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

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

When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, a man incapable of feeling physical pain turns his rare condition into an unexpected advantage in the fight to rescue her. | Country: 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

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

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

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. |

To save the world, they’ll have to stick together. | Country: United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Language: English

When his beloved wife is suspected of betraying the nation, an intelligence agent faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country. | Country: United Kingdom | 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

Amuro Ray and Char Aznable settle their rivalry once and for all during the Second Neo Zeon War. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese