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“Mojave,” starring Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund and Mark Wahlberg

Sunday, November 8, 7-9pm, Drexel Theater, 2254 E. Main St.

Written and Directed by Oscar winning screenwriter William Monaghan (The Departed). In this electrifying and darkly comedic Hollywood neo-noir, an artist has an ominous encounter with a drifter in the desert, which gets taken to shocking extremes when the drifter follows him back to his privileged L.A. home life.

In conjunction with Columbus International Film and Video Festival, 11-5-2015 to 11-14-2015.

The Experimental Film Gallery, hosted at the Vanderelli Room!

Friday, November 6, 7-10pm, Vanderelli Room, 218 McDowell St.

An eclectic mix of the strange, the ambient visual eye candy from the new media category. Hosted at the Vanderelli Room in Franklinton, The Experimental Film Gallery will be presented in a unique gallery setting accompanied by some of Columbus’ best up-and-coming artists.

In conjunction with Columbus International Film and Video Festival, 11-5-2015 to 11-14-2015.

Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley

This is the first of two film screenings about Honduras with documentarian Jesse Freeston, a filmmaker and video-journalist based in Montréal, Québec. Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley is a film about farmers in the Aguan Valley of Honduras who have been resisting the takeover of their land by a wealthy businessman who wants to plant it with African palm oil trees. About 80 community leaders have been killed in the years-long confrontation with Facusse’s private guards.

Sponsored by OSU Center for Latin American Studies.

Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change, Featuring Cincinnati Goddamn

Advancing the role of the arts in sparking meaningful dialogue about contemporary issues, this fall’s “Director’s Dialogue” features the powerful and timely documentary Cincinnati Goddamn. Supported by our Film/Video Studio Program, the film captures the personal trauma and civic unrest that followed the deaths of 15 African American men at the hands of Cincinnati police from 1995 to 2001. The screening will be followed by a compelling discussion with filmmakers April Martin and the Wexner Center’s own Paul Hill.