Cleveland Premieres
Enjoy the debuts of new releases at the Cinematheque
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
- Fri, Aug 29
- Sat, Aug 30
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: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay Run Time: 76 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Andrzej Kłak, Leszek Bzdyl, Robert Martyniak, Tadeusz Janiszewski, Wioletta Kopańska
A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time...
Suspended Time
- Thu, Sep 4
- Sat, 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: Olivier Assayas Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Maud Wyler, Micha Lescot, Nine d'Urso, Nora Hamzawi, Vincent Macaigne
A film director returns to his childhood home in provincial France with his brother and his girlfriend and...
Boys Go to Jupiter
- Fri, Sep 5
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Director: Julian Glander Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Elsie Fisher, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Jack Corbett, Miya Folick, Tavi Gevinson
A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.
Harvest
- Fri, Sep 5
- Sun, Sep 7
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: Athina Rachel Tsangari Run Time: 131 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Arinzé Kene, Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Thalissa Teixeira
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter...
Animation Mixtape
- Thu, Sep 11
- Sun, Sep 14
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: Don Hertzfeldt Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP
A collection of extraordinary animated short films from around the world, curated by Don Hertzfeldt
Stranger Eyes
- Fri, Sep 12
- Sun, Sep 14
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: Yeo Siew Hua Run Time: 126 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Chinese
Starring: Anicca Panna, Lee Kang-sheng, Pete Teo, Vera Chen, Wu Chien-Ho
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has...
Eid
- Sat, 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: Yousef Abo Madegem Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Arabic
Starring: Anat Hadid, Angham Khalil, Ashraf Barhom, Hisham Suliman, Shadi Mar'i
Eid, a young Bedouin from Rahat, spends his nights in Skype calls with Dounia, a married Arab actress...
Direct Action
- Sun, Sep 14
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Director: Ben Russell, Guillaume Cailleau Run Time: 216 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Direct Action documents the everyday of one of the most important activist communities in France in order to...
A Little Prayer
- Thu, Sep 18
- Fri, Sep 19
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: Angus MacLachlan Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Celia Weston, Dascha Polanco, David Strathairn, Jane Levy, Steve Coulter
A loving father grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers that his son is having...
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
- Fri, Sep 19
- Sat, Sep 20
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Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 100-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated...
Latin Clowns Evolution
- Thu, Sep 25
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Director: Jacob Koestler, Michael McDermit Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP
At the annual Congreso in Los Angeles, a group of Latine clowns comes together to teach 150+ attendees...
Riefenstahl
- Thu, Sep 25
- Sun, Sep 28
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Director: Andres Veiel Run Time: 115 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: German
Starring: Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, Horst Kettner, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl
Explores Leni Riefenstahl’s artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence...
Dreams (Sex Love)
- Fri, Sep 26
- Sat, Sep 27
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Director: Dag Johan Haugerud Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Norwegian
Starring: Andrine Sæther, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen, Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu
A seventeen-year-old girl experiences a sexual awakening when she falls head over heels in love with her female...
Megadoc
- Sun, Oct 5
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: Mike Figgis Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP
Starring: Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, George Lucas, Spike Lee
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.
The Summer Book
- Fri, Oct 10
- Sun, Oct 12
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Director: Charlie McDowell Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Glenn Close, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Pekka Strang, Sophia Heikkilä
The story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother,...
Where to Land
- Sat, Oct 11
- Sun, Oct 12
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Director: Hal Hartley Run Time: 74 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Bill Sage, Gia Crovatin, Joe Perrino, Kathleen Chalfant, Lorraine Farris
Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and...
Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait
- Thu, Oct 16
- Sun, Oct 19
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: Khyentse Norbu Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2016 Language: Dzongkha
Starring: Sadon Lhamo, Thinley Dorji, Tony Leung, Tshering Dorji, Zhou Xun
The dazzling new film from Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers and Magicians) chronicles a...
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)
- Fri, Oct 17
- Sun, Oct 19
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Director: Sierra Falconer Run Time: 87 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Adam LeFevre, Brooke Butler, Jonathan Stoddard, Michela Luci, Wayne Duvall
Lives intertwine around Green Lake as a girl learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two...
Happyend
- Thu, Oct 23
- Sat, Oct 25
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Director: Neo Sora Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Japanese
Starring: Arazi, Hayato Kurihara, Shina Peng, Yukito Hidaka, Yuta Hayashi
Something big is about to change.
Vampire Zombies…from Space!
- Thu, Oct 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: Michael Stasko Run Time: 98 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Andrew Bee, Jessica Antovski, Judith O'Dea, Lloyd Kaufman, Rashaun Baldeo
A batty new comedy that's guaranteed to suck!
The Musicians
- Fri, Oct 24
- Sun, Oct 26
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: Grégory Magne Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Emma Ravier, Frédéric Pierrot, Marie Vialle, Mathieu Spinosi, Valérie Donzelli
Astrid Thompson finally succeeds in fulfilling her father’s dream: to bring together four Stradivarius for a unique concert,...
Of Affect: 2025 Architecture & Film Symposium with Liam Young
- Sat, Oct 25
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: 165 min.
The Architecture & Film Symposium is a biennial event that engages the liminal condition between the built environment and the filmic space. Join for film screenings & keynote lecture by Liam Young.