Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater

The best short films have all of the breadth, scope and resonance of feature length films. On Sunday, Feb 19th, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, we'll be showing the best of the best -- the 10 Academy Award nomines for Best Short Film. Five of the films are animated and five feature live actors.

Banana Land

Sunday, Feb 26th at 3pm at the IU Fine Arts Theater Bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and

NERUDA

Before Bob Dylan, there was Pablo Neruda, the beloved, Nobel-prize winning poet from Chile. But Dylan has never been the subject of a manhunt; Neruda however, was.

Fire at Sea

This 2017 Academy Award nominee tells the story of refugees and their flight to new lands. "Storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do. It is urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking."
-Meryl Streep

$5

Tanna

March 17, 18, 24, 25, 26 ♦  Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30    Academy Award Nominee BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM On the tiny Pacific island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago, the younger members of two native tribes are growing restless at the restrictions of their cultural traditions. Especially upset are Wawa and

Things To Come

Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert stars as Nathalie, a Parisian philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But when her husband announces that he is leaving her, the pillars of Nathalie’s life begin to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift,

After the Storm

A once-promising novelist, Ryota now works as a private detective while he researches a nonexistent second novel. He struggles to take back control of his life and wants to get to know his young son better, yet he is not above extorting money from the targets he is sent to spy on.

Survival & Memory: What Decent People do in Times of Crisis

Jacky Comforty has created documentary films and videos in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Bulgaria. He will host discussions following screenings of 3 of his films. Jacky Comforty is known for the effective, sensitive, interviewing techniques he has developed for oral histories and other projects requiring on-camera discussions that are genuine, meaningful, and in-depth.

Karl Marx City

An intriguing mix of espionage thriller, family memoir, and film noir, beautifully unveiling decades of family secrets indicative of the intense paranoia of Stasi Germany, which darkly parallels surveillance concerns of today.

The Settlers

The first film of its kind to offer a comprehensive view of the Jewish settlers in the occupied territories of the West Bank. The Settlers offers an intimate look at those people at the core of the most daunting challenges facing Israel and the international community today.

Suntan

A middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends. Kostis is a chubby balding man who arrives on a small Greek island for a deadend job. Summer comes and the the island blooms into a youth paradise for uninhibited counterculture drifters

Frantz

A young woman named Anna mourns her late fiancé Frantz, who died on the battlefield during World War I. She spends most of her time fending off advances from another local man and visiting Frantz’s grave site. It’s here that she comes across the mysterious Adrien, who claims to be Frantz’s longtime friend from Paris, even though neither Anna or Frantz’s parents have heard of him. Frantz is a thinking person’s mystery

A Quiet Passion

Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson. The acclaimed actress personifies the wit, intellectual independence and defiant spirit of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death.

Personal Shopper

Following her César Award-winning performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart re-teams with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas for this mesmerizing 21st century ghost story. By day, American in Paris Maureen (Stewart) works as a personal shopper, motor-biking around the city buying up deluxe couture for a jet-setting celebrity client. By night, she attempts to channel the spirits of the dead

Slack Bay

In a postcard-perfect seaside village in 1910, an eccentric (to put it mildly) leisure-class family whiles away the summer. But something troubling is afoot: what’s behind the string of tourists gone mysteriously missing?

Chasing Trane: John Coltrane

Chasing Trane traces the great saxophonist/composer’s career from his hardscrabble childhood in North Carolina and Philadelphia to his days playing with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.

A Woman’s Life

Upon finishing her schooling in a convent Jeanne, a young aristocrat, marries a local Viscount. But marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. Adapted from the novel Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant, A Woman’s Life is a tale of love embedded in the social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy.

Rural Route Film Festival

Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16 at 4pm at the Art Sanctuary in Martinsville The Rural Route Film Festival was created to highlight works that deal with unique people and places outside of the bustle of the city. Taking in a Rural Route program is like choosing the road less travelled, and learning something new about our constantly amazing

Pop Aye

A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew growing up.

OBIT. Life on Deadline

It's a shame no one wants to talk to them at parties, because obituary writers are a surprisingly funny bunch.

Buena Vista Social Club: Adios

The musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club exposed the world to Cuba's vibrant culture with their landmark 1997 album. Now, against the backdrop of Cuba’s captivating musical history, hear the band’s story as they reflect on their remarkable careers and the extraordinary circumstances that brought them together.

Glory

A railway worker in Bulgaria finds a sack full of money in this "incisive, funny cinematic parable." - NY Times

I Am the Blues

From the juke joints to the church, up the mountain and down the bayou, I AM THE BLUES transports you to the Mississippi crossroads together with the last legends of the blues.

TOMORROW

Tomorrow showcases alternative and creative ways of viewing agriculture, economics, energy and education. It offers constructive solutions to act on a local level to make a difference on a global level.

Moka

Shades of Patricia Highsmith and Claude Chabrol infuse this thinking person's thriller set on the picturesque French/Swiss border starring two of France’s most celebrated actresses.