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EL PLANETA
Fri-Thu, Oct 8-14

EL PLANETA

Leo and María — played by writer-director Amalia Ulman and her real-life mother, Ale — are constantly transacting deals, large and small, in order to scrape by. EL PLANETA is a delightful and slyly dark breakthrough for multidisciplinary artist Ulman, whose film reminds us that every day, every gesture in our contemporary world is a performance.
2021 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
Encore: Fri-Sun, Sep 10-12

2021 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour

This 92-minute theatrical program of seven short films selected from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival program includes fiction, documentary and animation from around the world. The 2021 program offers new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers and shows that short films transcend traditional storytelling.
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Sat-Sun, Jun 12-13 | Thu, Jun 17

FORBIDDEN PLANET

A starship crew sets out to investigate the mysterious silence which has fallen over a planetary colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret in this out-of-this-world science fiction adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Part of the Belcourt’s annual Science on Screen® series, a national initiative made possible through a grant by the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
ROCKFIELD: THE STUDIO ON THE FARM
Wed-Thu, Jun 2-3

ROCKFIELD: THE STUDIO ON THE FARM

The unlikely tale of how two Welsh farming brothers converted the family dairy farm into one of the most successful recording studios of all time, producing four decades of award-winning albums from Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Queen, Robert Plant, Iggy Pop, Simple Minds, Oasis and more.
GOODBYE, DRAGON INN
Sat-Sun, May 29-30

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN

The Fu-Ho movie house is shutting down for good and as a motley smattering of spectators take in the final screening, a sense of the otherworldly begins to pervade the proceedings. Directed by Tsai Ming-liang. (New 4K Restoration)
Virtual: 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Ends Thu, May 13

Virtual: 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action

This year’s Live Action program features all five nominated short films, three of which are from the U.S. and the other two from Israel and Palestine respectively.
Virtual: MARIGHELLA
Ends Thu, May 27

Virtual: MARIGHELLA

Following the CIA-backed military coup of Brazil in 1964 and the assassination of Che Guevara in October 1967, Afro-Brazilian poet and politician Carlos Marighella (Seu Jorge, THE LIFE AQUATIC) organizes a formidable resistance movement brave enough to rise against the merciless dictatorship eroding Brazilian human rights.
Virtual: JUMBO
Ends Thu, Mar 18

Virtual: JUMBO

Writer-director Zoé Wittock’s gorgeous and imaginative debut feature about a shy young woman who falls in love with an amusement park ride eschews the exploitative in favor of an earnest and compassionate portrait of loneliness and longing.
Virtual: A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX
Ends Thu, Mar 4

Virtual: A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX

Straight from Sundance 2021, this multimedia exploration of simulation theory is told through the eyes of those who suspect our world isn’t real. Part sci-fi mind-scrambler, part horror story. Directed by Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237).
Virtual: ASSASSINS
Ends Thu, Jan 28

Virtual: ASSASSINS

Equal parts rigorous investigation and empathetic portrait, ASSASSINS shines a light on the audacious murder of the brother of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jon Un in a crowded Malaysian airport and the lives of the two young women at the center of the investigation.