Saturday, April 1 - FREE for everyone! 1-4PM Join the UWM Union Cinema and the Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres for films by acclaimed Indian filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Don't miss this remarkable opportunity to see two of Gopalakrishnan's films - one... Read More
On 16mm! Curated by MFA candidate Lucio Arellano, this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department's Cinema Arts Archive. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the UWM Film Department. For each... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! Three different main characters for three episodes shot in the different textures (three formats) make up this delicate meditation on the mystery of the whole and the parts, and as well as upon the place of our species... Read More
African American Film Series In this incendiary documentary, filmmaker Micheal Rice takes the audience on a journey through the homophobia that characterizes many black spaces, both contemporarily and via an autobiographic look into his own upbringing in the south. (Micheal... Read More
Elaine May Double Feature After the breakup of her acclaimed comedy act with Mike Nichols, May, like her former partner, moved on to directing for stage and screen, her feature debut, marking the emergence of one of the great comic... Read More
Elaine May Double Feature Elaine May crafted a gangster movie like no other in this nocturnal odyssey, starring frequent collaborators John Cassavetes and Peter Falk as small-time mobsters whose lifelong relationship has turned sour. Inspired by real-life characters from May’s... Read More
Live Performance! Live performance with artist in attendance. In this live documentary-performance hybrid, Courtney Stephens investigates the history of women as travel filmmakers from the 1920s through the 1950s. Drawing entirely on archival materials, Stephens scrutinizes the traces left by... Read More
Join us for the opening night of the 2023 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For over two decades we have been programming filmmakers that defy convention in an attempt... Read More
The Latin American Film Series, April 14-20, features recent narrative and documentary films from throughout the region. The series, including both in-person and virtual screenings, is free and open to the public. The full schedule can be found at: https://uwm.edu/clacs/public-engagement/film-series/... Read More
44th Annual Latin American Film Series presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Guatemala, 2021, 125 min, Dir. Justin Lerner Descripción en español abajo. After her sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels... Read More
44th Annual Latin American Film Series presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Peru, 2021, 104 min, Dir. Rossana Díaz Costa MEET THE DIRECTOR AFTER THE FILM: ROSSANA DIAZ COSTA Descripción en español abajo. Julius is a... Read More
44th Annual Latin American Film Series presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Chile, 2022, 83 min, Dir. Patricio Guzmán Descripción en español abajo. One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master... Read More
New 4k Restoration! A mid-career masterwork by legendary Hungarian art house auteur Béla Tarr and the first of his internationally acclaimed trilogy of films written in collaboration with author László Krasznahorkai Damnation chronicles the doomed affair between bar Titanik regular... Read More
Filmmaker in Person! / Milwaukee Premiere! With director Helena Wittman in person. A woman navigates with an all-male crew along the route of the French Foreign Legion from Marseille to Sidi-Bel-Abbes via Calvi on a contemporary odyssey that is at... Read More
This animation showcase will focus on the unique qualities of animation as a medium, and the ways that it can create moments of wonder, amazement, and enchantment. Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres
The Italian Film Festival USA of Milwaukee is returning to in-person screenings the weekend of April 28-30 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Union Cinema. Nine feature films -comedies, dramas and a documentary - will be presented over three days. The... Read More
Italian Film Festival Young, talented, and very spoiled, Christian Ferro is “The Champion,” a rock star of the soccer world. Valerio, lonely, shy, and burdened with financial problems, is the professor who is assigned to the young soccer star to... Read More
Italian Film Festival An intimate portrait of the great Italian actress Anna Magnani, a symbol of neorealism and an icon of the world’s film industry: the scene in Roma città aperta, where Anna is gunned down by the Nazis, brought the... Read More
Italian Film Festival Candida is a 15 years old motherless teenager. When her father loses his job, she moves to Turin with him, starts a new life, and attends a new high school. She makes friends with Jacopo, an introverted... Read More
This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene. Made over seven years, it offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce... Read More
Using massive piloted robots called Jaegers, to combat the alien threat, earth’s survivors (including Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, and Rinko Kikuchi) take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in... Read More
New Release / Milwaukee Premiere! From singular American independent director Ricky D’Ambrose is his most refined, emotionally resonant work yet. Slicing across decades with impressionistic precision, The Cathedral tells the formally economical yet engrossing story of the Damrosch family, whose... Read More
Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s. But rather than employ a straightforward narrative, Davies jumps in and out of time, swoops... Read More