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In Our Day (2024)

World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. A former actress, Sangwon, returns to South Korea and stays with a close friend. Elsewhere in the city is an aging poet named Uiju. Both of them are paid a visit by someone who wants to know more about a career in the arts, but also has deep life questions to ask. When similarities begin to grow between the two of them, it seems far from coincidental. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean

World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. A former actress, Sangwon, returns to South Korea and stays with a close friend. Elsewhere in the city is an aging poet named Uiju. Both of them are paid a visit by someone who wants to know more about a career in the arts, but also has deep life questions to ask. When similarities begin to grow between the two of them, it seems far from coincidental. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean

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In a Violent Nature (2024)

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Nature is unforgiving. An undead killer wreaks bloody havoc in the remote wilderness. | Country: Canada | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Nature is unforgiving. An undead killer wreaks bloody havoc in the remote wilderness. | Country: Canada | Language: English

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From Book to Film 2024: Shrek (2001)

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

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

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Babes (2024)

World Premiere, SXSW 2024. When the aggressively single Eden becomes pregnant from a one-night stand, she leans on her married best friend (and mother of two), Dawn, to guide her through. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, SXSW 2024. When the aggressively single Eden becomes pregnant from a one-night stand, she leans on her married best friend (and mother of two), Dawn, to guide her through. | Country: United States | Language: English

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I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

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

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

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Paranoia Trilogy: The Parallax View (1974) 4K Restoration

As American as apple pie. Three years after witnessing the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle’s Space Needle, a reporter begins digging into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the killing—and stumbles into a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined. | Country: United States | Language: English

As American as apple pie. Three years after witnessing the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle’s Space Needle, a reporter begins digging into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the killing—and stumbles into a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Lost Soulz (2024)

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. Returning to the Film Center after screening at the 2024 Cinema Columbus Film Festival. | 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. Returning to the Film Center after screening at the 2024 Cinema Columbus Film Festival. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Challengers (2024)

The art of seduction and other games. The director of 2022’s Bones and All returns with a titillating romantic sports comedy. The film follows three players who reignite old rivalries as they compete in a tennis tournament to be the world-famous grand slam winner. | Country: United States | Language: English

The art of seduction and other games. The director of 2022’s Bones and All returns with a titillating romantic sports comedy. The film follows three players who reignite old rivalries as they compete in a tennis tournament to be the world-famous grand slam winner. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (2024)

An intimate look at a pioneering, openly gay artist, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. An Official Selection of Outfest LA 2023 and winner of Best Breakthrough Documentary at the San Diego International Film Fest. | Country: United States | Language: English

An intimate look at a pioneering, openly gay artist, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. An Official Selection of Outfest LA 2023 and winner of Best Breakthrough Documentary at the San Diego International Film Fest. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Ghibli at GFC 2024: Spirited Away (2001) 4K Restoration

Trapped in a fantastical world full of spirits and demons, Chihiro must outwit the cunning sorceress Yubaba and call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. One of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time, overflowing with imaginative creatures and thrilling storytelling, and winner of Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

4:30 pm: This presentation is in Japanese language with English subtitles

Trapped in a fantastical world full of spirits and demons, Chihiro must outwit the cunning sorceress Yubaba and call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. One of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time, overflowing with imaginative creatures and thrilling storytelling, and winner of Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles

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What You Wish For (2024)

Ryan is a talented, down-on-his-luck chef with crushing gambling problems. Circumstances being what they are, he leaves town in a hurry for the safe haven of an unnamed Latin American country where his friend Jack, a more prestigious chef with his own unique troubles, welcomes him into his home. | Country: United States | Language: English

Ryan is a talented, down-on-his-luck chef with crushing gambling problems. Circumstances being what they are, he leaves town in a hurry for the safe haven of an unnamed Latin American country where his friend Jack, a more prestigious chef with his own unique troubles, welcomes him into his home. | Country: United States | Language: English

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Summer Qamp (2024)

People’s Choice Award runner-up at 2023 Toronto Film Festival. Surrounded by counsellors who relate to them, queer, non-binary and trans teens get to experience the joy of being kids in a supportive camp in rural Alberta. | Country: Canada | Language: English

People’s Choice Award runner-up at 2023 Toronto Film Festival. Surrounded by counsellors who relate to them, queer, non-binary and trans teens get to experience the joy of being kids in a supportive camp in rural Alberta. | Country: Canada | Language: English

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Evil Does Not Exist (2024)

Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village close to Tokyo, creating an unsettling reflection on man and nature. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese

Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village close to Tokyo, creating an unsettling reflection on man and nature. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese

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Cult 101: Donnie Darko (2001) 4K Restoration

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

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

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Our New 2024 Spring Season Program: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month

As part of our commitment to promoting diverse voices and narratives, the Film Center will showcase a curated selection of acclaimed films that highlight the AANHPI experience.

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