The Red Balloon & White Mane

Thu, Mar 20

Thu, Mar 20

6:30 pm Intro

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Thu, Mar 20 @ 6:30 pm: Introduction & discussion by Scott Lax, novelist, screenwriter, and CIA Senior Professor of Creative Writing.

Run Time: 75 min.

Two classics by Albert Lamorisse that captivated audiences of all ages, screening in 35mm.

35mm International Special Screening

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Out of the Past

Fri, Mar 21

Fri, Mar 21

6:30 pm Intro

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Fri, Mar 21 @ 6:30 pm: Introduction by CSU School of Film and Media Arts faculty member James Denny

Director: Jacques Tourneur Run Time: 97 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 1947

Starring: Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Paul Valentine, Robert Mitchum, Virginia Huston

OUT of the Sun, OUT of the Moonlight, OUT of the Past.

35mm Special Screening

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The Neon Highway

Sat, Mar 22

Sat, Mar 22

6:45 pm Q&A

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Sat, Mar 22 @ 6:45 pm: Post-screening Q&A with actor Rob Mayes and Scott Lax, novelist, screenwriter, and CIA Senior Professor of Creative Writing.

Director: William Wages Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024

Starring: Beau Bridges, Rob Mayes, Sam Hennings, Sandra Lee-Oian Thomas, T.J. Power

Second chances don't come easy.

Special Screening

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Ravenous Remediation

Thu, Mar 27

Thu, Mar 27

6:30 pm Free

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Thu, Mar 27 @ 6:30 pm: Free screening. A Cleveland Humanities Festival program. Curation and introduction by Ksenia Un, postdoctoral fellow at Case Western Reserve University.

Run Time: 69 min.

How do documentary film, data visualization, and new media digest or metabolize the instrumentalization of visual representation in...

International Short Films Special Screening

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Boutique: To Preserve and Collect poster

Boutique: To Preserve and Collect at CIFF49

Opens on April 2

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Director: Ry Levey Run Time: 76 min. Release Year: 2024

CIFF49 Community Partner film showing Wednesday, April 2 at 5:15 pm in the Upper Allen theater at Playhouse...

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Compensation

Sun, Apr 6

Sun, Apr 6

4:15 pm Q&A

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Sun, Apr 6 @ 4:15 pm: Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Zeinabu Irene Davis

Director: Zeinabu irene Davis Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1999

Starring: Christopher Smith, John Earl Jelks, Kevin L. Davis, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb

The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the...

American Indies Filmmaker in Person 4K Restoration Special Screening

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Ya no es antes

Wed, Apr 9

Wed, Apr 9

7:00 pm Q&A

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Wed, Apr 9 @ 7:00 pm: Post-screening conversation with director Lester Hamlet, leading actor Luis Alberto Garcia, and film critic Juan Antonio Garcia Borrero.

Director: Lester Hamlet Run Time: 90 min. Format: BluRay Release Year: 2016 Language: Spanish

Starring: Isabel Cristina Santos Téllez, Luis Alberto García

A former couple, separated since their teen-age years by immigration, meet again in Cuba four decades later. This...

Filmmaker in Person International Special Screening

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Edge of Tomorrow

Thu, Apr 10

Thu, Apr 10

7:00 pm Intro

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Thu, Apr 10 @ 7:00 pm: Introduction and discussion by Steven Ciampaglia, Associate Professor of Art at Case Western Reserve University & Cleveland Institute of Art.

Director: Doug Liman Run Time: 114 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2014

Starring: Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson, Emily Blunt, Noah Taylor, Tom Cruise

Live. Die. Repeat.

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Meanwhile

Fri, Apr 11

Fri, Apr 11

4:00 pm Q&A

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Fri, Apr 11 @ 4:00 pm: Post-screening Q&A with director Catherine Gund

Run Time: 89 min. Format: DCP

This is not a letter to this country, but to us inside this country.

American Indies Premiere Filmmaker in Person Special Screening

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Evil Does Not Exist

Sat, Apr 12

Sat, Apr 12

7:15 pm Intro

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Sat, Apr 12 @ 7:15 pm: Introduction by contributors to Light Enters the Grove, a poetry anthology that explores the “biodiversity and staggering beauty of Cuyahoga Valley National Park,” and the “rich relationship between artists and the natural world.”

Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023 Language: Japanese

Starring: Ayaka Shibutani, Hazuki Kikuchi, Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka

Don't upset the balance.

International Second Run Special Screening

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The Stuff

Fri, Apr 18

Fri, Apr 18

9:00 pm Intro

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Fri, Apr 18 @ 9:00 pm: Introduction by John Un, Guest Lecturer at the SAGES Program at Case Western Reserve University

Director: Larry Cohen Run Time: 87 min. Format: BluRay Release Year: 1985

Starring: Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Michael Moriarty, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom

Are you eating it... or is it eating you?

Appetite & Its Others Special Screening

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Charles and Ray Eames’ Short Films

Opens on April 24

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Run Time: 60 min.

A selection of short films by the influential design duo: Blacktop (1952, 11 min) House: After Five Years...

Short Films Special Screening

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The Monk and the Gun

Fri, Apr 25

Fri, Apr 25

7:00 pm Q&A

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Fri, Apr 25 @ 7:00 pm: Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji

Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji Run Time: 107 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2023 Language: Dzongkha

Starring: Choeying Jatsho, Deki Lhamo, Pema Zangmo Sherpa, Tandin Sonam, Tandin Wangchuk

Once upon a time in Bhutan...

Buddhism Goes to the Movies Filmmaker in Person International Special Screening

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The Royal Tenenbaums

Sat, May 17

Sat, May 17

4:30 pm 35mm

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Director: Wes Anderson Run Time: 110 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 2001

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson

Family isn't a word ... It's a sentence.

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