Special Engagement - One Week Only: Nov. 21-27

 "The Overnighters" distributor Drafthouse Films is donating 10% of box office receipts nationwide to affordable housing charities. Additionally, FilmScene will match with our own 10% donation to Iowa City's Shelter House.

Can Film Festival: Bring in a canned food item to any screening and receive $1 off your concesions purchase. Items will be donated to the Crisis Center of Johnson County.

Winner of the Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking at this year's Sundance Film Festival, THE OVERNIGHTERS is "one of the most remarkable examples of layered non-fiction storytelling to come along in some time." --Indiewire

"Powerful...Steinbeckian...An indelible snapshot of a moment in American history." --Variety

A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary THE OVERNIGHTERS is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial "overnighters" program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision which leads to profound consequences that he never imagined. "The Overnighters" engages and dramatizes a set of universal societal and economic themes: the promise and limits of re-invention, redemption and compassion, as well as the tension between the moral imperative to "love thy neighbor” and the resistance that one small community feels when confronted by a surging river of desperate, job-seeking strangers.