Museum Films’ September schedule features a stunning slate of acclaimed indies and international film festival favorites you won’t see anywhere else in Oklahoma City, including Athina Rachel Tsangari’s visionary folktale Harvest; Hong Sangsoo’s delightfully autumnal By the Stream; an epic video store odyssey from Alex Ross Perry; moving Cannes award-winner Souleymane’s Story; and the sweeping WWI-era romance The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. This month’s lineup also features a pair of lyrical Japanese coming-of-age classics, Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro and Shinji Sômai’s newly re-discovered gem The Friends, and the return of the Manhattan Short Film Festival!
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
Visit the bar inside OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.
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Thurs., Sept. 4 @ 6:30 pm
With narration by Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) over footage culled from hundreds of films and TV shows, this witty, nostalgic, and deliriously encyclopedic documentary from acclaimed independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (Pavements) traces the rise and fall of the video store.
BY THE STREAM | Hong Sangsoo | 2024 | subtitled | 111 minutes | NR
Fri., Sept. 5 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Sept. 6 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Sept. 7 @ 12:30 pm
The thirty-second feature from prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo reunites actors Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo in a bittersweet, autumnal tale of loneliness, connection, and creativity that transpires during an annual skit festival at a women’s university.
Fri., Sept. 5 @ 8 pm | Sat., Sept. 6 @ 5 pm | Sun., Sept. 7 @ 3 pm
Starring Caleb Landry Jones and Harry Melling, this gorgeously atmospheric fable from award-winning Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari observes the decline of an isolated medieval British village beset by superstition and a fear of outsiders.
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MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO | Hayao Miyazaki | 1988 | subtitled and In English | 86 minutes | G
Thurs., Sept. 11 @ 7:30 pm (subtitled) | Fri., Sept. 12 @ 5:30 pm (subtitled) | Sat., Sept. 13 @ 2 pm (dubbed) & 8 pm (subtitled) | Sun., Sept. 14 @ 12:30 pm (dubbed)
Returning to OKCMOA’s Noble Theater, Hayao Miyazaki’s most iconic creation follows two girls whose new home in the countryside is host to wondrous forest spirits, including the gentle giant Totoro.
SOULEYMANE’S STORY | Boris Lojkine | 2024 | subtitled | 94 minutes | NR
Fri., Sept. 12 @ 8 pm | Sat., Sept. 13 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Sept. 14 @ 3 pm
In Boris Lojkine’s moving and immersive César Award-winning drama, an undocumented Guinean immigrant in Paris (Abou Sangare, winner of the Un Certain Regard Best Actor prize at Cannes) tries to juggle his responsibilities as a food delivery bike courier with preparations for his asylum review hearing.
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THE HISTORY OF SOUND | Oliver Hermanus | 2025 | In English | 127 minutes | R (for some sexuality)
Fri., Sept. 19 @ 5:30 & 8:15 pm | Sat., Sept. 20 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Sept. 21 @ 3 pm
During WWI, two young men (Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor) embark on a transformative journey to document American folk songs in this luminous, moving, and tender romance that spans decades and continents, from award-winning director Oliver Hermanus (Living).
THE FRIENDS | Shinji Sômai | 1994 | subtitled | 113 minutes | NR
Sat., Sept. 20 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Sept. 21 @ 12:30 pm | New 4K restoration!
During summer vacation, three young boys form an unlikely friendship with a reclusive old man in this lyrical and exquisitely crafted meditation on youth and mortality from beloved Japanese filmmaker Shinji Sômai (Typhoon Club, Moving).
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Thurs., Sept. 25 @ 7 pm | Fri., Sept. 26 @ 5 & 8 pm | Sat., Sept. 27 @ 5 & 8 pm | Sun., Sept. 28 @ 12:30 & 3:30 pm | Additional dates and showtimes coming soon!
One of our favorite annual traditions, the Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to OKCMOA on September 25! Join more than 100,000 film lovers across the country and around the world as they unite to view, judge and celebrate a new crop of extraordinary short films.
