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Monday 4pm - 9:30pm Tuesday 4pm - 9:30pm Wednesday 4pm - 9:30pm Thursday 4pm - 11:30pm Friday 12pm - 11:30pm Saturday 12pm - 11:30pm Sunday 12pm - 9:30pm

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Gateway Film Center

Central Ohio’s mission driven, nonprofit, home for film. Tickets can be purchased online or at our ticket center. Visit our member page to learn more!
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The center presents a curated film program focused on stories which inspire new ideas, have the power to entertain, push boundaries, spark new levels of empathy, and advance social change. The Center has been named the Columbus’s best movie theater by every major city publication and was recognized as a top-20 North American arthouse theater by the Sundance Institute. MyGFC Members can attend any regular screening (occasional restrictions apply) for $14.95/month. First Look, before noon: $6.00
Matinee, before 4:00pm: $9.75
Happy Hour, 4:00pm until 6:30pm: $7.75
Evening, after 6:30pm: $13.50
Up Late, after 11pm: $5.00

Super Tuesday: $5.00

35mm presentations: $3 up charge
70mm presentations: $5 up charge
3D presentations: $3 up charge

Members of the Columbus Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts are eligible for our community pass ticket. Buy Tickets: gatewayfilmcenter.org/plan-your-visit/

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09/15/2026

Another anime classic back on screen: Ghost in the Shell (1996) 30th anniversary 4K restoration, opening Thursday at GFC.

🎟 Get tickets: https://gatewayfilmcenter.org/movies/ghost-in-the-shell-1995/

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity.

Director Mamoru Oshii’s award-winning cyber-tech thriller, based on the comic book by Shirow Masamune, is lauded as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time.

09/14/2026

Calling all Jack Johnson fans: don't miss Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC on screen tomorrow at GFC 🏄‍♂️🎥🎶

Tickets: https://gatewayfilmcenter.org/movies/jack-johnson-surfilmusic-2026/

A new documentary chronicling Jack Johnson’s evolution from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician. The film traces how Johnson’s early years making surf films with close friends became a foundation for a much broader creative life, capturing moments in and out of the water that later surfaced in his songwriting.

Blending rare footage from those formative surf films and Johnson’s personal and family archives with present-day reflections, the film weaves together how lived experience, friendship, and exploration shaped the sound and stories behind the music.

09/13/2026

We're nearing the end of our INDIE 90s series, celebrating the filmmakers who took risks, broke the rules, and expanded the possibilities of American cinema. Come see what made these movies, and this moment, so influential.

🎞️ The Watermelon Woman (1996), Dir. Cheryl Dunye | 9/14-9/15
🎞️ The Daytrippers (1996), Dir. Greg Mottola | 9/16-9/17
🎞️ SLC Punk (1998), Dir. James Merendino | 9/18-9/19
🎞️ Big Night (1996), Dir. Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci | 9/20-9/21

09/12/2026

Tonight at GFC: join us for a screening of A Simple Machine, including a special Q&A with producer Alyssa Roehrenbeck.

🎟 Get tickets: https://gatewayfilmcenter.org/movies/a-simple-machine-2026/

In a last-ditch attempt to get out of debt, Nick makes a series of radically frugal lifestyle choices without telling his girlfriend Marie that he’s going off the grid. After taking advice from a bike mechanic who lives out of a tent, Nick fixes up an old ten-speed using Goodwill parts and tools. Freed from costs and expectations, he discovers a sense of purpose and self-reliance as he commutes around town. But Marie starts to become suspicious of his erratic behavior, and Nick is torn between between committing to the woman he loves or devoting himself to a simpler existence.

09/11/2026

The season of the witch is officially here 🕯✨ Practical Magic 2 is now on screen at the Film Center.

09/09/2026

The Cinema Columbus Film Festival officially opens TOMORROW 🙌 From Thursday through Sunday, screenings of 75+ feature and short films will span theaters across Columbus, including our friends Drexel Theatre, Studio 35 Cinema, and Wexner Center for the Arts!

At the Film Center, don't miss our special presentations of:
🍿 Free Beer Tomorrow | Fri 9/11
🍿 Who Is Columbus? | Fri 9/11
🍿 Still Ohio | Fri 9/11
🍿My Pathetic Career | Sat 9/12 - with a post-screening gathering in the Torpedo Room celebrating director Robert Post and partner Jackie Calderone as they prepare for their big move to Portugal! Free to attend – no tickets required for the celebration; cash bar and light bites provided by Film Columbus.
🍿 My Brain: After the Rupture | Sun 9/13
🍿 Crystal Cross | Sun 9/13
🍿 Plus multiple short films screenings -- from supernatural to documentary shorts

Visit cinemacolumbus.com for tickets and full festival screening schedule. Please note that these screenings are not eligible for MyGFC membership benefits. CAPA - Columbus Association for the Performing Arts

09/08/2026

Opening tomorrow at the Film Center: Hope, by director Na Hong-jin

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village. In the nearby forest, a coterie of hunters, including Sung-ki set out to track the beast and find themselves hunted instead. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

09/05/2026

Come get your ’90s film education, Indie 90s continues with screenings of:

🎞️ Run Lola Run (1998), Dir. Tom Tykwer | 9/6-9/7
🎞️ Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Dir. Todd Solondz | 9/8-9/9
🎞️ Cronos (1993), Dir. Guillermo del Toro | 9/10-9/11
🎞️ The Player (1992), Dir. Robert Altman | 9/12-9/13

09/04/2026

Dirk Diggler, you will always be famous 🕺 The 4k restoration of Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) is next up in our Cult101 series, opening Saturday 9/5!

09/02/2026

LAST CALL: Our 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey end this Labor Day weekend. The Gateway Film Center is Central Ohio’s only destination to see this epic on authentic 70mm film, don’t miss your chance!

Address

1550 N High Street
Columbus, OH
43201

Opening Hours

Monday	4pm - 9:30pm
Tuesday	4pm - 9:30pm
Wednesday	4pm - 9:30pm
Thursday	4pm - 11:30pm
Friday	12pm - 11:30pm
Saturday	12pm - 11:30pm
Sunday	12pm - 9:30pm

Telephone

+16142597182

Website

http://www.gatewayfilmcenter.org/

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