She Cried That Day
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. …
Sociocultural
Didi
New Releases | Free For Everyone! In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to …
James Baldwin Abroad
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, …
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Screening: Didi
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 …
The First Women (As Primeiras)
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 …
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (El perro que no calla)
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, …
We Shall Not Be Moved (No nos moverán)
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 …
Gardenia Perfume (Perfume de gardenias)
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 …
The Visitor (El visitante)
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 …
Tiger (Tiguere)
Director: José María Cabral 2024 Dominican Republic | 84 minutes Pablo is sent to a camp run by his father, where strength is demanded and fear is treated as failure. Within its rigid rules, he is taught how to endure, …