Playing Today
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MIRACLE IN MILAN
- 1951
- Italy
- Vittorio De Sica
An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan. Presented in 4K restoration.
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LAST AND FIRST MEN
- 2020
- Iceland
- Jóhann Jóhannsson
Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
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ON THE MORNING YOU WAKE (TO THE END OF THE WORLD)
- 2022
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UK + France
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Mike Brett + Arnaud Colinart Steve Jamison
An audio-driven VR experience that reveals and dramatizes the fundamental injustice of a world held hostage by nuclear weapons.
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PETER VON KANT
- 2022
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France + Belgium
- François Ozon
Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means.
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ALEPH
- 2021
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United States + Croatia Qatar
- Iva Radivojevic
Loosely inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Aleph, Iva Radivojevic’s Aleph is an exploration of Borges’ obsession with the infinite. Hybridizing interviews and scripted content with local actors and performers spanning five continent...
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SUBJECT
- 2022
- USA
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Camilla Hall + Jennifer Tiexiera
Subject explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen profiling the participants of five acclaimed documentaries. The filmmakers allow the film’s collaborators to have the last word, contextualizing their own participation...
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BEAU TRAVAIL
- 1999
- France
- Claire Denis
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once glorious life leading troops in Djibouti.
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FRAMING AGNES
- 2022
- USA
- Chase Joynt
After discovering the 1950s case files of a trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access to care, a trans director and cast interpret archival transcripts as talk show in a meta examination of the power, privilege, and perils of visibility...
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LET IT BE MORNING
- 2021
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Israel + France
- Eran Kolirin
Adapted from the Hebrew language novel of the same name by Palestinian author Sayed Kashua, this gently comedic drama deals with charged issues of class and identity from the director of The Band's Visit as a bussinessman gets stuck in the Arabic vil...
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HAPPY HOUR
- 1988
Grab a drink and check in with your fellow festival goers. Take a break between films to enjoy a beverage and chat about what you’ve seen so far and what’s still to come!
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ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE
- 2021
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France + Japan Germany Belgium Italy Cambodia
- Arthur Harari
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days.
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SANSÓN AND ME
- 2022
- Mexico
- Rodrigo Reyes
Set in rural California and Mexico’s Pacific coast, this documentary is a portrait of the unlikely friendship of two Mexican migrants, told within the frame of the dramatic clash between systemic forces and personal choices that envelop young, inca...
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AS FAR AS I CAN WALK
- 2021
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Serbia + France Luxembourg Bulgaria Lithuania
- Stefan Arsenijevic
This modern immigrant story is a re-imagining of a traditional medieval legend in which a Ghanaian couple goes to Europe to find a better life only to land in a refugee camp in Serbia. When Strahinja's wife, Ababuo, goes missing, he must go on an epi...
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THE AFTERLIGHT
- 2021
- UK
- Charlie Shackleton
Using footage from hundreds of films over decades of film history, this ghost story, of sorts, brings together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive. There exists only a single 35mm print of the film that is tou...
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ORLANDO
- 1992
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UK + Russia Italy France Netherlands
- Sally Potter
After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world. Presented in 4K restoration.
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HOLD ME TIGHT
- 2021
- France
- Mathieu Amalric
This cerebral drama follows Clarisse who has left her husband and children without explanation. In almost a dream-like haze, details begin to emerge as we cut back and forth between this portrait of a woman in crisis and the family she has left behin...
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WHISKEY TANGO FILMSCENE
- 2022
A storytelling event with filmmakers and author guests of Refocus Film Festival and Iowa City Book Festival. Join us to hear our guests tell their war stories about getting art into the world while sampling some whiskey!
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BAND OF OUTSIDERS
- 1964
- France
- Jean-Luc Godard
In loving tribute to the late master filmmaker, we present his adaptation of the novel Fool's Gold by Dolores Hitchens. Franz and Arthur don’t have money, jobs, or prospects, but they do have a black convertible and a shared romantic interest in Od...
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FINAL CUT
- 2022
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France + UK Japan
- Michel Hazanavicius
An adaptation of a modern cult classic (One Cut of the Dead) that itself was an adaptation of a play from the Academy Award winning director of The Artist, this bloody zom-com stays true to its predecessor, even casting one of the the actors from the...
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EARTH II
- 2021
- USA
- Anti-Banality Union
Using footage, form, and structure from big budget action blockbusters of the past four decades to create a climate disaster film that is just as bombastic and ridiculous as the films it's sourced from while also speaking to our current climate crisi...
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