Filmscene

Reel Representation

FilmScene, Iowa City's nonprofit cinema, has a long tradition of programming featuring women, and non-binary artists. This series champions those underrepresented perspectives in the industry.

Upcoming Screenings

SCRAPPER

2023 / UK / Charlotte Regan

Fri, Sep 224:30pm7:15pm9:45pmSat, Sep 232:00pm4:30pm7:15pm9:30pmSun, Sep 242:00pm4:30pm7:15pmMon, Sep 254:30pm7:15pmTue, Sep 264:30pm7:15pmWed, Sep 274:30pm9:30pmThu, Sep 282:00pm4:30pm7:15pm

Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.

BARBIE

2023 / USA + / Greta Gerwig

Fri, Sep 223:45pm6:30pm9:15pmSat, Sep 231:00pm3:45pm6:30pmSun, Sep 241:00pm3:45pmMon, Sep 253:45pm6:30pmTue, Sep 263:45pm6:30pmWed, Sep 273:45pm6:30pmThu, Sep 283:45pm6:30pm

After being expelled from Barbieland for being a less than perfect-looking doll, Barbie sets off for the human world to find true happiness.

BOTTOMS

2023 / USA / Emma Seligman

Fri, Sep 224:30pm7:00pm9:45pmSat, Sep 232:00pm4:30pm7:00pmSun, Sep 242:00pm4:30pm6:30pmMon, Sep 254:30pm7:00pmTue, Sep 264:30pm7:00pmWed, Sep 274:30pm7:00pmThu, Sep 284:30pm7:00pm

Two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club on a mission to have sex before graduation.

YENTL

1983 / UK + / Barbra Streisand

Mon, Oct 26:30pm

Barbra Streisand shines as writer, director, star, and producer of this historical drama. Yentl adopts a male identity to join a yeshiva and is drawn to classmate Mandy Patinkin. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Yentl features songs by Rochefort composer, Michel Legrand.

THE HUNGER and ROT

1983 / UK / Tony Scott (Top Gun)

Wed, Oct 410:00pm

Nothing human loves forever. Plus a short film of love and despair from Carrsan T. Morrissey.

CYBERGRIME

2023 / USA/Canada/Germany /

Wed, Oct 1810:00pm

Cybergrime is a disgusting erotic nightmare lovingly extracted from the fiber optic cable lodged in the slimiest depths of your brain. Oversaturated and underexposed: 8 twisted short films plus original glitch art form this breakneck 62-minute collection of hypersleazy technophilic homo-depravity.

CAN’T HARDLY WAIT

1998 / USA / Deborah Kaplan +

Sun, Oct 227:00pm

A complete graduating class, consisting of popular girls, hopeless geeks and promising footballers, assemble at a rich classmate’s residence for a party.

BOYCOTT

2021 / USA / Julie Bacha

Mon, Oct 237:00pm

When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 36 states in America.

UNDER THE FIG TREES

2021 / Tunisia + / Erige Sehiri

Fri, Oct 2712:00am

Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.

ANATOMY OF A FALL

2023 / France / Justine Triet

Fri, Oct 2712:00am

A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

FILMSCREAM 2023

2023 / /

Fri, Oct 278:00pm

The screams are coming from inside FilmScene at our seventh annual 12-hour fright fest!

PRISCILLA

2023 / Italy + / Sofia Coppola

Fri, Nov 312:00am

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

DE CIERTA MANERA (ONE WAY OR ANOTHER)

1977 / Cuba / Sara Gómez

Tue, Dec 57:00pm

In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.

Previous Screenings

ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE

2023 / USA / Aitch Alberto

Mexican American teenagers Aristotle Mendoza and Dante Quintana explore their friendship while struggling with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality and family relationships in 1987 El Paso, Texas.