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.

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

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

A return to speculative sci-fi fantasy for Bong Joon-ho, who went stratospheric with his Academy Award-winning psychological satire Parasite (2019). Adapted from the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, this stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable” – a disposable crew member on a space mission. | Country: South Korea, United States | Language: English

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

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

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

Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS. | Country: United States | Language: English

Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1977. Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. | Country: United States | Language: English

Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away. | Country: Canada, Finland, 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

The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed. | Country: United States | Language: English, Egyptian (Ancient), Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hungarian

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child’s puppet to abuse the home’s residents with deadly consequences. | Country: New Zealand | Language: English