Houston’s 32nd “Festival of Films from Iran” runs January 24–31, 2025, at the MFAH. Additional screenings take place at Rice Cinema through February 2. Sara (Samira Hassanpour) lives in Tehran and has been accepted by a PhD program at a Canadian university. She has a 6 a.m. flight to catch, but her friends have planned […]
Houston’s 32nd “Festival of Films from Iran” runs January 24–31, 2025, at the MFAH. Additional screenings take place at Rice Cinema through February 2. This film is shortlisted for the category International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards on March 2, 2025. In a town somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg everyone speaks French or […]
Using the essayistic style of a diary, director Farahnaz Sharifi traces how the Islamic Revolution changed life for women in Iran. Born in 1979, shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, Sharifi draws on home movies and found 8mm recordings of strangers’ lives to show moments of private joy and public defiance under the […]
A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, Sugarcane is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of […]
View the nominated short films in the category of Animation from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2! Complete list of nominated short films available on January 23.
All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence. The tender story follows two young Black suburban kids, Monica and Quincy, as they grow up, fall in […]
All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence. The tender story follows two young Black suburban kids, Monica and Quincy, as they grow up, fall in […]
Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of Black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. Set in 1902, it follows a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina—former West African […]
View the nominated short films in the category of Animation from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2! Complete list of nominated short films available on January 23.
Presented by Laurence Unger, MFAH Film Subcommittee and Ultimate Film Buffs member. Howard Hawks’ Technicolor musical comedy is anchored by the performances of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as Jazz Age lounge singers on a Transatlantic ocean liner to Paris. Based on the 1949 Broadway musical of the same name, the film centers on a […]
View the nominated short films in the category of Animation from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2! Complete list of nominated short films available on January 23.
View the nominated short films in the category of Live Action from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2! Complete list of nominated short films available on January 23.
