Museum Films’ February lineup features the 2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films and a curated series of nominated features designed to help you confidently fill in every section of your Oscar ballot. Enjoy returning audience favorites Everything Everywhere All at Once and Triangle of Sadness—both nominated for Best Picture—and catch up with other big-screen worthy frontrunners you may have missed. This month we’re also proud to be the exclusive Oklahoma City venue for award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s powerful new drama No Bears and Jacquelyn Mills’ breathtaking landscape documentary Geographies of Solitude. Our Kiarostami retrospective continues with his poetic drama The Wind Will Carry Us and a series of groundbreaking digital features.
Click here to view the printable February Film Schedule + Calendar.
As always, OKCMOA Film Society Members (including Fellow, Friend, and Sustainer members) receive $5 tickets to Museum Films screenings. To learn more about joining the Film Society, visit: https://www.okcmoa.com/filmsociety
Tickets to Kiarostami Film Retrospective screenings are free for OKCMOA members and with same-day museum or Art After 5 admission. Visit the admissions desk or the theater box office to purchase tickets.
Visit OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache during regular Museum hours for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.
Thurs., Feb. 2 @ 7:30 pm
Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, this enigmatic fable follows a communications engineer as he travels to a small Iranian village in hopes of documenting a local ritual.
Fri., Feb 3 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Feb. 4 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Feb. 5 @ 3 pm | 2023 Oscar Preview
Nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, this acclaimed indie blockbuster stars Best Actress nominee Michelle Yeoh as a frazzled Chinese American business owner drawn into a drawn into an epic, multiverse-spanning quest.
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN | Martin McDonagh | 2022 | In English | 114 minutes | R
Fri., Feb 3 @ 8:30 pm | Sat., Feb. 4 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Feb. 5 @ 12:30 pm | 2023 Oscar Preview
Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, Martin McDonagh’s beautifully acted, darkly comic fable stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as lifelong friends who reach an impasse, with alarming consequences for both.
Wed., Feb. 8 @ 6:30 pm | Free and exclusive to Film Society members
Join the OKCMOA Film Society for a special 35mm screening and discussion of Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live, 1962). Starring the late New Wave auteur’s muse and collaborator, Anna Karina, as a struggling would-be actress, Vivre sa vie is a stylistically inventive and emotionally resonant work that still feels undeniably modern more than sixty years after its release.
ABC AFRICA – KIAROSTAMI FILM RETROSPECTIVE | Abbas Kiarostami | 2001 | subtitled | 84 minutes | NR
Thurs., Feb. 9 @ 7:30 pm
Made over ten days in 2000 at the invitation of the U.N., Abbas Kiarostami’s first digital feature is a moving, reflective and ultimately hopeful document of the lives of AIDS orphans in Uganda.
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS | Ruben Östlund | 2022 | In English | 143 minutes | R
Fri., Feb 10 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Feb. 11 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Feb. 12 @ 3 pm
A 2023 Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this bold satire from Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund sets a group of ultra-wealthy vacationers adrift on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.
NO BEARS | Jafar Panahi | 2022 | subtitled | 106 minutes | NR
Fri., Feb 10 @ 8:30 pm | Sat., Feb. 11 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Feb. 12 @ 12:30 pm
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi continues to push against the boundaries of the medium with his latest film, involving two parallel love stories and the dire consequences that can bubble up out of seemingly insignificant artistic pursuits.
TEN – KIAROSTAMI FILM RETROSPECTIVE | Abbas Kiarostami | 2002 | subtitled | 94 minutes | NR
Thurs., Feb. 16 @ 7:30 pm
In this elegant and engrossing drama, set entirely within the confines of a car, a woman ferries passengers from one place to another in Tehran.
2023 OSCAR®-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS
February 17-March 12 | 2023 Oscar Preview
Once again, OKCMOA is excited to host the Oscar-Nominated Short Films! This is your annual chance to watch all 15 nominees on the big screen and predict the winners.
LIVE ACTION | Various | 2022 | 110 minutes | In English and subtitled | PG-13
Fri., Feb. 17 @ 8 pm | Sun., Feb. 19 @ 3 pm | Sat., Feb. 25 @ 2 pm | Sun., Feb. 26 @ 12:30 pm | Sat., March 4 @ 8 pm | Fri., March 10 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 11 @ 8 pm
ANIMATION | Various | 2022 | 95 minutes | In English and subtitled | R
Sat., Feb. 18 @ 2 pm | Sun., Feb. 19 @ 12:30 pm | Fri., Feb. 24 @ 5 pm | Sat., Feb. 25 @ 8 pm | Fri., March 3 @ 8 pm | Sat., March 4 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 11 @ 2 pm
DOCUMENTARY | Various | 2022 | 165 minutes | In English and subtitled | R
Sat., Feb. 18 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Feb. 24 @ 7:30 pm | Sun., March 5 @ 12:15 pm | Sat., March 11 @ 4:30 pm
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE | Jacquelyn Mills | 2022 | In English | 103 minutes | NR
Sat., Feb. 18 @ 5:30 pm | One Night Only!
This breathtaking 16mm documentary is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island—a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic populated by seals and wild horses—where environmental researcher Zoe Lucas has lived for over 40 years.
Thurs., Feb. 23 @ 7:30 pm
A stunning five-part video work that anticipates Kiarostami’s masterful 24 Frames, Five revels in the mesmerizing details of small moments in mostly watery landscapes.
TOP GUN: MAVERICK | Joseph Kosinski | 2022 | In English | 130 min | PG-13 
Sat., Feb. 25 @ 5 pm  | 2023 Oscar Preview
Set 30 years after the events of Top Gun, this thrilling Best Picture nominee catches up with Tom Cruise’s character, Maverick, as he confronts the ghosts of his past and leads a new class of elite aviators on a dangerous mission.  
MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS | Anthony Fabian | 2022 | In English and subtitled | 115 min | PG
Sun., Feb. 26 @ 3 pm | 2023 Oscar Preview
Nominated for Best Costume Design, this enchanting tale follows a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper (Leslie Manville) whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris.
