IU Cinema
- 1213 E. 7th Street
- Bloomington, IN 47405
- (812) 856-2463
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.
The Girl in the Yellow Scarf | Additional Films and Guests
- March 18, 2024
- IU Cinema
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Carol Jenkins was just 21 years old when she was stabbed and killed in 1968 while selling encyclopedias in the former sundown town of Martinsville, Indiana. For three decades, the murder mystery sat cold in police files, void of justice. Carol's death prompted generations of fear and warnings for... Learn more
The Mahabharata | Michael A. McRobbie's Choice
- March 19, 2024
- IU Cinema
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This film adaptation of Peter Brook's original stage play is a stirring, creative, and engaging retelling of the epic melodrama that follows two warring families, the Pandavas and Kauravas. Advised by the god Krishna to live in harmony and abstain from power, the fight between the families... Learn more
Otherness: The Films of Priyanka Das | Underground Film Series
- March 21, 2024
- IU Cinema
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Born in India and currently residing in New York City, Priyanka Das explores experiences of cultural cosmopolitanism, diaspora, race, and queerness. I Tried to Write a Love Letter with My Body (2021): This film is a very personal letter full of contradicting voices. Das examines the desire... Learn more
The Hottest August | Care Not Cages
- March 22, 2024
- IU Cinema
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A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. It’s a month heavy with the tension... Learn more
Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Brett Story | Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series
- March 23, 2024
- IU Cinema
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Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker, geographer, and writer. Her films have screened in festivals around the world, including CPH-DOX, the Viennale, SXSW, True/False, and Sheffield DocFest. Her 2016 feature documentary, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at... Learn more
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes | Care Not Cages
- March 23, 2024
- IU Cinema
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The Prison in Twelve Landscapes unveils the hidden consequences of the prison system in America. Through a journey across 12 diverse landscapes, director Brett Story reveals the profound and often overlooked impact of incarceration on society. Through poignant personal accounts and striking... Learn more
Lord of the Flies | Michael A. McRobbie's Choice
- March 26, 2024
- IU Cinema
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Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash-lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps, their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing... Learn more
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels | In Light Human Rights Documentary Films Festival
- March 28, 2024
- IU Cinema
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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
- March 29, 2024
- IU Cinema
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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
- March 30, 2024
- IU Cinema
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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
- March 30, 2024
- IU Cinema
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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
Pitch Black | 2024 Solar Eclipse
- April 4, 2024
- IU Cinema
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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
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill w/filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe and William Shatner | 2024 Solar Eclipse
- April 8, 2024
- IU Cinema
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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