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A leading figure in Yugoslavia’s Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Želimir Žilnik is among the most influential and widely acclaimed filmmakers from southeastern Europe. This heartfelt and exuberant documentary introduces audiences to Žilnik’s prolific body of work, which spans six... Learn more

Join WFIU for a captivating evening with Eric Deggans, NPR's first full-time TV critic and media analyst. Get ready to dive into fascinating discussions about the ever-evolving world of media and entertainment. An IU alum, Deggans will return to Bloomington on September 27 for an... Learn more

Sergeant Howie arrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the report of a missing child. A conservative Christian, the policeman observes the residents' frivolous sexual displays and strange pagan rituals, particularly the temptations of Willow, daughter of the island... Learn more

Sarita goes out dancing one night at the insistence of her free-spirited sister, Bea. Uncharacteristically, she dances the night away, heading home alone when the party drags on too late. The next morning, after calling friends and neighbors, Sarita begins to panic when she realizes that Bea... Learn more

Trim Season: Three words: witches and weed. Jobless and searching for purpose, Emma and a group of twenty-somethings from Los Angeles head up the coast to make quick cash trimming marijuana on a secluded farm in Northern California. Cut off from the rest of the world, they soon realize that the... Learn more

Sarita goes out dancing one night at the insistence of her free-spirited sister, Bea. Uncharacteristically, she dances the night away, heading home alone when the party drags on too late. The next morning, after calling friends and neighbors, Sarita begins to panic when she realizes that Bea... Learn more

Lillian "Red" Andrews (Jean Harlow) is a small-town girl with big ambitions. Employed as a stenographer with the Legendre Company, she becomes ruthlessly committed to breaking up her boss Bill's marriage. But she doesn't stop there. Leveraging her next affair, with businessman Charles B. Gaerste,... Learn more

Influenced by the writings of Karl Marx, three men and a young woman embark on a mission to awaken the class consciousness of peasants and workers in the countryside. Lacking sophistication, determination, and morale, their revolutionary aims flounder and the young woman is sacrificed as witness... Learn more

Želimir Žilnik (born in 1942; living and working in Novi Sad, Serbia) is among the most influential filmmakers to emerge from southeastern Europe. A prolific and award-winning writer and director, Žilnik creates films that illuminate the connections between political and economic issues and... Learn more

Spanning a decade, including the filmmaker’s brief emigration from Yugoslavia to Germany in the 1970s, the short films in this program showcase Želimir Žilnik’s commitment to examining the category of work in its multifaceted forms. Stark yet sympathetic, the films shed light on unseen and... Learn more

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life in this heartrending modern... Learn more

Marlene Dietrich is at her wicked best as Shanghai Lily, a courtesan whose reputation brings a hint of scandal to a three-day train ride through war-torn China. On board, she is surrounded by a motley crew of foreigners and lowlifes, including a fellow fallen woman (Anna May Wong), an old flame... Learn more

Pre-screening Gallery Talk: Manifestos in Focus | October 8, 12pm | Martha and David Moore Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Study, third floor, Eskenazi Museum of Art: Nan Brewer, the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, and Sarah Carter, Art, Architecture... Learn more

Angel Ellis, reporter for Mvskoke Media in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, is just trying to do her job and give her readers access to all the information relevant to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. But that’s not an easy task, given that Angel and her colleagues believe in truth and transparency and aren't... Learn more

A mother wonders: will my children grow to love their perfect machines more than they love me? Intimate in scope and epic in scale, director Natalia Almada's Users embarks on a cinematic journey into an invisible realm, where it is taken for granted that technological progress will always inspire... Learn more

When Crystal Lake head counselor Paul relates the story of Jason Voorhees, a boy who ostensibly drowned at the camp and whose mother murdered a group of counselors in revenge, no one takes the tale seriously. That is, until a very-much-alive Jason begins gruesomely eliminating people. [87 min;... Learn more

Civil rights activist and independent archivist Marion Stokes videotaped 33 years of the 24-hour news cycle on 70,000 VHS tapes. In an effort to protect the truth, Stokes created an archive of U.S. history through media, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis and ending with Sandy Hook. In some... Learn more

Shortly after being fired from UCLA in 1970 for expressing her political beliefs, Angela Davis becomes a fugitive from the FBI upon suspicion of association with a courtroom kidnapping attempt that claimed four lives. This documentary allows Davis to voice her insights on the effects of being... Learn more

Aoyama, a widower who decides to start dating again, uses auditions for a fake production to function as a dating service. When Aoyama becomes intrigued by the withdrawn, gorgeous Asami, they begin a relationship. However, he begins to realize that Asami isn't as reserved as she appears to be,... Learn more

Recovering from a traumatic hostage situation, Teresa's husband convinces her to travel to their family farm to take refuge from urban violence. But there, they face a revolt by local workers, who've just been informed they'll soon be losing their homes to construction of a luxury resort. A... Learn more

Barbara Stanwyck stars as Lily "Baby Face" Powers, a tough woman of unusual beauty who sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire, leaving a trail of broken hearts and marriages in her headstrong quest for fame and fortune. Lily starts life working as a barmaid in her father's factory-town... Learn more

Recovering from a traumatic hostage situation, Teresa's husband convinces her to travel to their family farm to take refuge from urban violence. But there, they face a revolt by local workers, who've just been informed they'll soon be losing their homes to construction of a luxury resort. A... Learn more

After quitting his blue-collar job in Germany, a father returns to his home village in Romania where he finds a town struggling and a son who no longer speaks after seeing “something in the woods.” With R.M.N., director Cristian Mungiu delivers a gripping portrait of ethnic and economic... Learn more

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon Videodrome, a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit. But after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max... Learn more

Costa Rica, 1931. Fausto Porras founds the Bakery Workers' Union and joins the Communist Party, much to the growing resentment of his wife Margarita, whose cousin Abelardo is also a member of the Party. When Abelardo is expelled for allegedly embezzling funds, he joins the police and persecutes... Learn more

Adapted from David Chariandy’s award-winning novel of the same name, Brother follows Francis and Michael, inseparable brothers facing questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity during the pulsing beats of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. Told largely in flashbacks, Brother marks the... Learn more

Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures. Part Lovecraft, part Carpenter, part Fulci, part Romeo, The Void wears its influences on its sleeve while... Learn more

Adapted from David Chariandy’s award-winning novel of the same name, Brother follows Francis and Michael, inseparable brothers facing questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity during the pulsing beats of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. Told largely in flashbacks, Brother marks the... Learn more

I Saw the Devil/Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da | Dir. Kim Jee-woon: When a woman's head is discovered in a local river, her devastated fiancé Kim Soo-hyeon, a trained secret agent, becomes obsessed with hunting down her killer. Once he finds him, things get twisted, and a demented game of cat and mouse... Learn more