Programs

The Oscar nominees for Best Live Action Short Film include stories of Tunisia, Belgium, Guatemala, and New York.

The Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short Film include an unlikely animal friendship, a painter whose world is mutating, and tales of families in the USA, Czech Republic, and China.

Horace Jenkins’ long-lost gem of Black independent cinema is both a romantic melodrama and an incisive exploration of long-simmering social tensions within an African-American community in the rural South.

Love blooms between a young female painter and her subject, a reluctant bride-to-be, in 18th-century Brittany in Céline Sciamma’s (Girlhood, Tomboy) latest.

Two families form an uneasy symbiotic relationship in the darkly comic, Academy Award-winning new thriller from master director Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Okja).

A festival curated by Black women, celebrating Black women, in honor of Toni Morrison’s 89th birthday.

A poetic tribute to one of the world’s greatest modern dance artists, tracing Merce Cunningham’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery.

This monthly program challenges the cinema canon by presenting one iconic, highly regarded classic alongside a thematically or stylistically related—and equally brilliant—film traditionally excluded from that discussion.

We welcome prominent artistic or cultural figures to present the films that inspired their passion for cinema.

Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt curates an eclectic series of films that served as inspiration in creating her perceptive and tender new frontier drama First Cow.

Russian director Kantemir Balagov won Un Certain Regard’s Best Director prize at Cannes for this harrowing portrait of two young women in post-World War II Leningrad and the persistent scars of war.

Will Forte and Maeve Higgins star in this Irish comedy about a young woman with supernatural abilities.

In anticipation of the explosive new social thriller Bacurau, we look back at the rich history of revolutionary cinema with a survey of films that center oppressed communities fighting for self-determination.

This no-holds-barred sci-fi survival thriller, set in a not-too-distant future Brazil, explodes with the force of a Molotov cocktail hurled straight into the eye of racial and political oppression.

Kelly Reichardt trains her perceptive eye on the Pacific Northwest in the early 19th century in this tale of a loner who travels west and goes into business with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune.

Inspired by Vitalina Varela, the breathtaking new film from Portuguese titan Pedro Costa, we present a selection of profound, illuminating films that explore the rich experience of being alone with oneself.

A new film that captures the making of Chinese artist Maleonn’s ambitious new theater project in response to learning of his father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.