, Overlook Film Festival 2024. After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl. From the directing team behind 2019’s Ready or Not and Scream VI (2023). | Country: United States, Ireland | Language: English

Winner of the Queer Lion at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and North Macedonia’s entry at the 96th Academy Awards. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters in Goran Stolevski’s heartwarming story about an unlikely family’s struggle to stay together. | Country: North Macedonia, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo | Language: Macedonian, Romani, Albanian with English subtitles

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A year in the life of a unique family. This latest feature from festival darlings David & Nathan Zellner captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable. | Country: United States | Language: English

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

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

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

Celebrating extraordinary women and their thrilling adventures. Each year, the selection of unique films is carefully curated to showcase real stories about women-led adventures. Get ready for an unforgettable, adrenaline-fueled showcase of courage and triumph that will ignite your spirit!

World Premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival. This gripping and thought-provoking new documentary from Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald examines the rapid ascent, fall from grace, and journey forward for controversial fashion designer John Galliano. | Country: United Kingdom, United States, France | Language: English, French

World Premiere, 2024 SXSW. In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out her own heart for the man she loves, only to discover that he has run away with it. | Country: Canada | Language: English

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 at SXSW 2023. A poignant exploration of how nature inspires human creativity, The Arc of Oblivion (2024) illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker’s quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine. | Country: United States | Language: English, French

Winner of Un Certain Regard – New Voice Prize at Cannes Film Festival. After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture. | Country: Belgium, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Netherlands, France, Germany, South Africa | Language: French, Swahili, Lingala, English

When young Sophie is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with the handsome wizard Howl. The gorgeous Academy Award-nominated romantic fantasy adventure based on the book by Diana Wynne Jones. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

This revolutionary DIY coming-of-age parody film follows an unconfident, closeted trans girl as she moves to Gotham City to make it big as a comedian by joining the cast of a government-sanctioned sketch show in a world where comedy has been outlawed. An Official Selection of 2023 TIFF, Outfest, Fantastic Fest, and Nightmares Film Festival. | Country: United States | Language: English

Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders… and another one on his desk. Columbus late-night legend, Fritz The Nite Owl hosts genre classic Re-Animator (1985). 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, German

World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. You probably know Bruce Lee, but what about Bruce Li, Brunce Lee, Dragon Lee, and the countless other talented martial artists tasks with following in the original icon’s footsteps? Enter the Clones of Bruce (2024) dives into the Bruce Lee exploitation craze, otherwise known as Bruceploitation. | Country: United States | Language: English, French, Chinese, German

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. | Country: France, Czechoslovakia | Language: French, Czech with English subtitles