SHOWING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 | Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in this unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.

SHOWING NOVEMBER 7-13 | In this deeply intimate documentary, Tenzin Gyatso, known to billions around the world as the Dalai Lama, talks directly to the camera about inner peace, happiness and potential for a peaceful and happy 21st century.

SHOWING NOVEMBER 7-20 | As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) in this gripping thriller.

SHOWING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 | With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo.

SHOWING NOVEMBER 14-26 | What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences in Jafar Panahi’s searing moral thriller.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS NOV 14 & 15. Followed by a discussion by Jaimey Fisher. Free tickets for UNL students available at the Ross Box Office only with valid student ID (not available online). ***ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST tells the story of a free-spirited rogue (Jack Nicholson) who takes over the ward of a mental hospital by a combination of chutzpah and ingenuity. The film is based on Ken Kesey’s best-selling novel published in 1962. Using the madhouse to symbolize the individual against the system, the story gets its power from its unforgettable ensemble of characters and accretion of details that reveal what life is about inside a mental institution.

SHOWING NOVEMBER 21-26 | Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life they had before the war. Without interviews, narration and reenactments, Kateryna Gornostai’s TIMESTAMP intimately documents a year in the lives of rural students and teachers as they face the challenges of schooling during wartime.

SHOWING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 | Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.

SHOWING NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 11 | With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

SHOWING NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 4 | From Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), ORWELL: 2+2=5 is the definitive feature documentary on visionary author George Orwell, interweaving a portrait of the writer with an examination of how prophetic his work has become.

SHOWING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 & SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 | Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.

SHOWING DECEMBER 5-18 | Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film.