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Beat the Heat: Materialists (2025)

Opens on June 26

Director: Celine Song Run Time: 109 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2025

Starring: Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson, Marin Ireland, Pedro Pascal, Zoe Winters

Country: United States, Finland
Language: English


Presented as part of the free, “Beat the Heat” community screenings in partnership with Columbus City Council on Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27, 2025. Visit Gateway Film Center to pick up complimentary tickets. Doors open at 11:00am and admission includes a snack popcorn and bottled soda. Thank you for supporting local, nonprofit cinema!


About the film:

From the director of Past Lives (2023), a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

About the filmmaker:

Celine Song is a Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter based in the United States. Her directorial debut Past Lives (2023) premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Among her plays are “The Seagull on The Sims 4” and “Endlings”, which received its world premiere in 2019 at American Repertory Theater and had its New York premiere in 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop. She has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award. Celine also wrote on the first season of Amazon’s Wheel of Time. She received her MFA in play writing from Columbia University.

 

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BEAT THE HEAT 2025 IS SUPPORTED BY
Columbus City Council
GATEWAY FILM FOUNDATION MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts
WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media

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