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.

SHOWING DECEMBER 12-21 | From filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages), PETER HUJAR’S DAY invites audiences into a single day in 1974 with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw).

SHOWING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 & SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 | Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates.

SPECIAL SCREENING ~ DECEMBER 14 | Celebrate the 60th anniversary of David Lean’s epic drama DOCTOR ZHAVAGO. During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father’s suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother’s lover (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites.

SHOWING SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 & SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 | For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.