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Phone 414-229-4070
Email cinema@uwm.edu
Website https://uwm.edu/union/cinema/
The Union Cinema offers first-run foreign, domestic, documentary and experimental films, as well as “cinema classics” from all over the world. The Cinema strives to help develop a broader understanding and appreciation of the universal language of film and is a vital and unique venue for film and video.
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  • Photo from the film "Bogancloch". It is a black and white photo with a bearded old man in the middle. Smoke is billowing around him

    Bogancloch

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

    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.  

  • Photo from the film "Father's Shadow". A man sits with two young boys. One boy is sitting on the man's lap. Behind them are racks of shoes. The three people look tired, the boy in the man's lap his his head resting on his hand

    My Father’s Shadow

    My Father’s Shadow
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Photo from the film "Father's Shadow". A man sits with two young boys. One boy is sitting on the man's lap. Behind them are racks of shoes. The three people look tired, the boy in the man's lap his his head resting on his hand

    My Father’s Shadow

    My Father’s Shadow
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Photo from the film "Bogancloch". It is a black and white photo with a bearded old man in the middle. Smoke is billowing around him

    Bogancloch

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

    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.  

  • Photo from a Peggy Ahwesh animation project. Three men are completely colored in a green hue. One is running towards the camera, another stands with his arms extended and the farthest one is looking away from the camera. There is a large Santa blow up figure to the right of the photo

    Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Vision Machines: An Evening with Peggy Ahwesh

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

    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 …

  • Black and white photo of James Baldwin. He is looking towards the camera but not directly at it. He stands in front of men that are sitting behind tables. It is unclear if he is at a type of flea market or rally. There are signs behind the men sitting but it is in French

    James Baldwin Abroad

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

    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, …

  • Photo from the movie 'Mystery Train". Three people, two men and a woman, stand and are facing in the direction of the camera. The order of people go man, woman, and then another man. They are clothed in green, black, and white clothing.

    Two By Jim Jarmsuch: Mystery Train

    Two By Jim Jarmsuch: Mystery Train
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Photo from the movie 'Mystery Train". Three people, two men and a woman, stand and are facing in the direction of the camera. The order of people go man, woman, and then another man. They are clothed in green, black, and white clothing.

    Two By Jim Jarmsuch: Mystery Train

    Two By Jim Jarmsuch: Mystery Train
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Photo from an animated feature. A small white mouse stands in front of what appears to be some nuts along a forest trail

    The Animation Showcase 2026: Getting Cooked

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

    Special Event The Animation Showcase returns to the Union Cinema for their 2026 series, featuring the latest and greatest from our Animation/Film students. Programmed by senior student animators Stavros Hatzopoulos and Ava Brobst, this year’s edition features student work across …

  • Photo from the film 'Desert Hearts'. Two women are featured, a blonde woman still clothed and a topless dark haired woman. The dark haired woman is stroking the side of the blonde woman's face. Their faces both read serious, but friendly as they gaze at each other

    Desert Hearts

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

    Staff Picks While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.