Argo

A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi. 

Soog (Mourning)*

A car trip in Iran is the setting for a subtly humorous and deeply compassionate meditation on communication and emotional disability.  84 minutes, in Farsi with English subtitles, directed by Morteza Farshbaf.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series.  

Objectified.*

A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability.

End of Watch

Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop. 

Black Wall Street: Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921*

Black Wall Street, the name given to what was once one of the most affluent black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites in 1921.  In less than 12 hours, the once thriving Tulsa, OK community lay smoldering.  This film documents the events during and leading up to this tragedy.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by ADVANCE.

Gise Memuru (Toll Booth)*

An expert cast and keen art direction contribute to this wry, heartbreaking ode to lost dreams in a sleepwalking world.  96 minutes, in Turkish with English subtitles, directed by Tolga Karacelik.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series.  

Split Estate*

This Emmy Award winning documentary shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability.  

Here Comes the Boom

A high school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extra-curricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school. 

The Proposal*

A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by PAC.  

A Small Act*

A young Kenyan's life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received. 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability. 

Skyfall

Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her, bringing MI6 under attack. 

Pegase (Pegasus)*

Reality merges into a haunted fever-dream of fear and denial in this visually striking, award-winning psychological thriller.  104 minutes, in Arabic with English subtitles, directed by Mohamed Mouftakir.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series.  

Burning in the Sun*

26-year-old charmer Daniel Dembele is equal parts West African and European, and looking to make his mark on the world. Seizing the moment at a crossroads in his life, Daniel decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels - the first of its kind in the sun drenched nation. 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability. 

Qarantina*

This Iraqi film captures contemporary Baghdad's moody interior and stunned atmosphere, with a formidable cast who suggest unexpected resilience in the wake of catastrophe.  90 minutes, in Arabic with English subtitles, directed by Oday Rasheed.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series.  

The City Dark*

A feature documentary about the loss of night. After moving to NYC from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question - do we need the stars? - taking him from Brooklyn to Mauna Kea, Paris, and beyond. Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawaii, tracking hatching turtles along the Florida coast, and rescuing injured birds on Chicago streets, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering with lights - including increased breast cancer rates from exposure to light at night, and a generation of kids without a glimpse of the universe above.

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability. 

Seven Psychopaths

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu. 

Space Jam*

Michael Jordan agrees to help the Looney Toons play a basketball game vs. alien slavers to determine their freedom.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by PAC.  

El Premio (The Prize)*

A childhood idyll is contaminated by the general political crisis, the army and a parent who is among the "disappeared" in this superbly acted and engrossingly atmospheric drama about innocence in illicit times.  99 minutes, in Spanish with English subtitles, directed by Nick Oceano.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series.  

Fresh*

There are still efficient ways to produce healthy fresh organic food in a time where most food is being mass produced by corporations in less than hygienic ways. Country farmers and urban farmers explain. 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability.  

The Guilt Trip 

As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride.

Matiere Grise (Grey Matter)*

This vilm subtly measures the horror and systematic madness of events hardly unique to Rwanda, while offering bracing insight into the nature of political violence.  100 minutes, in Kinhyarwanda and French with English subtitles, directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series.  

Deep Down: A Story from the Heart of Coal Country*

Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet's shrinking supply of natural resources? 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability. 

Jack Reacher

A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. 

Design: e2*

Design: e2 is a six-part series about international efforts to design and build eco-friendly structures through sustainable architecture. 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability. 

The Girl

A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border. 

Amnistia (Amnesty)*

A new Albanian law allowing conjugal visits for inmates brings together a man and woman visiting the same prison to meet their respective incarcerated spouses.  This closely observed, sensual and contemplative drama highlights a period of subtle but profound social transformation.  83 minutes, in Albanian with English subtitles, directed by Bujar Alimani.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series.  

Liquid Assets*

This documentary explores the history, engineering, and political and economic challenges of our water infrastructure, and engages communities in local discussion about public water and wastewater issues.

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability. 

Gordo, Calvo y Bajito (Fat, Bald, Short Man)*

The film's protagonist joins a self-improvement group where he confirms that change is inevitable; the question becomes what use one makes of it.  97 minutes, in Spanish with English subtitles, directed by Carlos Osuna.  

*FREE Screening!  Presented by Global Lens Film Series. 

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front*       

A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' 

*FREE Screening!  Presented by UC Sustainability. 

Django Unchained

With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.