Our Upcoming Films

The second chapter of The Missing Vulcan Trilogy, directed by Leonard Nimoy (actor of Spock) himself. Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body. | Country: United States | Language: English, Kingon, Russian, French

| Country: France | Language: English. Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation and copes by singing the blues. World Premiere at Visions du Reel 2023.

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.

The final chapter of The Missing Vulcan Trilogy, directed by Leonard Nimoy (actor of Spock) himself. Using a Klingon ship, the crew of the Enterprise returns to 1980s Earth to retrieve two whales that may save the planet from destruction in their own era. | Country: United States | Language: English, Finnish

Official Selection of 2021 Cannes Film Festival Critics Week. Étienne and Valérie fall in love when they are barely twenty years old and soon after their daughter Rosa is born. Étienne is left to raise Rosa on his own after Valérie leaves and does not return. That changes when he sees her on television which propels them into one last chaotic family journey. | Country: France | Language: French.

24 year old Jeanne lives on a military base with her family and a police officer. With hopes to live a life of freedom, she pursues work in finance, but will this get her to the place she envisions for herself? | Country: France | Language: French

Official Selection, 2023 Cannes Film Festival Critics Week. Winner of the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best first feature. Lydia, a devoted midwife, has lost control of her life. A series of events may be the cause of this, but it is hard to pinpoint exactly which one it is, and in the midst of it all she finds herself stuck in a spiral of lies. | Country: France | Language: French.

One of the most influential anime films ever made. A mysterious vagabond sets out on a journey to confront his past. Little does he know he is up against a demonic force of killers, with a ghost from his past as the leader. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese

See no evil. Hear no evil. A family is invited to spend a weekend in an idyllic country house, but their trip quickly escalates from a dream vacation to a psychological nightmare. | Country: United States | Language: English

Official Selection of 2023 Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard. Sylvie lives in Brest with her two children, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. Together they form a tight, happy family. One night, Sofiane hurts himself, alone in the apartment while his mother is out at work. The incident is reported and Sofiane is placed in foster care. | Country: French | Language: France

The one that started the epic franchise, presented in stunning 4K. Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning. | Country: United States | Language: English

The battle of the occult starts now! Theatrical event featuring the first three episodes of DAN DA DAN, and an exclusive interview with Yukinobu Tatsu and Shihei Lin, the author and editor of the original manga, Fuga Yamashiro (Director), and Shion Wakayama (voice of Momo) and Natsuki Hanae (voice of Okarun). | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military, in the wake of a contested presidential election. | Country: United States | Language: English

Mary Dauterman’s debut feature starring Grace Glowicki has played several festivals, including Fantasia Film Festival 2023. After her dead friend’s cat runs away, Anna grows desperate to find him, ignoring the fact that her life (and body) are totally falling apart. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence. | Country: United States | Language: English

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese

World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program. | Country: Spain, Argentina | Language: Spanish, Catalan

Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life. Come to laugh, come to cry, come to care, come to terms. | Country: United States | Language: English

Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear set in sixteenth-century Japan. An elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons; however, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him. | Country: Japan, France | Language: Japanese

Ohio Premiere. In this feature-length queer horror anthology, an older sister takes her fearless runaway sibling on a road trip, to share the most chilling tales surrounding their hometown. | Country: United States | Language: English

There are no clean getaways. A loner by nature, The Driver finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. The hyper-stylized arthouse action film received a 15 minute standing ovation at Cannes, where Refn was awarded Best Director. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

Everyone wants to be found. Two lost souls visiting Tokyo – the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial – find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America. Winner of Best Original Screenplay for Sofia Coppola at the 76th Academy Awards. | Country: United States | Language: English, Japanese, German, French

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.

Filmed in Ohio. A masked killer, a cabin in the woods, a group of teens: the basic ingredients of a very old story. But when the killer accidentally dies, the kids discover they cannot leave until they’ve fulfilled the script of the movie they’re trapped in. They must decide who among them lives and dies. | Country: United States | Language: English

One night only. Explores the underlying causes of the opioid epidemic in America through the life of one boy and five generations of his extended family over 11 years. Winner of the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 Slamdance film festival. | Country: United States | Language: English

Winner of Best Screenplay at 2024 Cannes Film Festival. A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. If you follow the instructions, what could go wrong? | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English

A scientist injects his best friend with a compound he’s created to help her stop cheating on her wife, but when the wife finds her new fixation suffocating, the wife gets a dose too, which backfires as she falls for the scientist. Official Selection at 2023 Dances With Films New York. | Country: United States | Language: English

Micheaux’s earliest surviving feature, and the earliest surviving feature of any African American director. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 DC/DOX Film Festival.  With America's democratic experiment mired in division and dysfunction, the state of Alaska votes to revolutionize their election system. The surprising results spark new alliances, a growing call for election reform, and fierce pushback from political parties. Could changing how Americans vote also change politics for the better? | Country: United States | Language: English

The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out. Columbus late-night legend, Fritz The Nite Owl hosts cult classic Beetlejuice (1988). The film will screen, breaking every 20 minutes or so for Fritz’s on screen host segments providing trivia about the making of the film and other fun anecdotes. | Country: United States | Language: English

You can’t outrun your future. Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be. | Country: United States | Language: English

When real life sucks, REEL life rules! In the summer of 1986, three sixteen year old friends spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of the teens learn more about life and love. | Country: United States | Language: English

Live. Die. Repeat. In director Doug Liman's unrelenting sci-fi thriller, a soldier fighting aliens relives the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies. | Country: United States, Canada, India | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance, but his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost. | Country: United States | Language: English

An experiment in form, The Downtown Revue was Micheaux's first "talkie." Bear witness to a series of cabaret acts—from the Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon Time" to a comedy vaudeville duo riffing on a haunted house. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, SXSW Film Festival 2022. They are the unsung heroes whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain's shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English

The challenges faced by a young African-American man who, after being wrongly accused of a crime, must navigate a hostile society and strive for justice. Directed by the first African American full feature-length director, Oscar Micheaux. | Country: United States | Language: English

Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems. When teen Sarah is forced to babysit Toby, her baby stepbrother, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English

After a woman discovers her no-good beau is two-timing her, she sets her sights on Harlem to make it big as the lead of a show but becomes a diva just as the producer is trying to bring the show to Broadway. | Country: United States | Language: English

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin. | Country: United States | Language: English

An epic of epic epicness. In a magically realistic version of Toronto, a young man must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes one by one in order to win her heart. | Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan | Language: English

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. | Country: United States | Language: English

A Story of the Ku Klux Klan. Directed by the first African American full feature-length director, Oscar Micheaux. | Country: United States | Language: English

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that. A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother—a lawyer—don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage. | Country: United States | Language: English

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder. | Country: United States | Language: English

A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler. | Country: United States | Language: English

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. | Country: United States | Language: English

Sundance 2024 World Premiere. What would you ask your older self? An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. | Country: United States, Canada | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 SXSW Film Festival. Many years after the rapture… Among the survivors, some are driven to renounce their sin of Speech. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Something awakens. A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean

Fear takes flight. A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician. | Country: United States | Language: English, Russian

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. | Country: United States | Language: English

Unite with 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents as the world's first global film festival returns to the Film Center. Discover your inner film critic by casting your vote for Best Film and Best Actor! Ballots supplied upon entry.

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt. | Country: United States | Language: English

2022 Cannes Film Festival - Winner of Special Silver Ribbon. 2021 Cannes Film Festival - The Golden Eye Nominee. A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry. | Country: Italy | Language: English, Italian

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"! Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase. | Country: United States | Language: English

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Venice Film Festival. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober... and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own! | Country: United States | Language: English

A symphony of horror set to the music of Radiohead. Remains to many viewers the most unsettling vampire film ever made, and its bald, spidery vampire, personified by the diabolical Max Schreck, continues to spawn imitations in the realm of contemporary cinema. | Country: Germany | Language: English intertitles

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. WANTED by the police in all the luxury-spots of Europe!... A catch for any woman! | Country: United States | Language: English, French

Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing. | Country: Japan | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. In the first career-spanning documentary of the legendary and prolific artist, visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing more than 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. | Country: United States | Language: English

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Fantastic Fest. Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A musician is wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company, and his family is gravely affected. | Country: United States | Language: English, Italian, Spanish

There's no body in the family plot. Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. Just an ordinary necktie used with a deadly new twist. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. Let Alfred Hitchcock engulf you in a whirlpool of terror and tension! | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. If you knew what he knew what would you do? Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect. | Country: United States | Language: English, French, Italian, German

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A little knowledge can be a deadly thing! | Country: United States | Language: English

An enlightening film that explores the ideas that inhabit the lyrics and subject matter of Placebo’s songs, whilst charting their evolution as a group and as human beings. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. In his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread! | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. | Country: United States | Language: English

A tradition for all ages! Grab your snacks, sit back and relax as we channel-surf for the best retro toons (and commercials). With each ticket purchase, celebrate that Saturday morning feeling with a complimentary box of cereal and a pour from our milk bar.

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. It's time for a visit to the notorious Bates Motel. | Country: United States | Language: English

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.