Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the “people’s poet,” is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide.
Jan 30 at 7pm at IU Fine Arts downstairs (FA 015) ♦ Q&A with the filmmaker Jacky Comforty follows the screening On March 9th, 1943, police arrived at the home of Jacky Comforty’s family in Bulgaria. This was to be the beginning of the end, the start of the journey to Treblinka. Yet another European Jewish community -- this one
This is your chance to see the 15 Oscar-nominated short films before the Awards Show. As usual, this year’s assortment of animated and live-action short Oscar contenders is a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling. Every filmmaker leaves his or her fingerprints on the material, making it a rich collection of stories, all of which have something profound to say, whether big and bold or small and modest.
A teenager growing up in a Vietnamese care center for children disabled by Agent Orange dreams of becoming a professional artist....An 18-year-old Pakistani girl miraculously survived an attempt honor killing at the hands of her father and uncle after she dared to fall in love with a boy and elope.
The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war....The silent routine of 5 Palestinian nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent.
A bear is sent off to perform for the circus.... A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of the future and meets a clone of herself....A first-generation Indian-American boy's love for western pop-culture clashes with his father’s Hindu traditions.
Sunday, Feb 21st at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater ♦ Animation Films 2:15 and 6pm Live-Action Films 4pm and 7:45 This is your chance to see the Oscar-nominated short films before the Awards Show. As usual, this year’s assortment of Animation and Live Action and short Oscar contenders is a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling. Every filmmaker leaves his or
Costi leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favorite is Robin Hood. Costi sees himself as the hero - righter of wrongs and defender of the oppressed. One evening, his neighbour pays him an unexpected visit and shares a secret: there's treasure buried in his grandparents' garden...
March 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19
The new film by Philippe Garrel is a close look at infidelity—not merely the fact of it, but the particular, divergent ways in which it’s experienced and understood by men and women.
Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble's wife.
In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences.
One Night Only! Friday, April 8 at 7:30 at the IU Fine Art Theater One Day in April is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the triumphs and failures of two men’s and two women’s IU cyclist teams trying to win the Little 500. Directed by filmmaker and native Hoosier Thomas Miller, “One Day in April” is a bittersweet portrait of
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's (Charlotte Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband (Tom Courtenay). The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps.
April 17 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations The definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time - the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to
Where else can you see four first-run, feature-length films for just $10? On April 17th you can spend the day at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater and do just that. The Ryder presents a day-long mini-festival featuring two Academy Award nominees--45 Years and Mustang--and two political documentaries. Tickets are on sale now at the BCT box office. One movie would be $7;
The Ryder is partnering with the Down Syndrome Family Connection to host a free screening of Where Hope Grows on Sunday, April 17 at the IU Fine Arts Theater at 3pm. Calvin Campbell (Kristoffer Polaha) is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the
One Night Only! Sunday, April 17 at 7:30 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali. They banned music, destroying radio stations and publicly burning instruments. Facing torture, musicians went into hiding. But rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musicians fought back. / 105 min ♦ Social journalism of the highest order, They Will Have
We’ve lost touch with nature. This disconnect hurts our health, dims our spirit, and threatens our future. Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature is a cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our vital relationship with the natural world. And it shows that a renewed connection with nature is key not only to our well being, but also to solving our climate and environmental crises.
An anthropologist recalls his childhood in France and a student trip to the USSR where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian.
Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto staged re-enactments and archives for FRANCOFONIA, a fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich and their compulsory collaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation. These two remarkable men - enemies then collaborators - share an alliance which would become the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures.
June 3, 4 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30 ♦ Group Tickets call 812 339.2002 In this penetrating dissection of modern China from storyteller extraordinaire Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin), a young woman must choose between a wealthy capitalist and a coal miner. Mountains May Depart begins in Fenyang in 1999 as
Meet the filmmaker of this low budget, slasher horror movie written and directed by Ben Arvin, a Southern Indiana native and IU alum. Dance with the cast and crew at Serendipity after the screening.
June 24, 25 David Hockney is one of the great surviving icons of the 1960s; the new bio-pic Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends, including several art world luminaries, as well as never before seen footage from Hockney’s own personal archive. Acclaimed filmmaker Randall Wright (Freud’s Naked Truths) offers a unique
June 24 - July 9 Norwegian director Joachim Trier's first two features, Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, which some of you saw at Ryder, were eloquent, deft dramas. Louder Than Bombs is Trier's first English language film. Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Devin Druid and Jesse Eisenberg star in this story of a family haunted by the legacy of its matriarch, an
June 24 - July 16 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30 Cover your ears but open your hearts for Marguerite. 1921: the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris, it is party day at the castle of Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera.
