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  • An animated red seaplane flies through a blue sky with white clouds, its exposed engine smoking and spitting debris as pieces of its wings break apart.

    Porco Rosso | Pirates vs. Pilots at The Union Cinema

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    35mm Print! Choose your crew! This film is part of our Pirates vs. Pilots weekend at the Union Cinema. Celebrate legendary adventures on the sea and in the sky!  From the legendary Studio Ghibli comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above …

  • A black and white film still capturing a moment between two people in a parking lot. In the center, a woman sits on the curb in the narrow space between the rear bumpers of two parked cars—an SUV on the left and a sedan on the right. She is wearing a light-colored dress, looking up and slightly toward the camera with a subtle expression. Standing just behind her and slightly to the right, a man in a dark shirt and a light jacket looks off-frame to his right, away from the woman. The background features a manicured hedge and a line of trees under bright, natural daylight.

    The Day She Returns | Hong Sang-soo Double-Bill

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Milwaukee Premiere! A famous actress, having stepped back from her career after marriage and a subsequent divorce, returns to the profession with a role in an independent film. As the film’s release approaches, she takes part in a series of …

  • A narrow blue waterway winding through a vast, flat expanse of green wetlands under a bright blue sky with a large, fluffy white cloud.

    River of Grass

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Experimental Documentary New Release! River of Grass is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), which forever changed the public understanding of the region from a worthless swamp to an essential …

  • A split-screen visual with high contrast and overexposed color saturations, featuring vertical beams of pink and yellow light piercing down into open landscape fields against a dark sky.

    Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Filmmaker in person! A young filmmaker stumbles on a hidden book tied to a vanished art forger and the perfect mystery for his next film pitch. But as coincidences mount, he begins to question what’s real, who’s watching him, and …

  • A person sits at a dimly lit desk, speaking on a landline phone while lit by the warm yellow glow of a banker's lamp amidst stacks of books.

    Chronovisor | Milwaukee Premiere!

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, a respected academic becomes entranced by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce images from any point in history on a television screen. Her obsession …

  • A black-and-white image from the film Araya showing numerous workers shoveling and carrying heavy loads across large mounds of white salt at a salt mine under a bright sky.

    Araya

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    New restoration! In the days when salt was worth its weight in gold, Spanish colonists in the Araya peninsula of northeast Venezuela built a fortress to guard against pirates; now only ruins lie at the center of Margot Benacerraf’s lyrical …

  • A scene from the film Sholay showing a man seated inside a horse-drawn carriage or carousel while a woman in traditional pink attire dances nearby.

    Sholay

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    4K restoration! Once voted the greatest Indian film ever made, Sholay opened in Mumbai in 1975 and ran continuously for the next five years. A grand tapestry of genres–action-thriller, revenge Western, comedy, tragedy, musical–is India’s first 70mm film and the …

  • Faculty Showcase

    Faculty Showcase

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Free for everyone! UWM’s department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres is home to a faculty and staff who are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists, whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. Expect …

  • A frame of a 35mm film strip against a dark background, showing a blue abstract textured pattern between white sprocket holes.

    Julie Murray | Virtual director Q&A!

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Drawing on a background in painting and the fine arts, Julie Murray has made more than twenty-five beguiling and beautiful films, equally invested in metaphysics as in material. Murray will be present to share a program of her recent moving-image …

  • An Indigenous man with red facial paint and arm bands stands with arms outstretched in the foreground, leading a group of Indigenous people gathering outdoors amidst trees.

    The Falling Sky | Milwaukee Premiere

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The Yanomami people, relatively isolated in the Brazilian Amazon until the 1970s dictatorship opened their lands to extraction, hold a time-worn funeral rite said to hold up the sky against those who would tear it down, and to galvanize themselves …

  • A man with dark, wet hair and dirt on his face stands in front of a tiled wall wearing a patterned zip-up hoodie.

    Obsession | New Release!

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic learns that desire’s fulfillment comes at the highest price. (Curry Barker, 2026, USA, 108 mins, Blu-ray)