BELLY
7:00pm
Two young friends involved in organized crime and drug dealing find that their priorities differ.
STORIES OF COMMUNITY ONE YEAR CELEBRATION
3:00pm
A celebration of FilmScene's year-long partnership with Resilient Sustainable Future for Iowa City .
HERETIC
7:00pm
Two young women of religion are drawn into a game of cat and mouse in the house of a strange man.
A SPECIAL DAY
6:30pm
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
MANGO HOUSE
7:00pm
A fly-on-the-wall documentary following P.J. Parmar, a medical doctor, and founder of Mango House, the largest shared space for refugees in Colorado and the greater west.
WHERE OLIVE TREES WEEP
7:00pm
Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
PERMUTATIONS OF LIGHT: THE FILMS OF LARRY GOTTHEIM
4:00pm
Larry Gottheim is a key filmmaker of American avant-garde cinema whose work often shares the simple structure of the earliest films while relating minimal, conceptual, and process art practices. In this program, we showcase some of the director's mos...
YOUR FAT FRIEND
7:00pm
Your Fat Friend charts Aubrey Gordon's journey from anonymous blogger Yrfatfriend to NY Times bestselling author and podcast host and the complexities of making change. It’s a film about fatness, family and the deep, messy feelings all of us hold a...
WICKED
12:00am
Elphaba and Glinda 's friendship reaches a crossroads following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those ...
YOUTH (HOMECOMING)
7:00pm
Wang Bing concludes his monumental trilogy with an expansive encounter of the migrant workers in Zhili’s textile factories as they plan to visit their hometowns to celebrate the New Year’s festivities.
ARISTOTLE'S PLOT
7:00pm
A group of wannabe gangsters hooked on American action blockbusters must contend with a cinephile filmmaker who tries to petition the local government to center African cinema over Hollywood.
THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH
7:00pm
The story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.
THE NEGRO ARTIST
7:00pm
Follows Caleb Rainey's story as a spoken word poet with artistic roots in eastern Iowa. As we dive into Rainey's world, we see a profound exploration of race, identity, and the lived realities of systemic inequality. His work challenges us to confron...
PICKPOCKET
7:00pm
This retelling of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace that follows a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train s...
