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  • All We Imagine As Light Film Poster
    All We Imagine as Light
    Directed by Payal Kapadia
    (France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg/Italy, 2024, 110 minutes, in Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles)
    Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

    An illuminating portrait of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, All We Imagine as Light focuses on three women whose lives overlap in the vast metropolis that is Mumbai. This sensitive drama won the Grand Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

    Friday, December 13, 2024
    7 p.m.
    Saturday, December 14, 2024
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, December 15, 2024
    5 p.m.
  • The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg Film Poster
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg)
    Directed by Jacques Demy
    (France, 1964, 92 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

    Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through the lilting songs of the great composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.

    Friday, December 20, 2024
    7 p.m.
    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, December 22, 2024
    2 p.m.
  • Pufferfish Film Image
    Little Kid Flicks
    Directed by Various
    (International, 2024, 67 minutes, in Original languages with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    See a compilation of highlights from the New York International Children’s Film Festival. Little Kid Flicks is designed for ages 5 to 10.

    Thursday, December 26, 2024
    11:30 a.m.
    Thursday, January 2, 2025
    11:30 a.m.
  • Head In The Clouds Film Image
    Big Kid Flicks
    Directed by Various
    (International, 2024, 62 minutes, in Original languages with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    See a compilation of highlights from the New York International Children’s Film Festival. Big Kid Flicks is designed for ages 8 and up.

    Thursday, December 26, 2024
    2 p.m.
    Thursday, January 2, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • My Name is Alfred Hitchcock Film Poster
    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
    Directed by Mark Cousins
    (UK, 2022, 120 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Alfred Hitchcock (his familiar voice evoked here by Alistair McGowan) narrates excerpts from his films in a journey through his vast career. Examining everything from early silent films to his memorable classics from the 1940s–1960s and beyond, this is a must for Hitch fans! 

    Friday, January 3, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Saturday, January 4, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, January 5, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Vertigo Film Poster
    Vertigo
    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    (USA, 1958, 128 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

    Hitchcock's haunting, compelling masterpiece, with iconic San Francisco locations, is widely considered to be one of his masterworks.

    Saturday, January 4, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Sunday, January 5, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • Emilia Pérez Film Poster
    Emilia Pérez
    Directed by Jacques Audiard
    (France/Belgium, 2024, 132 minutes, in Spanish, English, and French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through a vivid mixture of liberating song, dance, and bold visuals, this odyssey follows four remarkable women in Mexico as they pursue their own happiness

    Friday, January 10, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, January 12, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • The Muppet Movie Film Poster
    The Muppet Movie
    Directed by James Frawley
    (USA, 1979, 95 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    After Kermit the Frog decides to pursue a movie career, he starts his cross-country trip from Florida to California. Along the way, he meets and befriends Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and rock musicians Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. 

    Saturday, January 11, 2025
    7 p.m.

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  • Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Film Poster
    Ernest Cole: Lost & Found
    Directed by Raoul Peck
    (USA, 2024, 105 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest documentary chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed Black life under apartheid to the world. 

    Friday, January 17, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Saturday, January 18, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, January 19, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • The Stranger and the Fog Film Poster
    The Stranger and the Fog (Gharibeh Va Meh)
    Directed by Bahram Beyzaie
    (Iran, 1974, 146 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

    Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie's visually ravishing masterwork—banned for decades after the Iranian revolution—is set around the northern coast of Iran, where a boat drifts onto the shore of a small village. 

    Friday, January 24, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig Film Poster
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Danaye anjir-e moabad)
    Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
    (Germany, 2024, 168 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison for creating films that criticized the government, before his narrow escape to exile in Europe. Shot entirely in secret, Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when one of them is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. 

    Saturday, January 25, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • 6 AM Film Poster
    6 A.M. (Sa'ate 6 Sobh)
    Directed by Mehran Modiri
    (Iran, 2024, 89 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Sara lives in Tehran and has been accepted by a doctoral program in philosophy at a Canadian university. She has a 6 a.m. flight to catch, but her friends have planned one last party before she leaves Iran. What follows is a tense social drama depicting a group of people celebrating their friend’s success while the guest of honor worries about her early flight the next day.

    Sunday, January 26, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Universal Language Film Poster
    Universal Language (Une langue universelle)
    Directed by Matthew Rankin
    (Canada, 2024, 89 minutes, in Persian and French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin and Iranian writers Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati won the inaugural Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes for this absurdist comedy that variously evokes the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Wes Anderson, and Guy Maddin. 

    Sunday, January 26, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • My Stolen Planet Film Poster
    My Stolen Planet (Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man)
    Directed by Farahnaz Sharifi
    (Germany/Iran, 2024, 82 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Using the essayistic style of a diary, director Farahnaz Sharifi traces how the Islamic Revolution changed life for women in Iran. Born in 1979, shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, Sharifi draws on home movies and found 8mm recordings of strangers’ lives to show moments of private joy and public defiance under the regimented oppression in Tehran. 

    Friday, January 31, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • Sugarcane Film Poster
    Sugarcane
    Directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat
    (USA, 2024, 107 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, Sugarcane is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.

    Sunday, February 2, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
    (2025, 120 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    View the nominated short films in the category of Live Action from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!

    Friday, February 7, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, February 23, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Friday, February 28, 2025
    7:30 p.m.
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
    (2025, 90 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    View the nominated short films in the category of Animation from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!

    Friday, February 7, 2025
    7:30 p.m.
    Sunday, February 23, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Friday, February 28, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Saturday, March 1, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, March 2, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary
    (2025, 180 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater and Lynn Wyatt Theater

    View the nominated short films in the category of Documentary from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!

    Saturday, February 8, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Sunday, February 9, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Thursday, February 27, 2025
    6 p.m.
  • Love & Basketball Film Poster
    Love & Basketball
    Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
    (USA, 2000, 124 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence.

    Friday, February 14, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, February 16, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Dahomey Film Poster
    Dahomey
    Directed by Mati Diop
    (France/Senegal/Benin , 2024, 68 minutes)
    Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

    Mati Diop’s hypnotic documentary explores the journey of 26 historical artifacts being returned from French museums to present-day Benin (formerly the West African Kingdom of Dahomey), from where they were plundered during colonial times.

    Saturday, February 15, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • Daughters of the Dust Film Poster
    Daughters of the Dust
    Directed by Julie Dash
    (USA, 1991, 113 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of Black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. Set in 1902, it follows a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands near South Carolina as they struggle to maintain their heritage. 

    Sunday, February 16, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Film Poster
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    Directed by Howard Hawks
    (USA, 1953, 91 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Howard Hawks’ Technicolor musical comedy is anchored by the performances of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as Jazz Age lounge singers on a Transatlantic ocean liner to Paris. 

    Friday, February 21, 2025
    7 p.m.
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