In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years until a drought threatens everything they know. While trying to decide whether to stay in the life they’ve always known or move in with family in the city, another complication arises with the arrival of their grandson, who comes… Read more »
Onscreen at IU Cinema
Not-Quite Midnights presents: Possessor (2020)
From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg (yes, son of David and, as Film School Rejects quipped, “a bloodied and bruised chip of flesh off the ol’ body horror block”), Possessor is about an elite corporate assassin (Andrea Riseborough) who uses brain-implant technology to take over other people’s bodies in order to execute high-profile… Read more »
New Americas Cinema presents: Sundance Indigenous Shorts (2022)
Consisting of six short films directed by Indigenous filmmakers, the Sundance Indigenous Shorts program features titles from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival shorts line-up and from alumni of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program. This curated collection includes narrative and documentary films from the U.S., Mexico, and the Philippines, and gives audiences a taste of the talent, power,… Read more »
Friday Night Frights presents: The Black Phone (2022)
1978, Denver. A serial child abductor called the Grabber has been prowling the streets, luring children away with magic tricks, a black van, and a terrifying mask. When 13-year-old Finney becomes the Grabber’s latest prey, he realizes the disconnected rotary phone in the basement he is trapped in connects him with the victims who came… Read more »
Friday Night Frights presents: Watcher (2022)
Dubbed “one of this century’s most arresting tales of female anxiety” by The New York Times and chosen earlier this year as one of Entertainment Weekly‘s 12 “small but mighty movies not to miss,” Watcher is about Julia, an American woman who moves to Romania with her husband and quickly finds herself unnerved by a… Read more »
New Americas Cinema presents: Dos Estaciones (2022)
The 2022 winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s special jury award, Dos Estaciones follows 50-year-old businesswoman María García (a magnetic Teresa Sánchez) as she struggles to keep alive her family’s once-thriving tequila factory. An intimate portrait of the emotional and physical toll a person can experience as they strive to hang onto their business and… Read more »