Films & Events
Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish cinema
August 8 - 31, 2014. Krzysztof Zanussi present on August 14, 2014. Presented by PACIM, and screening in partnership with the Twin Cities Polish Film Festival. A screening series of restored classic Polish films touring the U.S. and Canada, which first premiered at the Film Society of... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th 01:00:00 AM - August 31st
Showtimes To Be Announced
Hateship Loveship
Johanna Parry (Kristen Wiig) is a profoundly shy, unadorned woman who is hired by Mr. McCauley (Nick Nolte) as a housekeeper and a primary caregiver to his granddaughter Sabitha (Hailee Steinfeld). Despite her outgoing nature, Sabitha carries wounds from the death of her mother years before,... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 2nd 01:00:00 AM - May 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Unknown Known
Screens April 25 thru May 8. In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of the Iraq War, and a larger-than-life character who provoked equal levels of fury and adulation from the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 25th 01:00:00 AM - May 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Venice Syndrome
Venice is perhaps the most peculiar city on Earth. Its ethereal beauty attracts thousands of tourists daily. But while more and more tourists are coming to visit this unique city, the Venetians are starting to leave. In The Venice Syndrome, Tyrolean director Andreas Pichler deftly explores how... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd 01:00:00 AM - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Luminaries Tribute:
Gordon Parks
When speaking of Gordon Parks, one could easily write an entire biography on his work as a pioneering Black photographer working with the New Deal government; or on his fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including The Learning Tree; or on his music, including the scores for his own movies; or on his... READ MORE
EVENTS | PARTIES | PANELS
OPENING NIGHT PRESENTATION CLOSING PRESENTATION THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN Directed by Craig Roberts UK; 2021; Fiction Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, and Rhys Ifan star in the heartwarming comedy-drama inspired by the true story of Maurice Flitcroft, whose unrelenting optimism gained him entry into the... READ MORE
PRESS & INDUSTRY ACCREDITATION
The MSP International Film Festival (MSPIFF) offers accreditation to qualified Press and Industry representatives. Please submit your application through the form below ASAP. Accredited Passholders may begin reserving tickets to screenings on March 16, 2023, when the complete MSPIFF42 line up and... READ MORE
Timeline Test
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Support Cine Latino
The 9th Annual Cine Latino Film Festival is here! Cine Latino is about community and coming together! In that spirit, we’re kicking off our 2021 Cine Latino Member/Donor Drive with an offer for a FREE Cine Latino ticket to anyone who joins or renews their membership! You can help support our... READ MORE
Live Events
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Short Films
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Cine Latino Official Guide
More information about 2021 Cine Latino official guide will be announced on this page in the future. Please check back for updates soon. Click here to see the 2020 Cine Latino Film... READ MORE
Festival Sandbox
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Special Events
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NEXTWAVE: YOUTH FILM COMPETITION
NEXTWAVE YOUTH FILM COMPETITION is a youth engagement and education initiative that is part of the annual Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF). The competition provides premier regional film and media exhibition opportunities to youth pursuing an interest or career in... READ MORE
Audience Choice Awards
Special Presentations Winner: Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson | USA New American Visions Documentary Feature Winner: The ClawDirector: Philip Harder | USA Fiction Feature Winner: Hollywood FringeDirector: Wyatt... READ MORE
Luminaries Tribute
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Press & Industry Accreditation
Info on Press & Industry Accreditation for 2021 MSPIFF will become available on February 5,... READ MORE
Become a Sponsor
As a non-profit organization, MSP Film Society has built numerous successful corporate and community partnerships in it’s more than 50 year history as a non-profit organization. From direct financial support to in-kind goods and services, there are many ways that you can make a tax-deductible... READ MORE
Live Q&A Schedule
MSPIFF39 Redefined Live Q&A Schedule information will be available... READ MORE
Schedule Changes
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Official MSPIFF App
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MSPIFF Films & Events
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In Focus: Carla Simón
By Jan WillmsSubject: Carla Simón, director of Summer 1993 In her feature debut that will open the Cine Latino Festival, director Carla Simón reaches back to her own childhood to tell the story of a child who is orphaned, and her troubled life with her new family. “This is the most personal... READ MORE
In Focus: Miguel Ángel Rosales
By Jan WillmsSubject: Miguel Ángel Rosales, director of Gurumbe: Afro-Andalusian Memories Miguel Ángel Rosales’ background and education in anthropology has served him well as a filmmaker. His documentary feature, Gurumbe: Afro-Andalusian Memories, explores the Afro-Andalusian contribution to... READ MORE
In Focus: Lucía Gajá Ferrer
November 6, 2017By Jan WillmsSubject: Lucía Gajá, director of Intimate Battles For director Lucía Gajá, cinema is the best way for her to express how she feels about the world and the way we live in it. This is emphasized in the documentary Intimate Battles, the story of five women from... READ MORE
In Focus: José Ramón Chávez
November 6, 2017By Jan WillmsSubject: José Ramón Chávez, director of Help Me Make it Through the Night The strongest things have to be told with a little humor. This is what José Ramón Chávez, director of Help Me Make it Through the Night, believes. “So our film had to be told this way,”... READ MORE
In Focus: Andrés Crespo Arosemena
By Jan WillmsSubject: Andrés Crespo, writer and actor for Such is Life in the Tropics Reading was the trigger that started Andrés Crespo on his film career. Crespo, who is co-writer and also acts in the film Such is Life in the Tropics, said his mother and father were avid readers. Such is Life... READ MORE
In Focus: Amir Galvan & Mitzi Vanessa Arreola
November 6, 2017By Jan WillmsSubject: Amir Galvan, Co-Director of The 4th Company Filmmaker Amir Galvan considers his profession to be a paradox The co-director of the epic Mexican crime film, The 4th Company, said that filmmaking is a profession that gives a very privileged perspective no one has.... READ MORE
In Focus: Sofia Carrillo
November 6, 2017By Jan WillmsSubject: Sofia Carrillo, director of Prita Noire, La Casa Triste, & Cerulia Filmmaker Sofia Carrillo wanted to be a painter and writer when she was a child. “I’m the youngest daughter of a couple of painters, and I grew up in a visual world,” she said. “I... READ MORE
Jury Award Winners
Documentary Feature Competition This juried competition recognizes national and international non-fiction filmmaking that exemplifies the very best in presentation, diversity, innovation, and powerful storytelling in the documentary form. Winner: Wuhan WuhanDirector: Yung Chang | China JURY... READ MORE
In Focus: Nick Deliberto
By Jan WillmsSubject: Nick DiLiberto, Director of Nova Seed Nick DiLiberto has had an obsession for drawing and filmmaking as far back as he can remember. “A constant pastime in my childhood was making horror movies with the family video-camcorder and drawing comic books utilizing my own stories... READ MORE
In Focus: Ann Marie Fleming
By Jan WillmsSubject: Ann Marie Flemming, director of Window Horses Ann Marie Fleming’s animated film Window Horses is the story of Rosie Ming who travels with her Chinese grandparents to a poetry festival in Iran, is playing at MSPIFF this year. Many things in the film have been borrowed from... READ MORE
In Focus: Cesc Gay
By Jan WillmsSubject: Cesc Gay, director of Truman Starting filming with a Super 8 camera which his father bought for him as a teenager, Cesc Gay has worked his way to becoming an award-winning director who will present the opening film Truman at the 4th annual Cine Latino festival. “Some years... READ MORE
In Focus: Marco Castro Bojorquez
By Jan WillmsSubject: Marco Castro Bojorquez, director of The Song of the Hummingbird Marco Castro-Borjoquez loves cinema. And the documentarian who is presenting El Canto del Colibri (Song of the Hummingbird) at the Cine Latino Festival comes from the same state in Mexico as Pedro Infante, who... READ MORE
In Focus: Juan Mejia Botero
By Jan WillmsSubject: Juan Mejia Botero, director of Death by a Thousand Cuts Juan Mejia Botero went into film looking for a tool for his research and activism. It was later that he fell in love with filmmaking as an art form. Born and raised in Colombia, Botero traveled to the United States for... READ MORE
In Focus: Hebe Tabachnik
By Jan WillmsSubject: Hebe Tabachnik, artistic director of the 4th Annual Cine Latino Film Festival Hebe Tabachnik, artistic director of the Cine Latino Minneapolis Saint Paul Film Festival, knew from an early age that she was going to be involved in film. Born in Argentina, she attended cultural... READ MORE
In Focus: Francisca Manuel
By Jan WillmsSubject: Francisca Manuel, lead actress in Where I Grow Old As a multimedia art master student, Francisca Manuel usually spends her time behind the camera, filming and editing video art works. But in 2011 when she was living in Brazil with a Portuguese scholarship, she met Marilia... READ MORE
Cine Latino: In Focus
Andrés Crespo ArosemenaDirector:Such is Life in the TropicsReading was the trigger that started Andrés Crespo on his film career. Crespo, who is co-writer and also acts in the film Such is Life in the Tropics, said his mother and father were avid readers. Mitzi Vanessa ArreolaCo-Director: The 4th... READ MORE
Youth Shorts Program
Behind the WallScreening with X500Director: Kiara Ramirez2016 | 5 min | DocumentaryUSA | Spanish, EnglishA short documentary based on the lives of Mexican Immigrant workers in Northern California Vineyards.Being CubanScreening with HorizonsDirector: Quinton Simmonds, Cameron Stine2015 | 4 min |... READ MORE
Submissions
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Tickets & Passes
All Cine Latino screenings take place at MSP Film at The Main Cinema115 SE Main Street, Minneapolis Individual Ticket Prices Price General Admission $12.00 MSP Film Members $8.00 Students* $10.00 PURCHASE: TICKETS MSP Film Society Member Tickets on sale now. General Admission Tickets will become... READ MORE
MSPIFF39 Best of Fest
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MN Made Feature Documentary Competition
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MN Made Feature Narrative Competition
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Shorts Competition
This juried competition recognizes national, international and local narrative short form filmmaking that exemplifies the very best in presentation, diversity, innovation and powerful storytelling. VIEW NARRATIVE COMPETITION FILMS VIEW DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION FILMS Documentary Jurors... READ MORE
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Travel & Lodging
We are committed as an arts organization to helping contain COVID-19, in the interest of the safety and health of our community, patrons and staff. For this reason and per the recommendations from the office of the Governor of Minnesota regarding COVID-19, this event has been postponed. For more... READ MORE
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MSPIFF Sponsorship
The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival attracts a sought-after, but often inaccessible, group of 40,000+ highly influential creative and cultural leaders, and holds their excited attention for more than two weeks. We provide a platform for sponsors who share the Festival’s values of... READ MORE
MSPIFF Ticketing & Passes
TICKET & INFO OFFICE LOCATION: Pracna Big Room (next to The Main Cinema) HOURS: Noon – 8pm daily Individual Ticket Prices Single Ticket General Admission $15.00 MSP Film Society Members $10.00 Students $8.00* *Student tickets available at the box office with Student I.D.... READ MORE
General Della Rovere
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival directed by one the best directors of all time, Roberto Rossellini, and featuring world cinema icon Vittoria de Sica (The Bicycle Thief) Generale della Rovere, is a film based on the true story of a con artist who during the height of WWII... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 18th - March 18th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Caliber 9
In the first film of the Fernando Di Leo triology, small-time gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 18th - March 18th
Showtimes To Be Announced
In the Year of the Cannibals
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 18th - March 18th
Showtimes To Be Announced
One Way or the Other
In this first Cuban feature film made by an Afro-Cuban and by a woman, Sara Gómez uses innovative documentary and fictional techniques to focus on the marginales in the poorest, most underdeveloped areas of Cuba. Against a backdrop of dismantled slums and new housing construction, the relationship... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 20th - March 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Breaking the Silence
Afro-Cubans played a leading role in the fight to free Cuba from Spanish domination; as part of that struggle, slavery was abolished. Nevertheless, as African descendientes began to achieve a semblance of social and economic parity, the plantocracy, backed up by the US army, sought to undo their... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 20th - March 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Portrait of Teresa
In honor of International Women's Day, a classic feminist film: Cuba Issued a postage stamp recognizing its 30th anniversary. Teresa is bearing the familiar burden of a family and job as well as the increasing demands of being the cultural leader of her factory's dance group; a look at Cuban... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 20th - March 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Nothing More
A postal worker, bored with her job and waiting to follow her parents to Miami, begins inventing responses to the mail she processes. Chaos ensues as she evades being caught by her malevolent boss. Part romantic comedy and part political satire, Nada+ has been aptly described... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 20th - March 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
City in Red
In the late 1950s, the city of Santiago de Cuba was afire, the site of some of the fiercest resistance to the murderous dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The film's narrative unfolds over 24 hours in the lives of several youthful members of the underground as they confront their own uncertainty... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 20th - March 30th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Van Van Fever
For the final night of the festival, get in the mood for dancing with one of Cuba's most popular bands. It's a testament to their appeal to all ages that Los Van Van began playing before the director of the film was even born. Closing night party at Pracna on Main. Cubanía live, with... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 20th - March 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Lensed: Cinematography in Focus
The role of the cinematographer is both extremely technical and artistic, demanding digital fluency, a deep-seated visual aesthetic and a fluid understanding of the elements of movement. Here, cinematographers explore some of cinema's best work, and discuss the future of their... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 3rd - March 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Balancing Act
This film tells the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic story of Giulio, whose life is upended after he cheats on his wife. After the two separate, Giulio - who earns little money - struggles to provide for his estranged wife and their two children. Giulio’s situation becomes increasingly... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Every Blessed Day
Guido and Antonia are a young couple living in the suburbs of Rome. The couple’s differences draw them together: Antonia is an extroverted aspiring singer from Sicily; Guido is a shy and cultured concierge from Tuscany. Their mutual wish for a baby is a strong tie in their relationship. This... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cosimo and Nicole
Following the aftermath of the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, a young man helps a young French woman who is wounded in the protests. Cosimo and Nicole are unconventional spirits who immediately fall in love with each other. After finding a job working for Paolo, a concert organizer, a workplace accident... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Red and the Blue
The Red and the Blue gives a fresh, comedic look at life in public high school in suburban Rome. The lives and education methods of the three central characters are indelibly altered with an influx of new students. Giuliana is a strict, by-the-books principal, Mr. Fiorito is an aging professor who... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Restoring Verdi's Places - from Roncole to Sant'Agata via Busseto
Celebrate Giuseppe Verdi’s life with a journey to the most important places of his life: from his small childhood home to the wonderful gardens of his “Villa Verdi” in Sant’Agata, you’ll be transported to beautiful settings while learning about the life of this Maestro of the opera. This... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Long Live Liberty
Showtimes: Friday, 8:30pm To purchase tickets click here Politician Enrico Olivieri’s party is projected to be a loser in the next election. As election day draws near, Enrico leaves without a trace to Paris with his ex-lover. His absence prompts his wife Anna and a coworker to concoct an... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sacred Heart
This drama tells the captivating story of a workaholic’s spiritual transformation. Irene is a shrewd, driven businesswoman set on selling family property that includes her mother’s apartment. The suicide deaths of two close friends push Irene to an emotional crossroads and force her to... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
How Strange to be Named Federico
This smart, fresh, fascinating film humorously captures director Ettore Scola’s friendship with the celebrated filmmaker Federico Fellini over the course of two decades. The story begins in 1939, as 9-year-old Scola reads Fellini’s magazine cartoons to his blind grandfather. The film defies... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 6th - March 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Writer/director Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums) returns with The Grand Budapest Hotel, which recounts the adventures of Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 10th - March 11th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Throwing Starfish: A Panel on Hunger Relief
What would you give to fight a battle you can never win? Join us for an engaging, heartfelt, and practical discussion about how organizations and individuals like you are acting to end hunger in our communities and work toward a more equitable food system. Sponsored by The Starfish Throwers, a... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 12th - March 13th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Child's Pose
A multi-award winning Romanian thriller. Playing March 14-20. The top prize winner at the Berlin Film Festival, Calin Peter Netzer’s sharply crafted Child’s Pose pivots on a riveting performance by Luminita Gheorghiu (Best Supporting Actress, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Los Angeles Film... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 14th - March 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
When I Saw You
A journey of adventure, love, humor, and the desire to be free. Playing Saturday, March 15. A coming of age story of an 11-year-old Palestinian refugee to Jordan of the ‘67 War. Tarek cannot fathom why it is that he and his mother Ghaydaa cannot go back to their home in Palestine to reunite... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 15th - March 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: War Horse
The National Theatre’s original stage production of War Horse, broadcast live from London’s West End to cinemas. Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, War Horse has become an international smash hit, capturing the imagination of four million people around the... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 17th - March 22nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Enemy
A hypnotically surreal psychological thriller. Playing March 21-27. Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with Academy Award Nominated director Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 21st - April 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Bidonville: Architectures de la ville future
Filmmaking Attending! Today, one person in six lives in a slum, a squat, or any other precarious dwelling. Governments consider these to be problems and try to stamp them out by building public housing, but most citizens refuse to live in environments that fail to address their reality. Instead,... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 29th - March 30th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Science on Screen: Robot & Frank
The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, in collaboration with the Bakken Museum, is pleased to present Science on Screen, a new series of sci-fi film with real science lectures. The series is made possible through a grant by the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 31st - April 1st
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Bottle
Animated on location at a beach, in snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a heartfelt transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle. Screens in Childish Shorts at the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
High Above the Sky
One day Leo screams and screams and screams. His Dad takes him shopping, and so the journey begins through the aisles and high above the sky. A stop-motion animated film made entirely in cardboard and paint. Screens in Childish Shorts at the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
I Spy with My Little Eye
Full of imagination, Mia convinces bored Ingo to play the game of ‘I Spy’. More and more the game dissolves the ordinary kitchen into a wildly animated sea-adventure dream reality. Note: this film has English subtitles. Screens in Childish Shorts at the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
A Minneapolis Adventure with Big Bob and Tiny Tim
Two local boys use visual trick effects to create funny characters in their unique tribute to the best of Minneapolis, which of course includes the Central Library! Screens in Childish Shorts at the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Omar
Synopsis A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Mid-Fest Visiting Filmmaker Party
9:00pm-midnight (Aster Cafe River Room) FREE Admission Celebrate the midpoint of this year’s International Film Festival! Mix and mingle with visiting filmmakers and film fanatics alike at the Aster Cafe's River... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
House of Wax
Vincent Price plays Professor Henry Jarrod who survives a fire set to his wax museum by an associate out to claim insurance money. Angry at the loss of wax figures he considers to be friends, Jarrod embarks on a vengeful journey to recreate his museum. He enlists the help of a thuggish sculptor... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Closing Night Party
9:00pm-midnight (Aster Cafe) $20 General Admission $15 Members/Students Close the Festival in style! Join us at Aster Cafe for drinks, light appetizers, entertainment, and more. Tickets to this party include a ticket to the Closing Night... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Second Friday Party
9:00pm-midnight (Aster Cafe River Room) Free After the 7pm screening of Dom Hemingway, grab a cocktail with your fellow filmgoers and relax -- it’s Friday... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sara Hanson
Sara Hanson will create and exhibit a mobile sculpture with an interactive time capsule component that travels into communities and public spaces. Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Soozin Hirschmugl
Soozin Hirschmugl will be researching funding options, touring venues, and other ways to actualize a touring puppet production of Minnesota State Fair Legend Lillian Colton AKA The Seed Queen. Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Todd Boss
Todd Boss will begin the planning stages of a project that will project poetry films on facade of St Paul's historic Union Depot. Screens in Shorts Program 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Randy Walker
YouthPrise installation. Screens in Shorts Program 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Eben Kowler
Eben Kowler & Eli Edleson-Stein's project School 2.0 will playfully re-imagine school through participatory "lessons" that spark creative play and radical imagination. Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dane R. Winkler
Dane R. Winkler will experiment and research various interactive mediums (projection and kinetic works) to develop a public art work in rural MN. Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Jason Bord
Jason Bord will further develop models and study material processes that will be used to promote future public art projects. Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Mara V. Pelecis
Mara V. Pelecis will research and determine interviews and locations for CrossRoads a storytelling based mobile app, representing diverse voices on a shared platform. Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Alison Holland
Alison Holland plans to use collaboration movement techniques with community members to begin a conversation about the future of a long-vacant gravel lot in downtown Mora. Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Tim Donahue
Tim Donahue plans to research and develop a bicycle-powered interactive mobile light sculpture that plays off of the large white canvas of Minneapolis snow fields at night. Screens in Shorts Program 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Zen and the Art of Indie Acting: A Case Study Featuring Stay Then Go
How does an actor find success in low-budget independent film? How does a director maintain a functioning creative process? How does one find the zen? This panel will explore the inherently collaborative process between actor, director and medium... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Doomtree - Beacon
Directed by: Bo Hakala Title: Beacon Artist: Doomtree Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
No Bird Sing - And War
Directed by: Andre Durand Title: And War Artist: No Bird Sing Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Silk Lake
Lago di Seta (Silk Lake) Second in the feature film anthology of 7 SHORT FILMS ABOUT LOVE. After dropping her child off on the way to her job at a silk factory in Lake Como, Italy, GIULIA (Francesca Leto) finds herself lulled into a daydream by the weaving machines. She lives the fantasy by... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
What is Left (?)
Directors Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi Attending! Like many Italians, Luca and Gustav (the protagonists of this documentary, filmmakers, and always “leftists”) thought that 2013 would be the year of change. But the comeback of Berlusconi and the entrance of populist political renegade Beppe... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Opening Night Party
The Opening Presentation of the 2014 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival! TWO EVENTS WRAPPED INTO ONE! OPENING NIGHT FILM! Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido Elizabeth... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Longwave
April 1974, Julie, a young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph, leading reporter of the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland's aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, a sound engineer approaching retirement. When suddenly the workers'... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Twin Sisters
In 2003, two babies were found in a cardboard box in a Chinese village and adopted into two different corners of the world. One of them to a little village in Norway, surrounded by high mountains and deep fjords. The other one to a big city in the USA. The adoptive parents had no idea that there... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Unknown Known
In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of the Iraq War, and a larger-than-life character who provoked equal levels of fury and adulation from the American public. Rather than... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Left Foot Right Foot
Marie, 19, is attracted by easy money, which leads her down a road to prostitution. She decides not to tell her friend, Vincent, a young, nonchalant, 21-year-old skater who owes everyone money and just can’t seem to grow up. The maelstrom of life seizes Marie and Vincent, caught up in a society... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Double
Simon James (Eisenberg) is a timid office clerk working in an ominous government organization. He is overlooked by his boss (Wallace Shawn) and colleagues, scorned by his mother, and ignored by Hannah (Wasikowska), the lovely copy room girl he pines for. Undermined and undervalued everywhere he... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony
Academy Award winner Javier Bardem stars in this compelling documentary that shines a light on the political and human rights issues facing the people of the Western Sahara. This documentary brings awareness to the conflict in the region and encourages leaders to pursue a resolution. Attending... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Exit Marrakech
Heinrich (Ulrich Tukur) is an acclaimed German stage director invited to Morocco to participate in an international theatre festival. The arrival of his seventeen-year-old son Ben (Samuel Schneider) presents an opportunity for family bonding in a fresh environment, but old grievances quickly... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Agri and the Mountain
In a small remote village at the skirts of the Mountain Ararat, nine-year-old Rodja wakes up to a blustery winter morning. As she gets ready for school, men work in the beautiful, windswept landscape, and women prepare dough for bread. This is a glimpse into the life of one child in a place where... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
We Are The Best!
In a return to form for Swedish director Lukas Moodysson, We Are the Best chronicles the charming punk possibilities of three teenage girls in 80s Stockholm. Bobo, Klara, and Hedvig are outcasts that become fast friends in their desire to rebel against the status quo. Even though punk rock is... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Priest's Children
Motivated by desire for demographic renewal, Don Fabijan, a young priest on a Dalmatian island starts secretly puncturing all the packaged condoms before they are sold. He is soon joined by the local god-fearing newsstand salesman and the mad pharmacist, and they practically abolish all... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Last of Robin Hood
Errol Flynn is the handsome Australian actor best known for his roles in Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and The Sea Hawk (1940). Late in life Flynn took up with his underage co-star in Cuban Rebel Girls (1959), Beverly Aadland, and promised her a life together shortly... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Love Battles
A nameless couple meet during the summertime. The woman has returned to her village following the death of her father. There, she meets a man who spends his days farming and writing. Every encounter between them culminates in the need to confront each other physically. The woman's arguments with... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Grape
Grieving winemaker Grayson Delecourt, pondering the sale of his family vineyard, receives an unwelcome overnight visitor on a bleak, wintry afternoon. He soon discovers that Tyler, the drunken, disheveled young man who stumbled into his tasting room faces life-altering decisions of his own, and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The German Doctor
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor (Alex Brendemhl meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Beyond the Edge
In 1953, the ascent of Everest remained the last of Earth's great challenges. Standing at over 29,000ft, the world's highest mountain posed a fearsome challenge and had already claimed thirteen lives in previous expeditions. Faced with treacherous winds, sub-zero temperatures and battling altitude... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Violette
Violette Leduc, born out of wedlock at the beginning of the 20th century, encountered Simone de Beauvoir in the post-WWII years in St-Germain-des-Prés. An intense relationship began between the two women, which would last their whole lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Marijuana Deathsquads - Ewok Sadness
Directed by: Isaac Gale Title: Ewok Sadness Artist: Marijuana Deathsquads Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Scattered
Scattered takes an unflinching look at the filmmaker's late father--a man who was obsessed with documenting his life on film--and unravels the story that he tried to create with his camera, to reveal the story that actually was. Told primarily through archival footage, this film explores the nature... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Exit Hoods - Spooky Actions in the Distance
Directed by: Ilya Simakov Title: Spooky Actions In The Distance Artist: Exit Hoods Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Poliça - Warrior Lord
Directed by: Isaac Gale & David Jensen Title: Warrior Lord Artist: Poliça Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Colin Stetson - Who the Waves are Roaring For
Filmmaker Attending Directed by: Isaac Gale & David Jensen Title: Who the Waves are Roaring For Artist: Colin Stetson Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Life of Riley
Boy Meets Girl. Boy Loses Girl. Riley Grant is stuck in neutral. Life happens all around him, but never to him. Enter Maggie. She euthanizes unadopted animals, “among other things.” Riley is drawn to her. She awakens an old ambition in him. But when fate has other plans will Riley be able... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dessa - Call Off Your Ghost
Directed by: Daniel Cummings Title: Call Off Your Ghost Artist: Dessa Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Fallen by Meme
Directed and created entirely by the musician in the band, this passionately animated video provides a window into what the producer saw as he created his music with his wife. The concept takes art coming to life literally as a self painted De Stijl influenced piece escapes its contours and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dawn's Edge
Filmmaker Attending Life used to consist of court dates, carpools, and dinner parties. Now Dawn Singleton must hike, hunt, and fight to survive. Once a prominent lawyer, wife, and mother of two, she now fights off the undead to protect her family. Screens in Shorts Program 8: Shorts, MN... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Slippery Slope
Hilary wants desperately to marry the love of her life, Véronique, but one unusual obstacle lies in her way. Determined, she enlists the help of Mr. Penzance, an enigmatic lawyer, and the reluctant Pastor Tomaso to make her dream come true. Screens in Shorts Program 6: Laugh it... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Meme - The Brightest Star
Directed by: Danny Burke Title: The Brightest Star Artist: Meme Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Buffalo Moon - Machista
Filmmaker Attending Directed by: Kevin Horn Title: Machista Artist: Buffalo Moon Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Here Lies the Heart
Here lies the heart inside the dresser drawer. It's greasy, rotten, and red from all the words that she once said. Screens in Shorts Program 2: Animated... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Flashback Memories 3D
Japanese didgeridoo player Goma had a thriving career and an international following when he was hit from behind by a car in 2009 and suffered traumatic brain injuries which seriously impaired his medium- and short-term memory and affected his emotional responses. He slowly trained himself to play... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Door God
A 7 year old girl, Lingli, has been waiting two years for her mother to come home. When her family finally puts up the Door God on Chinese New Year, her mother finally returns, but brings irreversible change to Lingli and her family. Screens in Shorts Program 1: Coming of... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Hastings 3000 - Speed of Light
Directed by: Patrick Pierson Title: Speed of Light Artist: Hastings 3000 Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
My Last Days: Meet Zach Sobiech
Zach Sobiech is a 17-year-old diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. With only months to live, Zach turned to music to say goodbye to his friends and family, not realizing how big of an impact it would have on the world. Screens in Shorts Program 4: The Artist... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Salt in the Air
Director Enrico Rossini Cullen Attending! A portrait of rural melancholia, Salt in the Air exhumes the spirit of salt from a 3,500-year-old salt mine in a foggy and hardscrabble Carpathian Mountain village in Ukraine. With rhythmic pacing and intimacy, Salt in the Air connects actual salt with... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
How to Make a Sandwich from Scratch
In the modern age, feeding yourself is as simple as buying a frozen dinner and sticking it in the microwave. But what would it really take to feed yourself with something as simple as a sandwich if you had to make everything from scratch, yourself? From growing the wheat, milking the cow, to... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Magneto Effect - Kaboom
Director(s): Justin Staggs Title: Kaboom Artist: Magneto Effect Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Color Pharmacy - Aperture
Directed by: Jake Dilley and Jimmy Morrison Title: Aperture Artist: The Color Pharmacy Screens in Shorts 10: MN Made Music Videos Screening at the Best Buy Theatre - Northrop... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America
Journey into the world of Argentina's most famous musical artist in Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America. Over a career that spanned 50 years, Sosa sold millions of records, performed thousands of concerts all over the world, and left behind an incredible legacy as an artist who went beyond... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation
La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona: a unique, fascinating building project with Antoni Gaudí, a brilliant architect, an enormous number of workers and a history full of extreme highs and lows. The history of this building, which has been under construction since 1882 and is today only half finished,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Mute
After a short investigation, police conclude that the gunshot which nearly killed Judge Constantino Zegarra was nothing more than a stray bullet. But Constantino, who unlike his peers fervently adheres to the letter of the law, is convinced someone tried to take him out. He re-opens the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Brave Miss World
Miss Israel Linor Abargil was abducted, stabbed, and raped at age 18. She had to represent her country in the Miss World competition only 6 weeks later. When to her shock she was crowned the winner, she vowed to one day speak out about rape. This verité film follows Linor's global travels as she... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Charlie Victor Romeo
A unique and riveting theatrical experience, Charlie Victor Romeo is a performance documentary derived entirely from the Black Box transcripts of six major real-life airline emergencies. When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do they... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Fish & Cat
A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the Winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant. The cooks are looking for some meat to cook and there's no one around... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Domina
Domina is an intergalactic bounty huntress on the trail of a fugitive SlaveBot. On the heels of a violent space battle, the two enemies crash down on an uncharted desert planet. Stranded, bored, and lonely for companionship, Domina resurrects the comatose SlaveBot to assist her while she awaits her... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Longing For the Rain
Director Yang Lina’s unique film on the emerging middle class is equal parts ghost story, erotic drama, and social critique. Fang Lei faces her anxieties about a comfortable life with her daughter and husband through an apparition that arrives in her dreams. But fantasy and reality are about to... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Mr Invisible
A lonely and disregarded old man seems invisible to the world around him. But when he journeys to the heart of London, being 'invisible' proves to be his greatest weapon. Screens in Shorts Program 7:... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Poustinia
Filmmaker Attending Gendron Jensen draws bones. Detailed, precise, wondrous images of bones. Kicked out of a monastery in his 20's, Jensen spent 17 years building the foundation of his artistic life on a rented farm in the north woods of Minnesota before moving to the mountains of New Mexico.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Brooklyn Farmer
Brooklyn Farmer explores the unique challenges facing Brooklyn Grange, a group of urban farmers who endeavor to run a commercially viable farm within the landscape of New York City. As their growing operation expands to a second roof, the team confronts the realities inherent in operating the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Aftermath
Special introduction on April 10 by Alejandro Baer, Director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Inspired by real events that haunt Poland's past, Wladyslaw Pasikowski (who wrote the screenplay for Andrzej Wajda's Katyn) turns in a hard-hitting allegory on... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Antboy
Pelle is a shy twelve-year old living an ordinary life in a small Danish town, until the day he is bitten by a genetically modified ant. Inheriting the abilities of this ‘super-ant’, Pelle gains new and incredible powers that he must navigate, along with all the other awkward obstacles a kid... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
App
The first Second Screen film! Download the app by texting IRIS to 97000. Anna, a student at the University of Amsterdam, lives with her best friend Sophie and balances psychology classes with supporting her brother and his recovery following a traumatic motorcycle accident. She's never far from... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Bicycling With Molière
Directed by Philippe Le Guay (The Women on the 6th Floor). Serge Tanneur (Fabrice Luchini, On Guard, Paris, The Women on the 6th Floor, In The House) is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists
In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists. Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era - Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Locke
Ivan Locke (Hardy) has worked diligently to craft the life he has envisioned, dedicating himself to the job that he loves and the family he adores. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Proxy
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. Her life of sadness and solitude is opened up to... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
Michel comes back to Brussels from a business trip. On arriving at his apartment, located in a large « Art Nouveau » house, he finds out that his wife Edwige has disappeared. His anxiety is increased by a puzzling detail: despite the fact that his apartment is totally empty, the security chain... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Witching and Bitching
Desperate dad José and friends run from a coven of witches hell-bent on their souls and on the 25,000 wedding rings the guys stole from a Cash-for-Gold shop in a desperate attempt to escape their lives of wife... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Final Recipe
Hao's only hope is that his grandson Mark (Henry LAU) enters a prestigious university but Mark's dream is to follow his grandfather's footsteps and become a chef and take over the restaurant. Due to Hao's difficult personality, the restaurant is on the verge of bankruptcy and he finally collapses.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Food for Love
The all embracing love of the Greek mother stretches around the globe! However far away her child may be, she will always make sure that he will have a good supply of mother’s food. Food in the hands of Greek mothers is a powerful practical and symbolic tool that bridges any geographic and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1
GOW, a film in two parts, tells a story of vengeance between two families that spans more than 60 years. It begins towards the end of colonial rule in India. Shahid Khan loots British trains, impersonating his rival, the legendary Sultana Daku. He becomes an outcast, and starts working at Ramadhir... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2
GOW, a film in two parts, tells a story of vengeance between two families that spans more than 60 years. It begins towards the end of colonial rule in India. Shahid Khan loots British trains, impersonating his rival, the legendary Sultana Daku. He becomes an outcast, and starts working at Ramadhir... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Giselle
Giselle is acclaimed director Toa Fraser's interpretation of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's production of Giselle. The classic story of love, erotism and death has been reinterpreted by Fraser to include both the on stage performance of the ballet, and an off-stage romance - interwoven with the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Grand Seduction
Filmmaker Attending The small harbor of Tickle Cove is in dire need of a doctor so that the town can land a contract to secure a factory which will save the town from financial ruin. Village resident Murray French (Gleeson) leads the search, and when he finds Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) he employs —... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Handful of Dust
Prussian blue can be used to render images and counteract radiation poisoning. This obituary is composed of sequences of cyanotypes, exposed in the sand using paper sensitized with handmade emulsion and negatives from a 1954 Hollywood film. Rates of cancer in the film's cast and crew reflect that... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Hero Pose
This is SOLD OUT. Try your luck with the RUSH LINE. Mia is eight years old and wants to do anything but hang out at her dad's house trying to sell a car that doesn't run. Her father, Joe has real concerns he's grappling with. The Hero Pose is a story about Joe and Mia, father and daughter, and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Hunting Elephants
Jonathan is a bright 12 year-old - perhaps too bright, since everyone picks on him at school, including his teachers. His closest friend in the world is his father, Daniel. The two of them meet up everyday after school when Jonathan visits Daniel during his work hours at the bank. One day, Daniel... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Out of the Fire
Out of the Fire provides a compelling look into the little-known world of wood firing potters, combining the pull of fascinating life stories with elements of an action movie. Along with portraying the camaraderie, techniques, and inherent drama of the firing, the film explores the drive to... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Paulette
Brash and opinionated retiree, Paulette (Bernadette Lafont) lives alone in a housing project on the outskirts of Paris. One evening, upon observing some mysterious dealings outside her building, Paulette discovers a surprising way to supplement her meager pension - an unlikely, but successful... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Just a Sigh
Between two representations of a play she performs in Calais, Alix meets a mysterious Irishman on the train bringing her to Paris for the day. Drawn towards him, she follows him, loves him, for a few hours, before facing what could be a new... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour, produced by Susan Dangel, is the first full-scale documentary of Sharon Isbin, the world’s premier classical guitarist, a trailblazing performer and teacher who over the course of her career has broken through numerous barriers to rise to the top of a traditionally... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Stay Then Go
Stay Then Go takes a poignant, challenging look at the bonds of parenthood from an unexpected perspective: that of a devoted mom who must figure out the rules for letting go of the son she built her whole life around. Part intimately detailed family drama, part emotional ghost story, the film... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
This Movie Had No Script
Improvisational theater is more then just a form of comedy. It is also a way of life. Minneapolis has one of the most striving and unique improv communities in the country. We look at three theaters, Brave New Workshop, Comedy Sportz, and HUGE improv Theater. Plus, we meet with some of the most... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Turboencabulator
The film about the making of a film within a film about a child's vision of the simultaneity of time and the mysterious machine controlled by "The Operator:" The Turboencabulator. Screens in Shorts Program 9:... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Willing to Break
An electrifying documentary portrait about young Moroccan women and their passion for break dancing. Willing to Break was produced and directed by a trio of talented young filmmakers: Sutton Raphael, JP Keenan and Loubna Fouzar. Raphael and Keenan will be present at the showing of this... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
One Armed Man
CW Rowe has it all. He owns the cotton gin, making him the wealthiest man in Harrison, Texas, and his ascendancy has solidified an unshakable belief in the system that enriched him. Few things ever interrupt the purity of his vision, with the exception of the weekly visit of a young man, Ned, who... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Class Enemy
Due to a huge difference in the way they perceive life, the relationship between students and their new German language teacher becomes critically tense. When one of the students commits suicide, her classmates accuse the teacher of being responsible for her death. The realization that things... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cinema Smorgasbord
5:30pm-midnight $40 General Admission $30 Members/Students Food, drinks, wine tasting, a screening of Le Chef and an afterparty? Who could ask for more! Make Sunday night one to remember -- join us for the Cinema Smorgasbord! 5:30-6:30pm Reception in the Festival Pavilion 6:45pm Wine... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
XYZ
9:00pm-midnight (Festival Pavilion) $15 General Admission $12 Members/Students *Event ticket includes one drink ticket It’s Friday night and time to party! Following the 7pm screenings of Stay Then Go, Sharon Isbin: Troubador, and The Sacrament, head over to this inaugural XYZ event... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Karaoke Girl
This intimate portrayal of a young woman who works as a hostess in Bangkok to support her rural family takes its fictional roots from the emotional real life story of the lead actress. As a result, this drama, which tells a familiar tale about a young woman trapped in her economic situation, exudes... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Jouir De La Vie
Dustin, a young painter living in the Midwest begins suffering from a bizarre ailment: he dies every time he has sex. He seeks advice from his former professor who is convinced that Dustin must somehow purify his soul. He sets off for France in hopes doing this, but becomes increasingly suspicious... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Joe
Nicolas Cage returns to his indie roots in the title role as the hard-living, hot-tempered, ex-con Joe Ransom, who is just trying to dodge his instincts for trouble until he meets a hard-luck kid (played by Tye Sheridan from Mud) who awakens in him a fierce and tender-hearted protector. In a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Job of the Architect
With the music of indie rock group Low, The Job of the Architect tells the story of renowned Duluth-based architect David Salmela. Using images from Salmela's residential work, Jackson Meadow, the conservation community in Marine St. Croix, Minnesota, and the headquarters of Loll Designs at the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Four Ways to Die in My Hometown
Representative of the innovation happening in contemporary independent Mainland Chinese film, journalist-turned-director Chai Chunya crafts an exploratory tale on the massive changes in rural China. Young college student Ga Gui returns to her hometown on the premonition that her elderly father is... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Jadoo
A family feud not only divides two brothers but also their family cookbook that gets ripped in half during an argument. But their 20-year rivalry, including competing restaurants, is about to be challenged by a new restaurant and an impending marriage that will only happen if the brothers bury... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dom Hemingway
Filmmaker Attending Jude Law plays Dom Hemingway, a larger-than-life safe-cracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie (Richard E. Grant) looking to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus
For the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, performing comes with risks beyond those usually associated with theater: censorship, imprisonment, and worse. Director Madeleine Sackler goes behind the scenes with this acclaimed troupe of imaginative and subversive performers who, in a desolate... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Curse and the Symphony
The Curse and the Symphony is a short documentary about former punk musician Nathan Felix's eight-year effort to break into the elite world of classical music, in spite of having no formal musical training, and attempt to get his symphony performed by a full orchestra for the first time. Screens... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
For A Woman
Diane Kury's historical melodrama opens with Anne looking through her mothers belongings shortly after her death. When Anne discovers a photograph of her mother with a man she doesnt recognize, the film flashbacks to 1947 where we discover a lusty family secret. Set in post-war France, For a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
For No Good Reason
Ralph Steadman, best known for his artistic collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson, takes center stage in this lavish documentary that explores the life and work of this iconic illustrator. Over 15 years in the making, For No Good Reason is beautifully shot and fluidly edited with much of... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Go Home
What if you woke up and everything in your house had changed? When Annie awakes from a nap she is startled to find a girl has taken over her room. As they argue about who is telling the truth - suddenly real intruder invades the home and takes Jenna captive, forcing Annie to save Jenna's life. That... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Forest
Based upon a short story from Spanish author Albert Sanchez Piñol set during the Spanish Civil War, The Forest tells the tale of Ramon and Dora from Matarraña who hide an ancient secret: next to their farmhouse, some mysterious lights are visible two nights every year coming from a strange patch... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Me Too
Five passengers – the Bandit, his friend Matveyev, Matveyev’s old father, the Musician, and a young woman – race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for the Bell Tower of Happiness which, according to hearsay, lies somewhere between St. Petersburg and the town of Uglich, near a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Forward
Taking the title from Wisconsin's state motto, Forward takes an activist-level perspective of the uprising that swept state senators out of office, triggered the third governor recall election in American history, and inspired the Occupy movement across the country. Using the reflections of people... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Faith Connections
Filmmaker Pan Nalin travels to the Kumbh Mela, one of the world's most extraordinary religious events. There, he encounters remarkable men of mind and meditation, some facing an inextricable dilemma; to embrace the world or to renounce it. FAITH CONNECTIONS explores such diverse and deeply moving... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Eskil & Trinidad
Eskil, an 11 year-old boy, moves from town to town constantly with his engineer dad in frigid Northern Sweden. He misses his Danish mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age and his father’s former passion and profession. Things change when Eskil meets a girl... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Cleaner
In the midst of a mysterious, devastating epidemic, Eusebio, a forensic cleaner who sterilizes the apartments of the deaddiscovers an eight-year-old boy hiding in an uninhabited house. A loner all his life, Eusebio suddenly finds that he must care for this frightened young boy as civilization... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Dog
Most people have heard that Sidney Lumet's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon was based on a true story, but who was the real character that inspired Al Pacinos Sonny? This astonishing documentary of the late John Wojtowicz, who came to be known as The Dog, proves that truth is far more... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Habi, The Foreigner
This first-time feature from María Florencia Álvarez tells a story about the search for identity and a winding path towards that encounter. Analia is 20-year-old girl from a small town in Argentina who routinely travels to Buenos Aires to distribute crafts. While doing so she accidentally... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Metro Manila
Seeking a better life, Oscar Ramirez and his family decide to move from the poverty stricken rice fields of the Northern Philippine mountain ranges and journey towards the capital mega city of Metro Manila. Upon arriving in the big city, it isn't long before they fall foul to various city... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Half of a Yellow Sun
Based on the book of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun is a sweeping romantic drama about two twins that is set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War. After receiving an education in England, Olanna, and Kainene return home to a newly-independent Nigeria.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Congress
Robin Wright plays Robin Wright, an aging actress who receives one last chance to cash in on her talents: to be scanned and preserved as a virtual and ageless movie star. Isreali director Ari Folmans follow up to Waltz With Bashir is ambitious in almost every way, combining live action and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Harmony Lessons
Set against the backdrop of rural Kazakhstan, young schoolboys become pawns in an unending social cycle of systematic oppression and violence. By mere happenstance, 13-year-old Alsan becomes the target of a handful of power-mongering classmates who bully him into a simmering silence of loneliness... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Gabrielle
The musically gifted but developmentally challenged Gabrielle lives in a group home with four other adults who have similar disabilities. Like all young women, Gabrielle wants her independence, but of course her situation is unique. When she falls in love with a similarly challenged young man in... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Concrete Night
Concrete Night is a dream-like odyssey through beautiful Helsinki over the course of one night. The protagonist of the film is a 14-year-old boy named Simo who is still searching for a sense of self and the ability to protect himself from his surroundings. He lacks his own identity. Simo and his... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Jungle Encounters
Founding Artistic Director Bain Boehlke visits with actors and staff of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis. We see behind the scenes and hear about life in the theater through interviews with actors, including Claudia Wilkens, Wendy Lehr, Bradley Greenwald, Steven Epp, Barbara Kingsley, Terry... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Coherence
Director James Byrkit attending 4/5 screening! When a group of eight friends gather for a dinner party on a night that a comet is passing overhead, reality and logic rupture into unforeseen chaos. While the modest setting is minimalistic, the ideas compounded by a mixed bag of eclectic and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found-and-lost. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the Galapagos Adam and Eve, others flock... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Horizon Beautiful
Admassu, a plucky 12 year-old boy, lives on his own in the streets of Addis Ababa. A fateful encounter with Franz, a self-serving Swiss soccer mogul, presents a possibility - to live the life of his dreams as a successful international soccer player. Seizing opportunity, the boy hatches a clever... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Bryce's Story
Bryce's Story is a short documentary about an eleven year old boy who is living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA is a degenerative and terminal genetic disease for which there is no cure and few treatment options. My goal with this film was to let Bryce tell his own story and show the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
My Guide
An elderly couple drives in traffic. The wife chitchats, calls out warnings, and controls. She is a GPS and a commentator, all at once. The husband grumbles and tries to ignore her. This is how their world works. But life is constantly changing... Screens with... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
InRealLife
InRealLife asks what exactly is the internet and what is it doing to our children. Taking us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, filmmaker Beeban Kidron suggests that rather than the promise of free and open connectivity, young people are increasingly... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Belle
The Opening Presentation of the 2014 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival! TWO EVENTS WRAPPED INTO ONE! OPENING NIGHT FILM! Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido Elizabeth... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Intruders
Comedy mixes seamlessly with an eerie edge of suspense in this well-made thriller that's full of twists and turns. A hapless screenwriter hoping to finish his current project arranges a retreat to an empty rural bed and breakfast owned by his producer. His isolation is interrupted by a rowdy group... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
3X3D
Centered in the two thousand year old city of Guimaraes, three renowned directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, explore 3D and its evolution in the world of cinema. How does 3D affect the audience and their perception? Screening at the Walker Cinema - Walker Art... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Marina
Italy, 1948, Young Rocco is growing up in Calabria, until one day his father Salvatore decides to leave to Belgium, where he strives to earn a lot of money by working in coal mines. Very soon he sends for his family. Rocco becomes a migrant overnight, with all the consequences this entails. Rocco... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Clutch
Filmmaker Attending In an quiet bowling alley, a man in serious trouble with dope dealers is offered a way out by the man sent to kill him: "One ball, one strike, and I'll let you live." Only problem is he's already broken his hand. Screens in Shorts Program 6: Laugh it... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Salma
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a conservative south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma's salvation and she began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, secretly, she was... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
An Arctic Space Odyssey
Director Lars Skageberg and the film's main subject Roald Søfteland attending! At an isolated outpost in the Arctic, the pioneering spirit of the Space Race clashes with the suspicions of the Cold War. One man, shouldering great responsibility, stands at the crossroads. Unique footage from... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
When We With Daisies Lie
Two sisters commemorate the death of their third sister with a touching tradition. Screens in Shorts Program 8: Shorts, MN... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cavedigger
Ra Paulette digs cathedral-like, 'eighth wonder of the world' art caves into the sandstone cliffs of Northern New Mexico. Each creation takes him years to complete, and each is a masterwork. But patrons who have commissioned caves have cut off nearly all of his projects due to artistic differences.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Siddharth
After sending away his 12 year-old son Siddharth for work, Mahendra (a chain-wallah who fixes broken zippers on the streets) is relieved – his financial burdens will be alleviated. But when Siddharth fails to return home, Mahendra learns he may have been taken by child-traffickers. With little... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Hotell
Erika is a beautiful young woman with what seems to be a perfect life, but fate delivers her a blow she was not ready for. In an attempt to heal, she joins a therapy group where she meets a colorful but equally damaged cast of characters. Together, in an attempt to think outside the box, they... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Buzzard
Marty Jackitansky is a temp at a mortgage office and he is not happy about it. Scamming his workplace seems like a good way to pass the time until he swipes a stack of refund checks and tries to pawn them off as his own. Marty goes into hiding as his anxieties slowly turn to delusional paranoia.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Heli
Car factory worker Heli lives a modest life in rural Mexico with his wife and baby, father, and 12-year-old sister Estela. In a very misguided attempt to finance an elopement with Estela, police cadet Beto steals two parcels of cocaine from the wrong people. Their lives quickly descend into an... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Love and Lemons
Twenty-nine-year-old Agnes loves two things: her job as a cook and her rockstar boyfriend Tobias. But when she's fired from her job and her boyfriend leaves her, she returns to her hometown for a culinary and romantic reboot. The passion for food in Love and Lemons is closely connected with the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Human Face of Big Data
With the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in ways from the microscopic to the gargantuan. Big Data, a word that was barely used a few years ago, now governs the day for many of us from the moment we awaken to the moment our head hits the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Negative
Trevor is a lonely photographer's assistant. One dark and stormy night, when Trevor is busy scanning old negatives, a beautiful and somehow familiar woman named Eve comes to the door. Their unexpected meeting reveals a peculiar connection, but her odd behavior suggests she might not be telling... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Dunsing Plan
After years of dwindling returns, a man decides to burn down a factory inherited from his father before it's foreclosed on. His younger brother, however, forgot to mention that he let the fire insurance lapse the week before. With their last possessions literally being carried out the front door of... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Above All Else
Director John Fiege Attending! Above All Else is an intimate portrait of a group of landowners and activists in East Texas who tried to stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion dollar project slated to carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
How to Disappear Completely
Director Raya Martin in attendance for 4/16 screening! In this uber-stylish atmospheric mystery, expect plenty of questions but only a few answers. A young girl who lives in a small village longs to escape the oppressive forces around her: thuggish boys, alcoholic father, bible-quoting mother,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Death to Prom
René and Frankie are two friends who make the best of going to high school by dreaming up high fashion but low-budget photo shoots, with René embracing his love for designing clothes and Frankie refining her skills in photography. When they invite Sasha, a shy soccer player with a soft spot for... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Dam Keeper
In a desolate future, one small town has survived because of a large windmill dam that acts as a fan to keep out poisonous clouds. The dam's operator, Pig, works tirelessly to keep the sails spinning and protect the town, despite bullying from classmates and an indifferent public. When a new... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Last of the Unjust
Special introduction by Bruno Chaouat, Chair of the Dept. of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. Claude Lanzmann returns to a series of interviews he made in 1975 with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Murmelstein was... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Young & Beautiful
A coming-of-age portrait of a 17 year old French girl over four seasons and four songs, from her sexual awakening to her first time, from her exploration of love to her search for her... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Burt's Buzz
Burt Shavitz is the name and face of the multi-million-dollar personal care products company Burt's Bees. But there is more to this story than meets the eye: Shavitz sold his share of the company decades ago, reaping virtually nothing from the company's financial success, yet he remains... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
I Thought It Was a Party
I Thought It Was a Party is an incredibly engaging character study between the personalities of two best fiends, Lucia and Ana. Lucia (Valeria Bertuccelli) decides to go on vacation to Uruguay with her new boyfriend and Ana (Elena Anaya) agrees to look after her house and 12-year-old daughter in... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Strange Little Cat
This quirky and enchanting family portrait takes place in the bright confines of a small Berlin apartment. Young adult siblings Karin and Simon are home visiting their parents and young vivacious sister Clara, who likes to scream every time someone runs the coffee machine. This is all a part of a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cesar's Grill
After leaving Ecuador to pursue his own interests in Germany, Dario Aguirre returns home to help his father resurrect his bankrupt restaurant, Los Pinchos de César. The restaurant's meat-centric menu is not the only bump in the road for this vegetarian - he struggles in his role as business... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Kill Team
Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted to alert the military to the war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield's pleas went unheeded and he was left on his own with threats to his life. Equal parts infuriating and illuminating, The Kill Team... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Closed Curtain
In his second movie since receiving his 20-year ban on filmmaking, Jafar Panahi covertly shot Closed Curtain in his own beachfront villa on the Caspian Sea where a screenwriter arrives at his secluded home to get some writing done. But he harbors two fugitives: his adorable pet dog (considered... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Land of Storms
This film has been canceled. Szabolcs, a young Hungarian footballer playing for a German team, decides to return to his home village when things get tough. He takes up beekeeping on his grandfather's farm, but when he meets Áron, a mutual attraction stirs some deeper emotions inside Szabolcs,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy
Mary is a senior in high school. With graduation a few months away, she is faced with sudden changes in life, love, and friendships. Meanwhile, strange events begin to happen to her that seem completely random and without reason. She struggles to make sense of her life as it threatens to spin out... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Before Snowfall
Before Snowfall is an untraditional road movie about family, love, dignity and honor. Siyar is the eldest man in the family. When his sister escapes from her own wedding, he's given the task to track her down and restore the family's reputation. The hunt after his sister becomes a dangerous journey... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
A Year in Champagne
The exploding cork. Endless tiny bubbles floating up and up in the glass. An indulgence. A celebration. A seduction. A triumph. This is the essence of Champagne, isn’t it? But it’s not just bubbles in a glass that makes the wine, or the mystique. Only sparkling wine produced within the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Letter to Momo
After her father dies, Momo and her mother move from Tokyo to an old family house on a remote island in the Japanese Inland Sea. As the two adjust to tranquil, traditional island life, Momo struggles with an unfinished letter she found from her father. Exploring the attic, Momo discovers an old... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cats are Warm Blooded
Cats are Warm Blooded is a short-film narrative that serves as an allegorical meditation on the serial nature of Maternity; or the meteoric rise and fall of an artistic genius. The film follows a mysterious young woman and child as they navigate the troublesome social expectations placed on women... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cyber-Seniors
Proving you're never too old to learn something new, Cyber-Seniors follows a group of initially reluctant seniors as they discover the wonders of the world-wide-web with the help of their teenage mentors. Their exploration of cyberspace is catapulted to a whole new level when 89 year-old Shura... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The King of Size
A Super 16mm documentary portrait of a 40-year old bodybuilder's seventeen-year, injury-plagued quest to reclaim his title as 'Mr. New York.' Screens in Shorts Program 5: About a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Killing Happy
Filmmaker Attending Michael, his wife Annie, and their two children arrive at his mothers house with the usual fear and trepidation that accompanies time spent with Grandma Rose. Thinking that they are only coming for a meal, Michael's clan quickly discovers that Rose has other plans. Her... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cowpokes Livin' on the Edge
Filmmaker Attending Three cowpokes are living on the edge of some kind of cliff, sitting around the campfire, and much too frightened to really do anything about it in this existential western musical. The music was written and performed, and the piece was animated and directed by John... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Make Hummus Not War
Could a regional love of hummus be the recipe for peace in the Middle East? One of the oldest-known prepared foods in human history, hummus is claimed by multiple Middle Eastern nationalities. So when Trevor Graham, a self-described hummus fanatic, learned of a 2008 Lebanese plan to sue Israel for... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Land of Hope
Japanese genre specialist Shion Sono broadens his dramatic horizons in this intimate and heartfelt account of a family who must decide what to do in the wake of a pending nuclear disaster. Based on true events following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Lucid Therapy
Dr. Rovinsky, a psychology professor, has found a new method of hypnotherapy that could solve mental problems. However, the dean of his school is skeptical of the value of this research. Being given only a year to complete his studies, Dr. Rovinsky searches for the perfect student to be the subject... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border
Reyes’ provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante’s purgatory. Leaving politics aside, he takes a fresh look at the brutal beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell. By capturing a stunning mosaic of compelling characters... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Workers
After a whole life of work at Tijuana, Rafael and Lidia are victims of injustice against their rights and dignity: Rafael learns that due to a paperwork mistake, he will not be entitled to his retirement pension. As for Lidia, she finds out that her employer’s will leaves the entire heirloom to... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Liz Miller
Liz Miller is a poetic silent short documentary video about an installation artist as she builds her newest work for Art Prize Grand Rapids. Screens in Shorts 4: The Artist Within at the St Anthony Main Theatre, 4/14 Screens in Shorts 11: Forecast Public Art/IFP at the Best Buy Theatre... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Looms
Alone with nobody to pass on a family legacy, a farmer struggles to find purpose in his life. Realizing the fate of the farm, he questions whether fulfillment can be found beyond the confines of his farm or if it comes from steadfast dedication to the land that has given him the only life he's ever... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
A young film student named Haewon finds herself at loose ends when her mother moves to Canada and the various men in her life only make matters more complicated and unresolved. Meanwhile, Haewon floats between her dreams and indecisions in a non-committal attempt to find her own identity. South... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Look Box
Look Box tells the story of a melancholy architect who specializes in designing cardboard boxes. His life is drab and deadline-ridden until he receives an envelope that inspires him to recharge his batteries by taking an unorthodox vacation to Polynesia. There, on a lush island lagoon, he finds the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Manakamana
Take a ride in a cable car over the expansive valleys in the Gorkha district of Nepal. In a series of eleven fixed camera shots, Manakamana, the name of the cable car and the Hindu temple it leads to, offers meditational portraits of an eclectic mix of commuters: natives, tourists, and even... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Of Horses and Men
Iceland’s Oscar submission is an inventive comedy that percolates with deadpan humor and beautiful images of this quirky horse-riding community. Horses and humans are given equal weight in this story that follows multiple threads: stately equestrian Kolbeinn who holds the village in awe;... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Sacrament
Ti West's most recent film, The Sacrament, finds him at the top of his game, blending old-school horror motifs with á la mode found-footage investigation with bone-chilling results. This psychological thriller follows a group of journalists shooting a documentary about a man's attempt to... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
OJ: The Musical
Eugene Olivier is an eccentric theater artist in NYC, where he has spent the last ten years of his life putting on various musicals to rave reviews. After years of creative triumphs, Broadway has lost its luster for him and Eugene longs for the early days when he and his childhood friends would put... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Midsummer Night's Tango
Finnish Director Aki Kaurismäki claims that the Finns invented Tango. Is he serious? Or is this just his absurd sense of humor? Viviane Blumenschein's unique documentary follows three Argentine musicians who travel to Finland to find out. Singer Chino Laborde, guitarist Diego Dipi Kvitko,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Old Man
April of 2013, four months prior to the destruction of Boulder, Colorado by a record-breaking flood, Andrew Schneidkraut stands in front of the store he has owned for 25 years and recites a poem that recalls a great flood from the past. A documentary constructed like none other, Old Man more... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
No Small Parts
With almost no experience and just a few weeks until opening night, a group of kids attempt to put on the first musical their school has ever done. The kids draw on their diverse backgrounds and desire to forge their identities to make the show a success. As school theater programs continue to face... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Who is Dayani Cristal?
Pay what you can Tickets at door only Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die?... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Organic Life
A year in the life of a hopeful organic farmer and his skeptical partner reveals that a changing climate, financial insecurity, demanding physical labor, and corporate agriculture threaten the sustainability of one of the world's most traditional livelihoods in modern-day America. Screens with... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Militant
25-year-old Ariel has abandoned his studies in Montevideo to focus, in his own casual way, on organizing and protesting with student groups. But when he learns of his father death, he returns to his hometown of Salto only to find that he has inherited a pile of debts and all the complications that... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Norte, the End of History
In a sprawling and epic adaptation of Crime and Punishment set in contemporary Philippines, Lav Diaz examines profound moral questions that continue to plague humanity. Fabian is a smug intellectual calling for wholesale social upheaval; Joaquin and his family scrape by on next to nothing, growing... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Mystery Road
Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback home town, to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Alienated from both the white dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter, who he... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Monk With a Camera
The son of an American ambassador and grandson of Diana Vreeland (former chief editor of Vogue), Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a monk. Although he considered becoming a photographer, apprenticing to Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, a chance meeting with... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Monsura is Waiting
Inspired by Japan's classic Toho Mothra films, Monsura is Waiting is a comedy of redemption and sequins, telling the story of two aging show-girls, one giant moth and a very long night in Bridgeport, CT. Everybody needs a savior. Screens in Shorts Program 6: Laugh it... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Breathe In
The April 4 screening at 9:55pm has been canceled. When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host familys relationships and alters their lives forever. Felicity Jones plays Sophie, an emotional and mature beyond-her-years high... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Boy and the Bus
After young Joe's mother dies in an accident, he and his father find themselves alone after moving to a remote new village. World-renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle, HKSC, frames the harshly beautiful landscape of the UK's Northumberland region for 'The Boy and The Bus'. Screens in... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Salvo
Salvo is a cold and ruthless hitman, deeply entrenched with the Sicilian Mafia. When he sneaks into a house on an assignment and discovers Rita, the young, blind sister of his victim, Salvo makes a decision against his killer instincts. As a result, Salvo and Rita are forced to deal with their... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
My Sweet Pepper Land
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, resolves to accept a position in a godforsaken village at the borders of Iran and Turkey, an illegal trafficking Eldorado. There he meets Govend, a beautiful young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly-opened... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sermon of the Serpent
In southern West Virginia, Pastor Mack Wolford leads one of the few remaining snake handling churches in the United States. Mack was a child when he lost his father to a rattlesnake bite during a church service, yet his family remains deeply tied to the faith. This 15-minute documentary takes an... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Waltz for Monica
Based on the true life story of Swedish jazz legend Monica Zutterlund. Monica, a Swedish small town girl is dreaming of the vibrant city jazz clubs. She embarks on an intense journey in the limelight as a celebrated singer and actress in the golden era of jazz. Among artists and hipsters she is... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Rocket
Young Ahlo has been cursed with bad luck his entire life. When his family loses their home and they are forced to relocate, Ahlo is bound and determined to prove his worth to a father that has all but written him off. Joined by free spirited orphan named Kia and her eccentric Uncle Purple (who... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Remembering Nokutela
The story of Nokutela Dube, a woman who paved the way for the liberation of her people in South Africa, who was forgotten by everyone. This film reveals how her unmarked grave was found and how she was honored almost a century after her... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Rabbit and Deer
Rabbit and Deer live the happy and carefree life until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident, Deer finds himself in a new and unknown world. Separated by dimensions, Rabbit and Deer have to figure out a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Pine Ridge
Nineteen-year-old Bert sits in the shade of a tree in Yo Park. Cassandra Warrior feeds her daughter Diamond Rose. Daniel Runs Close sweats under the sun at Wounded Knee Memorial site. Kassel Sky Little puts his boots on at the Waters Rodeo. Vanessa Piper is alone in the middle of Badlands. Lance... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Bends
Parallel stories on the opposite sides of the Hong Kong-Mainland boarder highlight the importance of financial wherewithal in both places. Anna (Carina Lau), an affluent middle-aged society type, struggles to keep up appearances when her husband vanishes and leaves her for broke; meanwhile Annas... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Words and Pictures
Jack Marcus (Owen), a charismatic writer/poet, and Dina Delsanto (Binoche), an enigmatic, well-respected painter, meet each other as teachers at a tiny New England prep school. As Jack’s extroverted wit clashes with Dina’s intensely private nature, mutual dislike turns to rivalry, and rivalry... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Time Has Peeled Back the Skin of Things
The inextricable melding of sound and image to form a poetic dialectic that honors the logic of fallacy. Screens in Shorts Program 9:... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Porcelain Horse
Director Javier Andrade attending 4/4 screening! Ecuador's Oscar submission tells the story of Paco and Luis who live for sex, drugs and rock and roll, but not necessarily in that order. When they break into their parents' home to steal a porcelain horse to pay a drug dealer, the minor event... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Ving Rhames
Things have been better for Dani: she got kicked out of her apartment for drunkenly mistaking her boyfriend's boss for Ving Rhames, she's out of money and her rent is due. Despite all that she manages to form an unlikely bond with a low rent mugger wearing an Air Jordan wind breaker. Screens in... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Overpass Light Brigade
Overpass Light Brigade is a short film that tells the story behind Wisconsin's Holders of the Lights, an activist collaborative that grew out of the 2011 Wisconsin protests. Using innovative time-lapse photography and interviews with founding members and other activists, the film showcases OLB's... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Slow Food Story
In 1986, Carlo Petrini founded the ArciGola Gastronomic Association in Italy and three years later in Paris, launched Slow Food, an international anti-fast-food resistance movement. An ebullient presence, Carlìn, as he is affectionately known around the globe, has become an ambassador for thinking... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Stop the Pounding Heart
Italian director Roberto Minervini films an absorbing portrait of adolescence as experienced by a sheltered girl in a conservative Texas family. Without condescendence or judgment, we see life through the eyes of 14-year-old Sarah, who is homeschooled along with her 11 other siblings by her loving... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Borgman
In this controversial and unsettling drama, a man by the name of Borgman gives new meaning to home invasion. When Borgman shows up on the doorstep of the affluent household of Richard, Marina and their three young children requesting a bath, he doesn't take no for an answer, insidiously... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Stray Dogs
Malaysian born Taiwan based auteur Tsai Ming-lings most recent film is a sad and profound elegy of life on the margins. The stray dogs alluded to in the title are a father and his two children, vagabonds who make the best out of limited resources. The father's job is holding a sign for luxury... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Tom at the Farm
Xavier Dolan's fouth feature is his best yet, a psychosexual thriller that pulses with style. Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for his lover's funeral. There, he's shocked to find out no one knows who he is nor who he was to the deceased, whose brother soon sets the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Trapped
Nazanin is a first year medical student. There is no free space in university dorm and she is looking for a studio to rent. Tehran is so expensive and Nazanin does not have enough money to rent a place. So she is obliged to share the place with Sahar, a girl working in a fragrance shop. Sahar... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Mussels in Love
You either love them, or you hate them! But either way, you probably didn't know that the mussel can be used for much more than a starter - until now! Mussels In Love is nothing less than the ultimate film about the life and food of this strange shellfish, and about the whole human comedy that... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Ricky is a 13-year-old boy with autism who lives with his mother, Mariana, and sister, Carla, on Rockaway Beach, Queens. One day when Ricky is forced to walk home from school alone, he is lured by a vision of a dragon on a carefree, multi-day meander on the subway. Meanwhile, superstorm Sandy is... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Auction
A man of few words, Gaby manages his family's farm on his own, despite his advancing age. He spends his days tending to the animals and land that surround him, eschewing modern technology and most social interactions. When his eldest daughter, Marie, and her children return home with a desperate... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
Legendary Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark brings another magic mix of kung fu and CGI to the big screen in this off-the-wall period fantasy. A prequel to Harks 2011 Detective Dee, this martial arts film brings us The Creature From the Black Lagoon by way of the Tang Dynasty. A sea monster is... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
R100
No one makes bizarre comedies quite like Hitoshi Matsumoto (Big Man Japan, Symbol). His most recent is a very distinctive take on the sex comedy. Takafumi Katayama is a mild-mannered father who escapes the pressures of daily life by joining a mysterious S&M club. While at first the rough... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Attorney
The 4/12 screening at Northrop Auditorium has been postponed to a later date soon to be determined. Song Woo-seok has no clients, connections, or even a college degree, but his eye for business and appetite for money turn him into one of the most successful lawyers in town. But right at the peak... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Apothecary
A documentary portrait of a beloved druggist in a rural Colorado outpost who navigates a profound divide between his public and private lives while operating the only pharmacy within 4,000 square miles. Screens in Shorts Program 5: About a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
We Are Mari Pepa
Mari Pepa is a punk rock band consisting of four 16 year-old Guadalajara friends. The band only has one song in their repertoire. When they realize they need two songs in order to enter a punk rock contest, they compose a second song, but it sounds exactly like the first one with different lyrics.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
A Better Life
Filmmaker Attending A new treatment for her comatose husband compels Diane to reexamine their relationship. Screens in Shorts Program 8: Shorts, MN... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sugar Kisses
Director and screenwriter Carlos Cuarón gives a dramatic touch to this story of young first love in Mexico City. Stuck in a dysfunctional household and a corrupt and violent setting, 13-year-old Nacho finds little support or compassion in the people around him. And then he meets Mayra, the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
American Arab
Iraqi-born director United States Usama Alshaibi takes a provocative look at the contradictions of Arab identity, weaving his own life's journey into the life stories of several diverse characters. Exploring the values, passions, and hopes of his fellow Arab-Americans, Alshaibi tries to make... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Todo se Puede
The tribulations of a young Mexican who desperately seeks to make love. Screens in Shorts Program 6: Laugh it... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Soap Myth
More than a half century after WWII at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story. Played out against the backdrop of deadline reporting and journalistic integrity, the critically acclaimed The Soap... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The System
The System is a metaphorical comedy adventure inside a human body after a cocaine binge. When a neuron discovers that his company, Cerebellum, is destroying data to cover up the details of a 'black out,' he must travel to the Right Hemisphere and beyond to find out the truth about what's happening... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Watermark
Watermark is a feature documentary film that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off Chinas Fujian coast and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Amazing Catfish
Serendipity is the magic component that brings together Claudia, a lonely young woman, and Martha, an ailing single mother with four children. When the two women end up temporarily sharing a hospital room, Martha spontaneously invites Claudia home to her strange and eclectic family. In a social... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
A Wolf at the Door
In his feature film debut, director Fernando Coimbra delivers a riveting and suspenseful family drama that you won't soon forget. In a parent's worst nightmare, Silvia and Bernardo find out that an unknown woman has picked up their six-year-old daughter at school. Through a series of... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
All About the Feathers
In a Costa Rican town where cockfighting is the main event, Chalo, a bored security guard, decides he wants in on the game. But once he gets his coveted rooster, Rocky, he finds that his feathered fighter might just be the best friend he's ever had. Rest assured, director Neto Villalobos keeps... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
Two of Spain’s most beloved comic-book characters, Zip and Zap, come to life on the big screen. Sent to a strict, gothic correctional boarding school for the summer, the twin brothers must cope with headmaster, Falconetti, who has banned all fun from campus and has serious hang-ups about toys.... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Despite the Gods
Filmmaker Jennifer Lynch (daughter of David) is the uncensored subject of this off-the-rails documentary focusing on her ill-fated production of Hisss, a tale about snake Goddess Nagin. Known for making bold choices in her career, Lynch was unprepared for the unmapped territory of a... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Windstorm
Mika, a rebellious teen with fed-up busy parents, is sent away to the countryside to her grandmother’s for the summer. Mika’s estranged grandmother owns a successful horse stable and riding school. Mika, who doesn’t know anything about her grandmother or about horses, discovers a horse in the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Whitewash
In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce (Academy Award®-nominee Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator, accidentally kills a man during a drunken night joyride. Stricken with panic, he hides the body and takes to the deep wilderness in hopes of outrunning both the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Animal Project
In this offbeat drama, an amateur acting group throws caution to the wind in attempt to push outside their comfort zone. Leo, an idiosyncratic acting teacher, is a middle-aged single parent struggling to connect with his teenage son and dissatisfied with his everyday life. He decides to shake... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Who is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey
As political turmoil erupts across the United States, political clown and outsider activist Vermin Supreme embarks on a bold campaign to challenge Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for the nation’s highest office, exposing the absurdity of the American electoral process along the... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Wicker Kittens
Open the box. Dump out all the pieces. And scramble for your lives, because this is competitive jigsaw puzzling and and it turns even the mildest of mannered Midwesterners into stone-cold competitors. Every January, the top teams in the game gather at the St. Paul Winter Carnival in frigid... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Ten years ago, the Kitagawa yakuza clan attacked the Muto yakuza clan at Muto's own home, only to have Muto's wife fight back. This unexpectedly left the Kitagawa clan in shambles, with their top hitman Ikegmai wounded and Muto's wife in prison. Despite the carnage, the most unfortunate... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Yozgat Blues
Yozgat Blues follows Yavuz, a music teacher, and his student, Neşe who move to a rural community in order to promote their music. When it becomes clear their musical talents will not support them, Yavuz depends increasingly on his student for emotional support, but Neşe is preoccupied with... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Ugly
Bose is straightforward man, a Commissioner of Police. It’s only in his private life that things get complicated, especially his relationship with his clinically depressed, alcoholic wife Shalini. Bose is her second husband: the first was Rahul, a struggling actor still pursuing his first... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Summer of Flying Fish
Manena is a very determined teenager, and the darling daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his artificial lagoon. As he resorts to more and more extreme methods, Manena experiences her first love,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
When Jews Were Funny
Insightful and often hilarious, the latest from documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig surveys the history of Jewish comedy, from the early days of Borsht belt to the present, ultimately exploring not just ethnicity in the entertainment industry, but also the entire unruly question of what it means to be... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
We Don't Wanna Make You Dance
We Don't Wanna Make You Dance can be thought of as kind of a 28UP of a rock band. In 1983 the New York City funk band, Miller, Miller, Miller & Sloan was hot and popular, playing at such famous venues as CBGB's. By 1988 the band was still together but life was intervening. By 1993 it... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Tanaquil Le Clercq, known to all as "Tanny," was the inspiration and then the wife of one of the greatest geniuses in the history of dance, George Balanchine. She also sparked the creative imagination of Jerome Robbins who created his ballet Afternoon of a Faun especially for her. But In 1954, at... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Skeleton Twins
The Closing Presentation of the 2014 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Director Craig Johnson Attending! After many years of estrangement, twins Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hader) lead separate lives on opposite sides of the country. When both feel that they're at the end... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - March 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Great Beauty
Winner Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, returning March 7. Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Trespassing Bergman
In the 1960s, Ingmar Bergman moved to the small island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea—a location that remained a secret until his death. In Trespassing Bergman, directors Jane Magnusson and Hynek Pallas invite some of the world’s most renown filmmakers and stars to visit the island and share their... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Web Junkie
While many countries have acknowledged obsessive Internet use as a serious social issue, China is the first country to label “Internet addiction” a clinical disorder. Co-directors Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia take an intimate look inside a Beijing rehab center where Chinese teenagers are... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Trip to Italy
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are back in this witty and incisive follow-up to The Trip that reunites the pair for a new culinary road trip where they indulge in more nosh and more sparkling banter. They ponder subjects as varied as Batman’s vocal register, the artistic merits of Jagged Little... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Google and the World Brain
Documentary filmmaker Ben Lewis takes a look at one of the most ambitious but also controversial projects ever conceived on the Internet. In 2002 Google began scanning millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. Purportedly, they also had an... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Legalese: What the Film Industry can Learn from the Music Industry
The music industry was the canary in the coal mine. Changing technology/audience expectations wrecked the music industry. Yet music independents such as the artists and performers have developed new successful business models. These new business models shift the value proposition from the sale of... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Minnesota Filmgoing: 100 Years of History
Only a few cities worldwide have their own published history of cinema: the Twin Cities are among the selected few. Native Author Dave Kenney explores Minnesota’s legacy of more than 100-years of moviegoing and how our history with film can be traced through the architecture of theaters in... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
For the Filmmakers: Making the Best of Your Fest Experience
With over 8,000 film festivals worldwide filmmakers need to be prepared and informed so they can maximize their limited time and resources. While all festivals offer filmmakers the chance to build their audiences, every festival offers unique opportunities. How do you create a festival strategy... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Minnesota Made Party
9:00pm-midnight (Red Stag Supperclub) Free For filmmakers and filmgoers alike, this annual party celebrates Minnesota’s home-grown film industry. Meet and network with your industry peers while enjoying drink specials, complimentary appetizers, and... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Le Chef
Premium option tickets on April 6 include admission to the Cinema Smorgasbord party! Riffing on haute-cuisine pretentions, this kitchen comedy uses the irresistible talents of Jean Reno and Michael Youn to play Alexandre and Jacky, a veteran chef and a self-trained cook. Alexandre’s three-star... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cesar's Last Fast
In 1988, Cesar Chavez embarked on what would be his last act of protest. Driven in part to pay penance for feeling he had not done enough, Chavez began his “Fast for Life,” a 36-day water-only hunger strike, to draw attention to the horrific effects of unfettered pesticide use on farm workers,... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Club Sandwich
Single mother Paloma and her 15-year-old son Hector have a very close relationship, until the duo decide to take a trip to a beachside resort a Hector meets 16-year-old Jazmin. Suddenly, Paloma finds herself competing for her son’s attention in awkward but often hilarious ways. Mexican director... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 3rd - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Word and the Story
2:00pm-4:00pm (Aster Cafe River Room) The measure of a good screenwriter lies in the creation of a compelling story. But the power of a great screenwriter is the ability to inspire vision and emotion within the minds and hearts of those charged with turning their sentences into compelling images... READ MORE
Film Dates
April 6th - April 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Fed Up
Free screening with Panel Discussion, May 5 at 7:00pm The Members RSVP List has now closed. All Members who reserved seats can pick up their tickets at the St. Anthony Main Theatre Box Office. All remaining seats will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Everything we’ve been told... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 5th - May 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Godzilla: The Japanese Original
60th Anniversary Restoration Friday, May 9 thru Thursday, May 15 Deafening footfalls echo in the blackness. An ear-crushing wail. Then a title card rises, three katakana characters proclaiming the arrival of Japan’s doomsday beast: GOJIRA. He's back! After six decades of countless... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 9th - May 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Blue Ruin
MSPIFF 2014 Official Selection Friday, May 16 thru Thursday, May 22 A beach bum finds his quiet life of collecting plastic bottles upended by some dreadful news that compels him to return home and carry out an act of revenge. Proving to be an inept assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 16th - May 23rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Ilo Ilo
MSPIFF 2014 Official Selection Friday, May 16 thru Thursday, May 22 Set in Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Ilo Ilo chronicles the day-to-day drama of the Lim family - troublesome grade-schooler Jiale and his overstressed parents, Heck and Leng. Comfortably middleclass and with... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 16th - May 23rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: King Lear
Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) returns to the National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale (Timon of Athens, Collaborators) in the title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy. An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 19th - May 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Only Lovers Left Alive
May 23 - June 5. Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 23rd - June 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Finding Vivian Maier
May 30 - June 26. A mysterious nanny, who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers and discovered decades later, is now considered among the 20th century’s greatest photographers. Maier’s strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never before... READ MORE
Film Dates
May 30th - June 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Night Moves
June 6 - June 19. Night Moves, the fifth feature film from acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam—the very source and symbol of the... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 6th - June 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Following its smash-hit live broadcast in 2012, the National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time returns to cinemas. Based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 14th - August 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Forgotten Kingdom
MSPIFF 2014 Audience Choice Award: Best Narrative Feature. June 20 - June 26. Atang Mokoeyna (mid-20s) is an unemployed, aimless young man who spends his days idling in the slums of Johannesburg. When his father dies, Atang must give up his selfish ways and fulfill his father’s humble last... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 20th - June 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
#Babylon '13
Thursday, June 26 at 7:00pm. Filmmaker Yuriy Gruzinov of the #BABYLON '13 filmmaking collective to attend! Following an enthusiastic reception in New York, Toronto, Oslo, and Amsterdam, this collection of seven short films documenting the recent uprising in Kiev, the annexation of Crimea... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 26th - June 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Return to Homs
2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner - Documentary June 27 - July 1. Return to Homs follows nineteen-year-old goalkeeper-turned-insurgent, Abdul Basset, as he and a rag-tag group of comrades fight to protect the captive inhabitants of the besieged city of Homs. As one of the unlikely leaders... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 27th - July 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
June 27th - July 1st. In April 2011, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is kidnapped by the Chinese authorities and detained at a secret location. 81 days later he is released, but put under house arrest. In October 2011, he is named the world’s most powerful artist by ArtReview. The man we know as... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 27th - July 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Rigor Mortis
June 28 at 10:00pm. A washed-up actor, desperate and suicidal, moves into a haunted Hong Kong apartment housing tower where supernatural creatures, ghost hunters, taoist exorcists, and the souls of the undead walk among his neighbors. An eerie, chilling homage to the classic Chinese... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 28th - June 29th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Venus in Fur
Members-only Free Screening. Monday, June 30 at 7:00pm Film Society members can reserve their tickets by emailing rsvp@mspfilmsociety.org with the title "VENUS IN FUR" and include your full name in the body of the email message. Your name, plus one guest will be added to a will call list at the... READ MORE
Film Dates
June 30th - July 1st
Showtimes To Be Announced
Snowpiercer
July 2 - August 7. In a new Ice Age, where Earth has been frozen for 17 years, Snowpiercer is the only place for survivors. Climate change has made the planet uninhabitable. Those few who survived the planet's demise live aboard a train that perpetually circles the same track. The tail... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 2nd - August 7th
Showtimes To Be Announced
A Hard Day's Night
50th Anniversary Digital Restoration. July 4 - July 10. Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 4th - July 11th
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My Fair Lady
Monday, July 7 at 7:00pm. Don't miss Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway in George Cukor's gloriously witty winner of eight Oscars® including Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Original Musical Score. See the classic film adaptation, then see the Guthrie Theater's production,... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 7th - July 8th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: A Small Family Business
A riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed by Olivier Award-winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn (Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval). A Small Family Business returns to the National Theatre for the first time since its celebrated premiere in 1987, when it won the Evening Standard Award for... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 14th - July 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
I Origins
Free Advance Screening - RSVP Required. July 15 at 7:00pm. I Origins, the second feature film from writer and director Mike Cahill, tells the story of Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 15th - July 15th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Half the Road: The Passion, Pitfalls and Power of Women's Professional Cycling
Community Screen July 16 at 7:00pm. Modern society has long believed that women hold up half the sky in terms of equality and progression. So when it comes to the sport of professional cycling, why aren't women receiving half the road? Directed by pro cyclist Kathryn Bertine, Half the Road... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 16th - July 17th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Hellion
Minneapolis Exclusive. July 18 - 24. Writer/director Kat Candler's Hellion paints the powerful portrait of a family on the brink of dissolution set against the haunting backdrop of the refineries of Southeast Texas. Obsessed with heavy metal, dirt bike racing and partaking in the occasional... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 18th - July 25th
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The Cold Lands
July 25 - 31 When his fiercely self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, eleven year-old Atticus is wary of the authorities and flees deep into the forests of his Catskills home. His sheltered, off-the-grid childhood is over, and a new life on the move has begun. As Atticus wanders the woods in... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 25th - August 1st
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Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
July 25 - August 7 Cultures not so much clash as they do mesh together when a teacher, who uses Beatles songs to teach English, decides to track down John Lenon and meet his icon. Set in 1966 Spain (when Lennon was in Almería shooting How I Won the War), this unique road movie tackles the... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 25th - August 8th
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Cannibal
July 26 at 10:00pm. Carlos, outwardly shy and reserved, is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a remorseless, cold-blooded murderer preying on Eastern European women who have no papers. Suddenly, however, his disturbing hobby and unmoved conscience is challenged when an... READ MORE
Film Dates
July 26th - July 27th
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A Summer's Tale
First time in US Theatrical Release! New HD restoration! August 1 - 7. Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud), a recent university graduate, arrives at the seaside in Bretagne for three weeks' vacation before starting a new job. He's hoping his sort-of girlfriend, the fickle Léna (Aurélia Nolin), will... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 1st - August 8th
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An Interview With Martin Light
August 3 at 7PM. An Interview With Martin Light is a 51-minute video, documenting the only known interview with the assassin of Supreme Court Justice William Graham. The interview takes place inside Judson State Prison, where Mr. Light is awaiting a decision on his life or death sentence. In... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 3rd - August 4th
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Code Black
In his vivid and thought-provoking filmmaking debut, physician Ryan McGarry gives us unprecedented access to America's busiest Emergency Department. Amidst real life-and-death situations, McGarry follows a dedicated team of charismatic, young doctors-in-training as they wrestle openly with both... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 5th - September 29th
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Camouflage
Director Krzysztof Zanussi attending August 14! An ironical and absurd comedy, Camouflage transports us to a university summer school camp. The shallowness and cynicism of the academic milieu becomes apparent through the relationship between a young linguistics professor, Jaroslaw, and his... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 17th
Showtimes To Be Announced
To Kill this Love
As Neil Armstrong lands on the moon, two young Poles kept out of university by communist quotas discover love and life in a big city, dreaming of an independence they cannot enjoy. This is a love story set against the harsh backdrop of the communist... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 26th
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The Last Day of Summer
A subtle, almost quasi-documentary tale of a confrontation between two lonely people one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result, The Last Day of Summer was the least expensive feature film in the history of Polish cinema. The crew had only one Ariflex camera and 6,000 meters... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 13th
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Mother Joan of the Angels
Young, virtuous exorcist Father Suryn is assigned a difficult task: he must investigate a case of demonic possession after a local priest is burnt for tempting the nuns of a convent. Arriving at the nunnery, he meets its abbess, Mother Joan, thus embarking a struggle against the forces of... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 12th
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Night Train
An intimate psychological study and a poetic tale of loneliness, Night Train brings two voyagers together accidentally in a train compartment. The subtle game of emotions changing from mutual aversion to closeness without hope is played out against the background of a microcosm of the... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 20th
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Pharaoh
An epic production, including battle scenes featuring thousands and refined choreography, Pharaoh focuses on the young Egyptian ruler, Ramses XIII. With his young passions, love and idealism, he has to face the cold pragmatism of dealing with the country's external enemies and internal... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 26th
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The Promised Land
Director Andrzej Wajda's powerful drama is a tale about the strength of male friendship. "I have nothing, you have nothing, he has nothing. Taken together we have just enough to build a major factory." Three friends - a Polish nobleman, Karol Borowiecki; a German, Max Baum; and a Jew,... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 24th
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The Saragossa Manuscript
A favorite film of Jerry Garcia and Luis Buñuel, The Saragossa Manuscript is a brilliant adaptation of one of the greatest works of world literature. It is a Chinese box tale a travel story about the supernatural and mystical opposed to the humanist materialism. It is 1739 as Alphonse... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 17th
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A Short Film About Killing
On a somber March day, the paths of three men cross: the cabbie Marian cleans his car, the lawyer Piotr celebrates passing his bar exam while in the same café, 20-year-old Jacek prepares his murder weapon. The film is a psychological and ethical study of murder. A sensation at the Cannes... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 11th
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The Wedding
Academy Award® winning director Andrzej Wajda takes us to a wedding party. People talk, drink and dance and flirt. It is an unusual 19th-century wedding; the marriage of an intellectual from a big town with a simple country girl. Families and friends from both sides regard the alliance... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 13th
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Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds is set on the last day of World War II and the first day of peace. And between them, a night that changes everything. Seen through the eyes of Maciek, a young Polish resistance soldier, the old is rapidly mixing with the new. In a few hours dawn will end the Nazi slavery... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 31st
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Austeria
Director Jerzy Kawalerowicz fantasized about creating a film about an extinct world, a community long dead. Austeria mourns a culture now extinct. Set against the turbulent history of the first half of the 20th century, the film examines the lives of Polish Jews on the eve of World War I.... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 13th
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Black Cross
The first Polish historical blockbuster and the most viewed Polish movie of all times, Black Cross features battles galore, political maneuvering, and tragic love set in medieval times. Based on the novel written in the thick of the Germanization program, Black Cross depicts the heroic... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 20th
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Blind Chance
One moment, one train - three completely different outcomes. From Director Krzysztof Kieslowski comes a film examining the effect of even the smallest of choices. Twenty-year-old Witek Dlugosz rushes to make a train to Warsaw, his hometown, after the death of his father. Crashing into a... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 31st
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Constant Factor
Director Krzysztof Zanussi attending August 14! Warmly received at the Cannes Festival and winner of several international awards, Krzysztof Zanussi's film portrays a naive but honest young man, Witold, dealing with the truths of his world. He dreams of climbing the Himalayas, just as his... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 24th
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Eroica
Andrzej Munk's Eroica, a Heroic Symphony in two parts and a masterpiece of the Polish Film School, puts a realist lens to the romantic idea of heroism. Based on a script by Jerzy Stefan Stawinski, Eroica draws on its author's first-hand experience as a soldier in the September campaign... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 16th
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The Hourglass Sanatorium
Magic, dreams, a manor in decay. The Hourglass Sanatorium is one of the most original and beautiful films in Polish cinema - a visionary, artistic, poetic reflection on the nature of time and the irreversibility of death. The screenplay is an adaptation of the fantasy fiction of Jewish... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Illumination
Director Krzysztof Zanussi attending, August 14! In this classic bildungsroman, a young man from a provincial town comes to the capital to study physics, hoping that science can answer his questions. He explores the boundaries of knowledge while tackling universal life experiences - love,... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 19th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Innocent Sorcerers
While a student in the Łódź school, Jerzy Skolimowski (the author of Knife in the Water), co-wrote Innocent Sorcerers with Andrzej Wajda. A love story and a portrait of young Poles in the 1950s, the film tells the tale of two people meeting in a bar. They don't care about the future;... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 12th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Jump
A western set in Poland of the 1960s. A man on the run jumps off a train. He seeks refuge in a scarcely populated settlement, nearly a ghost town. It is hard to tell what the place is, set halfway between dream and reality, inhabited by people in distress. Who is the mysterious Mr. Nobody?... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Man of Iron
A masterful story about the limitations of the press coupled with real footage of the Solidarity movement strikes, Man of Iron expands on the plot of its predecessor, Man of Marble. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award®, the film... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 8th - August 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dinosaur 13
August 15 - 21. The true tale of one of the greatest discoveries in history. On August 12, 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota, paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute unearthed the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. It was the find of a... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 15th - August 21st
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Life After Beth
Zach (Dane DeHaan) is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth (Aubrey Plaza). But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before. However, the newly returned Beth... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 22nd - August 29th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Science on Screen: Twilight of the Mississippi
Welcome Week Deal: Free for Students! The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, in collaboration with the Bakken Museum, is pleased to present Science on Screen, an ongoing series of films paired with science lectures. The series is made possible through a grant by the Coolidge Corner... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 28th - August 29th
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May in the Summer
To all appearances, May Brennan (Cherien Dabis) has it all -- intelligent, gorgeous, the recipient of raves for her recently published book and set to marry her loving fiancé Ziad (Alexander Siddig), a distinguished New York scholar. But immediately upon returning to her familial hometown of... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 29th - September 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The 40th Anniversary Restoration of The 1974 American horror Classic. In 1974, writer-producer-director Tobe Hooper unleashed this dark, visionary tale about a group of five young friends who face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. Today it remains unequaled as a... READ MORE
Film Dates
August 30th - September 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The One I Love
The highly anticipated debut feature from acclaimed author Charlie McDowell, The One I Love is an original tale that continues to showcase McDowell's keen observations of human relationships with a distinct and comedic voice. The One I Love, written by Justin Lader, was produced by Mel Eslyn and... READ MORE
Film Dates
September 5th - September 12th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough in the therapy and treatment of dementia. Social worker Dan Cohen works with filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett to document the magical benefits of music for those who are left to languish in silence.... READ MORE
Film Dates
September 5th - September 12th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MinnAnimate 3
September 11 at 7:00 pm. MinnAnimate is a festival of animation made in Minnesota (and in other places just over the border). It will feature work made by animators ranging in age from second grade to seniors, from professional and student animators, and representing a broad range of animation... READ MORE
Film Dates
September 11th - September 12th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Zero Theorem
The final installment of Terry Gilliam's dystopian sci-fi trilogy. Set in a future London, The Zero Theorem stars double Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. He lives in isolation in a burnt-out... READ MORE
Film Dates
September 19th - October 1st
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NT Live: Medea
Helen McCrory (The Last of the Haussmans) returns to the National Theatre to take the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two... READ MORE
Film Dates
September 22nd - September 28th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
Extended Run, now playing thru 10/16! Since the ninth century, millions of world travelers have embarked on an epic pilgrimage across northern Spain that is known to be profoundly enlightening, spiritually nourishing and physically challenging. Today, several hundred thousand people a year descend... READ MORE
Film Dates
September 25th - October 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
2014 Manhattan Short Film Festival
Filmgoers in Minnesota will unite with audiences in over 250 cities spanning six continents to view and judge the work of the next generation of filmmakers from around the world at the 17th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival screens. This year, MANHATTAN SHORT received 589 short film entries... READ MORE
Film Dates
September 30th - October 1st
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Opening Shorts
Tinker Director: Lou Ward * USA * 4 min * MN Premiere Synopsis: A story of a boy who's passionate and strong sense of desire drives him to dedicate his life to his grandfather's legacy. Binary Director: Andre Silva * USA * 1 min * MN Premiere Synopsis: “A digital brain attempts to understand... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 1st - October 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Joy Kevin
A dancer (Tallie Medel, The Unspeakable Act) and her struggling-comedian husband find co-habitation at odds with their art. Joy Kevin is the often funny and sometimes dark exploration of whether true love is more likely to make a house into a home or a... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 1st - October 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Tiki War
"Mad Men" meets "Breaking Bad" in this feature film set in a tiki bar in 1961 Chicago. Over one busy, bloody hour, three nightclub owners and two luckless entertainers battle over honor, territory, heroin and Cuba's most potent rum, shot on location at Red Dragon. Incoming President John F.... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 1st - October 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: A Method
A Method follows Nina, a professional documentarian, and her crew as they chronicle the risky acting process of Andrea in her first major film role as she is encouraged to delve deeper into the dark reality of her character and the line between what is real and what is performance is dangerously... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 1st - October 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Science, Sex & the Ladies
Science, Sex and the Ladies is a frank, irreverent documentary with a simple yet far reaching argument. Misunderstanding the female orgasm has broken our sexual cultural. Through witty looks at anatomy, history, and culture, the film discusses how we got this way and why we need to... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 1st - October 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: MN Made Shorts 1
Girl Who Lives In A Tree Director: Simone LeClaire * MN * 18 min Synopsis: A cynical reporter, William Chatsworth, goes to cover a story about a girl who has been living in a tree for seventeen months. Instead, he finds himself helping her... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 1st - October 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
2014 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival
Hosted and sponsored by The Film Society of MSP at St. Anthony Main Theater, The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival showcases underground cinema’s most provocative and original work. WED, 10/1 1:00pm - OPENING SHORTS w/Q&A (59 min) 2:15pm - MN Made Shorts 1 w/Q&A (54 min) 3:45 pm... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 1st - October 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: LATE NIGHT SHORT FILMS
• The Silent Movie Director Slawomir J Milewski * Poland/UK * 2 min * USA Premiere Synopsis: 78 seconds of noiseless journey • Looking Seeing Window ... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 2nd - October 3rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Freeload
Director Daniel Skaggs spent a year and a half documenting the people riding America's freight trains in the 21st century. What he brings to the screen is Freeload, a story of adventure, class disparity and the survival of... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 2nd - October 3rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Tamara W
Tamara W. is an honest, stripped-down look into the world of voguing, escort business, ecstasy addiction, sexual abuse, and being a transgender girl. The documentary film is a compassionate portrait of Tamara Williams, a 23-year-old Bronx girl with fire in her heart, and too much life experience on... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 2nd - October 3rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: MN Connection
A delightful selection of short films made by Minnesota born filmmakers who currently live outside the state. • No One Told US Director: Troy Deutsch * USA * 18 min * MN Premiere ... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 2nd - October 3rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: NaS: Time Is Illmatic
Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 2nd - October 3rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Bag Boy Lover Boy
A bizarre-looking hotdog vendor is thrust out of his suffocating cart into the world of kinky photography when an enigmatic NYC photographer exploitatively turns him into his latest muse, resulting in some shockingly disturbing acts both on-camera and off. Short film screens before feature: •... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 3rd - October 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Mad Marc Rude: Blood, Ink & Needles
Primarily known for the artwork he did for bands like; The Misfits, Battalion Of Saints, and Tex and the Horseheads, etc. or from doing fanzines, shows, managing bands, acting in television and film. People have always talked about him passionately, he was either one of the greatest people alive or... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 3rd - October 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: March of the Gods
'March of the Gods: Botswana Metal heads is a documentary on Botswana's heavy metal scene and the struggle of a local band called Wrust. The vibrant local music scene brings together bands, cowboys and bikers in an emerging subculture struggling to find its place into... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 3rd - October 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Beck DeRobertis Presents: Super Freak: Short Films starring Beck DeRobertis
A "magical" selection of short films starring MPLS cult hero Beck DeRobertis, the liquor store clerk, comedian, and “weirdo legend” (-NoBudge.com) behind hits like Wingman, Red Lobster, and Bring Moss Back. Includes the local premiere of Stephen Gurewitz’ Life In Between, co-starring Alex... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 3rd - October 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Dysfunction, Family Style
A great selection of short films that deal with dark family issues, in meaning and sometimes, funny ways. Coming of age stories, family tragedy and prodigal children coming back home. • Ulla ... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 3rd - October 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Doomsdays
A pre-apocalyptic comedy, DOOMSDAYS follows the misadventures of Dirty Fred (Justin Rice) and Bruho (Leo Fitzpatrick), a pair of freewheeling squatters with a taste for unoccupied vacation homes in the Catskills. Their commitment to the lifestyle is challenged, however, when a runaway teen and an... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 3rd - October 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: The Canal
David and his wife are perfectly happy-or so he believes. When he finds out the home he shares with his wife and son was the scene of a ghastly turn-of-the-century murder, David dismisses it as ancient history. That is, until the sinister history ripples into the present and casts a shadow over... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 4th - October 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: When, Where, How?
On the day of their high school graduation 6 unlikely friends seek a graduation party at a fabled abandoned playground, after the police foils their first attempts at a party. On their journey the friends encounter some colorful and dangerous... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 4th - October 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: MN Made Shorts 2
• End Land Director: Jason P. Schumacher & Nathan Graves * MN * 9 min Synopsis: A dentist wakes up to find himself in a room with no exit. The room is empty, except for a strange man who provides little... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 4th - October 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Ayiti Toma - The Land of the Living
Beyond the country that overcame slavery to become the first Black Republic, beyond the country that has survived numerous natural disasters lies Ayiti Toma, 'the country that is ours.' The documentary bearing this name aspires to present this lesser known, more inclusive Ayiti as it is told by the... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 4th - October 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: The Hip-Hop Fellow
The Hip-Hop Fellow follows Grammy Award winning producer, 9th Wonder's tenure at Harvard University, as he teaches ‘The Standards of Hip-Hop’ course, conducts research for his thesis, lectures at Duke University and explores hip-hop's history, culture and role in an academic setting. The film... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 4th - October 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: MN Made Shorts 3
• Wart_2010 Director: Benjamin Jarman * MN * 2 min Synopsis: The origin story of a wizard. • Stashbox ... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 5th - October 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Relationship Exchange
A selection of short films that deal with various degrees of relationships, from bad boyfriends, grief, love, and finding your mate. • Une Balade à La Mer Director: Damien Stein * France * 3 min Synopsis: A ride towards the sea is the... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 5th - October 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: Know How
A film written and acted by foster care youth ripped from the stories of their lives. Five youth's worlds interweave as they confront loss, heartbreak, and come of age in this tale about transience and perseverance.... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 5th - October 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
MUFF: This is Not Happening
It is the story of Chris (23) who after traveling for almost 5 years runs out of money in Morocco. Desperate and alone he calls older brother Andrew and asks for money. Andrew instead pays for Chris' flight home and offers him a place to stay with wife Emily. Chris' drunken behavior and constant... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 5th - October 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams. The fastest-selling production in the Young Vic’s history, Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire will be broadcast live from their London home by National Theatre Live. With Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall) as Blanche DuBois, Ben... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 6th - October 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Not My Life
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society, Advocates for Human Rights and The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul present a free film screening of Not My Life and panel discussion featuring: -Mara Vanderslice, Executive Director, Center to Combat Human... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 9th - October 10th
Showtimes To Be Announced
20,000 Days On Earth
October 10-16. 20,000 Days On Earth is an inventive, lyrical ode to creativity featuring musician and cultural icon Nick Cave. Fusing drama and reality by weaving the journey of a fictional day in Cave’s life, the film is an intimate portrayal of the artistic process. The film made its World... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 10th - October 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead
Martin (Vegar Hoel) hasn't had the best vacation. He accidentally killed his girlfriend with an axe. He cut his own arm off with a chainsaw. And his friends STILL got devoured by a battalion of Nazi Zombies. This morning, he woke up in a hospital bed with a new arm - but it's a super-powered... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 11th - October 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Dear White People
**THIS SCREENING IS FULL** Members-only Free Advance Screening. Monday, October 13 at 7:00pm With special guests Marque Richardson and Brandon P. Bell attending! Film Society members can reserve their tickets by emailing rsvp@mspfilmsociety.org with the title "DEAR WHITE PEOPLE" and include... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 13th - October 14th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Opera on Screen: La Bohème
Encore screening added: Tuesday, October 14 at 7PM! Tickets go on sale soon... One of the operas performed most frequently all over the world, Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème had its grand premiere in 2012 at the Salzburg Festival – its brilliance already ensured by the star cast led by... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 14th - October 15th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Tricked
Modern-day slavery is alive and well in the United States as thousands of victims are trafficked throughout the country to satisfy America’s $3 billion a year sex trafficking industry. Meet the pimps, the johns, the police, the parents and the victims of the America’s thriving sex trade in... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 15th - October 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Last Days In Vietnam
During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. The United States has only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. As Communist victory becomes inevitable and the U.S. readies... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 17th - October 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Fishing Without Nets
Fishing Without Nets is a mesmerizing action thriller told from the perspective of Abdi (Abdikani Muktar), a principled but struggling young Somali fisherman who turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone becomes... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 17th - October 24th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Opera on Screen: The Magic Flute
Mozart’s presumably best-known opera, The Magic Flute, created by the composer with his equally gifted librettist Emanuel Schikaneder in 1791, opens the series of new opera productions of the 2012 Salzburg Festival – and thus, the tenure of Artistic Director Alexander Pereira, who was able to... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 21st - October 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
1,000 Times Good Night
Rebecca (Juliette Binoche) is one of the world's top war photojournalists, capturing dangerous and chilling images in the most dire landscapes, all in an effort to shed light on the real cost of modern war. But she's also a wife and mother, leaving behind a husband and two young daughters every... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 24th - October 30th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Halloween
John Carpenter’s Halloween premiered on October 25th, 1978, not in Los Angeles with a big event at Mann’s Chinese Theater - instead it opened in Kansas City. It did quite well there and opened up in Chicago, and then earned showings in New York. From there, it had a platform release across... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 25th - October 26th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: Frankenstein
National Theatre Live’s thrilling broadcast of Frankenstein returns to cinemas for a limited time, due to unprecedented audience demand. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years A Slave, Star... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 25th - October 29th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cine Latino Opening Night Party
Following Cine Latino's Opening Presentation of The Liberator, join us for complimentary appetizers, music and a cash bar at Aster Café's River Room (located down the hall from the St. Anthony Main Theater). Live Performance by: "Locally acclaimed, globally appreciated... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - October 31st
Showtimes To Be Announced
Another Dawn
Distinto amanecer Andrea Palma and Pedro Armendariz are reunited on screen after some time. Their characters’ lives are endangered due to the intrigues of Governor Vidal who, having assassinated a trade union leader and friend of Octavio (Pedro Armendariz), desperately searches for... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Spanish Affair
With $80 million at the box-office and over 9.5 million admissions, acclaimed director Emilio Martínez-Lázaro sweet and hilarious opposites-attract comedy is the highest-grossing Spanish film in history. Determined to win over Amaia, Rafa crosses Spain from south to north from his hometown of... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Shrew's Nest
Master Director & Producer Álex de la Iglesia (Witching & Bitching) presents this claustrophobic horror-suspense film set in 1950s Spain. After spending her youth caring for her younger sister, Montse, an agoraphobic shut-in, hides from life inside her sinister apartment in downtown Madrid.... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Victims of Sin
Víctimas del Pecado Vctims of Sin features vibrant dance numbers, a sensually-saturated solo by Afro-Cuban musician Rita Montaner—in a scene that would have been unthinkable in a Hollywood production—and an astonishing sequence in which cabaret workers revolt against labor exploitation,... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Disruption
Filmmaker Peter Kinoy attending! Disruption explores a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to eradicate poverty by empowering women on government assistance programs in Colombia, Peru and Brazil to “save their way out of poverty.” The film interweaves women’s testimonies to the... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
El Somni
This impressive visual experience from contemporary opera innovator Franc Aleu reveals the creative process behind a groundbreaking twelve-course dinner in which more than 40 artists, led by world-renowned chefs the Roca brothers, blend performance, animation, music, and culinary science. With a... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Casa Grande
This compassionate, long-awaited fiction debut from Fellipe Barbosa follows a teenage boy living in Rio as he challenges parental expectations, fights to get into university and discovers an unexpected family financial crisis. A tender coming of age story, Barbosa’s Casa Grande is a gorgeously... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
God's Slave
Esclavo de Dios Filmmaker Joel Novoa Attending! Based on the actual events of a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, God's Slave follows Ahmed, trained since childhood as an Islamic terrorist now assigned to execute a suicide bomb at a synagogue, and David, the cold-blooded Israeli special agent who... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Holiday
Diego Araujo’s debut feature is set in 1999, days before the collapse of Ecuador’s banking system. Juan Pablo travels to the family hacienda where his uncle, who is involved in a corruption scandal, has taken refuge. There, Juan Pablo meets Juano, an enigmatic black-metal fan who opens his eyes... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
La Jaula de Oro
Juan, Sara and Samuel are teenagers from the slums of Guatemala. With dreams of a better life, they embark on a journey to the United States. In preparation for the trip, Sara cuts off her long hair to disguise herself as a boy. On their way through Mexico, they meet Chauk, an indian boy from... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Lock Charmer
Sebastián, a 33-year old locksmith, has never really believed in long-term commitment. So when Mónica, his girlfriend of five months reveals she is pregnant, his world takes an unexpected turn. Sebastián begins to have strange visions about his clients whenever he's working their doors. Some... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Paradise
Carmen and Alfredo live happily in the suburbs. After Alfredo receives a promotion, the two move to Mexico City where they feel the social pressures of being overweight. Carmen convinces her husband to join her in losing weight, but their relationship is tested when Alfredo’s program yields far... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
To Fool A Thief
In this high-stakes caper comedy–in the vein of Ocean's Eleven – master thief Sebastian discovers that the Aztec mask he stole during one of his heists is a fake, and that his rival, Mariana, snatched the real one. Sebastian pursues Mariana to Mendoza, where they are both made an offer they... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
My Straight Son
Filmmaker Miguel Ferrari Attending, 11/1! Famed telenova actor Miguel Ferrari’s debut feature won Best Iberoamerican film at the 2013 Goya Awards (the Spanish Oscars), and is the first Venezuelan film to openly talk about transgender and gay issues – a subject still taboo in the country.... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Sand Dollars
Class and culture collide in this gorgeous and sophisticated feature set in an idyllic seaside town in the Dominican Republic. To pay for the life shared with her longtime boyfriend, Noeli hooks up with tourists in exchange for money and maintains an ongoing relationship with a wealthy French... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
To Kill a Man
Hardworking family man Jorge is just barely making ends meet. When he gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront Kalule, only to get himself shot in the process. Sentenced to a scant 2 years in prison for the offense, Kalule, released and now intent on... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Thesis On a Homicide
Tesis sobre un homicidio Roberto Bermudez is a specialist in Criminal Law whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that Gonzalo, one of his best students, has committed a brutal murder right in front of the Faculty of Law. Determined to uncover the truth he begins a personal... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Man Behind the Mask
El hombre detrás de la máscara The 70th anniversary of the birth of “El Santo”, one of the great legends of Mexican sports, film and culture, and the wrestling debut of his son, mark the beginning of "El Hijo del Santo", who takes us into the story, a legacy beyond the ring. Through... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Refugiado
7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else.... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Revolution of Juan Escopeta
La revolución de Juan Escopeta Set in 1914, this exciting family-friendly adventure follows Gapo, an 11-year-old boy who goes in search of his older brother “El Damián,” a well-known hero in the Mexico Revolution. Gapo is accompanied by a reckless adventurer, Juan Escopeta, who has his own... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Son of Trauco
El hijo de Trauco Set on Chiloé, a picturesque island in the south of Chile known for its abundant local mythology, Son of Trauco is the story of Jaime, a skeptical 14-year-old who dreams of leaving the village of Punta Chucao to become a poet. One day, he discovers that everything he knows... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cine Latino Kids Shorts
A series of fantastic Spanish-language animations from Mexico! ¡Una serie de dibujos animados en español desde México! Tinico's Afternoon Las tardes de Tintico Alejandro García Cabalero, 2012, 9 min. Defective Defectuosos Juan Fernández López, 2012, 10 min. Moyana Emiliana... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Que Caramba es la Vida
Live mariachi performance by Mariachi mi Tierra before the film at MERcado Central, 11/4, 6:30pm! Mariachi is an essential part of Mexican culture. It’s more than just music; it's a lifestyle. The business is tough and women are seldom appreciated in this strictly male domain. Nevertheless, a... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
August Winds
Ventos de Agosto Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and free... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Bad Hair
Pelo Malo Venezuelan writer/director Mariana Rondón’s Bad Hair is a charmingly funny, socially-conscious, and bittersweet coming-of-age story about Junior, a 9-year-old boy living in the housing projects of Caracas who is caught in a storm of identity and intolerance, and wants nothing more... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cine Latino
October 30 - November 5 Cine Latino is a seven day celebration of Spanish language cinema from around the world. The Festival will feature new documentary and narrative films as well as a series of hand-selected Mexican classics.... READ MORE
Film Dates
October 30th - November 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Escobar: Paradise Lost
Closing Night Presentation! Pablo Escobar’s drug empire made him one of the wealthiest criminals in history, and his brutal tactics were responsible for the deaths of thousands. But more than 20 years after his death in 1993, the Robin Hood-esque persona he cultivated for himself continues to... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 5th - November 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cantinflas
Mexico’s submission to the 2015 Oscars. Cantinflas is the untold story of Mexico’s greatest and most beloved comedy film star of all time. From his humble origins on the small stage to the bright lights of Hollywood, Cantinflas became famous around the world – one joke at a time. Relive... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 10th - November 14th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: Skylight
Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Gatsby) feature in the highly anticipated production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience), broadcast live from the West End by National Theatre... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 10th - November 29th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Under California: The Limit of Time
Bajo California: El límite del tiempo. Because of the constant migration of Mexico’s population, rediscovering one’s identity and understanding one’s connection with the homeland are some of the most constant presences in Mexican film. Damián, a Chicano artist, has an automobile accident... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 11th - November 12th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Till the Last Drop... My Love!
Hasta el último trago... corazón! Chavela Vargas, Lila Downs, Eugenia León, Astrid Hadid, La Negra Graciana and Iraida Noriega are interviewed on topics ranging from their music to their thoughts on politics, love, relationships and equality intermingled with oftentimes powerful concert... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 11th - November 12th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Santo Versus the Vampire Women
When I was a child I believed the movies. I thought El Santo was real. Movies with female vampires were fashionable then due to “Et mourir de plaisir” (Roger Vadim 1960) and since in México we always adapt things to our taste, just like we put chili on a hot dog, why wouldn’t we have our own... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 12th - November 13th
Showtimes To Be Announced
La Llorona
The fascination of La Llorona legend among Hispanics made it the right choice as the subject for the first Mexican horror film. With Spanish-speaking audiences demanding films that resonated with them, it was the perfect answer to Hollywood’s Draculas, Werewolves, and Mummies. La Llorona is an... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 12th - November 13th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Saving Private Perez
Salvando al Soldado Perez Julian Pérez, Mexico’s most notorious leader of organized crime, must embark on a mission given to him by the only authority he respects... his mother. Joined by a colorful band of infamous criminals, Julian must risk his life to fulfill his mother’s wish &... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 13th - November 14th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Flying Low
Volando bajo Beto Gómez’s heartwarming Flying Low tells the story of childhood BFFs Chuyin Venegas (Gerardo Taracena) and Cornelio Barraza (Rodrigo Oviedo) who grow up to be Mexico’s greatest musical duo Los Jilgueros de Rosarito, a Lennon and McCartney of their times who write soft rock... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 13th - November 14th
Showtimes To Be Announced
New Cinema Now
New Cinema Now! What: Please join us for New Cinema Now on November 14th, a unique fundraising event to benefit the Film Society's Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. New Cinema Now combines a premiere screening of an exceptional new film by a significant director with the most... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 14th - November 15th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Listen Up Philip
Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his sure-to- succeed second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elisabeth Moss), and his own indifference... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 14th - November 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
OPERA ON SCREEN: Don Carlo
In the second half of the 16th century, a peace treaty between France and Spain is to be sealed by the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth of Valois, daughter of Henry II, and Don Carlo, son of Philipp II and heir of the Spanish throne. When Don Carlos (Jonas Kaufmann) and her future spouse... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 18th - November 23rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Pulp: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets
Minnesota Premiere Sheffield, 1988, ‘The Day That Never Happened’. Following a disastrous farewell show in their hometown, PULP move to London in search of success. They find fame on the world stage in the 1990s with anthems including ‘Common People’, ‘Disco 2000’ and 'Babies'.... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 19th - November 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Overnighters
2014 MSPIFF Official Selection! The Tuesday, November 25 at 4:15 screening of The Overnighters will be followed by a discussion and Q&A, with brief remarks about the film given by: Pastor Michael Laidlaw, Overcomers International Fellowship of St. Cloud Mikkel Beckmen, Director of... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 21st - December 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: Of Mice and Men
Golden Globe® winner and Academy Award® nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) and Tony Award® nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls) star in the hit Broadway production Of Mice And Men, filmed on stage by National Theatre Live. This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 24th - November 30th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Food Chains
Join us for post-screening Q&A discussions following all screenings on Friday, November 28 and Saturday, November 29. Participants include Claudia Saenz and Nely Rodriguez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The Saturday, November 29 7PM discussion will include the Centro de Trabajadores Unidos... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 28th - December 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Gremlins
"Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway through Gremlins, with devastating results. This comic Joe Dante effort is set in a Norman Rockwell-esque small town at Christmastime. Seeking a unique... READ MORE
Film Dates
November 29th - November 30th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Antarctica: On the Edge
Minnesota Premiere | Filmmakers Attending! Film Society Members Only FREE Screening! RSVP for tickets by sending an email to rsvp@mspfilmsociety.org with "Antarctica" in the subject line and your name and the number of tickets requested (maximum 2) in the body of the message. Not a Member? JOIN... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 3rd - December 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Encore screenings December 13 & 14 at 1PM Legendary Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata revisits Japan's most famous folktale in this gorgeous, hand-drawn masterwork, decades in the making. Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter (James Caan) and his wife (Mary... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 5th - December 15th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Liberator
Best of Cine Latino! Rising international star Édgar Ramírez (Carlos) takes the lead in this dramatic story of Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), one of Latin America’s most inspirational and influential figures, and his lifelong quest for independence from Spain and autonomy for South... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 5th - December 12th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Holiday Hot Haus
Come join us for the first ever FREE Holiday Hot Haus at the Piazza on the Mall! Join us for FREE family friendly activities, food, entertainment and beer/wine hall! Everyone is welcome to this free event to celebrate the holiday season and come together at the Piazza on the Mall. This event... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 12th - December 13th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
Awake: The Life of Yogananda is an unconventional biography about the Hindu Swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s. Paramahansa Yogananda authored the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi,” which has sold millions of copies worldwide and is a go-to book for... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 12th - February 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Babadook
"If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of the Babadook." Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her ‘out of control’ 6 year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love.... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 12th - February 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Opera on Screen: Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky is best known for his symphonic scores and ballets such as the Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. Yet his operas also occupy a place of honor in his oeuvre, and two of them, “Eugene Onegin” and “The Queen of Spades,” both based on novels by Pushkin, are among his... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 16th - December 17th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The King and the Mockingbird
English language version: December 25 at 1:00pm December 30 at 3:00pm Children 13 and under: $3 Admission. King of Tachycardia reigns tyrannically over the kingdom, and only the brightly feathered Mockingbird, a talkative creature who has built his nest high up in the vast palace near His... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 19th - January 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Interview
The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul is one of a very few independent theatrical exhibitors around the country - many, like us, tied to Arthouse Convergence - about to release the Sony Pictures film that has caused such a recent stir - The Interview. We open on Christmas Day. Although this... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 25th - January 16th
Showtimes To Be Announced
National Theatre Live: JOHN
JOHN contains adult themes, strong language and nudity. Suitable for 18yrs+. Internationally renowned DV8 Physical Theatre bring their powerful new production to the National Theatre. DV8 Physical Theatre has produced 18 highly acclaimed dance-theatre works and four films for television,... READ MORE
Film Dates
December 29th - January 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
National Gallery
National Gallery takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 3rd - January 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Search for General Tso
January 16 - 22. This mouthwateringly entertaining film travels the globe to unravel a captivating culinary mystery. General Tso’s chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence on restaurant menus across the country. But just who was General Tso? And how did his... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 16th - January 22nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
WonderWomen On Screen
WonderWomen On Screen is a collection of dynamic and groundbreaking animated works by women filmmakers. This unique program will screen in conjunction with WonderWomen, a group exhibition at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery featuring work by women artists inspired or influenced by comics, animation or... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 20th - February 10th
Showtimes To Be Announced
WonderWomen: Nash Gallery Shorts
Part of the WonderWomen On Screen series, this collection of short films, curated by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, showcases some of the most innovative work by women artists and filmmakers. Films included: Sign Off | Dir: Diyan Achjadi | 2010 | 1 min 23 sec I'm Curious | Dir: Sally... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 21st - February 9th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Starfish Throwers
Worlds apart, a five-star chef, a twelve year-old girl, and a retired school teacher discover how their individual efforts to feed the poor ignite a movement in the fight against hunger. Award-winning chef Narayanan Krishnan, fighting against the caste system in India, quits his job to begin a... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 22nd - January 23rd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Boyhood
Now nominated for six academy awards! Best Motion Picture of the Year Richard Linklater Cathleen Sutherland Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Ethan Hawke Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Patricia Arquette Best Achievement in Directing Richard... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 23rd - February 13th
Showtimes To Be Announced
WonderWomen: The Works of Suzan Pitt
For three decades, Suzan Pitt has been an internationally renowned creator of beautiful, strange and fiercely original animation. Collected here in this program are four of Pitt's pioneering and unforgettable masterworks. ASPARAGUS 1979 | Runtime: 20 min This candy colored, sexually charged... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 25th - February 10th
Showtimes To Be Announced
WonderWomen: Rocks In My Pockets
Latvia's Oscar Submission for Best Foreign Language Film. In the new animated gem Rocks in My Pockets, Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane tells five fantastical tales based on the courageous women in her family and their battles with madness. With boundless imagination and a... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 26th - February 5th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Opera On Screen: Roméo and Juliette
Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is one of the most famous and moving love stories in all of opera, despite the fact that everyone already knows how the story ends. Stage director Bartlett Sher (winner of a Tony Award for best director of a musical for his revival of South Pacific on Broadway)... READ MORE
Film Dates
January 27th - February 2nd
Showtimes To Be Announced
Two Days, One Night
Nominated for an Academy Award: Best Actress, Marion Cotillard This screening is completely full. Please stay tuned for more upcoming Members-Only Free Screenings. Film Society Members Only FREE Screening! RSVP for tickets by sending an email to rsvp@mspfilmsociety.org with "TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT"... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 3rd - February 4th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Jingle Dress
A 2014 MSPIFF Official Selection! John Red Elk hears from his relatives down in Minneapolis that his Uncle Norton is dead and vows to go to the big city to find out what really happened to him. At its heart, The Jingle Dress is a contemporary story of a Native American family that moves from... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 6th - February 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
NT Live: Treasure Island
(Suitable for 10 years +) Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from the National Theatre. It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter,... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 10th - February 15th
Showtimes To Be Announced
HITS
Godfather of underground comedy David Cross’s directorial debut, HITS, is a dark comedy exploring the nature of fame in 21st Century YouTube America. The film takes place in a small town in upstate New York populated by people who trade in unrealistic expectations. It’s a story in which fame,... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 12th - February 13th
Showtimes To Be Announced
CitizenFour
CitizenFour is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 13th - March 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Verdun, visions d’histoire
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Armistice, Léon Poirier recreates the Battle of Verdun with soldiers who took part in it. An epic film, with a true emotional strength with no “real” characters but symbolic figures instead: the French soldier, the German soldier, the mother, the young... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 17th - February 18th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cuban Film Festival: Black and Cuba
The first film in the line-up for this year is a provocative US-made documentary about disenfranchised African-American students at Yale who decide to take a trip to Cuba to see if a revolution can really make a difference. Black and Cuba follows street-smart students, who are outcasts at an... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 19th - February 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
The Duke of Burgundy
Somewhere, sometime in Europe… Day after day, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) act out a simple yet provocative ritual that ends with Evelyn's punishment and pleasure. As Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship, Evelyn's obsession with erotic spells quickly... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 20th - February 26th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cuban Film Festival: La Pelicula de Ana
Ana is an actress with a declining career who also needs a refrigerator. She impersonates a prostitute in order to land a role in a documentary financed by foreign filmmakers. Complications arise when she learns that the film will be shot from her point of view as a jinetera*. *Jinetera: A... READ MORE
Film Dates
February 26th - February 27th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cuban Film Festival: Roble de Olor
On one level a lush romance at the beginning of the 18th century, but just be- neath the surface is slavery and the racial divide in Cuba as it reflects what's going on with the Haitian revolution next door. English title: Scent of Oak Curated and presented by the Minnesota Cuba... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 5th - March 6th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cuban Film Festival: Tierralismo
A close look at a cooperative urban farm based on organic practices that arose out of necessity following the collapse of the Soviet Union and easy access to chemicals and machinery. On the outskirts of Havana, sandwiched between highways and public housing, a revolution is taking place. Here,... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 12th - March 13th
Showtimes To Be Announced
Cuban Film Festival: Conducta
Chala, a 12 year old, lives with his drug addict mother. In order to provide for the two of them, he raises carrier pigeons and trains fighting dogs with a man who may or may not be his biological father. School provides a stabilizing force in Chala's life, thanks to his close relationship with his... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 19th - March 20th
Showtimes To Be Announced
It Follows
March 27 - April 8. For 19-year-old Jay (Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following... READ MORE
Film Dates
March 27th - April 8th
Showtimes To Be Announced
10th Annual Cine Latino
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW DONATE TO CINE LATINO ALL-ACCESS PASS 4 PACK TICKETS 10th Anniversary Celebration! October 13-20, 2022 Cine Latino Sponsors Producing Sponsor Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Community... READ MORE
Festival Dates
November 16th - November 19th
42nd Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival - APRIL 13-27, 2023
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Festival Dates
May 13th - May 23rd
