FREE for everyone! A selection of short films curated by Rhayne and Inney, followed by a conversation between the two. Rhayne Vermette was born in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba,... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! Get to know the creative work of the Film, Video, Animation and New Genres faculty and staff at this all-star screening. Expect drama, documentary, experimentation, comedy, appropriation, and the unexpected. Many of the artists, your teachers, will be... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Thien An Pham is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It’s a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Thien An Pham is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It’s a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims... Read More
FREE for everyone! “Hurray for a formless film, a non-literary, non-musical, picture film that doesn’t tell a story, become an abstract dance, or deliver a message. A film with no escape from the pictures. A film where words are pictures... Read More
FREE for everyone! Visiting filmmaker! Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival of the Holocaust. Sutzkever was an... Read More
African American Film Series / FREE for everyone! Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! New Releases! The latest by the Dardenne brothers is an angry, intimate account of the harrowing odyssey of two African refugees, a young boy and teenage girl, who have come to care for each other like brother and... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! New Releases! Aki Kaurismäki makes a masterful return with FALLEN LEAVES, a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness – and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE! Working and playing across animation, drawing, performance, installation, sculpture, photography and painting, Selina Trepp’s extensive and exciting practice is marked by vibrant color, ecstatic improvisation, close attention to economy, vitality and a true sense of the animating... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! Mangosteen, a story about storytelling. After returning to his hometown to work in his sister's fruit processing factory, Earth slowly but surely pulls out of the family business due to his disagreement with his sister. Earth then dedicates... Read More
FREE for everyone! Come discover a rich array of contemporary, classic and documentary French-language films from around the francophone world addressing questions of immigration, justice, France's colonial past and the art of cinema. Check out the festival's full schedule at... Read More
Festival of Films in French / FREE FOR EVERYONE! A life journey through the 1920s, from Harlem to Marseille, France, via Jamaica, Russia and Morocco, in the footsteps of the Jamaincan-American writer and Harlem Renaissance rebel, Claude McKay. (Matthieu Verdeil,... Read More
Festival of Films in French / FREE FOR EVERYONE! / Silent film with live musical accompaniment! In the 1920s, Prince Roundghito-Sing escapes his Hindu kingdom and joins a film crew in Paris' Années folles where he becomes a film star.... Read More
Festival of Films in French and Share the Earth Environmental Film Series / FREE FOR EVERYONE! Ly, a peasant from Madagascar's capital who lives in Sitabaomba, a heartland torn apart by two presidents, the army and foreign investors, struggles to... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE! How can we mend the wounded world if we are open wounds ourselves? Team-curated by MFA candidates and recent grads Sarah Ballard, Magdalena Bermudez, Luciana Decker, Sam Drake, and Liyan Zhao this program will feature a selection... Read More
FREE FOR EVERYONE! In the Providencia Barrio of Santiago, Chile, a neighbor lives through the demolition of the house next door and the construction of a building in the same place, over a two-year period. UNDER CONSTRUCTION is about the... Read More
Milwaukee Premiere! For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the... Read More
New Restoration! In King Hu’s grandest work, Yang (Hsu Feng), a fugitive noblewoman at risk of being captured and executed, hides in a small village and then must escape into the wilderness with a shy scholar and two aides. There,... Read More
New Restoration! In King Hu’s grandest work, Yang (Hsu Feng), a fugitive noblewoman at risk of being captured and executed, hides in a small village and then must escape into the wilderness with a shy scholar and two aides. There,... Read More