FilmScene, Iowa City’s nonprofit cinema, is a proud partner of Science on Screen®. An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Science on Screen® supports recipients efforts to present films that—directly or indirectly—are connected to science.
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories for ever.
When his young daughter’s beloved companion, an android named Yang, malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair it.
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years before have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
With the planet-destroying power of the Death Star, the Empire looks to cement its grip on the galaxy. Meanwhile, farm boy Luke Skywalker rises to face his destiny.