Challengers (2024)

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

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

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Boy Kills World (2024)

World Premiere, 2023 Toronto Film Festival. Boy, a deaf person whose family was murdered is then trained by a mysterious Shaman to become an instrument of death. On his quest, Boy commits martial arts mayhem inciting a wrath of carnage. | Country: Germany, South Africa, United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2023 Toronto Film Festival. Boy, a deaf person whose family was murdered is then trained by a mysterious Shaman to become an instrument of death. On his quest, Boy commits martial arts mayhem inciting a wrath of carnage. | Country: Germany, South Africa, United States | Language: English

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We Grown Now (2024)

Winner of the TIFF Changemaker Award. Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago. | Country: United States | Language: English

Winner of the TIFF Changemaker Award. Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Wicked Little Letters (2024)

World premiere, Toronto International Film Festival. When people in Littlehampton–including conservative local Edith–begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town’s women investigate. | Country: United Kingdom, United States, France | Language: English

World premiere, Toronto International Film Festival. When people in Littlehampton–including conservative local Edith–begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town’s women investigate. | Country: United Kingdom, United States, France | Language: English

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Days of Heaven (1978) 4K Restoration

One of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time. In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. | Country: United States | Language: English, Italian

One of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time. In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. | Country: United States | Language: English, Italian

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The Fall Guy (2024)

World Premiere at SXSW FIlm Festival. A retired stuntman is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing. | Country: United State | Language: English

World Premiere at SXSW FIlm Festival. A retired stuntman is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing. | Country: United State | Language: English

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Free Time (2024)

Winner of the New Directors competition at the 2023 Nashville Film Festival. Drew, a 20 something year old, makes the courageous decision to quit his office job and embrace life. On his journey to self discovery, he finds that life outside of the ordinary is not as thrilling after-all. He had all the time in the world… it was too much. | Country: United States | Language: English

Winner of the New Directors competition at the 2023 Nashville Film Festival. Drew, a 20 something year old, makes the courageous decision to quit his office job and embrace life. On his journey to self discovery, he finds that life outside of the ordinary is not as thrilling after-all. He had all the time in the world… it was too much. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Walled Off (2024)

Chronicling life under Israeli occupation, this documentary offers an intimate look at Palestinians’ fight for freedom through creative resistance. | Country: United States | Language: English

Chronicling life under Israeli occupation, this documentary offers an intimate look at Palestinians’ fight for freedom through creative resistance. | Country: United States | Language: English

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The Beast (2024)

World Premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. In a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone’s lives, human emotions are perceived as a threat. | Country: France, Canada | Language: English, French with English subtitles

World Premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. In a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone’s lives, human emotions are perceived as a threat. | Country: France, Canada | Language: English, French with English subtitles

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Mars Express (2024)

World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival. Dive into the heart of Mars in this stunning neo-noir sci-fi epic. In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker on Mars. | Country: France | Language: French

World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival. Dive into the heart of Mars in this stunning neo-noir sci-fi epic. In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker on Mars. | Country: France | Language: French

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Civil War (2024)

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

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

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On the Adamant (2024)

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Discover a one-of-a-kind approach to mental health care in this deeply empathetic portrait of regular visitors and staff at The Adamant, a floating psychiatric daycare center in Paris. | Country: France, Japan | Language: French

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Discover a one-of-a-kind approach to mental health care in this deeply empathetic portrait of regular visitors and staff at The Adamant, a floating psychiatric daycare center in Paris. | Country: France, Japan | Language: French

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The Blues Society (2024) with Director Augusta Palmer

Welcome Director Augusta Palmer to the Film Center for a screening and Q&A! | In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world. This screening is presented in part due to the support of Larry and Donna James and The Greater Columbus Film Commission. | Country: United States | Language: English

Welcome Director Augusta Palmer to the Film Center for a screening and Q&A! | In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world. This screening is presented in part due to the support of Larry and Donna James and The Greater Columbus Film Commission. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Ghibli at GFC 2024: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) 35th Anniversary

In Studio Ghibli’s beloved coming-of-age story, a young witch named Kiki sets off to a seaside town to start a new life with her sarcastic black cat, Jiji. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

In Studio Ghibli’s beloved coming-of-age story, a young witch named Kiki sets off to a seaside town to start a new life with her sarcastic black cat, Jiji. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) with Director Eric Appel and Star Nina West

Reception at 7:30pm | Daniel Radcliffe is “Weird” Al Yankovic in the definitely unexaggerated, star-studded true story about the greatest musician of our time. Appel premiered his Emmy Award-winning feature directorial debut at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Award in the Midnight Madness section. | Country: United States | Language: English

Reception at 7:30pm | Daniel Radcliffe is “Weird” Al Yankovic in the definitely unexaggerated, star-studded true story about the greatest musician of our time. Appel premiered his Emmy Award-winning feature directorial debut at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Award in the Midnight Madness section. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Cult 101: Moon (2009)

250,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face is yourself. BAFTA Award Winner. With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, Spanish

250,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face is yourself. BAFTA Award Winner. With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, Spanish

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