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.
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.
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.
After being expelled from Barbieland for being a less than perfect-looking doll, Barbie sets off for the human world to find true happiness.
Two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club on a mission to have sex before graduation.
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.
Nothing human loves forever. Plus a short film of love and despair from Carrsan T. Morrissey.
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.
A complete graduating class, consisting of popular girls, hopeless geeks and promising footballers, assemble at a rich classmate’s residence for a party.
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.
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.
A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
The screams are coming from inside FilmScene at our seventh annual 12-hour fright fest!
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.
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.
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.