Festival Perspectives
Committed to highlighting bold, new voices, from film festivals around the world.
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Presence (2025)
- Today, Feb 7
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
- Mon, Feb 10
- Tue, Feb 11
Director: Steven Soderbergh Run Time: 85 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2025
Starring: Callina Liang, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, Julia Fox, Lucy Liu
A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs. | Country: United States | Language: English

Theater of Thought (2024)
- Today, Feb 7
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
- Mon, Feb 10
- Wed, Feb 12
Today, Feb 7 @ 4:15 pm: 4K PresentationSat, Feb 8 @ 1:45 pm: 4K PresentationSun, Feb 9 @ 12:00 pm: 4K PresentationMon, Feb 10 @ 4:00 pm: 4K Presentation
Director: Werner Herzog Run Time: 107 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2022
Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology

Companion (2025)
- Today, Feb 7
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
- Mon, Feb 10
- Tue, Feb 11
- Wed, Feb 12
- Thu, Feb 13
Director: Drew Hancock Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Harvey Guillén, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Sophie Thatcher
A billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate. | Country: United States | Language: English

The Brutalist (2024)
- Today, Feb 7
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
- Mon, Feb 10
- Tue, Feb 11
- Wed, Feb 12
- Thu, Feb 13
Mon, Feb 10 @ 6:30 pm: 4K PresentationTue, Feb 11 @ 6:30 pm: 4K PresentationWed, Feb 12 @ 6:30 pm: 4K Presentation
Director: Brady Corbet Run Time: 215 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy
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. |

Nickel Boys (2024)
- Today, Feb 7
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
- Tue, Feb 11
- Wed, Feb 12
Director: RaMell Ross Run Time: 140 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2024
Starring: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ethan Cole Sharp, Jase Stidwell, Najah Bradley, Sam Malone
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. | Country: United States | Language: English

September 5 (2024)
- Today, Feb 7
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
- Mon, Feb 10
- Tue, Feb 11
- Wed, Feb 12
Director: Tim Fehlbaum Run Time: 91 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Ben Chaplin, Daniel Adeosun, John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Peter Sarsgaard
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, an American sports broadcasting team must adapt to live coverage the Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group. | Country: Germany, United States | Language: English, German

Every Little Thing (2024)
- Sat, Feb 8
Director: Sally Aitken Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Terry Masear
Amid the glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness. | Country: Australia | Language: English

Left Behind (2025)
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
Director: Anna Toomey Run Time: 77 min. Release Year: 2024
The gripping new feature documentary Left Behind tells the story of five tenacious mothers determined to establish the first public school in New York City for children with dyslexia. | Country: United States | Language: English

Flow (2024)
- Sat, Feb 8
- Sun, Feb 9
- Thu, Feb 13
Director: Gints Zilbalodis Run Time: 84 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2024
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

Rounding (2025)
Director: Alex Thompson Run Time: 91 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2022
Starring: Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Michael Potts, Namir Smallwood, Rebecca Spence, Sidney Flanigan
A driven young medical resident transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start. There, the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the case of a young asthma patient. | Country: United States | Language: English
2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action
- Fri, Feb 14
- Sat, Feb 15
Run Time: 102 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular short films.
2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation
- Fri, Feb 14
- Sat, Feb 15
Run Time: 88 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular short films.
2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary
- Sat, Feb 15
Run Time: 159 min. Release Year: 2024
Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular short films.
A Bronx Tale, The Original One Man Show with Chazz Palminteri (2025)
- Sun, Feb 16
Director: Chazz Palminteri Run Time: 95 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Starring: Chazz Palminteri
See the one man show, captured on stage. One man lives in the neighborhood, another man owns it. A devoted father battles the local crime boss for the love of his son | Country: United States | Language: English
The Way, My Way (2024) with filmmaker Bill Bennett in attendance
- Wed, Feb 19
Director: Bill Bennett Run Time: 98 min.
Starring: Chris Haywood, Jennifer Cluff, Laura Lakshmi, Pia Thunderbolt
Based on the best selling Camino memoir, The Way, My Way, written by Bill Bennett, the film documents one man's journey along the Camino de Santiago, searching for meaning, not realizing it was right in front of him, one step at a time. | Country: Australia | Language: English

Suze (2025)
- Fri, Feb 21
Director: Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart Run Time: 93 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Starring: Aaron Ashmore, Charlie Gillespie, Michaela Watkins, Rainbow Sun Francks, Sara Waisglass
When her only daughter goes off to university, an empty-nest mother gets stuck taking care of her daughter's heartbroken ex-boyfriend, whom she can't stand. | Country: Canada | Language: English

Seven Veils (2025)
Director: Atom Egoyan Run Time: 107 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Mark O'Brien, Rebecca Liddiard, Vinessa Antoine
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

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2025)
- Fri, Mar 7
Director: Molly Bernstein, Philip Dolin Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Art Spiegelman
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

Hippo (2025)
- Wed, Mar 19
Director: Mark H. Rapaport Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Eliza Roberts, Eric Roberts, Jesse Pimentel, Kimball Farley, Lilla Kizlinger
Hippo, a peculiar adolescent, and his Hungarian step-sister Buttercup struggle to come of age in late 1990s America, under the roof of a mother who has been institutionalized at least once. | Country: United States | Language: English
Thank You Very Much (2025)
- Fri, Apr 4
Director: Alex Braverman Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Andy Kaufman, Bob Zmuda, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Steve Martin
Award winning documentary about performance artist and "song and dance man" Andy Kaufman | Country: United States | Language: English