As the opening gets closer, staff is starting to get a clearer picture of how the Dundee and Film Streams’ downtown flagship, the Ruth Sokolof Theater, will complement one another.

Adding the Dundee’s 300-seat big house to its two-screen operation gives Film Streams a lot more flexibility in its programming, Jacobson said.

“It’s going to free us up,” she said. “We’ll be able to say ‘yes’ to more, and have a wider range of screens to play with if we open something big (at the Dundee), and move it (downtown) the second week.”

With the additional location, Jacobson said, Film Streams’ number of first-run films will grow from 50 per year to approximately 80.

Having the extra screens for first-runs is going to make a big difference in the fall and winter, when Film Streams sees a bottleneck of prestige films vying for its auditoriums.

Even a cursory glance at this upcoming awards season has a few clear candidates for Film Streams’ screens. Aside from “Downsizing,” there’s the Julianne Moore drama “Wonderstruck,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest (untitled) and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” a Frances McDormand crime comedy that has best actress written all over it.