A stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock...the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park…without a rope. Academy Award Nominee: Best Documentary Feature

Spend the day with us on Sunday and learn how to live beyond fear. We're showing three films at the BCT: Meru at 2:30, Free Solo at 4:45, and The Handmaid's Tale at 7:15.

  ONE SHOW ONLY! SUN, JAN 27 - 2:30 @ THE BUSKIRK-CHUMLEY THEATER In the high-stakes pursuit of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked obstacles make it both a nightmare and an irresistible calling for some of the

Becoming Astrid chronicles the character-forming time in the young life of the Swedish writer born as Astrid Lindren; as an adult she would go on to worldwide fame as the author of the beloved Pippi Longstocking novels.

Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway star in the original film, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel about religious tyranny and sexual slavery. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum). 1990; 108 min

One of the most entertaining categories at the Academy Awards — and one of the least heralded — is for the Best Animated Short Subject.

Like short stories, short films are sometimes overlooked. But they often display all of the scope, power, insight and resonance of feature length films. 109 minutes DETAINMENT / Ireland / 30 min Director: VINCENT LAMBE Synopsis: Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts from

Five of the bravest international filmmakers working today tell thoughtful, compelling stories in this year’s documentary short film program. This year's slate of nominees are shorter than in years past (2 hrs, 23 min) and will be presented in one program without an intermission   BLACK SHEEP / UK / 27 MIN Director: ED PERKINS Synopsis: Everything changed for Cornelius

We'll host a special screening of all five nominees in both the short animation and live-action categories at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Sat, Feb 23rd. The BCT program will also include one-time screenings of Beauty and the Beast (1991 Academy Award Winner, Best Picture) & RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary) Here's a chance to see the

Beauty and the Beast is part of our Oscar celebration at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Saturday, Feb 23rd. It is the first animation film to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It also became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film ... An unconventional, loving family come across a five-year-old girl in the freezing cold. They take her in -- and teach her the family trade. Shoplifters won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Up for an ACADEMY AWARD for Best Documentary Feature, Hale County is an inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people.

The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world.

A smart, Hitchcockian mystery/thriller about class conflict and sexual longing adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami

There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge.

A thinking person's thriller from Denmark. When a police officer is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. The Guilty is shortlisted for a Best Foreign Film award.

Perennial students Juan and Wilson are planning a daring coup. They intend to break into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and steal precious Mayan, Mixtec and Zapotec artifacts.

Bernie Sanders inspired a generation -- but who inspired him?
Most people in America don't know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Eugene Victor Debs.

A young, aspiring writer returns home from college to face bittersweet truths in the new film by Turkish filmmaker and former Cannes Film Festival winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Truth is stranger than fiction in this exciting story of four college students who attempt to steal a rare book from the Special Collections Library at the University of Kentucky.

Ten-year-old Oleg lives in Eastern Ukraine on the front line of the war. Distant Barking portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents.

Sunday, May 4  ♦  5pm  ♦  IU Fine Arts Theater     Sunday, May 5  ♦  4:15  ♦  Buskirk-Chumley Theater As a young woman, Colette was locked in her room by her husband and ordered to ghostwrite a novel that would be published under his name. Colette, the film, is the story of how she reclaimed the authorship of her work —

To say that Peggy Guggenheim was ahead of her time is an understatement. She helped to define her time. A woman of extraordinary tastes and appetites, Peggy Guggenheim was was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. She smuggled canvases out of Nazi-occupied Paris. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists.