Cleveland Premieres
Enjoy the debuts of new releases at the Cinematheque
Welcome Space Brothers
- Thu, Aug 20
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.
Thu, Aug 20 @ 6:30 pm: n-person Q&A with director Jodi Wille following the screening.
Director: Jodi Wille Run Time: 101 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023
Starring: Charles Spiegel, Dave Osborne, Kevin Kennedy, Ruth Norman
The true story of The Unarius Academy of Science, a long-running extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school in El Cajon, California...
Franz
- Fri, Aug 21
- Sat, Aug 22
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, Aug 21 @ 6:30 pm: Film Club discussion following the show
Director: Agnieszka Holland Run Time: 127 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Czech
Starring: Carol Schuler, Idan Weiss, Katharina Stark, Peter Kurth, Sebastian Schwarz
How do you present the life of an ordinary man who lived an ordinary life while being an...
The Samurai and the Prisoner
- Fri, Aug 21
- Sat, Aug 22
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.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Run Time: 147 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Japanese
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Munetaka Aoki, Ryota Miyadate, Yuriko Yoshitaka
Lord Murashige Araki, rejecting the violence inherent in the samurai code, takes leave of Nobunaga Oda, the great...
Do You Love Me
- Sun, Aug 23
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.
Director: Lana Daher Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: French
A journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory.
This is Pike County
- Thu, Aug 27
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.
Thu, Aug 27 @ 6:30 pm: In-person Q&A with director Laura Paglin.
Director: Laura Paglin Run Time: 78 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Mounting pressures – including an unsolved family murder – test a close-knit rural community. Shot by director Laura...
American Doctor
- Fri, Aug 28
- Sun, Aug 30
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Director: Poh Si Teng Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves...
The Marching Band
- Sat, Sep 5
- Sun, Sep 6
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.
Director: Emmanuel Courcol Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Benjamin Lavernhe, Clémence Massart-Weit, Ludmila Mikaël, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco
What defines a familial bond? Is it growing up together or are genetics enough? When a famed conductor...
Hope
- Wed, Sep 9
- Thu, Sep 10
- Fri, Sep 11
- Sat, Sep 12
- Sun, Sep 13
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.
Director: Na Hong-jin Run Time: 157 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Korean
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Hoyeon, Hwang Jung-min, Michael Fassbender, Zo In-sung
Korea’s Na Hong-jin (The Wailing, Chaser) latest epic work received a 7-minute standing ovation at Cannes as it...
The Traveling Cinema
- Sat, Sep 12
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Director: Zîlan Hemo Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Arabic
The Traveling Cinema is a documentary that follows the journey of Ismaîl Mamo, a young man from Kobanî,...
Boorman and the Devil
- Sun, Sep 20
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Director: David Kittredge Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Joe Dante, John Boorman, Karyn Kusama, Louise Fletcher, Mike Flanagan
Every artist has his demon.
Serpent’s Path (2024)
- Fri, Sep 25
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Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Damien Bonnard, Grégoire Colin, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ko Shibasaki, Mathieu Amalric
Kiyoshi Kurosawa revisits and reimagines his own 1998 thriller in this haunting French-language adaptation. The Japanese revenge story is...
Chronovisor
- Fri, Sep 25
- Sat, Sep 26
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Director: Jack Auen, Kevin Walker Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: English, French, German
Starring: Alex Kolodkin, Anne Laure Sellier, José Pacheco de Almeida, Nicholas Tebben, Nicole Dombrowski Risser
A respected academic (Anne-Laure Sellier), becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor—an occult device that...
The Last Sacrifice
- Fri, Oct 2
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Director: Rupert Russell Run Time: 94 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Adam Godley, Gavin Bone, Geraldine Beskin, Janet Farrar, Ronald Hutton
Valentine’s Day 1945. A ritual murder in rural Britain. A new horror is born.
She Creates Shorts – Luminous Rising: Voices in Formation Block
- Sat, Oct 3
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Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
This block of shorts celebrates girls and young women who are discovering the power of their own voice...
She Creates Shorts – Halo Forge: Emerging Visionaries Block
- Sat, Oct 3
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Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
This block spotlights young women refining their craft and stepping into their creative authority. Each film reflects discipline,...
The History of Concrete
- Sat, Oct 3
- Sun, Oct 4
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Director: John Wilson Run Time: 101 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: John Wilson
It takes a special talent to make an entertaining, funny and informative documentary on perhaps the dullest subject...
Filipiñana
- Thu, Oct 8
- Sat, Oct 10
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Director: Rafael Manuel Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Tagalog
Starring: Carlos Siguion-Reyna, Jorrybell Agoto, Nour Hooshmand, Sunshine Teodoro, Teroy Guzman
The Winner of the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, Sundance Film Festival 2026, Filipiñana is a beautifully...
Satan’s Slave
- Thu, Oct 8
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Director: Sisworo Gautama Putra Run Time: 96 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1980 Language: Indonesian
Starring: Fachrul Rozy, H.I.M. Damsyik, Ruth Pelupessy, Simon Cader, W.D. Mochtar
The Original Terrifying Classic Returns.
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
- Sat, Oct 10
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Sat, Oct 10 @ 7:10 pm: Virtual Q&A with director Jeffrey Schwarz following the show. Read More ›
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Adam Baran, Andy Humm, Armando D. Muñoz, Bud S. Smith, Charles Kaiser
The murders inspired a movie. The movie ignited a movement.
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
- Sun, Oct 11
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Director: Eric Weinrib, Nate Pommer Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Eugene Hutz
With Ukraine’s sovereignty and cultural identity under perilous threat, punk icons Gogol Bordello, are using their music as...
A Sad and Beautiful World
- Thu, Oct 15
- Fri, Oct 16
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Director: Cyril Aris Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Arabic
Starring: Camille Salameh, Hasan Akil, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Tino Karam
Lebanon’s official Oscar submission for 2026 was this this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion,...
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
- Fri, Oct 16
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Director: Alex Gibney Run Time: 107 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Salman Rushdie
This intimate portrait features extensive personal footage taken by Rushdie’s wife as he recovered from his near-fatal attack....
Remake
- Sat, Oct 17
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Director: Ross McElwee Run Time: 114 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Adrian McElwee, Charleen Swansea, Ross McElwee
In this vital documentary, Ross McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, looks back on his life’s work as he deals...
Where To?
- Sat, Oct 17
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Director: Assaf Machnes Run Time: 96 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Hebrew, English, Arabic, German
Starring: Ehab Salami, Ido Tako, Milan Peschel, Raheeq Haj Yahia-Suleiman, Rama Nasrallah
Hassan, a 55-year-old Palestinian Uber driver in Berlin is estranged from his daughter and living without purpose. His routine shifts when...
Timestamp
- Sun, Oct 18
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.
Director: Kateryna Gornostai Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Ukrainian
Starring: Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets, Mykola Shpak, Olha Bryhynets, Valeriia Hukova
Director Kateryna Gornostai focuses her lens on the daily routine of teachers and students adapting to the tragic...
On the Road
- Fri, Oct 23
- Sat, Oct 24
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Director: David Pablos Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Spanish
Starring: Héctor Cárdenas, Mariano López Sosa, Obdulia Morales, Osvaldo Sánchez, Victor Prieto Simental
A rebellious drifter hitches a ride with a lone trucker. As their intimacy deepens on the road, ghosts of the past catch up with them at each truck stop —and danger closes in
Portal to Hell
- Sat, Oct 24
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Director: Woody Bess Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Keith David, Michael McDonald, Richard Kind, Romina D'Ugo, Trey Holland
After a debt-collector finds a portal to hell in a washing machine at his local laundromat, he’s propositioned into feeding it sinners to save his neighbor’s soul.
48 Hour Film Project Horror and Sci-Fi Group A
- Wed, Oct 28
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Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
The Cleveland 48 Hour Film Project presents a special screening of original Horror and Sci-Fi short films created...
48 Hour Film Project Horror and Sci-Fi Group B
- Wed, Oct 28
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.
Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
The Cleveland 48 Hour Film Project presents a special screening of original Horror and Sci-Fi short films created...
Lady
- Thu, Oct 29
- Sat, Oct 31
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Director: Samuel Abrahams Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Juliet Cowan, Laurie Kynaston, Olisa Odele, Sian Clifford
Sian Clifford (Fleabag) creates the unforgettable character, Lady Isabella, in this absurdist comedy that blends elements of reality...