Our Upcoming Films
Hope (2026)
Director: Na Hong-jin Run Time: 157 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Hoyeon, Hwang Jung-min, Michael Fassbender, Zo In-sung
Is this how it ends? | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean, English
Indie 90s: Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
- Wed, Sep 9
Director: Todd Solondz Run Time: 88 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1996
Starring: Brendan Sexton III, Daria Kalinina, Eric Mabius, Heather Matarazzo, Matthew Faber
Not all girls want to play with dolls. | Country: United States | Language: English
Indie 90s: Cronos (1993)
Director: Guillermo del Toro Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1993
Starring: Claudio Brook, Federico Luppi, Margarita Isabel, Ron Perlman, Tamara Shanath
An ancient device. A modern discovery. A terrifying tale of the eternal. Experience Guillermo del Toro's auspicious and audacious feature debut | Country: Mexico | Language: English, Spanish
Cinema Columbus 2026 Opening Night: Origins: Shorts of Ohio
- Thu, Sep 10
Director: Claudia Owusu, Hao Zhou, Javier Cruz-Ginez, Payton Burkhammer Run Time: 120 min.
A collection of shorts made by Ohio voices with global perspectives.
The Cycle of Love (2026)
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel Run Time: 98 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Starring: Chirag Lobo, Lotta von Schedvin, Mina Dale, PK Mahanandia
An impossible journey. An extraordinary love. The story of PK, the Delhi street artist who trekked 6,000 miles to reunite with the woman he loved. | Country: United Kingdom, Sweden | Language: English, Hindi
Practical Magic 2 (2026)
Director: Susanne Bier Run Time: 110 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2026
Starring: Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Xolo Mariduena
Everything you've witched for. | Country: United States | Language: English
The Uprising (2026)
Director: Paul Greengrass Run Time: 128 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2026
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Cosmo Jarvis, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander
Rise or die. When ordinary people stood against the might of a kingdom. | Country: United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Language: English
Cinema Columbus 2026: Free Beer Tomorrow
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: Julia Applegate, LuSter P. Singleton Run Time: 120 min.
A documentary film project that tells the story of Jack’s/Summit Station, Ohio’s longest running lesbian owned and operated bar.
Cinema Columbus 2026: Windward: Narrative Shorts 1
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: Bita Ghassemi, Kristal Sotomayor, Lam Can-zhao, Lauren Verhage, Ramla Ali, Richard A. Moore, Tran Hoang Calvin Run Time: 120 min.
There’s a fire within all of us that drives us to want more. More for ourselves, our families, our communities. These unique short films capture shades of this essence.
Cinema Columbus 2026: Who is Columbus?
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: Renton Hinderer Run Time: 120 min.
Columbus, Ohio born filmmaker Renton Hinderer explores his hometown through the eyes of its residents, weaving together dozens of stories to reveal who this city is and what it's becoming.
Cinema Columbus 2026: Still Ohio
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: Kaylin Allshouse Run Time: 120 min.
Desperate to salvage her relationship, a college student embarks on a cross-country carpool only to find herself trapped in a haunting time loop where each stop at a lonely Ohio gas station grows more terrifying than the last.
Indie 90s: The Player (1992)
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 124 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1992
Starring: Fred Ward, Greta Scacchi, Peter Gallagher, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one? | Country: United States | Language: English
Cinema Columbus 2026: My Pathetic Career
- Sat, Sep 12
Director: Robert Post Run Time: 120 min.
Starring: Jackie Calderone, Robert Post
A feature-length documentary by Robert Post, celebrated for his fifty-year career as a one-man variety show performer.
A Simple Machine (2026)
- Sat, Sep 12
Director: Mark Alan Hoffman Run Time: 97 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Starring: Brad Carter, Gabriella Quezada, Richard Blackmon, Shannon K. Dunn, Smack Louis
A coming-of-age story about the cost of wanting less in a world built on wanting more. | Country: United States | Language: English
Cinema Columbus 2026: Sirens: Supernatural Narrative Shorts
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Ben Scott, Brad Waugh, Cinder Chou, Dave Sorboro, George Wolf, Hope Madden, Jasper Ian Jones, Mollie Shourd, Nathaniel Demuth, Ryan Jackson, Tanner Hamilton Run Time: 106 min.
A vampire, a werewolf, and a grim reaper walk into a screening room…there’s no punchline, but these films explore the unidentified, the odd, the fantastical.
Cinema Columbus 2026: Sightlines: Documentary Shorts 2
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Elena Escalante, Evan Bode, Joe Kowalski, Laura Asherman, Martin Krafft, Marvin Wade, Shawn Antoine II Run Time: 120 min.
The spaces we inhabit matter so deeply. The environments we shape mold us. These short visions unearth intimate looks at how physical place informs internal realities.
Cinema Columbus 2026: My Brain: After the Rupture
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Ursula Macfarlane Run Time: 120 min.
A compelling documentary following the recovery of 38-year-old Clemency Burton-Hill after suffering a catastrophic brain hemorrhage.
Cinema Columbus 2026: Crystal Cross
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Richie James Follin Run Time: 88 min.
A quirky Christian singer and a suicidal dad drive cross-country, forging an unlikely bond through bad decisions, bizarre roadside attractions, and an all-original soundtrack.
Cinema Columbus 2026: Windward: Ohio Narrative Shorts
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Anna Helmer, Carter Mitchell Stewart, Clay Kessler, Jenny Deller, Rachel Billings, Tyler Nguyen Run Time: 120 min.
While the common thread is the state of Ohio, this shorts block is like a stained glass window of creative voices, each with its own cinematic flavor.
Indie 90s: The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Director: Cheryl Dunye Run Time: 90 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 1996
Starring: Cheryl Clarke, Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Lisa Marie Bronson, Valarie Walker
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes. | Country: United States | Language: English
Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC (2026)
- Tue, Sep 15
Director: Emmett Malloy Run Time: 75 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Starring: Chris Malloy, Emmett Malloy, Jack Johnson, Keith Malloy, Kim Johnson
Experience Johnson's evolution from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician. | Country: United States | Language: English
Indie 90s: The Daytrippers (1996)
Director: Greg Mottola Run Time: 87 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1997
Starring: Anne Meara, Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey, Pat McNamara
It's a family affair. | Country: Canada, United States | Language: English
If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026)
Director: Walter Thompson-Hernández Run Time: 95 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Starring: Bodhi Dell, Bre-Z, Danielle Brooks, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Kelvin Adekunle
A poetic, emotionally expansive father-son story about Black family, grace, imagination, and hope. | Country: United States | Language: English
Indie 90s: SLC Punk (1998)
Director: James Merendino Run Time: 97 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1998
Starring: Annabeth Gish, Christopher McDonald, Jennifer Lien, Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian
God bless America... they're going to need it. | Country: United States | Language: English
Indie 90s: Big Night (1996)
Director: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci Run Time: 109 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1996
Starring: Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini, Minnie Driver, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub
In love and life, one big night can change everything. | Country: United States | Language: English, Italian
Indie 90s: Menace II Society (1993)
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes Run Time: 97 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1993
Starring: Glenn Plummer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson, Tyrin Turner
This is the truth. This is what's real. | Country: United States | Language: English
Indie 90s: High Art (1998)
Director: Lisa Cholodenko Run Time: 101 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1998
Starring: Ally Sheedy, David Thornton, Gabriel Mann, Patricia Clarkson, Radha Mitchell
A story of ambition, sacrifice, seduction and other career moves. | Country: United States | Language: English
Manhattan Short Film Festival 2026
Run Time: 120 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Ten short films from around the world unite audiences in over 500 cities for one week of discovery, where every viewer casts a vote to decide the festival’s winners.
Heart of the Beast (2026)
Director: David Ayer Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Anna Lambe, Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons
Survival depends on their bond. After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements. | Country: United States | Language: English
Indie 90s: Pulp Fiction (1994)
Director: Quentin Tarantino Run Time: 154 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1994
Starring: Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish, French
Digger (2026)
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Run Time: 128 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Tom Cruise
A man. A plan. A meltdown. | Country: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico | Language: English
The Devils (1971) 4K Restoration
Director: Ken Russell Run Time: 112 min. Rating: NC-17 Release Year: 1971
Starring: Dudley Sutton, Gemma Jones, Max Adrian, Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave
Hell will hold no surprises for them... | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English
Resident Evil (2026)
Director: Zach Cregger Run Time: 90 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2026
Starring: Austin Abrams, Johnno Wilson, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry
No sweat. One fate, horrifying night, a young medical courier finds himself fighting for survival. | Country: Germany, United States | Language: English
Wicker (2026)
Director: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson Run Time: 105 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2026
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage
Marriage material. In an otherwise conservative town, an unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos. | Country: United Kingdom, United States, Australia | Language: English