IU Cinema

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  • Bloomington, IN 47405
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The Indiana University Cinema is a world-class venue and curatorial program dedicated to the highest standards of presentation of film in both traditional and modern forms. By providing unique and enriching cinematic experiences, the cinema advances Indiana University’s long-standing commitment to excellence, scholarship, and engagement in the arts across campus and community.

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels | In Light Human Rights Documentary Films Festival

Serbian "artivist" and filmmaker Mila Turajlić follows cameraman Stevan Labudović’s work in Algeria through intimate interviews with him and Algerian revolutionary contemporaries, as well as through his original newsreel footage, to show an untold chapter in the history of anti-colonial cinema.... Learn more

Between the Rains | In Light Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Filmed over the course of four consecutive years during record low annual precipitation in northern Kenya, Between the Rains is a feature collaboration with the Turkana-Ngaremara community that seeks to understand the experiences of a childhood caught within a traditional culture that is a... Learn more

Beba | In Light Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

New York filmmaker Rebeca "Beba" Huntt explores her cultural background as an Afro-Latinx woman. In this tough, raw, stubborn, and powerful self-portrait, Beba stares down the curses of her ancestry, probing the psychic wounds she has inherited while simultaneously embracing the vastness of her... Learn more

The Taste of Mangon | In Light Human Right Documentary Film Festival

The Taste of Mango, Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its center are three extraordinary women: the director’s mother, Rozana; her grandmother, Jean; and the director herself. Their stories,... Learn more

Time | Care Not Cages

Time presents an intimate portrayal of activist Fox Rich and her two-decade journey to free her incarcerated husband. Director Garrett Bradley powerfully captures the devastating impact of mass incarceration on individuals and families, shedding light on the social and racial inequalities that... Learn more

Pitch Black | 2024 Solar Eclipse

Get in the mood for the April 8 total solar eclipse with our special First Thursdays screening of this eclipse-centric 2000 sci-fi classic! About Pitch Black When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet illuminated in perpetual daylight by three suns, the marooned passengers soon learn... Learn more

Double Exposure 2024 | Double Exposure

Presenting original student work, Double Exposure is an innovative and collaborative program made possible through a partnership which brings together the Indiana University Student Composers Association, The Media School, Jacobs School of Music’s Music Scoring for Visual Media program, Audio... Learn more

William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill w/filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe and William Shatner | 2024 Solar Eclipse

The definitive documentary about cultural icon William Shatner, with director Alexandre O. Philippe and star William Shatner in person. About William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill From make-believe starship captain to a real-life rocketman, William Shatner has led one of the most unique and... Learn more

Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Thomas Antonic | Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series

Thomas Antonic is an award-winning poet, musician, writer, filmmaker, and multimedia artist who also holds a PhD in German Literature and Philosophy. He works mainly in the fields of experimental literature and multimedia intersections of poetry, film, music, visual arts, cut-up, improvisation,... Learn more

One More Step West is the Sea: ruth weiss | Additional Films and Guests

One More Step West Is the Sea is a film about the legendary Beat poet ruth weiss (name always lowercase), a Nazi refugee in the 1930s, innovator of Jazz & Poetry in Chicago in the late 1940s, major female Beat Generation partaker in San Francisco in the 1950s, filmmaker in the 1960s, and... Learn more

AAPI Movement Short Film Festival | Movement: Asian/Pacific America

The AAPI Movement Short Film Festival's goal is to showcase and uplift minority voices voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community and provide an opportunity and place for Asian art and cultures to shine through eight short films. Following the screening of the films, there will... Learn more

The Muppets | Historic Preservation Series

The Muppets provides a cheerful adventure that involves "getting the band" back together in order to achieve the shared goal of saving their beloved theater from being torn down. The classic characters from the Muppets Show such as Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog are joined by Mary and Gary,... Learn more

All That Jazz | City Lights Film Series

With a mesmerizing dive into the whirlwind world of showbiz, All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to unprecedented heights and beyond mere entertainment. Roy Scheider delivers a standout performance as Joe Gideon, exploring the profound inquiries of existence and the intricate interplay between... Learn more

Robby Müller: Living the Light | Jon Vickers Pics

As a true master of light, cinematographer Robby Müller captured some of modern cinema's most beautiful and haunting images. Directors like Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Lars von Trier, Sally Potter, Peter Bogdanovich, and William Friedkin entrusted the visual style of their films to Müller's... Learn more

Rudy | Additional Films and Guests

Rudy Ruettiger wants to play football at the University of Notre Dame, but has neither the money for tuition nor the grades to qualify for a scholarship. Trying desperately to get out of the steel mill after his best friend dies on the job, Rudy gains admission to Notre Dame and begins to fight... Learn more

The Greenest Building | Historic Preservation Series

The Greenest Building addresses an issue that has become more pressing within historic preservation as time goes on by posing questions on the best course of action for lowering carbon emissions in the built environment. In an era when up to 30% of the existing building stock is being demolished... Learn more

A Question of Color | Additional Films and Guests

A Question of Color weaves together interviews with Black Americans of every complexion to explore colorism in the 1980s and early 1990s. Director Kathe Sandler also narrates the film, providing historical context, personal anecdotes, and sharing critical perspectives about colorism. The... Learn more

Reefer Madness | City Lights Film Series

One of the greatest cult films of all time, Reefer Madness theatrically dramatizes the sensational dangers of the most frightful assassin of our youth, Public Enemy No. 1: marijuana! Originally produced as Tell Your Children, the film serves as a riotous cautionary tale when one decides to tangle... Learn more

The Exiles | IU Global Film Festival

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

Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Christine Choy | IU Global Film Festival

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

Who Killed Vincent Chin? | IU Global Film Festival

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

Montage Film Festival 2024 | Additional Films and Guests

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

Duel | City Lights Film Series

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

Is There Anybody Out There? | Additional Films and Guests

"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 & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Escape the Week Mega Marathon

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

Bram Stoker's Dracula | Escape the Week Mega Marathon

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

John Wick | Escape the Week Mega Marathon

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

Point Break | Escape the Week Mega Marathon

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

Speed | Escape the Week Mega Marathon

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

The Lake House | Escape the Week Mega Marathon

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