Cleveland Premieres
Enjoy the debuts of new releases at the Cinematheque
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
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: 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
Evoking the aesthetics of Jean-Luc Godard, paying aptly cheeky respect to the late New Wave master, his own...
Resurrection
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: Bi Gan Run Time: 156 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Chinese
Starring: Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading...
The Tale of Silyan
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: Tamara Kotevska Run Time: 81 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Macedonian
Starring: Nikola Conev, Jana Coneva, Aleksandra Coneva, Aleksandar Conev, Ilina Coneva
Inspired by the folk tale of the boy Siljan, who after a quarrel with his father turns into...
Daughter’s Daughter
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: Huang Xi Run Time: 126 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: Chinese
Starring: Sylvia Chang, Karena Lam Kar-Yan, Winston Chao, Alannah Ong, Eugenie Liu
Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying...
Cactus Pears
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Director: Rohan Kanawade Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Marathi (Marāṭhī)
Starring: Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap, Dhananjay Jambar, Sandhya Pawase
A thirty-year-old city-dweller compelled to spend ten-day mourning of his father in the rugged countryside of Western India...
Young Mothers
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: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: Lucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, Samia Hilmi
Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown...
Sound of Falling
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Director: Mascha Schilinski Run Time: 149 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: German
Starring: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt
Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a...
All That’s Left of You
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Director: Cherien Dabis Run Time: 145 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Arabic
Starring: Saleh Bakri, Cherien Dabis, Adam Bakri, Maria Zreik, Mohammad Bakri
In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes...
The Voice of Hind Rajab
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Director: Kaouther Ben Hania Run Time: 81 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Arabic
Starring: Motaz Malhees, Saja Kilani, Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury, Nesbat Serhan
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a...
My Father’s Shadow
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Director: Akinola Davies Jr. Run Time: 93 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Efon Wini, Godwin Egbo, Chibuike Marvellous Egbo, Tosin Adeyemi
Kid brothers Remi and Akin get to spend a gift of a day with their estranged father Folarin....
A Poet
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: Simón Mesa Soto Run Time: 120 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025 Language: Spanish
Starring: Ubeimar Rios, Rebeca Andrade, Guillermo Cardona, Alisson Correa, Margarita Soto
An ageing poet finds purpose mentoring Yurlady, a talented teen, though exposing her to the poetry scene might...