FilmColumbia

10/24/2025

Thank you to our Executive Producer-level sponsor MetzWood Insurance who is making tonight's 7:30 pm FilmColumbia screening of Glenrothan Crandell Theatre possible. Brian Cox will join us to discuss his directorial debut after the show! NOTE: This screening/Q&A is SOLD OUT. There will be no rush tickets available at the door. BFI

Brian Cox’s sterling first feature as director is, not surprisingly, about succession.

10/23/2025

Thank you to our Associate Producer-level sponsor OLLI at Berkshire Community College, who is making tonight's 7:30 pm FilmColumbia screening of Nuremberg at Crandell Theatre possible.

James Vanderbilt’s gripping real-life legal thriller about the trial of the century is based on Jack El-Hai’s densely titled 2013 book The N**i and the...

10/22/2025

Thank you to our Associate Producer-level sponsor Ed Herrington, Inc., who is making tonight's 7:00 pm screening of A Private Life starring Jodie Foster possible.

The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

10/19/2025

Thank you to our Producer-level sponsor Taconic Engineering, who is making tonight's 7:30 pm screening of Köln 75 and post-film Q&A with director Ido Fluk possible.

Vera Brandes, who, in 1975 and at the age of 18, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett.

10/10/2025

Chronogram editor Brian Mahoney raves about the films at the festival you don't want to miss!

The festival runs Oct 17 - 26 at the newly renovated Crandell Theatre. Tickets to the general public go on sale Saturday, Oct 11 at 9 am.

FilmColumbia 2025 lights up Chatham’s Crandell Theatre with premieres, global auteurs, and in-person appearances by Brian Cox and Stephen Lang.

09/26/2025

The FilmColumbia schedule is now online! Tickets to members go on sale October 4 and to the general public on October 11. Visit crandelltheatre.org to get a head start on choosing your festival picks.

09/23/2025

Want to see what's coming to FilmColumbia next month? Download the 2025 program guide by clicking the link below.

2025 Program Guide • Get a head start on choosing your must-see festival films. Download a PDF of the 2025 Program Guide by clicking the red button below.

01/24/2025

Congratulations, FilmColumbia fans! Your Audience Choice Award winning film, Emilia Pérez, received 13 Oscar nominations yesterday, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. You know how to pick them! A total of 7 films shown at this year's festival also received nominations, including Flow, Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat, A Real Pain and the Brazilian film I'm Still Here. The performance of that film's Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated star, Fernanda Torres (bottom), helped secure the film's additional nominations for Best International Feature AND Best Picture.

12/20/2024

In the Oscar nominations shortlist for Best International Feature Film, FilmColumbia24 screened SIX of the fifteen shortlisted films: Brazil's “I’m Still Here,” Canada's “Universal Language," France's “Emilia Pérez,” Latvia's “Flow,” (below), Norway's “Armand” and United Kingdom's “Santosh.”

12/20/2024

The Academy has just released its shortlists for Oscar nominations. In the Documentary category, fifteen films will advance before nominations are announced on January 23. The shortlist includes three films that screened at FilmColumbia24: “No Other Land,” "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” and "Union." We were lucky to see them at FC24! "No Other Land" and "Union" still don't have distribution deals.

Films about Israel and a union drive at Amazon are acclaimed Oscar hopefuls. But they are largely unavailable to American audiences.