In his signature black turtleneck and blue jeans, shrouded in shadows below a milky apple, Steve Jobs’ image was ubiquitous. But who was the man on the stage? What accounted for the grief of so many across the world when he died? Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine is a critical examination of Jobs who was at once revered as an iconoclastic genius and a barbed-tongued tyrant.

Nov 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, Dec 4, 5 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations

Having recently lost her sight, a young woman retreats to the safety of her home, a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. In an effort to maintain a connection to reality, she begins to write a series of sexually-charged stories, whose fictional characters begin to inhabit her everyday reality.

Nov 20, 21, 27, 28; Dec 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19

The Great Man is perhaps best described as a fable—and it starts out as one told by a child. Hamilton and Markov are best friends about to finish five years of service in the French Foreign Legion. During their six-month posting in Afghanistan, they are caught in a crossfire while out on an impromptu and unauthorized mystical leopard hunt. As the child tells it, “They crossed the frontier of the human world and stepped into the unknown.”

1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers’ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey. The young, mischievous Theeb secretly chases after his brother

New York International Children’s Film Festival was founded in 1997 to promote intelligent, passionate, provocative cinematic works for ages 3-18 and to help define a more compelling film for kids. It’s coming to Bloomington with screenings at IU Fine Arts on Sat and the Buskirk-Chumley on Sunday featuring two programs of short films from around the world for the young as well as the young at heart. Some films are animated, some are live-action. Program 1 is recommended for children 3-8 and a second for ages 8-80.
The screenings are co-presented by the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation.

Dec 18, 19, Jan 2, 3, 8, 9, 15, 16

Charlie (Joséphine Japy) is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. School holds no surprises either, and Charlie grows tired of her staid friends. Enter Sarah (Lou de Laâge), a confident and charismatic new transfer student who brings with her an alluring air of boldness and danger.

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about her best friend’s husband in this delectable comedy/drama from France, based on a short story by Ruth Rendell. NY Times Critics’ Pick!

Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the “people’s poet,” is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide.

Jan 30 at 7pm  at IU Fine Arts downstairs (FA 015) ♦ Q&A with the filmmaker Jacky Comforty follows the screening On March 9th, 1943, police arrived at the home of Jacky Comforty’s family in Bulgaria. This was to be the beginning of the end, the start of the journey to Treblinka. Yet another European […]

This is your chance to see the 15 Oscar-nominated short films before the Awards Show. As usual, this year’s assortment of animated and live-action short Oscar contenders is a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling. Every filmmaker leaves his or her fingerprints on the material, making it a rich collection of stories, all of which have something profound to say, whether big and bold or small and modest.

A teenager growing up in a Vietnamese care center for children disabled by Agent Orange dreams of becoming a professional artist….An 18-year-old Pakistani girl miraculously survived an attempt honor killing at the hands of her father and uncle after she dared to fall in love with a boy and elope.

The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war….The silent routine of 5 Palestinian nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent.

A bear is sent off to perform for the circus…. A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of the future and meets a clone of herself….A first-generation Indian-American boy’s love for western pop-culture clashes with his father’s Hindu traditions.

Sunday, Feb 21st at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater   ♦   Animation Films 2:15 and 6pm    Live-Action Films 4pm and 7:45 This is your chance to see the Oscar-nominated short films before the Awards Show. As usual, this year’s assortment of Animation and Live Action and short Oscar contenders is a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling. […]

Costi leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favorite is Robin Hood. Costi sees himself as the hero – righter of wrongs and defender of the oppressed. One evening, his neighbour pays him an unexpected visit and shares a secret: there’s treasure buried in his grandparents’ garden…

March 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19

The new film by Philippe Garrel is a close look at infidelity—not merely the fact of it, but the particular, divergent ways in which it’s experienced and understood by men and women.

Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble’s wife.

In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences.

One Night Only! Friday, April 8 at 7:30 at the IU Fine Art Theater One Day in April is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the triumphs and failures of two men’s and two women’s IU cyclist teams trying  to win the Little 500. Directed by filmmaker and native Hoosier Thomas Miller, “One Day in April” […]

There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s (Charlotte Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband (Tom Courtenay). The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps.

April  17 ♦  Scroll down for times and locations The definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time – the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles […]

The Ryder is partnering with the Down Syndrome Family Connection to host a free screening of Where Hope Grows on Sunday, April 17 at the IU Fine Arts Theater at 3pm. Calvin Campbell (Kristoffer Polaha) is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even […]

One Night Only! Sunday, April 17 at 7:30 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali. They banned music, destroying radio stations and publicly burning instruments. Facing torture, musicians went into hiding. But rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musicians fought back. / 105 min ♦  Social journalism of the […]

We’ve lost touch with nature. This disconnect hurts our health, dims our spirit, and threatens our future. Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature is a cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our vital relationship with the natural world. And it shows that a renewed connection with nature is key not only to our well being, but also to solving our climate and environmental crises.