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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin, the buried secrets of their Zambian family come to light in Rungano Nyoni’s surreal reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
International Art House Classics: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show) on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema.
Eephus
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away in this gentle, sweetly funny debut from Carson Lund.
Steel City Horror Show
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Host Sean Collier will tell you all about our surprise flick, while the mysterious Dr. Gielgud returns with in-theater scares and pre-show surprises — but which Dr. Gielgud will we meet this time?
Oceans Are the Real Continents
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Three stories of migration, exile, and memory develop in the Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños, a place that time forgot. Debut filmmaker Santambrogio renders the ache of leaving, and being left, with both gritty realism and sensual elegance.
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Delve into the life and work of Art Spiegelman, the Queens-raised artist who revolutionized comics by exploring dark, complex themes - shaped by his Holocaust-survivor parents and inspired by MAD magazine’s irreverent satire.
You. Sleep. Stay.
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
81-year-old Fred has lived in a state institution for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities for 50 years. Now, with the facility closing, he reunites with his brother to search for a new place to call home.
Showcase of Brazilian Cinema: Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
PICTURES OF GHOSTS, from acclaimed director Kleber Mendonca Filho, is a multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the urban landscape of Recife, Brazilian coastal capital of Pernambuco.
Showcase of Brazilian Cinema: Elis & Tom (2022)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Trust us, you've heard of them. It's Los Angeles, February 1974. Tom Jobim, the incarnation of Bossa Nova, and Elis Regina, then Brazil's most popular singer, met to record what would become one of the most iconic albums in the history of Brazilian music.
Showcase of Brazilian Cinema: Executive Order (2021)
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Two cousins take refuge, debate social and racial issues, and yearn for the change of country.
Tall Tales
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Fabled English record producer Mark Pritchard, luminary songwriter Thom Yorke and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present Tall Tales—a debut collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making.
Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary
Harris Theater
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
British icons The Zombies reflect on 60 years of their musical path, from teenage friends to legends in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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About the Harris Theater

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Harris Theater is one of the most active arts facilities in the region showing art films nearly every day of the year.

Formerly known as the Art Cinema, the Harris Theater represents a milestone in the redevelopment of Liberty Avenue. The Art Cinema was the first moving picture house in Pittsburgh to commercially show art movies until competition from other city theaters led to its conversion to an adult movie house in the 1960s. As part of its mission to transform the Cultural District, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased and restored the facility leading to further conversions of run-down properties along the Liberty Avenue corridor. With a total of 194 seats, including a fully restored balcony, the Harris Theater officially opened to the public for movies and live performances on November 9, 1995. The theater is one of the few that has retained 35mm film projectors that are utilized regularly.

The Harris was named through a gift from the Buhl Foundation after John P. Harris, co-founder of the Nickelodeon—the first theater solely dedicated to the showing of motion pictures—and a Pennsylvania State Senator. The Harris Theater features contemporary, foreign, and classic films.

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The Harris Theater has installed the necessary equipment to provide closed movie captioning and audio description to patrons for digital films that offer these features. Films with captioning and audio description available will be noted when available.

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Concessions

Concessions are available for all screenings and the Harris Theater is now BYOB. Guests who bring alcoholic beverages must be 21 years or older and provide valid photo ID upon request, a $5 charge will be issued per guest.

Directions

The address is 809 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Call the Harris directly at 412-930-8053.


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