Cleveland Premieres
Enjoy the debuts of new releases at the Cinematheque
Dead Lover
- Fri, Apr 10
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Fri, Apr 10 @ 9:00 pm: With Stink-o-Vision!
Director: Grace Glowicki Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Ben Petrie, Grace Glowicki, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow
A Frankensteinian tale about the limits of love.
Yes
- Sat, Apr 11
- Sun, Apr 12
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Director: Nadav Lapid Run Time: 152 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Hebrew (modern)
Starring: Aleksey Serebryakov, Ariel Bronz, Efrat Dor, Naama Preis, Sharon Alexander
One of international cinema’s most fearless and provocative filmmakers, Nadav Lapid has long been an outspoken critic of...
Palestine 36
- Fri, Apr 17
- Sat, Apr 18
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Director: Annemarie Jacir Run Time: 120 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Billy Howle, Dhafer L'Abidine, Karim Daoud Anaya, Ward Helou, Yasmine Al Massri
In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home...
Kontinental ’25
- Fri, Apr 17
- Sat, Apr 18
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Director: Radu Jude Run Time: 109 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Romanian
Starring: Adonis Tanța, Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Oana Mardare, Șerban Pavlu
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a...
Lumiere, Le Cinema!
- Sat, Apr 18
- Sun, Apr 19
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Director: Thierry Frémaux Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: French / English
In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name...
Two Prosecutors
- Thu, Apr 23
- Sun, Apr 26
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Director: Sergei Loznitsa Run Time: 118 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Russian
Starring: Aleksandr Filippenko, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Belyy, Andris Keišs, Vytautas Kaniušonis
In 1937, amidst Stalin’s Great Terror, a newly appointed, idealistic prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of...
The Stranger
- Fri, Apr 24
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Director: François Ozon Run Time: 122 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Benjamin Voisin, Denis Lavant, Pierre Lottin, Rebecca Marder, Swann Arlaud
In French Algeria, office clerk Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) drifts through life and love with mysterious detachment. When he...
Amrum
- Fri, Apr 24
- Sat, Apr 25
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Director: Fatih Akin Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: German
Starring: Diane Kruger, Hark Bohm, Jasper Billerbeck, Kian Köppke, Laura Tonke
It is the Spring of 1945 on the German island of Amrum, a remote outpost in the North...
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit
- Thu, Apr 30
- Sun, May 3
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Director: Shahram Mokri Run Time: 139 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Tajik
Starring: Babak Karimi, Bezhan Davlyatov, Hasti Mohammaï, Kibriyo Dilyobova
The latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (Fish & Cat) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like meditation on...
The Blue Trail
- Sat, May 2
- Sun, May 3
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Director: Gabriel Mascaro Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Portuguese
Starring: Adanilo, Denise Weinberg, Miriam Socarrás, Rodrigo Santoro, Rosa Malagueta
At 77, Tereza (a spirited Denise Weinberg) figures she still has three years left before her mandatory removal...
Bushido
- Thu, May 7
- Sat, May 9
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Director: Kazuya Shiraishi Run Time: 129 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Japanese
Starring: Eita Okuno, Jun Kunimura, Kaya Kiyohara, Taishi Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Kakunoshin, renowned for his skills with a sword and in the game of go, embodies the samurai code....
Omaha
- Fri, May 8
- Sun, May 10
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Director: Cole Webley Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Emma Keifer, John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Talia Balsam, Wyatt Solis
A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Double Feature: Chime & Cure
- Fri, May 8
- Sat, May 9
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Run Time: 156 min.
Watch Kiyoshi Kurosawa's last film & his most acclaimed feature back to back in this double feature presentation.
Jimmy & The Demons
- Sun, May 10
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Director: Cindy Meehl Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Guzzy Grashow, James Grashow
An unforgettable story of love, life and art
Dreams in Nightmares
- Thu, May 14
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Director: Shatara Michelle Ford Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Charlie Barnett, Denée Benton, Dezi Bing, Mars Storm Rucker, Sasha Compère
Three black queer femmes in their mid 30s take a road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
The Last One for the Road
- Fri, May 15
- Sat, May 16
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Director: Francesco Sossai Run Time: 98 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Italian
Starring: Andrea Pennacchi, Filippo Scotti, Pierpaolo Capovilla, Roberto Citran, Sergio Romano
A couple of jovial life-long drunkards run into a shy architecture undergrad, whose way of seeing things will...
Our Land
- Sat, May 16
- Sun, May 17
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Director: Lucrecia Martel Run Time: 119 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Spanish
In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in...
Four Rational People
- Sun, May 17
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Director: Tristan Cook Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: David Finckel, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, Paul Watkins, Philip Setzer
The Emerson String Quartet. 47 years, 1000s of concerts, 9 Grammy awards, 1 final curtain.
Changing Lanes
- Thu, May 21
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Director: Ben Wolf Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: David Byrne, Janette Sadik-Khan
Featuring David Byrne and Janette Sadik-Khan, the new documentary Changing Lanes investigates why our streets are designed the...
Puddysticks
- Thu, May 21
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Director: Megan Seely Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Dan Bakkedahl, Danny Deferrari, James Urbaniak, Mamoudou Athie, Megan Seely
A burned out young woman discovers a mysterious society of adults who heal their darkest secrets through childlike play.
Living the Land
- Fri, May 22
- Sun, May 24
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Director: Huo Meng Run Time: 132 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Chinese
Starring: Cao Lingzhi, Wang Shang, Zhang Caixia, Zhang Chuwen, Zhang Yanrong
With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by extended family in his home village,...
Silent Friend
- Fri, May 22
- Sat, May 23
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Director: Ildikó Enyedi Run Time: 147 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: German
Starring: Enzo Brumm, Léa Seydoux, Luna Wedler, Sylvester Groth, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity...
The Shepherd and the Bear
- Sat, May 23
- Sun, May 24
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Director: Max Keegan Run Time: 101 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
High in the French Pyrenees, the reintroduction of wild bears in a traditional shepherding community provokes deep conflict....
Reeling
- Thu, May 28
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Director: Yana Alliata Run Time: 76 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Fabrizio Alliata, Hans Christopher, Makena Miller, Nikki DeParis, Ryan Wuestewald
After a life altering accident, Ryan returns home for a birthday luau and uncovers the secret of when things took a tragic turn.
Hello Dankness
- Thu, May 28
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Director: Soda Jerk Run Time: 70 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023
Comprised entirely of hundreds of pirated film samples, Hello Dankness is a bent suburban musical that bears witness...
City Wide Fever
- Thu, May 28
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Director: Josh Heaps Run Time: 73 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Angelica Kim, Diletta Guglielmi, Hugo Alexander-Rose, Onur Tukel, Rutanya Alda
Sickness or pleasure?
Two Pianos
- Fri, May 29
- Sun, May 31
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Director: Arnaud Desplechin Run Time: 115 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Charlotte Rampling, François Civil, Hippolyte Girardot, Nadia Tereszkiewicz
Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a...
Ghost Elephants
- Sat, May 30
- Sun, May 31
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Director: Werner Herzog Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Kerllen Costa, Steve Boyes, Werner Herzog, Xui, Xui Dawid
An epic search for a mythical giant.
Manas
- Thu, Jun 4
- Fri, Jun 5
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Director: Marianna Brennand Run Time: 101 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Portuguese
Starring: Emily Pantoja, Fátima Macedo, Jamilli Correa, Rômulo Braga, Samira Eloá
Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle...
The Height of the Coconut Trees
- Sat, Jun 6
- Sun, Jun 7
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Director: Du Jie Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Japanese
Starring: Mado Karasumori, Minami Ohba, Riria Kojima, Seita Shibuya, Soichiro Tanaka
Just before their honeymoon, Sugamoto and Aoki break up. Sugamoto decides to bury her lost emotion by going...
The Currents
- Sat, Jun 6
- Sun, Jun 7
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Director: Milagros Mumenthaler Run Time: 104 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Spanish
Starring: Claudia Sánchez, Ernestina Gatti, Esteban Bigliardi, Isabel Aimé González Sola, Jazmín Carballo
At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after...
Agatha’s Almanac
- Sun, Jun 7
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Director: Amalie Atkins Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her ancestral farm preserving heirloom seeds.
With Hasan in Gaza
- Thu, Jun 18
- Sat, Jun 20
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Director: Kamal Aljafari Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: German
Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. What started as a search for...
The Little Sister
- Thu, Jun 18
- Sat, Jun 20
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Director: Hafsia Herzi Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Amina Ben Mohamed, Melissa Guers, Nadia Melliti, Park Ji-min, Rita Benmannana
Fatima, 17, the youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family in a Paris suburb, leaves school for a prestigious...
Colours of Time
- Fri, Jun 26
- Sat, Jun 27
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Director: Cédric Klapisch Run Time: 126 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Abraham Wapler, Julia Piaton, Suzanne Lindon, Vincent Macaigne, Zinedine Soualem
United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history by...
Everybody to Kenmure Street
- Sun, Jun 28
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Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra Run Time: 98 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Dickie
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts...
Rose of Nevada
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Director: Mark Jenkin Run Time: 114 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 2026
Starring: Callum Turner, Edward Rowe, Francis Magee, George MacKay, Rosalind Eleazar
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for...