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While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith, in her first starring feature-film role), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country.

QUEEN & SLIM will not show Monday, December 30th thru Wednesday, January 1st.

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133 MIN

The Mountain Minor is a realistic and heartwarming story about one person and his family that tells the story about the many people and families of Appalachia who left their homes in the 1920s-1950s and migrated to urban Midwestern centers to survive, most never to return to the land and life they loved. (Credit)

One night only, featuring pre-show music from Wright, Hamilton, Hoffman, and Beard and a post-show Q&A with director Dale Farmer! Admission $10.

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When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame? This eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction uses incidents in which robots have caused the deaths of humans—from a Volkswagen factory in Germany to a bomb-carrying police droid in Dallas—as a window into global automation and its consequences. Though they are typically treated as freak anomalies, each case raises questions of accountability, legality and morality. Exploring the provocative views of engineers, journalists and philosophers, the film goes beyond sensational deaths to examine more subtle but pervasive ways that robots pose a threat to humanity.

Q&A with the filmmaker after the show.

One night only, free admission!

About the filmmaker:

Maxim Pozdorovkin (Director/Producer/Editor) is the director of five feature documentaries and multiple shorts. His films include Our New President (Sundance 2018 Jury Prize), Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Sundance 2013 Jury Prize) and The Notorious Mr. Bout (Sundance 2014). His documentary Clinica de Migrantes (HBO) was nominated for a 2016 IDA award. Maxim holds a PhD from Harvard University for a dissertation about early propaganda. Next, Maxim is directing How To Rob Banks for Dummies, a hybrid documentary about cult video artist Joe Gibbons.

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83 MIN

During the 1960s, filmmakers from around the world came to Appalachia to document the dire conditions of the region’s poorest residents. Media focused the nation’s attention on economic justice and helped to lead to the declaration of the War on Poverty. But the use of the striking images of poverty also raised questions about whether media-makers with otherwise good intentions exploited and perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Appalachia.

In 1967, this tension between media and community led to an extreme and tragic response, when eastern Kentuckian Hobart Ison shot and killed Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor, who was in the region to document conditions of poverty.

Stranger with a Camera revisits this tragedy as a way to examine the relationship between media-makers and the communities they portray in their work.

Free admission! Following the screening, please join us for a panel discussion about representation of Appalachia in the media.

This event is sponsored by the Appalachian Rural Health Institute, Athena Cinema, Center for Campus and Community Engagement, OHIO Honors program, and University Libraries.

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61 MIN

BLACK AND BLUE is a fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop (Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her (Tyrese Gibson) as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.

Tickets to this event are free and come with one free small popcorn! Tickets are available at the box office the night of the show.

Sponsored by OHIO’s Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Multicultural Center, NAACP and Division of Diversity & Inclusion.

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108 MIN

From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har’el brings to life a young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalizing his childhood ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har’el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon.

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93 MIN

From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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110 MIN