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Dean Otto currently serves as the Curator of Film. To learn more about Dean and the Speed Cinema, read the full press release here. Photo by Rafael Gamo.
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Cloud
August 22 & 23
A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.
Shin Godzilla
August 23 & 24
Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. As the Prime Minister of Japan pleads with the public to remain calm, a horrific creature of tremendous size makes landfall in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Then it evolves. The government assembles a motley task force to combat the monster when an envoy from the US Department of State delivers a folder of classified documents. On its cover is written: “GODZILLA.”
2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
August 29, 30, & 31
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a dynamic showcase of seven standout short films from this year’s Festival, including two festival award–winning titles. A 100-minute program curated for theatrical audiences, the tour is a special opportunity to discover a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and animated shorts, and offers an eclectic mix of storytelling that highlights bold voices and fresh perspectives.
Ikiru
September 5 & 6
One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days.
High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku)
September 6 & 7
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low, the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa.
A Photographic Memory
September 12 & 13
Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards and a New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of the filmmaker’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed – a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker, who died suddenly and tragically when Rachel was just 18 months old.
Monk in Pieces
September 13 & 14
Meredith Monk – composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist – is one of the great artistic pioneers of our time, yet her profound cultural influence is largely unrecognized. With Monk’s music at its center, and featuring interviews with Björk and David Byrne, Monk in Pieces is a mosaic that mirrors the structure of Monk’s own work, and illuminates her wildly original vocabulary of sound and imagery.
Henry Fonda for President
September 18
The story of Henry Fonda, both on screen and off, is the story of the United States. It’s a story of democratic yearnings and violent shortcomings, traceable not only in the actor’s legendary portrayals of pioneering settler (Drums Along the Mohawk), migrant sharecropper (The Grapes of Wrath), gullible heir (The Lady Eve), and president (Young Mr. Lincoln, Fail-Safe), but also in his own life as the descendant of a Dutch family in pre-colonial New York, and as a witness to watershed events of the 20th century: the Omaha Race Riots of 1919, the war in the Pacific, the civil rights struggle, and the ascendance of another actor, Ronald Reagan, at the climax of the Cold War.
CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion with Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitwiet.
The Lovers on the Bridge (Les amants du Pont-Neuf)
September 19, 20, & 21
Leos Carax’s delirious saga of l’amour fou burns with an intoxicating stylistic freedom as it traces the highs and lows of the passionate relationship that develops between a homeless artist (Juliette Binoche) who is losing her sight and a troubled, alcoholic street performer (Denis Lavant) living on Paris’s famed Pont-Neuf bridge.
The Flicker and Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
September 21
An essential figure of both underground film and music, Tony Conrad’s explorations of minimalism in image and sounds defined such movements as structuralism in cinema and sonically influenced the likes of Lou Reed and Terry Riley. Conrad’s artistic voice is one of utmost humanity with work that is as challenging as it is playful, remaining accessible as it eschews tradition and disregards what might be considered comfortable for viewers. In this program, Conrad’s defining film The Flicker is paired with the lovingly absurd Tony Conrad: DreaMimimalist, a kinetic later-in-life portrait of the artist by the deft French documentarian Marie Losier.
Backside
September 25, 26, 27, & 28
Backside offers an intimate and tender glimpse into the lives of primarily immigrant workers who begin their days at 4 am, seven days a week, year-round, caring for some of the world’s most prized racehorses.
CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion with director Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana, producer Gabriella García-Pardo, producer Patricia Alvarez Astacio, and grooms featured in the documentary.