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Special Event // March 31st - April 4th UWM’s Latin American Film Series returns this April for its 47th year, showcasing recent feature-length films from across Latin America and the Caribbean. This year’s lineup includes a variety of dramatic, comedic, …
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Director: Adriana Yañez 2024 Brazil | 78 minutes When women’s football is outlawed in Brazil in 1941, the game is forced into the shadows until its re-legalization in 1979. This documentary follows the first players to return to professional competition, who were discovered young and asked … |
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Director: Ana Katz 2020 Argentina | 73 minutes *Join us after the film for a short discussion with UWM film studies professor Tami Williams! In a story both tender and absurd, Sebastián drifts through a life shaped by work, chance, … |
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Director: Pierre Saint-Martin Castellanos 2024 Mexico | 94 minutes Socorro is a retired lawyer consumed by her obsession to find the soldier who killed her brother nearly 60 years ago, during the student protests of October 2, 1968 in Mexico … |
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Director: Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colón) 2021 Puerto Rico, Colombia | 97 minutes *Join us after the film for a short discussion with UWM film studies professor Gilberto Blasini! Isabel, an elderly woman in Puerto Rico, is adrift after the … |
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Director: Martín Boulocq 2022 Bolivia | 87 minutes Fresh out of prison, Humberto moves cautiously through a world that no longer waits for him. Determined to reconnect with his teenage daughter Aleida, Humberto faces the quiet judgment of her influential … |
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Free For Everyone! This series of films favors ambiguity and resists resolution. The nearer the gaze, the more obscure the view. Illegibility here is not an escape from politics, but a way of inhabiting it differently: as a site of … |
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Concert Film | Free For Everyone! Filmmaker Jonathan Demme captures the frantic energy and artsy groove of Talking Heads as they perform hits such as 'Psycho Killer' and 'Take Me to the River' at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in 1983. … |
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Join us for a special Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month screening of Dìdi (弟弟), directed by Sean Wang. Hosted in collaboration with Sociocultural Programming, Chi Sigma Tau, and Union Cinema, this coming-of-age story explores family, friendship, and the … |
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Film Festival | April 10th - 12th | Free for Everyone! The Italian Film Festival USA brings you the best line-up of recent Italian cinema with films from award-winning directors, as well as debut films from exciting new talent. Cosponsored … |
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Free For Everyone! | Artists in Attendance! Join archivist Shiraz Bhathena in conversation with Dick Blau to celebrate a major archiving and remastering project. Blau—a co-founder of the UWM Film Department, longtime professor and fixture of the Milwaukee art community—works … |
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Special Event In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, he is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but … |
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Join us for a film screening of "Dreams of the Monarch Butterfly" with a Q&A from director Leslie Garcia Ramirez to follow. Popcorn included!
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Join us for a powerful screening of She Cried That Day, a film that sheds light on the heartbreaking realities faced by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples. This gathering creates space for reflection, awareness, and collective commitment to honoring the lives and stories too often overlooked.
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Documentary | Free For Everyone! She Cried That Day is the story of a sister's love and the spirit, strength and will of Indigenous Women refusing to let their loved ones remain invisible in the eyes of the justice system. … |
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New Releases A man's solitary life in a Scottish highland forest is portrayed through the changing seasons, with occasional encounters disrupting his otherwise isolated existence. 
New Releases Over the course of a single day’s journey into and around Lagos, Folarin and his young sons, Aki and Remi, reckon with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. As details of Folarin’s … |
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New Releases Over the course of a single day’s journey into and around Lagos, Folarin and his young sons, Aki and Remi, reckon with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. As details of Folarin’s …
New Releases A man's solitary life in a Scottish highland forest is portrayed through the changing seasons, with occasional encounters disrupting his otherwise isolated existence. |
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Free For Everyone! Peggy Ahwesh’s wildly heterogeneous body of work—across moving image formats (from Pixelvision to machinima to super-8 and everywhere between), in installation and as object and through the ephemeral—engages with the political, the social, genre and identity in … |
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Special Event | Free For Everyone! A Showcase of four short films about American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexuality and civil rights, among other topics, across Istanbul, Paris and Great Britain. James Baldwin: the brilliant thinker, … |
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Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parents, and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin, and adult twins called back to their … 
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis. Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, this triptych of stories … |
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Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis. Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, this triptych of stories …
Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parents, and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin, and adult twins called back to their … |
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Special Event The Animation Showcase returns to the Union Cinema for their 2026 series, featuring the latest and greatest from our Animation/Film students. This year’s edition features student work across all forms of storytelling. From digital to traditional, claymation to … |
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Staff Picks While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian. |
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Film Festival | Free for Everyone! Join us at the Union Cinema for the opening night of The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival! MUFF is a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For two decades we … |
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