Our Upcoming Films

See all three award-winning feature films on Sunday, April 28! Join us at 1:00pm for a special presentation highlighting the winner of the Documentary Feature Award, celebrating excellence in documentary filmmaking.

See all three award-winning feature films on Sunday, April 28! Join us at 4:00pm for a special presentation highlighting the winner of the Narrative Feature Award, celebrating excellence in narrative filmmaking.

See all three award-winning feature films on Sunday, April 28! Join us at 7:00pm for a special presentation highlighting the winner of the Audience Choice Feature Award, honoring the film chosen by our audience as their favorite.

The greatest battle lies within. A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge. | Country: United States | Language: English

What if that date you thought would never end didn't? When an uptown New Yorker innocently meets a downtown girl, he's uncontrollably drawn into a vortex of wild, malevolent and paranoid adventures in Scorsese's Cannes Best Director winner. | Country: United States | Language: English

In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer who finds himself caught between the law and his employer. An elegantly stylized masterpiece by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville. | Country: France | Language: French with English subtitles

World Premiere, Fantastic Fest 2017. When a girl's mother disappears leaving her on her own, she joins a gang of street children, leading to a tragic chain of events. A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars. | Country: Mexico | Language: Spanish with English subtitles

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 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

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

A celebration of urban wildness that follows a formerly homeless street musician into San Francisco’s avian subculture, where a remarkable flock of wild green-and-red parrots live and work to survive. Dubbed the “bohemian St. Francis,” he falls in with the flock as he searches for his path through life. | Country: United States | Language: English

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

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

Join us for a happy hour in The Festival Lounge followed by a screening and Q&A with Director Augusta Palmer. 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

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

Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. This tender and heartfelt drama follows a Korean American family as they pursue the American Dream in rural Arkansas. | Country: United States | Language: English, Korean with English subtitles

The untold story begins. After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe. The first installment in Webb's Amazing Spider-Man series. | Country: United States | Language: English

Scorsese brings his cinematic prowess to a genre that he has always loved—suspense. In the film, a convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him. | Country: United States | Language: English

You can't get rid of the Babadook. In Jennifer Kent's singular feature directorial debut, a single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home. World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2014. | Country: Australia, Canada | Language: English

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike. | Country: United States | Language: English

Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2023. A collection of stirring vignettes following everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school teachers to bureaucrats. | Country: Iran | Language: Persian, English

Before Oldboy (2004) and The Handmaiden (2016), legendary filmmaker Park Chan-wook unleashed a gripping tale of deceit, misunderstanding, and the senselessness of war. After a shooting incident at the North-South Korean border leaves two soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss and Swedish team investigates what actually happened. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean, English, German

Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit! At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge. Winner of four awards at Sitges International Film Festival. | Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, France | Language: English, French, Dutch

In Studio Ghibli's classic tale of magic and adventure, two sisters move to the country with their father and discover the nearby woods are inhabited by strange and delightful creatures, including a gigantic but gentle forest spirit called Totoro. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

The first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. In Bong Joon Ho's pitch-black modern fairytale, greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean with English subtitles

His greatest battle begins. When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. The second and final installment in Webb's Amazing Spider-Man series. | Country: United States | Language: English

In his spectacular epic, Scorsese focuses on a decade in the life of Howard Hughes – a wily industrialist, glamorous movie producer and unstoppable American innovator. The film received eleven Academy Award nominations and won five, including Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett. | Country: United States, Germany | Language: English, Persian

Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game. The writer-director's haunting debut feature had its World Premiere at Sundance and its Midwest Premiere at Gateway Film Center as part of Nightmares Film Festival 2021. | Country: United States | Language: English

From the nightmares of 3 horror masters. A visceral, cross-cultural horror anthology exploring the darkest corners of humanity, with segments from three accomplished indie directors: Fruit Chan of Hong Kong, Park Chan-Wook of South Korea, and Takashi Miike of Japan. | Country: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea | Language: Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin with English subtitles

World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2024. In this surreal horror from A24 Films and the writer-director of We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021), two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show until it is mysteriously cancelled. | Country: United States | Language: English

The friendship between a young boy and a magical goldfish threatens the delicate balance of nature. Awash in pure unbridled imagination and visual wonder with an emotional heart. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

World Premiere, 2023 Venice Film Festival. An ode to the aggressive drifter. The newest film from visionary filmmaker Harmony Korine follows a Miami Beach hitman as he embarks on the relentless pursuit of his next target. | Country: France, United States | Language: English

The romantic comedy-drama that shattered stereotypes and became a cultural phenomenon for its representation of Asian characters. Native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore—only to find out that she is dating one of the country's wealthiest men. | Country: United States | Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, French, Malay

A young Peter Parker balances his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City. | Country: United States | Language: English

A movie for everyone who has ever dreamed of a second chance. In Scorsese's sensitive female-centric story, a recently widowed woman (Ellen Burstyn in an Academy Award-winning performance) is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer. | Country: United States | Language: English

Columbus filmmaker Hope Madden's feature directorial debut returns to Gateway Film Center as a part of our Femme Fatalities series. In the satirical horror comedy, the lovably cranky Sunny is on a quest to prove her mettle to her dad (and, ultimately, herself) in an obstacle course race that goes totally f*cking insane. | Country: United States | Language: English

Relive the biggest moments in movie history with Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking, Academy Award-winning adventure, based on the novels by Michael Crichton and featuring an epic score from legendary composer John Williams. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

Remember her. George Miller's exhilarating follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) explores the origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max. | Country: Australia | Language: English

One of the most infamous, impactful, and gut-wrenching Japanese horror films ever made. Searching for a new wife, a recent widower (and movie producer) holds "auditions" for a movie that doesn't exist. But the one he selects is not who she appears to be. | Country: Japan, South Korea | Language: Japanese with English subtitles

Humans and nature clash when San, a girl raised by wolves, must defend the forest against the encroaching people of Iron Town. A dazzling Academy Award-nominated masterpiece with breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

New year, new universe. An aging Chinese immigrant is just trying to finish her taxes. Instead she is continuously swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world. This surreal and exhilarating exploration of identity and existence won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. | Country: United States | Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese

Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. | Country: United States | Language: English

Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Cops or criminals. When you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference? An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. | Country: United States | Language: English

In this fun feminist twist on the slasher genre, a slumber party takes a dark turn when an uninvited killer shows up with his giant power drill. Directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by LGBT activist and author Rita Mae Brown. | Country: United States | Language: English

Before Stranger Things combined science fiction, Spielberg-ian thrills, and 1980s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with this debut feature. After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager (Jake Gyllenhaal in his breakout role) is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes. | Country: United States | Language: English

Loosely based on the children’s book, the groundbreaking family classic wowed critics and audiences alike, and even competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2001. In the film, a mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess in order to get his land back. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. A fresh hip-hop-infused drama about a young rapper’s journey to harness his creativity and forge his own path to musical superstardom. | Country: United States | Language: English

With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. | Country: United States, Iceland | Language: English

Scorsese's acclaimed psychological thriller follows Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, who are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the implausible disappearance of a patient. | Country: United States | Language: English, German

A dark, queer-feminist genre mash-up from Columbus native Jennifer Reeder. When several teen girls go missing at her new school, a mythically feral teenage girl, Jonny, takes the investigation into her own hands. World Premiere, 2023 Berlin Film Festival. | Country: United States, France | Language: English

A man pursues the vice lord who killed his daughter, but his journey leads to self-discovery and the desire for a better life. | Country: United States | Language: English

Young Charlie Bucket finds a golden ticket to the world-famous factory of the reclusive candy man, Willy Wonka. A beloved children's classic that takes you on a magical adventure full of temptation. | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English, French, German, Italian

An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers. Before she became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director with The Hurt Locker (2008), Bigelow directed Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in this entertaining action film. | Country: Japan, United States | Language: English

Nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer. | Country: United States, Italy | Language: English, Irish Gaelic, Chinese, Latin

A "spiritual sequel" to the horror film Candyman that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began. The second feature from writer-director Nia DaCosta. Produced by Academy Award winner Jordan Peele. | Country: Canada, United States | Language: English

Good is no fun at all. To avoid prison, a gang of notorious animal criminals pretends to seek being rehabilitated, only for their leader to realize that he genuinely wants to change his ways. What was meant to be a plan of deceit turned into a character change for the better. | Country: United States | Language: English

Long live the new flesh. A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast. Rock legend Deborah Harry and James Woods star in David Cronenberg’s sci-fi nightmare. | Country: Canada | Language: English, Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian with English subtitles

Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for the legendary filmmaker's outrageous story of American excess. Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.| Country: United States | Language: English, French

The next film from the director of Poor Things (2023) is a triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

In this beloved Roald Dahl film adaptation, a girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress. | Country: United States | Language: English

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. A powerful psychological thriller and Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize winner set in a small town in Ohio. | Country: United States | Language: English

The inner world of a close-knit Chicago area motorcycle gang. Called "The Godfather of biker movies" by Variety, the film was primarily filmed in Cincinnati, Ohio, and premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival. | Country: United States | Language: English

In Las Vegas, two best friends—a casino executive and a mafia enforcer—compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite. | Country: United States, France | Language: English

Winner of Best Animated Feature Film at the 2019 Academy Awards. Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities. | Country: Canada, United States | Language: English, Spanish

Living alone in the Oregon wilderness, a truffle hunter returns to Portland to find the person who stole his beloved pig. Sarnoski's directorial debut and Nicolas Cage's own personal favorite Nic Cage film. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English

On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle, a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

Innovative director Spike Jonze and celebrated author Maurice Sendak bring to life one of the most beloved books of all time, a classic story about childhood and the places we go to figure out the world we live in. | Country: Germany, United States, Australia | Language: English

May the odds be ever in your favor. The award-winning adaptation of the best-selling young adult dystopian novel written by Suzanne Collins. | Country: United States | Language: English

Everyone's favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline, Puss in Boots, returns in a new adventure from the Shrek universe as the daring outlaw discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

After working hard to earn enough money to buy the perfect birthday present for his Aunt Lucy, Paddington’s gift is stolen, and it’s up to him and his family to find the thief. A funny, sweet-natured film based on the stories of Paddington Bear created by Michael Bond. | Country: United Kingdom, France, United States, China, Canada | Language: English

Imagine you confront your enemy—a giant, scary robot from outer space—and he becomes your best pal. The acclaimed animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' 1968 science fiction novel from the writer-director of The Incredibles (2004). | Country: France, United States | Language: English

When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence. The long-awaited screen adaptation of the beloved 1970 novel by Judy Blume. | Country: United States | Language: English

Hiccup is a young Viking who defies tradition and befriends one of his deadliest foes – a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. A dazzling family film based on the beloved book. | Country: United States | Language: English

Greta Gerwig's acclaimed take on Louisa May Alcott's beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms in the aftermath of the Civil War. | Country: United States | Language: English, France

A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination. Based on the bestselling fantasy book by the German author Michael Ende. | Country: West Germany, United States | Language: English

Pioneers of African American Cinema 2024: Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns from Betty Jackson that her brother, Joe, is missing. Directed by Richard C. Kahn, starring Herb Jeffries.

HUMP! Film Festival is back with an all-new line-up of short erotic films made by real people for real people. The carefully curated program is a cornucopia of body types, shapes, ages, colors, sexualities, genders, kinks, and fetishes—all united by their common humanity and a shared spirit of playful sex-positivity.

Pioneers of African American Cinema 2024: Travel train car by train car through the sins of the Jazz Age. Directed by James and Eloyce Gist.