God exists, and He’s a jerk. He lives in a high-rise apartment in Brussels and never gets out of His pajamas. He takes sadistic delight in dreaming up new “laws” to torment humanity, and He’s a petty tyrant to his wife and ten year-old daughter, Ea. Like her brother before her, Ea has had enough of her Father’s abuse and when she spies the right opportunity, she hacks into His computer

Lost and Beautiful blends fable and reality. A mythical character named Pulcinella rescues a buffalo calf called Sarchiopone from the forsaken palace. Together, man and beast embark on a long journey through a lost and beautiful Italy.

After traveling the world alongside migrating birds (Winged Migration) and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays (Oceans), Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age.

Jan 27, 28 , 29 It took seven years for veteran documentarian Mehrdad Oskouei to get permission to make a film in a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquent women in Iran. The result is a thoughtful and complex portrait of young women at the extreme margins of Iranian society.

As usual, this year’s assortment of live-action short Oscar contenders is a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling. Every filmmaker leaves his or her fingerprints on the material.

Many Hollywood movies are like impersonal multi-national corporations; they have unimaginable budgets and nothing creative at stake. This year’s Animation nominees are small in scope, very personal, and meticulously made.

Five of the bravest international filmmakers working today tell thoughtful, compelling stories in this year’s documentary short film program.

Four thirtysomething female friends in the misty seaside city of Kobe navigate the unsteady currents of their work, domestic, and romantic lives. They speak solace in one another’s company, but a sudden revelation creates a rift, and rouses each woman to take stock.

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.

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 […]

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.

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

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. […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.