Cleveland Premieres
Enjoy the debuts of new releases at the Cinematheque
A Magnificent Life
- Fri, Mar 27
- Sat, Mar 28
- Sun, Mar 29
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: Sylvain Chomet Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Géraldine Pailhas, Laurent Lafitte, Olivia Gotanègre, Sophie Maréchal, Thierry Garcia
His story is that of cinema.
Alpha
- Fri, Mar 27
- Sat, Mar 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.
Director: Julia Ducournau Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, Golshifteh Farahani, Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim
Love leaves a mark.
Mirrors No. 3
- Fri, Apr 3
- Sat, Apr 4
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 3 @ 7:00 pm: Film Club discussion after the screening in the atrium.
Director: Christian Petzold Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: German
Starring: Barbara Auer, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt, Paula Beer, Philip Froissant
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura (Petzold’s frequent collaborator Paula Beer) miraculously survives a car crash....
Dry Leaf
- Sat, Apr 4
- Sun, Apr 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: Alexandre Koberidze Run Time: 186 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026 Language: Georgian
Starring: David Koberidze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Irina Chelidze, Otar Nijaradze, Vakhtang Panchulidze
Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the greener pastures of the Georgian countryside, traces of her passing...
Coexistence, My Ass!
- Sun, Apr 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: Amber Fares Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2026
Starring: Noam Shuster-Eliassi
Activist and comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi grew up in Neve Shalom/Wāħat as-Salām, a village where Israeli Jews and Palestinians...
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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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...