Cleveland Premieres
Enjoy the debuts of new releases at the Cinematheque
Happyend
- Thu, Oct 23
- 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.
Director: Neo Sora Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Japanese
Starring: Hayato Kurihara, Yukito Hidaka, Yuta Hayashi, Shina Peng, Arazi
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: Rashaun Baldeo, Jessica Antovski, Judith O'Dea, Lloyd Kaufman, Andrew Bee
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: Valérie Donzelli, Frédéric Pierrot, Marie Vialle, Mathieu Spinosi, Emma Ravier
Astrid Thompson finally succeeds in fulfilling her father’s dream: to bring together four Stradivarius for a unique concert,...
Orwell: 2+2=5
- 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: Raoul Peck Run Time: 119 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Damian Lewis
George Orwell was one of the most radical and visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose 1940s novels,...
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.
Urchin
- Sat, Oct 25
- 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: Harris Dickinson Run Time: 99 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Karyna Khymchuk, Shonagh Marie
On the streets of London, Mike is hustling to get by. Roadside evangelizers won’t let him sleep in...
Köln 75
- Sat, Nov 1
- Sun, Nov 2
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: Ido Fluk Run Time: 116 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Jördis Triebel, Alexander Scheer
In a man's world, make some noise.
The Man Who Saves the World?
- Thu, Nov 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: Gabe Polsky Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Patrick McCollum, Gabe Polsky, Jane Goodall
Legend? Savior? Madman?
Dracula
- Sat, Nov 8
- Sun, Nov 9
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: Radu Jude Run Time: 170 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Romanian
Starring: Lukas Miko, Alexandru Dabija, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache
Radu Jude (Don’t Expect Too Much From the End of the World)– one of the most radical, provocative...
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
- Sun, Nov 9
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: Göran Olsson Run Time: 221 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Swedish
Starring: Yasser Arafat, David Ben-Gurion, Abba Eban, Per-Åke Holmquist
From 1958 – 1989, public service monopolies prevailed in Sweden and SVT’s reporting from Israel and Palestine was...
Peacock
- Fri, Nov 14
- Sun, Nov 16
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: Bernhard Wenger Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: German
Starring: Albrecht Schuch, Julia Franz Richter, Anton Noori, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø, Salka Weber
Am I Real?
Peter Hujar’s Day
- Sat, Nov 15
- Sun, Nov 16
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Director: Ira Sachs Run Time: 76 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall
The photographer Peter Hujar, whose images exist in an important lineage and dialogue with the work of groundbreaking...
Castration Movie Anthology I. The Fear of Having No One to Hold at the End of the World
- Sat, Nov 15
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: Louise Weard Run Time: 274 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Louise Weard, Noah Baker, Aoife Josie Clements, Magda Baker, Cameron Petersen
"Why would you do this on purpose?"
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2025 Traveling Tour Program 1
- Sun, Nov 16
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: 82 min. Format: DCP
Established in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant garde and experimental film festival in...
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
- Sat, Nov 22
- Sun, Nov 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: Sepideh Farsi Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Fatima Hassouna, Sepideh Farsi
This documentary offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between...
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2025 Traveling Tour Program 2
- Sun, Nov 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.
Run Time: 81 min. Format: DCP
Established in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant garde and experimental film festival in...
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (Chapters 1-3)
- Sun, Nov 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: Julia Loktev Run Time: 208 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Anna Nemzer, Ksenia Mironova, Sofya Groysman, Olga Churakova, Irina Dolinina
Chapters 1-3. American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make...
Trains
- Sun, Nov 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: Maciej J. Drygas Run Time: 80 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Polish
The history of the world unfolds in railway carriages in repeating refrain. Every few years, hauntingly similar scenes...
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (Chapters 4-5)
- Sun, Nov 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: Julia Loktev Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Anna Nemzer, Ksenia Mironova, Sofya Groysman, Olga Churakova, Irina Dolinina
Chapters 4-5. American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make...
So Unreal
- Thu, Dec 4
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Director: Amanda Kramer Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023
Starring: Debbie Harry
Amanda Kramer’s cyber-cinema visual essay (narrated by Blondie icon Debbie Harry) examines a canon of films that dared...
It’s Not Me
- Sat, Dec 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.
Director: Leos Carax Run Time: 42 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Denis Lavant, Leos Carax, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Loreta Juodkaite, Anna-Isabel Siefken
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions...