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Just Announced
This screening includes 2026 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Animated
7 pm
We’re bringing ’em back! See the 2026 Oscar-nominated animated short films two stories high at IU Cinema ahead of the Academy Awards on March 15.
This screening includes Bones and All
7 pm
Reteaming director Luca Guadagnino and his Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet, Bones and All proves a deeply romantic and thought-provoking treat, albeit one with a thoroughly unconventional twist.
This screening includes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4 pm
With its iconic pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, William Goldman’s witty screenplay, and Burt Bacharach’s lively score, this celebrated western has gone down as one of the defining moments in late-'60s American cinema.
Midwest Premiere
This screening includes Deaf President Now!
7 pm
The remarkable true story of how solidarity and collective power helped a student body transfer their university toward justice and fairness. Disability Awareness Month screening.
This screening includes To Be or Not to Be
12 pm
The last film made by screen queen Carole Lombard before her untimely death, Ernst Lubitsch’s clever WWII satire is a rallying cry against fascism while expertly balancing slapstick and darkness.
This screening includes East of Eden
1:45 pm
Based on John Steinback’s epic novel, this CinemaScope melodrama signaled the arrival of a generation-defining talent with its riveting lead performance by James Dean.
This screening includes Bullitt
3:45 pm
Steve McQueen is cool as ice in this thrilling police procedural that also happens to contain arguably the greatest car chase ever put on celluloid.
This screening includes The Game
5:45 pm
Make your life… fun with David Fincher’s twisty, darkly funny, and incredibly underrated thriller about how one man’s life unravels after he is pulled into a mysterious game that soon becomes life or death.
This screening includes A Million Miles Away + Knives and Skin
7 pm
Get ready for a visit from multi-hyphenate Jennifer Reeder with her two most acclaimed films—a stunning short and the feature that announced her as a major new indie film talent.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes A Conversation with Jennifer Reeder
7 pm
The singular Jennifer Reeder, on stage and live for a no-holds-barred conversation on art, film, popular culture, and all the messy in-between.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Night's End
10 pm
An anxious shut-in moves into a haunted apartment, hiring a stranger to perform an exorcism which quickly takes a horrific turn.
This screening includes The Shape of Water
7 pm
Sometimes you find love in the most aquatic of places. In a top-secret government facility, true affection bubbles up between a lonely human and a captive amphibious creature. Told as only Guillermo del Toro could do!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Take Shelter
7 pm
Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) knows deep in his soul that a storm is coming—and he'll do whatever it takes to protect his family. 15th anniversary screening. Q&A with actor Michael Shannon to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
6 pm
Join award-winning writer Brett Neveu and award-winning actor/director Michael Shannon for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation on the art of collaboration and all points between. This event includes an onstage conversation, a screening of the film Eric LaRue, and a post-film Q&A.
10 pm
A controversial, claustrophobic love story brimming with paranoia and psychological terror, William Friedkin directs this desperate descent into madness adapted from Tracy Letts' stage play. 20th anniversary screening.
This screening includes A River Runs Through It
4 pm
Robert Redford directs and narrates a tale of two brothers, one family, and a timeless bond. Adapted from Norman Maclean's beloved novella, A River Runs Through It will flow right into your feels.
This screening includes Best of Un/Filmed: Short Documentaries from Russian-Speaking Filmmakers
7 pm
A collection of shorts featuring the lives of Russians and Ukrainians as they work to establish new roots away from their homelands, contemplate what sustains a romance or friendship, and more. Q&A to follow!
This screening includes Standing Above the Clouds
7 pm
Native Hawaiian activists try to protect a sacred mountain from the proposed construction of the world's largest telescope.
This screening includes Beetlejuice
7 pm
He's the ghost with the most, babe. Tim Burton's madcap second feature cemented his status as one of Hollywood's most original voices and introduced a cinematic icon for the ages. Just don't say his name three times.
This screening includes The Player
4 pm
Bitingly cynical yet somehow still good-natured, The Player is one of the all-time great Hollywood satires—and an ensemble-driven highlight of the Robert Altman oeuvre.
World Premiere, Student Showcase
This screening includes Double Exposure 2026
7 pm
Get ready for new worlds of film—literally! Double Exposure spotlights the magic that happens when film-production students team up with student composers and sound designers to creatively forge an entirely original new work. Each brilliant creation will enjoy its world premiere at this one-night-only event!
Just Announced, Rental
This screening includes Teenage Wasteland
7 pm
The year: 1991. The scene: Upstate New York. A group of teenage misfits, inspired by a renegade English teacher, embark on a student-film project and uncover a vast conspiracy that is poisoning the ground beneath their feet. Thirty years later, they revisit their film and confront the legacy of this transformative experience.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Shadow Scholars
7 pm
An Oxford professor uncovers the world of Kenyan essay mills, a billion-dollar industry which employs thousands of educated but underemployed Kenyans, putting forth questions of educational and ethical integrity. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
This screening includes Below the Clouds/Sotto le nuvole
7 pm
Brimming with traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, and the concerns of the present, a lesser-known Naples emerges in this sumptuously filmed document of the Italian city. Q&A to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Black Snow
4 pm
In this investigative eco-thriller of defiance and accountability, a Siberian eco-activist dubbed the Erin Brockovich of Russia fights for her community. Virtual Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes How Deep Is Your Love
7 pm
As marine biologists uncover mesmerizing creatures and ecosystems thriving in darkness, a looming threat emerges: the prospect of deep-sea mining in this untouched wilderness. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Basquiat – Black and White Version
1 pm
An intimate elegy for a once-in-a-generation artistic phenomenon—Jean-Michel Basquiat.
This screening includes Another Body
7 pm
Technology and misogyny combine to terrible ends in this documentary that follows several college students who find deepfaked pornographic videos of themselves online and the search to find those responsible when no one else will help. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Mamma Mia!
7 pm
You've truly never seen Meryl, Colin, Pierce—and certainly not Stellan—quite like this. The outfits! The dancing! The romance! This musical romp through pop icons ABBA's infectious catalog has the perfect combination of all three.
Just Announced, Student Showcase
This screening includes Montage Film Festival 2026
7 pm
Catch the latest and greatest new work from IU student filmmakers.
This screening includes The Natural
4 pm
As Roy Hobbs, Robert Redford hits it out of the park—figuratively and literally—in his relentless pursuit to fulfill his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom.
This screening includes Belle de Jour
7 pm
Luis Buñuel's entrancing portrait of a housewife (a radiant Catherine Deneuve) rediscovering her desires.
Just Announced
7 pm
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cronenberg's most notorious film: the controversial, dark, and twisted (literally) Crash.
This screening includes Earth Connection Film Festival: Responsibility
1 pm
A variety of untold and unexpected stories of heroes from all walks of life doing ecological work, from teaching children to swim in their neighboring ocean to counting birds and watching the sky. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Earth Connection Film Festival: Interdependence
4 pm
Embracing the earth as our home, these films compassionately and painstakingly capture the depth and nuance of human interdependence with our planet, from the lessons we learn to the dirt under our feet. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Earth Connection Film Festival: Hope
7 pm
This shorts program highlights the radical acts of kindness, generosity, and giving found across humanity, both little and small, in the face of environmental challenges that feel insurmountable when viewed alone.
This screening includes Across the Universe
7 pm
You say want a revolution? Julie Taymor delivers an onscreen one! A gorgeous staging of the classic tale of star-crossed lovers, set against a backdrop of the 1960s, and all set to a Beatles soundtrack? Dig it.
This screening includes Sneakers
4 pm
Yes, we could tell you what Sneakers is about, but then, of course, we would have to... well, you know.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes When Everyone Swims
7 pm
Through the voices of Olympic athletes, water safety experts, and families who have experienced both triumph and loss, When Everyone Swims explores the essential role of swimming in our lives. Q&A with the director and Olympic medalist Lilly King to follow!
This screening includes Moulin Rouge!
7 pm
No one tackles the age-old question "for love or money?" in quite the extravagant and sparkly fashion as the one-and-only Baz Luhrmann. Revisit your favorite bohemians and fall in love yet again with Satine, Christian, and a bangin' soundtrack! 25th anniversary screening.
7 pm
The award-winning Broadway smash that retells the Continental Congress' political struggle to declare independence hits the IU Cinema big screen for the first time!
This screening includes Three Days of the Condor
4 pm
He just reads books! And yet CIA codebreaker Joe Turner still finds himself thrust into a deadly standoff against his own agency in this taut thriller masterfully helmed by director Sydney Pollack and stars Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway.
This screening includes Doctor Zhivago
7 pm
One of David Lean's most beloved epics, this sweeping romance will beguile you with its heartfelt pathos and assured artistry.
This screening includes The Hunger Games Saga
12 pm
At its core, the story of The Hunger Games is about the power of one person to change the world. Is Katniss Everdeen up to the challenge? You'll have to watch this marathon of the original four films to find out!
