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Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989. [95 min; documentary; English] A Q&A with Christine Choy will follow the screening. This event is co-sponsored... Learn more

Oscar nominee Christine Choy has produced and directed over 70 works, in various forms, all of which are imbued with her electrifying energy and activist spirit. Most well-known for her Academy-nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, her work has received numerous awards and Choy has been the... Learn more

Explore the circumstances of the murder of Vincent Chin, a Detroit resident who was the victim of a hate crime in a climate of anti-Japanese sentiment among auto workers who witnessed their factories being shut down, and the lengths his family and community will go for justice. Restored by The... Learn more

The Fifth Annual Montage Film Festival is IU's annual celebration of student-produced films. Submitted films are viewed and judged by IU alumni and awarded in several categories, including Best in Show, Best Cinematography, and Best Acting or Performance. Montage is a collaboration between IU... Learn more

With unrelenting dread and an already distinct visual style, Steven Spielberg’s grueling feature debut kicked off the 1970s reminding all mild-mannered motorists the open road isn’t always a safe haven. When meek salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) hits the desert highway for a sales call, he’s... Learn more

"My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own." An official selection of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Is There Anybody Out There? documents filmmaker Ella Glendining's personal search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability. The film also... Learn more

Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two cool dudes, but to their teacher they are high school no-hopers. They fantasize about forming a band called Wyld Stallyns—one day they'll pull themselves together and learn to play guitar. But unless Ted achieves the seemingly impossible and passes a history... Learn more

Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Anthony Hopkins star in director Francis Ford Coppola's visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance,... Learn more

When sadistic thugs attack John Wick (Keanu Reeves)—a brilliantly lethal, but retired, ex-assassin—he hunts them down with the skill, ruthlessness, and precision that made him an underworld legend. Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, John Leguizamo, Willem Dafoe, and Bridget Moynahan co-star in this... Learn more

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze star in this nonstop action thriller about an FBI agent, Johnny Utah, lured by the rush when he goes undercover to unmask a band of thrill-seeking surfers who rob banks to fund their addiction to pulling off the most daring score, surviving the greatest danger, and... Learn more

Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper star in this pulse-pounding thriller filled with breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance. Jack Traven (Reeves) is an L.A. cop sent to diffuse a bomb planted on a bus by a vengeful extortionist (Hopper). Not only that, but Jack and a passenger... Learn more

An English-language reimagining of the 2000 South Korean film Il Mare, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves reunite to star in The Lake House, a romantic tale of two people who find a love strong enough to span the years separating the couple. As lonely Dr. Kate Forster (Bullock) exchanges letters... Learn more

In her feature-film directorial debut, an adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel The Virgin Suicides, writer/director Sofia Coppola explores the emotional underpinnings of a family starting to come apart in 1970s Midwestern America. The Lisbons seem like an ordinary enough family—Father (James... Learn more

A tall, handsome self-proclaimed preacher—his knuckles ominously tattooed with the words "love" and "hate"—roams the countryside, spreading the gospel ... and leaving a trail of murdered women in his wake. To Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), the work of the Lord has more to do with... Learn more

In his follow-up to the Oscar-winning The English Patient, writer/director Anthony Minghella tried his hand at another tricky literary adaptation with The Talented Mr. Ripley, featuring '90s heartthrob Matt Damon cast against type as a bisexual murderer. A bright and charismatic sociopath making... Learn more

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu) by Jean Renoir is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois... Learn more

On the first day at his new school, Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) instantly falls for Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely undatable older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) goes out, too. In an... Learn more

From Lilly and Lana Wachowski and Joel Silver, the masterminds behind The Matrix trilogy, comes another intriguing, action-packed fantasy-thriller. Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Great Britain has become a totalitarian, fascist state. Now, a shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V"... Learn more

Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) busts loose. Except he's still shackled to his two chain-mates from the chain gang—bad-tempered Pete (John Turturro) and sweet, dimwitted Delmar... Learn more

Hailed for its groundbreaking visual effects and satirical story, Brazil is one of the most highly regarded films of all time and a bona fide cult classic. Jonathan Pryce stars as Sam Lowry, a grey-suited government clerk who finds his life turned upside-down when he gets involved in a case of... Learn more

Howard Hawks directs an all-star cast, including the legendary John Wayne, in this classic western set in the eponymous Texas town. There's a showdown at Rio Bravo when courageous Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne) throws the brother of evil cattle baron Nathan Burdette in jail for murder (the... Learn more

This sprawling character and operatic psychological study follows 10 people whose damaged lives intersect—often by sheer coincidence—during a single day in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to Boogie Nights boasts a deep bench of phenomenal acting talent,... Learn more

This hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery follows four friends on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey's (Ashley Park, Emily in Paris) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola, Shortcomings), her... Learn more

Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. The heartbroken woman learns her son's final... Learn more

Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong Kar-Wai’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which... Learn more