New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. Starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo (Suze Rotolo), Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, and more. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Telluride Film Festival. Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English

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

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. | Country: United States | Language: English

Grief can be a funny thing. | Country: United States | Language: English

Is she a siren or a myth? | Country: Italy, France | Language: Italian, Neapolitan, English

Fleeing from post-war Europe in 1947, a visionary architect and his wife settle in Pennsylvania where a wealthy and mysterious client changes their lives forever. |

Winner of the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary. Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living. | United States, Ukraine, Australia | Language: Ukrainian, Russian, English

Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, finds himself in the middle of an international incident and must discover the motive behind a nefarious global plan. | Country: United States | Language: English

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

They were ordered to provide hope. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English

Winner Palme d’Or, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. From writer-director Sean Baker | Country: United States | Language: English

An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories find a mysterious point of intersection in this tale set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran. | Country: Canada | Language: Persian, French

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

Join us for our biggest fundraising night of the year! The 2025 celebration is made possible thanks to major support from our Presenting Partners, Donna & Larry James. The 2025 Awards Season Gala is taking place at Le Méridien Columbus, The Joseph.


You are invited to walk the red carpet, enjoy a themed cocktail and delicious food, celebrate your local film community, and watch the 97th Academy Awards with your fellow lovers of film, culture, and art. The recipients of the 2025 Center Originals Awards will be presented this evening.

World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together. Selected as the Latvian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. | Country: Latvia, Belgium, France | Language: None

Rose, 78, has just lost her most beloved husband. When her grief gives way to a powerful impulse of life that makes her realize that she can still redefine herself as a woman, the whole balance of the family is upset. | Country:  France | Language: French, Yiddish

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. | Country: Palestinian Territories, Norway | Language: Arabic

In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

Summer just got a lot shorter! | Country: United States | Language: English

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

A late-night suicide hotline operator receives a disturbing call from someone claiming to be him, knowing personal details only he would know. | Country: United States | Language: English

Struggling with postnatal depression and feeling misunderstood by her husband, Meredith begins to experience terrifying visions foreshadowing an ultimate tragedy. | Country: United States, Canada | Language: English