Cinema International at Murray State

04/13/2026

SCREENING: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NOTE: 7PM START TIME - EARLIER THAN PAST SEMESTERS. Please join us, in honor of Earth Day, for this griping documentary on famed environmental activist, Rachel Carson, on April 16 & 18. Long before she warned the world about pesticides in Silent Spring, Carson became a trailblazing female science writer who published popular articles and bestselling books about humanity's relationship with the ocean. Sponsored by the Watershed Studies Institute. All screenings this semester are on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:00pm in Faculty Hall Room 208, half an hour earlier than past years. Closest parking is along N. 15th Street between Olive and Hughes.

04/06/2026

SCREENING: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NOTE: 7PM START TIME. Please join us, this coming week for the Oscar award winning drama "The Brutalist" on April 9 & 11. This epic traces the arc of the 20th Century through the life of an avant-garde Hungarian architect who survives the Holocaust and immigrates to the US. A chance encounter with a wealthy American allows him to begin working as an architect again, but his increasingly complex relationship with his patron threatens to compromise his artistic vision—and takes this maximalist film to surprising and shocking places. All screenings this semester are on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:00pm in Faculty Hall Room 208, half an hour earlier than past years. Closest parking is along N. 15th Street between Olive and Hughes.

03/31/2026

SCREENING: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NOTE: 7PM START TIME. Please join us, this coming week for the Mexican Ariel award winner "La Cocina" on April 2 & 4. Set over the course of a single day, La Cocina explores the inner workings of a Times Square restaurant at the turn of the millennium, where a stolen bag of cash complicates the secret romance between a Mexican line worker and an American waitress. This wildly inventive film is also a multilingual exploration of labor, language, and dreams-American or otherwise. All screenings this semester are on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:00pm in Faculty Hall Room 208, half an hour earlier than past years. Closest parking is along N. 15th Street between Olive and Hughes.

03/23/2026

SCREENING: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NOTE: 7PM START TIME - EARLIER THAN PAST SEMESTERS. Please join us, this coming week for the groundbreaking documentary "Clemente" on March 26 & 28. This film covers the life and tragic death of Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican baseball star who led the Pittsburgh Pirates to World Series glory while navigating racial tensions and paving the way for generations of Hispanic players in the Major Leagues.. All screenings this semester are on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:00pm in Faculty Hall Room 208, half an hour earlier than past years. Closest parking is along N. 15th Street between Olive and Hughes.

03/08/2026

"Fight Like Hell" screening tonight (3/7) in Faculty Hall 208 7pm
Use SouthWest entrance facing 16th St
(East Doors broken)

03/02/2026

SCREENING: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NOTE: 7PM START TIME - EARLIER THAN PAST SEMESTERS. Please join us, in honor of Women's History Month, for the homage to famed labor activist, Mother Jones, in "Fight Like Hell" on March 5 & 7. This adaptation of a one-woman play tells the life story of the Irish-American activist, who was deemed "the most dangerous woman in America," due to her labor organizing in the Gilded Age. Sponsored by the West Kentucky Chapter of NOW. All screenings this semester are on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:00pm in Faculty Hall Room 208, half an hour earlier than past years. Closest parking is along N. 15th Street between Olive and Hughes.

02/23/2026

SCREENING: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NOTE: 7PM START TIME - EARLIER THAN PAST SEMESTERS. Please join us, in honor of Black History Month, for the Sundance Film Festival winner "Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat" on February 26 & 28. This polyphonic, multilingual documentary traces the connections between Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the American jazz musicians who celebrated his rise to power and staged a protest at the UN Security Council after he was assassinated. All screenings this semester are on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:00pm in Faculty Hall Room 208, half an hour earlier than past years. Closest parking is along N. 15th Street between Olive and Hughes.

02/21/2026

LAST CHANCE to see Sinners: Tonight, Saturday Feb 21st! 7pm! Faculty Hall 208! Murray State Campus! Hosted by HON 202 Students!

02/19/2026

Come see the fantastic southern gothic horror movie, Sinners, tonight Thursday (Feb 19) and Saturday (Feb 21). Both screenings will be hosted by students from HON 202. See what all the Oscar buzz is about!!! Below is a Sounds Good interview introducing the film, with student presenters Karley Yahl and Erwin Macario.

The 2025 film – which recently broke the record for the most Oscar nominations – is the next offering in Murray State University’s Cinema International screening series on campus, with two showings this week.

02/16/2026

SCREENING: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NOTE: 7PM START TIME - EARLIER THAN PAST SEMESTERS. Please join us this week for the Oscar nominated supernatural thriller "Sinners" on February 19 & 21. This genre bending vampire movie meshes music, horror and historical commentary in the setting of the Jim Crow south of Mississippi. Students from HON 202 will help introduce the film. All screenings this semester are on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:00pm in Faculty Hall Room 208, half an hour earlier than past years. Closest parking is along N. 15th Street between Olive and Hughes.

02/14/2026

Come watch Korean rom-dram Past Lives for Valentine's Day! 7pm start time!!!
FH 208