Opens Friday, February 8 at the Michigan! Animation Nominees: Bao - Domee Shi and Becky Neimann-Cobb, USA, 8 minutes Late Afternoon - Louise Bagnall and Nuria Gonzalez Blanco, Ireland, 10 minutes Animal Behaviour - Alison Snowden and David Fine, Canada, 14 minutes Weekends - Trevor Jimenez, USA, 16 minutes One Small Step - Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas, USA, 8 minutes PLUS A SELECTION OF ADDITIONAL ANIMATED SHORTS: Wishing Box - 6 minutes Tweet Tweet - 11 minutes Content warning: Themes dealt with in these shorts include Alzheimer’s disease, divorce and the death of a parent. There is some scary imagery in WEEKENDS that might not be great for much younger kids.

Opens Friday, February 8 at the Michigan! Documentary Nominees; Black Sheep - Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn, UK, 27 minutes End Game - Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, USA, 40 minutes A Night at the Garden - Marshall Curry, USA, 7 minutes Lifeboat - Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser, USA, 40 minutes PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE. - Rayka Zahtabchi and Melissa Berton, India, 26 minutes Content Warning: Violence, language, and adult themes

Opens Friday, February 8 at the Michigan! Live Action Oscar Nominees: Madre - Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Maria del Puy Alvarado, Spain, 19 minutes Fauve - Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon, Canada, 17 minutes Marguerite - Marianne Farley and Marie-Helene Panisset, Canada, 19 minutes Detainment - Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon, Ireland, 30 minutes Skin - Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman, USA, 20 minutes Content warnings: Violence, language, and adult themes

Opens Friday, February 8 at the State! Sneak Preview Thursday!
Nominated for 3 Oscars® including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography! Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida, My Summer of Love) comes a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate - an impossible love story in impossible times.

Opens Friday, February 8 at the State! Sneak Preview Thursday!
Nominated for 3 Oscars® including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography! Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida, My Summer of Love) comes a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate - an impossible love story in impossible times.

Opens Friday, February 8 at the State! Sneak Preview Thursday!
Nominated for 3 Oscars® including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography! Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida, My Summer of Love) comes a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate - an impossible love story in impossible times.

Nominated for 10 Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress!
Early 18th century England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen’s companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfil her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.

Nominated for 5 Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor!
When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

Nominated for 5 Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor!
When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

Nominated for 5 Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor!
When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

Nominated for 3 Oscars®, including Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay!
Directed by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight). Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple's unbreakable bond and the Black family's empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers (screen newcomer KiKi Layne). A daughter and wife-to-be, Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny (Stephan James). Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Also stars Regina King.

Sat Feb 16 at 1pm at the Michigan. Part of the KOREAN CINEMA NOW Film Series presented by the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Free and open to the public! Hye-Won (Kim Tae-Ri) gets tired of her difficult life in the city and moves back to her hometown in the countryside. There, she heals her emotional wounds with the help of her long-time friends, nature and food.

Saturday, February 16 at 6:30 PM.

Presented by Michigan Mazaa, a student organization that strives to take a stand against human trafficking while raising cultural awareness, A2 Dhoom is Michigan’s Premier Bollywood Fusion Dance Competition.

Tickets $15 main floor, $12 balcony (UM students $10).

Celebrate Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court! The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) as she teams with her husband Marty (Armie Hammer) to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. Also stars Justin Theroux, Kathy Bates and Sam Waterston.

Nominated for 10 Oscars®, including Best Picture and Best Actress!
Winner of The Golden Lion at The Venice International Film Festival! From Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men) - Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s. Presented in Spanish with English Subtitles.

Oscar® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film! After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu's wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Oscar® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film! After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu's wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Stars Golden Globe® Nominee for Best Actor John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan. Laurel and Hardy - the world's greatest comedy team - face an uncertain future as their golden era of Hollywood films remain long behind them. Diminished by age, the duo set out to reconnect with their adoring fans by touring variety halls in Britain in 1953. The shows become an instant hit, but Stan and Ollie can't quite shake the past as long-buried tension and Hardy's failing health start to threaten their precious partnership.

Stars Golden Globe® Nominee for Best Actor John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan. Laurel and Hardy - the world's greatest comedy team - face an uncertain future as their golden era of Hollywood films remain long behind them. Diminished by age, the duo set out to reconnect with their adoring fans by touring variety halls in Britain in 1953. The shows become an instant hit, but Stan and Ollie can't quite shake the past as long-buried tension and Hardy's failing health start to threaten their precious partnership.

Opens Friday, February 15 at the State!
Tito, a shy 10-year-old boy, lives in a world on the brink of pandemic. Fear is crippling people, making them sick and transforming them. Tito realizes, based on his father's past research, that there may be a way to utilize the local pigeon population and their songs to create a cure for the disease. His father was forced to leave when Tito was only six and the struggle to find a cure becomes linked with the search to find his father again, along with his own identity. Part action part drama, Tito's journey is at once an uplifting and insightful adventure about a boy fighting to find out what is right and to learn how to overcome his own fear. Presented in Portuguese with English subtitles.