World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. A former actress, Sangwon, returns to South Korea and stays with a close friend. Elsewhere in the city is an aging poet named Uiju. Both of them are paid a visit by someone who wants to know more about a career in the arts, but also has deep life questions to ask. When similarities begin to grow between the two of them, it seems far from coincidental. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean

World Premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. A fresh hip-hop-infused drama about a young rapper’s journey to harness his creativity and forge his own path to musical superstardom. Returning to the Film Center after screening at the 2024 Cinema Columbus Film Festival. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2024. In this surreal horror from A24 Films and the writer-director of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show until it is mysteriously cancelled. | Country: United States | Language: English

Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village close to Tokyo, creating an unsettling reflection on man and nature. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese

Remember her. George Miller’s exhilarating follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) explores the origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max. | Country: Australia | 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, SXSW 2024. When the aggressively single Eden becomes pregnant from a one-night stand, she leans on her married best friend (and mother of two), Dawn, to guide her through. | Country: United States | Language: English

A man is swindled out of his mill business and turns to drink. After losing his daughter who is hit in the head by a glass during a bar brawl, he is reborn and runs for mayor a couple years later. | Country: United States | Language: English

Sundance Audience Award winner. Every second of every day you’re faced with a decision that can change your life. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmark. | Country: Germany | Language: German, English, Japanese

World Premiere, 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair with Oliver and a cold relationship with his mother, who’s just returned after fifteen years. | Country: Canada | Language: French

The art of seduction and other games. The director of 2022’s Bones and All returns with a titillating romantic sports comedy. The film follows three players who reignite old rivalries as they compete in a tennis tournament to be the world-famous grand slam winner. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Nature is unforgiving. An undead killer wreaks bloody havoc in the remote wilderness. | Country: Canada | Language: English

Before Stranger Things combined science fiction, Spielberg-ian thrills, and 1980s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with this debut feature. After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager (Jake Gyllenhaal in his breakout role) is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes. | Country: United States | Language: English

Ryan is a talented, down-on-his-luck chef with crushing gambling problems. Circumstances being what they are, he leaves town in a hurry for the safe haven of an unnamed Latin American country where his friend Jack, a more prestigious chef with his own unique troubles, welcomes him into his home. | Country: United States | Language: English