APRIL 2026 HIGHLIGHTS
The Christophers
OPENS APR 16 • UPTOWN
The great Ian Mckellen and Michaela Coel ("I May Destroy You") make a brilliant pairing in Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh's incisively witty chamber comedy about art, commerce, and avarice.
Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) was once a star of London’s 1960s and '70s pop art explosion, but he hasn’t painted in decades and has been broke for years. His two estranged children, desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access 8 unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage. Her plan is to complete them, then return them to storage, where they are to be “discovered” upon Julian’s death.
Project Hail Mary
NOW PLAYING ■ DOWNTOWN
Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out.
Palestine 36
APR 3–5 ■ FILM CENTER
Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir takes us back to Palestine in the 1930s, charting the lives and ambitions of those living under British rule. Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass round out a tremendously strong international cast.
Two Prosecutors
APR 3–9 ■ UPTOWN
Set at the height of the great purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, Ukranian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest triumph is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism.
MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA Casino (1995)
APR 8 ■ UPTOWN
Juicy, over the top, deliciously gaudy 1970s excess, as Robert De Niro tries to keep his casino free of Mob interference, while his enforcer (Joe Pesci), his wife (Sharon Stone), and her ex (James Woods) pursue their often conflicting agendas. 30th anniversary screening.
André is An Idiot
APR 10–12 ■ FILM CENTER
André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.
The Drama
NOW PLAYING ■ UPTOWN
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
Miroirs
No. 3
APR 3–9 ■ UPTOWN
Christian Petzold’s haunting, beautifully crafted new film stars Paula Beer as a pianist from Berlin who’s taken in by a mysterious woman in an isolated country house after surviving a violent car crash.
SIFF MOVIE CLUB
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
APR 6 ■ UPTOWN
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
Exit 8
OPENS APR 9 ■ UPTOWN
Genki Kawamura’s Dante-inspired spin on Kotake Create’s cult game traps Arashi star Kazunari Ninomiya in a looping, sterile subway where one mistake resets everything. A purgatorial thriller born from on-set collaboration, Exit 8 fuses gameplay logic with razor-sharp, emotionally charged cinema.
DJ Ahmet APR 10–16 ■ UPTOWN
Fifteen-year-old shepherd Ahmet rebels against his conservative North Macedonian farming village when he gets a taste of electronic dance music in this heartwarming dramedy, winner of the World Cinema – Audience Award Prize at Sundance 2025.
MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) APR 15 ■ UPTOWN
In Leonardo DiCaprio’s pet project he’s a Wall Street player who, with his partner (Jonah Hill), scams millions from vulnerable investors. It’s a euphoric ride through the most depraved aspects of our human nature. With the late, great, much-loved Rob Reiner.
I Swear
OPENS APR 23 ■ UPTOWN
John Davidson: diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome at a young age which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition few people had witnessed. BAFTA Award winner for best actor.
The Stranger OPENS APR 24 ■ UPTOWN
François Ozon brings Albert Camus’ acclaimed 1942 novel to the big screen as a sun-baked, black-and-white neo-noir, a potent blend of psychological thriller and anti-colonial critique.
COMMUNITY SCREENING Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
APR 26 ■ DOWNTOWN
In turn of the century St. Louis, Judy Garland sings about trollies and pines for “Boy Next Door” Tom Drake, Margaret O’Brien braves the terrors of Halloween, Mom Mary Astor looks lovely in Technicolored middle-age, and Dad Leon Ames debates taking that Gotham job as the 1903 World’s Fair beckons.
MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA Silence (2016) APR 22 ■ UPTOWN
Scorsese chose to show this spiritual thriller, in which 17th-century priests (Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver) seek their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) in Japan, where Christianity is outlawed, but a visionary voice still speaks. A meditation on Christian and Buddhist thought, an illumination of physical and metaphysical faith.
Steal This Story, Please!
OPENS APR 23 ■ UPTOWN
This riveting portrait of "Democracy Now!"'s Amy Goodman spotlights journalism's power — and peril — amid rising corporate control and political attacks on the press.
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Turner & Constable APR 24–27 ■ FILM CENTER
Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also fierce rivals, both using landscape painting to reflect their changing world — Constable with old school realism, Turner with abstraction and dreamlike impressions.
MAESTRO OF
The Irishman (2019) APR 29 ■ UPTOWN
A stunning epic panorama of mid-century America, seen through the youth-to-old age viewpoint of Mob hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), right hand man to top Teamster Jimmy Hoffa (Al
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Pacino).
Angel's Egg
Mamoru Oshii, 1985
APR 18 ■ 9:15 PM
APR 21 ■ 5:00 PM
ChaO
Yasuhiro Aoki, 2026
APR 25 ■ 3:30 PM
APR 30 ■ 7:45 PM
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Shinichirō Watanabe, 2002
APR 22 ■ 7:30 PM
APR 29 ■ 4:45 PM
The End of Evangelion
Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997
APR 18 ■ 6:30 PM
APR 26 ■ 2:00 PM
Ghost in the Shell
Mamoru Oshii, 1995
APR 21 ■ 7:30 PM
APR 24 ■ 3:30 PM
Millennium Actress
Satoshi Kon, 2001
APR 17 ■ 4:00 PM
APR 25 ■ 9:00 PM
APR 27 ■ 7:45 PM
Mind Game
Masaaki Yuasa, 2004
APR 19 ■ 8:00 PM
APR 24 ■ 9:00 PM
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Masaaki Yuasa, 2017
APR 29 ■ 7:45 PM
APR 30 ■ 5:00 PM
Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis
Rintarō, 2001
APR 18 ■ 12:30 PM
APR 26 ■ 7:45 PM
Paprika
Satoshi Kon, 2006
APR 17 ■ 6:30 PM
APR 23 ■ 5:00 PM
Perfect Blue
Satoshi Kon, 1997
APR 17 ■ 9:15 PM
APR 28 ■ 5:15 PM
Promare
Hiroyuki Imaishi, 2019
APR 23 ■ 7:30 PM
APR 26 ■ 4:45 PM
Redline
Takeshi Koike, 2009
APR 22 ■ 4:45 PM
APR 28 ■ 7:45 PM
A Silent Voice
Naoko Yamada, 2017
APR 19 ■ 1:30 PM
APR 20 ■ 7:30 PM
Summer Wars
Mamoru Hosoda, 2011
APR 18 ■ 3:30 PM
APR 24 ■ 6:00 PM
APR 25 ■ 12:30 PM
Weathering With You
Makoto Shinkai, 2019
APR 25 ■ 6:00 PM
APR 27 ■ 4:45 PM
Wolf Children
Mamoru Hosoda, 2012
APR 19 ■ 4:45 PM
APR 20 ■ 4:15 PM