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2024 British Arrows

Directed by Various Directors
(UK, 2024, 75 minutes)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

Get ready for a rapid-fire roller coaster of shorts, spoofs, and celebrity guests! The MFAH presents the popular annual screening of the British Arrows, highlighting award-winning advertisements from the United Kingdom.

Thursday, December 12, 2024

7 p.m.
All We Imagine as Light

Directed by Payal Kapadia
(France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg/Italy, 2024, 110 minutes, in Malayalam, Hindi, and Marathi with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

An illuminating portrait of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, All We Imagine as Light focuses on three women whose lives overlap in the vast metropolis that is Mumbai. This sensitive drama won the Grand Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Friday, December 13, 2024

7 p.m.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

7 p.m.

Sunday, December 15, 2024

5 p.m.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg)

Directed by Jacques Demy
(France, 1964, 92 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through the lilting songs of the great composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.

Friday, December 20, 2024

7 p.m.

Saturday, December 21, 2024

7 p.m.

Sunday, December 22, 2024

2 p.m.
Little Kid Flicks

Directed by Various
(International, 2024, 67 minutes, in Original languages with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

See a compilation of highlights from the New York International Children’s Film Festival. Little Kid Flicks is designed for ages 5 to 10.

Thursday, December 26, 2024

11:30 a.m.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

11:30 a.m.
Big Kid Flicks

Directed by Various
(International, 2024, 62 minutes, in Original languages with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

See a compilation of highlights from the New York International Children’s Film Festival. Big Kid Flicks is designed for ages 8 and up.

Thursday, December 26, 2024

2 p.m.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

2 p.m.
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

Directed by Mark Cousins
(UK, 2022, 120 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Alfred Hitchcock (whose familiar voice is remarkably evoked by Alistair McGowan) narrates excerpts from his films in a journey through his vast career from early silent films to his memorable classics from the 1940s-1960s and beyond. A must for Hitch fans!

Friday, January 3, 2025

7 p.m.

Saturday, January 4, 2025

7 p.m.

Sunday, January 5, 2025

2 p.m.
Vertigo

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
(USA, 1958, 128 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

Hitchcock's haunting, compelling masterpiece, with iconic San Francisco locations, is widely considered to be one of his masterworks.

Saturday, January 4, 2025

2 p.m.

Sunday, January 5, 2025

5 p.m.
Emilia Pérez

Directed by Jacques Audiard
(France/Belgium, 2024, 132 minutes, in Spanish, English, and French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness.

Friday, January 10, 2025

7 p.m.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

5 p.m.

Coming Soon

The Muppet Movie

Directed by James Frawley
(USA, 1979, 95 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

After Kermit the Frog decides to pursue a movie career, he starts his cross-country trip from Florida to California. Along the way, he meets and befriends Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Gonzo and rock musicians Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

7 p.m.
Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

Directed by Raoul Peck
(USA, 2024, 105 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s latest documentary chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid.

Friday, January 17, 2025

7 p.m.

Saturday, January 18, 2025

7 p.m.

Sunday, January 19, 2025

2 p.m.
The Stranger and the Fog (Gharibeh Va Meh)

Directed by Bahram Beyzaie
(Iran, 1974, 146 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie's visually ravishing masterwork – banned for decades after the Iranian revolution – is set around the northern coast of Iran, where a boat drifts onto the shore of a small village.

Friday, January 24, 2025

7 p.m.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Danaye anjir-e moabad)

Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
(Germany, 2024, 168 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in prison for creating films that criticized the government, before narrowly escaping to live in exile in Europe. Shot entirely in secret, Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran.

Saturday, January 25, 2025

7 p.m.
6 A.M. (Sa'ate 6 Sobh)

Directed by Mehran Modiri
(Iran, 2024, 89 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Sara lives in Tehran and has been accepted by a doctoral program in philosophy at a Canadian university. She has a 6 a.m. flight to catch, but her friends have planned one last party before she leaves Iran. What follows is a tense social drama depicting a group of people celebrating their friend’s success while the guest of honor worries about her early flight the next day.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

2 p.m.
Universal Language (Une langue universelle)

Directed by Matthew Rankin
(Canada, 2024, 89 minutes, in Persian and French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin and Iranian writers Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati won the inaugural Director’s Fortnight Audience Award at Cannes for this absurdist comedy that variously evokes the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Wes Anderson and Guy Maddin.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

5 p.m.
My Stolen Planet (Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man)

Directed by Farahnaz Sharifi
(Germany/Iran, 2024, 82 minutes, in Persian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Using the essayistic style of a diary, director Farahnaz Sharifi traces how the Islamic Revolution changed life for women in Iran. Born in 1979 shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, Farah draws on home movies and found 8mm recordings of strangers’ lives to show moments of private joy and public defiance under the regimented oppression in Tehran.

Friday, January 31, 2025

7 p.m.
Sugarcane

Directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat
(USA, 2024, 107 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, Sugarcane is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.

Sunday, February 2, 2025

2 p.m.
Love & Basketball

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
(USA, 2000, 124 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence.

Friday, February 14, 2025

7 p.m.

Sunday, February 16, 2025

2 p.m.
Dahomey

Directed by Mati Diop
(France/Senegal/Benin , 2024, 68 minutes)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

Mati Diop’s hypnotic documentary explores the journey of 26 historical artifacts being returned from French museums to present-day Benin (formerly the West African Kingdom of Dahomey), from where they were plundered during colonial times.

Saturday, February 15, 2025

7 p.m.
Daughters of the Dust

Directed by Julie Dash
(USA, 1991, 113 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm
Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of Black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1902, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina—former West African slaves who carried on many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions—struggle to maintain …

Sunday, February 16, 2025

5 p.m.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Directed by Howard Hawks
(USA, 1953, 91 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

Howard Hawks’ Technicolor musical comedy is anchored by the performances of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as Jazz Age lounge singers on a transatlantic ocean liner to Paris.

Friday, February 21, 2025

7 p.m.