New Releases

Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film — fresh from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival — is a triptych fable featuring a stacked cast, including frequent collaborators Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, as well as Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Jesse Plemons and more.

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. The third in Ti West’s triptych — which includes X and PEARL — plays the Belcourt in an exclusive 35mm engagement.

An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis captured in stark black-and-white, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multiple perspectives. Agnieszka Holland brings a masterful eye for realism and deep compassion to this blistering critique of a humanitarian calamity that continues to unfold.

A young vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies.

The anarchic fictionalized retelling of prominent Irish language rap group Kneecap’s rise to fame. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, the group play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.

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A cinematic riddle, mirror, dream or puzzle in which the Oedipus myth is transposed to a period from the 1980s to the present, from the beaches of Greece to the lakes of Berlin. An austere, baroque work with occasional drops of blood.

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him — how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theater group with other incarcerated men.

An annual stop at the Belcourt, this year’s 110-minute theatrical program consists of seven short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three Festival Award-winning titles: ALOK, Bug Diner, Dream Creep, Essex Girls, Pathological, Pisko the Crab Child is in Love, The Masterpiece.

This new 4K version of the acclaimed 2006 live concert film captures a blistering two-hour performance from My Morning Jacket’s Nov 2005 two-night stand at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. OKONOKOS encapsulates the band at a peak moment in their career.

A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult bat mitzvah student.

After a spiritual awakening, a former Texas cattle rancher leaves the cruel cycle of animal agriculture and transforms her husband’s beef operation into a sanctuary.

In India Donaldson's insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad and his oldest friend. When lines are crossed and Sam's trust is betrayed, her dad's emotional limitations face the universal moment when the parental bond is tested.

The groundbreaking generative documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno is a film that’s different every day it’s shown — an ephemeral approach that resonates with Eno’s own artistic practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity. These versions will never be seen again.

Created to commemorate the 20 years that have passed since D.C.-based post-hardcore band Fugazi’s last live appearance, WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON D.C. is a 96-minute movie comprising crowd sourced, fan recorded live shows and rare archive footage.

Some 50 years after SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, director/co-writer Victor Erice turns in another masterpiece — thus ending a long gap between films with a moving meditation on memory, identity and cinema itself.