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JAY KELLY

Watch Trailer Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Riley Keough, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Stacy Keach

George Clooney and Adam Sandler lead a star-studded ensemble cast in Noah Baumbach’s latest contemplative comedy!

Clooney is Jay Kelly, a well-respected actor who, due to the unexpected death of a colleague who helped his career, finds himself on a whirlwind journey with his devoted manager (Sandler) that takes them not just through Europe, but also through the past and present of Kelly’s dysfunctional life and the strained relationships a lifetime of Hollywood success has endowed him with.

 

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Running Time: 132 MIN132 MIN
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OU School of Film: 1ST YEAR MFA SCREENING

Come celebrate the excellent work of student filmmakers from the OHIO School of Film’s 1st-year MFA Program!

Saturday, October 11th at 7:00 p.m.

Admission is FREE and open to the Public – Tickets are required

Ohio University’s School of Film graduate students will debut 12 original short films exploring a wide range of themes, including identity, family, freedom, grief, and the coming-of-age experience. This diverse collection of work reflects the unique perspectives and backgrounds of the filmmakers, who hail from both near and far.

Films and Filmmakers

That Night by Sevedsina Mahdavi. Runtime: 16 min

Synopsis: Working illegally at a local restaurant, a young woman is assaulted after hours when a chance police officer arrives and turns the night on its head.

 

 

Silent Light by Rufat Ray. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: In the stillness of night, a man faces his grief, led by the silent light of his wife.

 

 

 

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From Gaza, with Love by Mishal Waqar. Runtime: 7 min

Synopsis: A student abroad loses touch with a close friend until a pile of forgotten letters brings their neglect into focus.

 

 

 

Talk to Her by Luis Avery Munguia. Runtime: 11 min

Synopsis: When the bus doesn’t come, a young international student and a weary mother share a walk that stirs his struggle with reaching out to his own.

 

 

Mother of the Year by Nathaniel Bellasea. Runtime: 10 min

Synopsis: A single mother who works as a master thief must take her baby with her on a big job when her childcare suddenly falls through.

 

 

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The Silent Leak by Mostafa Akbari Manjili. Runtime: 16 min

Synopsis: To save her husband from bank debt, a young woman sells her mother’s only home and buys her a smaller one. But when they uncover a massive water bill caused by neglect, they must choose: deceive the water company or face ruin.

 

 

Callie by Marilyn Parker-Longdon. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: In a moment of uncertainty, A young woman awaits her medical scan results, and as the night goes on her mind spirals into a mix of reality and, imagination until a phone call ends her deepest fears.

 

 

Our Mornings Begin this Way by Neginsadat Mohajerani. Runtime: 12 min

Synopsis: After discovering a familiar letter on his coffee table, a middle-aged man goes about his day, until unfamiliar details creep in, hinting that his reality is shifting.

 

 

Trepidations by Luna Atkins-Hanshaw. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: An outlaw grows paranoid as she debates her commitment to robbing a small-town convenience store with her sister.

 

 

Quarter Aged Man by Younis Raj Uprety. Runtime: 7 min

Synopsis: A twenty-eight-year-old insecure man anxious about seeing his ex-girlfriend, gets into an imaginary argument.

 

 

Tickle Mischief by Cait Rowe. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: When her job interview turns abusive, May and her sister Luce set aside their differences and exact revenge on the perpetrator.

 

 

Girl Math by Isha Ahmad. Runtime: 6 min

Synopsis: A paranoid college girl enlists her best friend to decode her boyfriend’s social media silence, but their amateur espionage reveals more about trust, and themselves, than they’d bargained for.

 

 

 

 

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SIRĀT – Last Day: Thursday, March 26th

Watch Trailer Director: Óliver Laxe
Awards: Academy Award - Best International Feature (nom), Best Sound (nom); Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize

A genre-bending, experimental “road movie” that toes the line of post-apocalyptic drama, this critically-acclaimed film tells the story of a father who travels through the deserts of Morocco on a search to find his lost daughter. Accompanied by his son, Luis tracks his missing child to a group of nomadic desert ravers, but discovers that she is not with them. The duo decides to follow the rebellious group deeper into the desert to another rave; however, soldiers arrive to forcefully disband the group as there is a massive international military conflict on the horizon. As Luis, his son, and the ravers make their way further into the arid wasteland – sharing food, hospitality, freedom, and psychedelic drugs – the bonds of community they form as the world at-large grows more brutal become a crucial component of their survival.

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Running Time: 115 MIN115 MIN
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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB – Last Day: Thursday, March 26th

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January 29, 2024: Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Detailing some of the events that led to the killing of this young Palestinian girl by Israeli Defense Forces while she and her family were fleeing war-torn Gaza, this poignant docudrama — a co-production between France and Tunisia from filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) — has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

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Running Time: 89 MIN89 MIN
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A PRIVATE LIFE

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The latest film from French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski blends elements of noir-thriller, mystery and black comedy in a story that brings out solid a captivating performance from Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster.

Foster takes the lead as psychiatrist Lilian Steiner who receives word about the death of one of her patients. Unsettled by the untimely death, Steiner has a hunch that foul play was involved and sets out to investigate and becomes intertwined in a world of suspense that tips its hat to Alfred Hitchcock.

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Running Time: 103 MIN103 MIN
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MOANA – Last Day: Thursday, July 23rd

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Prepare to set sail on a fantastic musical adventure with Disney’s third installment of the hit film franchise — a live-action reimagining of the beloved Oscar-nominated animated adventure, Moana!

Catherine Lagaʻaia stars in the title role as the humble daughter of an island chief who answers the Ocean’s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity and well-being to her people.

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BACKROOMS – Last Day: Thursday, July 16th

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A24 Studios presents a new sci-fi horror film that adapts Kane “Pixels” Parson’s creepypasta web series for the big screen!

Renate Reinsve stars as a therapist who discovers a strange door in the basement of a furniture store and, upon entering, finds herself in a terrifying environment where reality and sur-reality collide in an otherworldly quest to find a missing patient.

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Running Time: 105 MIN105 MIN
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TUNER – Last Day: Thursday, July 16th

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New York City professional piano tuner Harry Horowitz has an interesting apprentice: a young man, Niki, who is the son of one of Harry’s late friends and who suffers from a condition called “hyperacusis”. This condition gives Niki extremely sensitive hearing, which makes him an excellent choice to learn the job of tuning some of the city’s most prestigious instruments. One day, however, Harry forgets the combination to a safe that stores his valuables, and he discovers that Niki’s ailment also gives him the uncanny talent to be a safe-cracker when the young man figures out how to open the locked safe using his special ears. Later, Niki encounters a group of thieves, employs his talents to help them with their crime, and ends up working for one of the city’s crime lords. When Harry becomes sick, however, Niki is forced into a delicate balance act of choosing between his loyalty to his mentor and to his underworld employer.

The debut narrative film from Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Roher, Tuner is a fantastic new crime thriller starring newcomer Leo Woodall (The White Lotus) and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.

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Running Time: 109 MIN109 MIN
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Grab your favorite moviegoing partner and watch Tuner surrounded bv an audience. This is how all films were meant to be seen, especially ones that tell a gripping story in a way that feels fresh and original.

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PROJECT HAIL MARY – Last Day: Thursday, April 24th

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Based on the best-selling novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) comes a new epic sci-fi tale of cosmic survival. Ryan Gosling stars as astronaut Ryland Grace who awakens in deep space to find himself alone on a spacecraft, apparently suffering from amnesia with no memory of himself or why he is on an interstellar mission. Eventually, he comes to the realization that he is now the only surviving member of a crew tasked with travelling to the Tau Ceti system — a constellation 12 light years away — to investigate why the main star in that constellation is immune from an alien, sun-eating virus that threatens our own solar system…and the Earth. That’s a huge job for an entire crew, let alone just one man; so, Grace must call upon his knowledge, ingenuity, and will, to not only survive but also complete the mission he was sent to do. Along the way, however, he discovers that he actually isn’t alone — he has a fellow-traveler from a distant world who has come to Tau Ceti for the selfsame reasons.

 

 

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Running Time: 156 MIN156 MIN
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HOKUM

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Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) is a writer working on finishing a major trilogy. One night, his dead mother appears to him in a dream, and this prompts Bauman to travel to Ireland in order to scatter the ashes of his dead parents. Once he arrives to the rural setting of the Bilberry Woods Hotel, the place where his parents spent their honeymoon, he discovers that there is some sinister history tied to the inn’s honeymoon suite and begins to experience dark forces at work as he learns more about the past.

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Running Time: 107 MIN107 MIN
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