In celebration of the 95th Academy Awards®, OKCMOA is rolling out the red carpet for this year’s nominated films! Museum Films’ Oscar series features brilliantly acted dramas To Leslie and Aftersun, dazzling Best Picture contenders Elvis and Everything Everywhere All at Once, exquisitely textured international features Close and The Quiet Girl, the spellbinding documentary Fire of Love, and all three categories of nominated short films. March in the Noble Theater also offers award-winning film festival standouts Pacifiction and Godland, the enchanting British comedy-drama The Lost King, and one final chance to experience Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime Koker Trilogy.
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.
Click here to view the printable March Film Schedule + Calendar.
2023 OSCAR®-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS | through March 11
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.
ANIMATION | Various | 2022 | In English and subtitled | 95 minutes | R
Fri., March 3 @ 8 pm | Sat., March 4 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 11 @ 2 pm
LIVE ACTION | Various | 2022 | In English and subtitled | 110 minutes| PG-13
Sat., March 4 @ 8 pm | Fri., March 10 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 11 @ 8 pm
DOCUMENTARY | Various | 2022 | In English and subtitled | 165 minutes | R
Sun., March 5 @ 12:15 pm | Sat., March 11 @ 4:30 pm
SHIRIN – KIAROSTAMI FILM RETROSPECTIVE | Abbas Kiarostami | 2008 | subtitled | 92 minutes | NR
Thurs., March 2 @ 7:30 pm
Over 100 Iranian female stage and film actors, as well as Juliette Binoche, watch an off-screen film adaptation of a twelfth-century Persian poem about a tragic, star-crossed romance.
AFTERSUN | Charlotte Wells | 2022 | In English | 99 minutes | R
Fri., March 3 @ 5:30 pm | 2023 Oscar Nominated Films
Featuring a multi-faceted lead performance from 2023 Best Actor nominee Paul Mescal, Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ indelible feature debut brims with warmth and quiet wonder as its protagonist looks back on a father-daughter journey to a Turkish seaside resort.
Sat., March 4 @ 2 pm | 2023 Oscar Nominated Films
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 an epic, multiverse-spanning quest. 
TO LESLIE | Michael Morris | 2022 | In English | 119 minutes | R
Sun., March 5 @ 3:30 pm | 2023 Oscar Nominated Films
Anchored by a mesmerizing lead performance from 2023 Best Actress nominee Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie follows a floundering single mother back to her West Texas hometown as she attempts to rebuild her life after burning through a lottery windfall. | Oscar-nominated for: Best Lead Actress
Thurs., March 9 @ 7:30 pm
Set in Tuscany, and starring Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell, Kiarostami’s first fiction feature made outside of Iran is a luminous and thought-provoking romance in which nothing is as it appears. 
ELVIS | Baz Luhrmann | 2022 | In English | 159 minutes | PG-13
Fri., March 10 @ 8 pm | 2023 Oscar Nominated Films
Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Lead Actor, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis offers a lavish, big-screen portrait of the immortal rock legend.
FIRE OF LOVE | Sara Dosa | 2022 | In English and subtitled | 93 minutes | PG
Sun., March 12 @ 3 pm | 2023 Oscar Nominated Films
Fashioned from rare archival footage, this incandescent contender for the 2023 Best Documentary Feature Oscar tells the amazing true story of French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, whose shared passion for volcanoes mirrored their love for each other. 
Thurs., March 16 @ 7:30 pm
A selection of Abbas Kiarostami’s early short films about the lives and education of children. The program features: The Bread and Alley (1970, 10 min.); Breaktime (1972, 11 min.); So Can I (1975, 4 min.); Two Solutions for One Problem (1975, 4 min.); The Colors (1976, 15 min.); How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (1977, 7 min.); Tribute to the Teachers (1977, 20 min.)
THE QUIET GIRL | Colm Bairéad | 2022 | In English and subtitled | 95 minutes | PG-13
Fri., March 17 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 18 @ 2 & 5 pm | Sun., March 19 @ 12:30 & 3 pm | 2023 Oscar Nominated Films
Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature, this delicately crafted Irish drama follows a watchful nine-year-old girl who is sent away from her dysfunctional family to spend the summer with distant relatives.
Voted the best film of 2022 by Cahiers du Cinéma, Albert Serra’s entrancing epic is an elliptical political thriller set in the languid island landscapes of French Polynesia, starring the extraordinary Benoît Magimel as its shifty French High Commissioner.
Thurs., March 23 @ 7:30 pm | Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy
One of Abbas Kiarostami’s most influential features, the richly textured first film in his celebrated Koker Trilogy follows a young boy who travels to a nearby village to return his classmate’s notebook.  
Fri., March 24 @ 5:30 pm | Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy
The autobiographical second installment of the Koker trilogy follows a filmmaker who travels back to the location of his previous film, Where is the Friend’s House?, in the wake of an earthquake.  
Sat., March 25 @ 5:30 pm | Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy
The playful final film in Kiarostami’s celebrated Koker trilogy offers a fictionalized behind-the-scenes look at the making of And Life Goes On.    
CLOSE | Lukas Dhont | 2022 | subtitled | 104 minutes | PG-13
Fri., March 24 @ 8 pm | Sat., March 25 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., March 26 @ 12:30 & 3 pm | 2023 Oscar Nominated Films
A 2023 Oscar nominee for Best International Feature and winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, Close is an emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart.
Thurs., March 30 @ 7:30 pm
Filmed entirety in Japan, Abbas Kiarostami’s mysteriously beautiful romantic drama revolves around the brief encounter between an elderly professor and a sociology student who moonlights as a high-end escort.
THE LOST KING | Stephen Frears | 2022 | subtitled | 108 minutes | PG-13
Fri., March 31 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., April 1 @ 2 & 5 pm | Sun., April 2 @ 12:30 & 3 pm
Based on an inspiring true story, Stephen Frears’ The Lost King follows an amateur historian (Sally Hawkins) battling skepticism and bureaucracy in a quest to locate the final resting place of King Richard III.
GODLAND | Hlynur Pálmason | 2022 | subtitled | 143 minutes | NR
Fri., March 31 @ 8 pm | Sat., April 1 @ 7:30 pm
An epic meditation on nature, spirituality, and the human condition, Hlynur Pálmason’s stunning period drama follows an arrogant Danish priest as he travels to build a church in a remote part of Iceland.
