Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary | Ends March 4.

Set in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, this raw and intimate documentary captures the struggles and human resilience in the battle to survive the pandemic in Wuhan, China.

Ends 8/19 | Now Showing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
How far do you have to travel to find yourself? And what sacrifices are you willing to make to get there? Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak the 1,300 mile circumference of Iceland, counter-clockwise and against the current, an achievement that has been compared to climbing K2. It was the second most difficult journey of her life.

12th Annual Minnesota Cuban Film Festival | Showing March 24-April 4.
Cuba, summer 1994. In the midst of Período Especial, one of the greatest crises in the country’s history, thousands of Cuban rafters try to reach the United States illegally.

Now Showing. Ends 4/22.

The explorer, Roald Amundsen obsesses with discovering the last unchartered land of the world: The North Pole. Amundsen will sacrifice everything to fulfill his dream of being the first to explore the icy wasteland that no man has ever conquered.

Watch Now. Ends 5/12.
2021 Oscar® Winner for International Feature Film + Nominee for Directing (Thomas Vinterberg)!
The ever surprising Mads Mikkelsen delivers a fierce and touching performance in director Thomas Vinterberg's spry and bold exploration of euphoria and the pain of an unbridled life.

Now Showing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
A quiet but powerful, emotionally acute drama, Asia centers on an attractive Russian émigré nurse and single mother, and her relationship with her ailing teen daughter, played by Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Shira Haas (“Unorthodox”). Winner, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Nora Ephron Award for director-writer Ruthy Pribar, Tribeca Film Festival.

Starts Friday, November 12 | In MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
MSPIFF40 Audience Choice Award Winner - Nextwave Global Features

Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.

12th Annual Minnesota Cuban Film Festival | Showing March 24-April 4.
A portrait of Havana in the middle of the whirlwind of the post restoration of US-Cuba relations. An impasse of uncertainty and vertigo, a feeling of time standing still while future flies away. Stories that could not happen anywhere else in the world, except in Surrealist Republic of Cuba)

Now Showing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Using historical and cultural context, Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts brings the spirit and mystery of Traylor’s incomparable art to life.

Ended 12/31.
City government touches many aspects of our lives and yet most of us are unaware of or take for granted the services that are performed. City Hall, by Frederick Wiseman, shows the efforts by Boston city government, led by Mayor Martin Walsh, to address racial justice, affordable housing, climate action, homelessness, and support for seniors, immigrants, and veterans.

Ended 1/7.
Coded Bias follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that many facial recognition technologies fail more often on darker-skinned faces, and delves into an investigation of widespread bias in artificial intelligence.

Watch Now. Ends 5/12.

After the global success of his Un Certain Regard winner Rams, director Grímur Hákonarson returns to his native Iceland with another humanist farmland fable. Bitterly funny and deeply affecting, The County plays out a timely political allegory against a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a brainy, tenacious anti-heroine and Hákonarson’s dry Nordic humor.

12th Annual Minnesota Cuban Film Festival | Showing March 24-April 4.
Dance Cuba begins with the historic coming together of two of the most important dance companies in the world – one Cuban, one American – in Havana. It is the stories orbiting around this coming together that are the heart and soul of the film.

Now Showing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.

The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty home-owner defending her property, a lovestruck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl, and an American expat pursuing the Chinese Dream converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River, towards a modernizing Shanghai in Cathy Yan's (Birds of Prey) debut feature.

Ends July 8 in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
MSPIFF40 Audience Choice Award Winner

20 years after the devastating Six-Day War, a battle between Rwandan and Ugandan forces that was part of the larger Second Congo War, a group of survivors journeys down the Congo River, seeking compensation that has been promised them for years.

Now Showing. Ends March 11. Your ticket includes a pre-recorded Q&A after the film.

What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Asher (Room 237) uses a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy, and conspiracy theory. If simulation theory is not science fiction but fact, and life is a video game being played by some unknowable entity, then who are we, really? A Glitch in the Matrix attempts to find out.

Now Showing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious – how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.

Opens Earth Day. Ends 5/12. Your ticket includes a pre-recorded Q&A.

A Buena Vista Social Club meets Years of Living Dangerously, renowned Malian singer Inna Modja takes us on a music-driven journey of hope, hardship, and perseverance across Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall.

Watch Now. Ends 5/12.

93rd Academy Awards Best International Feature Shortlist - Norway's Oscar® Submission.

Anja (Andrea Bræin Hovig) lives with Tomas (Stellan Skarsgård) in a large family of biological children and stepchildren. When Anja gets a terminal cancer diagnosis, their modern life breaks down and exposes neglected love.

Now Showing. Ends March 11.

Middle-aged Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him—and to know whether or not he’s even alive—she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At once devastating and visually breathtaking, this debut feature by writer/director Fernanda Valadez was a Sundance favorite, and will not soon be forgotten.

Now Streaming | In MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
In Balanchine’s Classroom takes us back to the glory years of George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius. Opening the door to his studio, Balanchine’s private laboratory, they reveal new facets of the groundbreaking choreographer: taskmaster, mad scientist, and spiritual teacher. Today, as his former dancers teach a new generation, questions arise: what was the secret of his teaching? Can it be replicated?

12th Annual Minnesota Cuban Film Festival | Showing March 24-April 4.
On November 27th, 1871 one of the most atrocious events happened in the Cuban territory, the regiment of voluntaries of the Spanish army along with the Spaniard corrupt government that ruled the island, conspired to destroy the lives of 8 students of medicine.

MSP Film Society presents Jim Crow of the North special FREE screening and discussion. This event is part of the MSP Film Society's programming initiative, We the People: Required Watching, designed to spark conversation around current events and issues of social impact affecting our community, country and world. This series is generously supported by the George Family Foundation and KNOCK, Inc. All We the People online discussions are generously supported by Kelly and Mike Palmer.

Now Showing. Ends 4/15.

The latest deranged delight by French absurdist Quentin Dupieux, Keep An Eye Out is a breakneck-paced cop comedy that packs more laughs into its 73 breezy minutes than some filmmakers manage in their entire careers.

Ended 1/21.

In Celebration of Beethoven's 250th Birthday. The year is 1826. Beethoven faces the final stanza of his career. Deaf and defiant, he recalls memories of his youth including his early tutelage under Bonn court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe. Years later after an encounter with Mozart, the young “Louis” begins studying with Joseph Haydn in Vienna, but unfulfilled love leaves a lasting mark that haunts him for the rest of his life.

Ended 1/7.
A romantic drama that follows British aid worker, Hana, as she returns to the ancient city of Luxor and comes across Sultan, an archeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.

Watch Now. Ends 5/12.

Oscar® Nominee for International Feature Film!

Sam Ali, a young Syrian, lef this country for Lebanon to escape the war. To be able to travel to Europe and live with the love of his life, he accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the World’s most sulfurous contemporary artist.

Now Showing. Ends 1/14.

Mayor is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, Mayor offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while posing a question: how do you run a city when you don't have a country?

Free Preview Screening Wednesday, January 13. Conversation with Director Sam Pollard Wednesday, January 13 at 7pm.

MSP Film Society presents a special We the People: Required Watching FREE advance screening of MLK/FBI and live conversation with Director Sam Pollard. MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, utilizing a trove of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and unsealed by the National Archives, as well as revelatory restored footage, the documentary explores the government's history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals.

Now Showing.

Rembrandt, the grandmaster of intimacy rocks the art world; 350 years after his death, many people, even entire nations are obsessed with his paintings. Aristocrats cherish, experts rule, art dealers investigate, collectors hunt, museums battle. The epic documentary My Rembrandt dives deep into the art world of Old Masters, exploring the motives of its elite.

Watch Now. Ends 5/12.

Winner of awards at Tribeca and Vancouver, My Wonderful Wanda is a delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots set against the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in Switzerland.

Now Playing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
The latest from writer/director Malgorzata Szumowska (Elles, In the Name of) and her longtime collaborator Michal Englert is an unclassifiable meditation on class, immigration, and global warming shot through with Lynchian touches of the otherworldly and moments of sober beauty and unexpected humor.

Now Playing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! From Academy Award®-nominated director Oren Jacoby and the producers of RBG, this stirring documentary shows how Broadway led the way in the city’s last great rebirth and provides a model of how it can come back again.

Showing February 14-28. We the People: Required Watching Conversation: Monday, February 22 at 7pm.

In this collection of six shorts, filmmakers gaze at themselves and their world, attempting to make sense of what they see reflected back. From gripping drama to heart-warming comedy, Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities features timely stories from Black artists that take us outside of the ordinary.

Now Playing. Ends 4/15.

Anne is a master of perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a perfectionist and temperamental. Guillaume is her new chauffeur and the only one who dares face her. This is probably why she doesn't fire him. Perfumes is a nuanced and delightful dramedy, featuring Emmanuelle Devos and Grégory Montel as two loners who just may need each other more than they know.

12th Annual Minnesota Cuban Film Festival | Showing March 24-April 4.
Queens of the Revolution is a portrait of El Mejunje, a cultural center in Santa Clara that paved the road for LGBTQ+ rights in Cuba. Since 1985, El Mejunje has offered refuge for people marginalized under Castro and a stage for their drag shows, punk rock and spoken word performances.

Now Showing. Ends March 11

Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world.

This engagement has ended. Your ticket includes a pre-recorded Q&A after the film.

Summer camp meets Spinal Tap as we journey to Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, where dreamers from across America and around the world gather to shred with their heroes - and learn to rock like the legends.

MSP Film Society's Holiday Season Tradition Returns as a Virtual Cinema Experience - Showing December 19 2020 through January 3 2021 - Tickets on Sale Now

Just in time for the Holidays comes the return of this classic Swedish film that has been a mainstay for Film Society members for years. Tage Danielsson directs this spellbinding adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s rollicking adventure novel perfect for the whole family.

12th Annual Minnesota Cuban Film Festival | Showing March 24-April 4.
The film is a compelling portrait about the hazards of hasty judgments of others as well as the unfortunate Cuban divide of the past fifty years.

National Evening of Science on Screen® Live Talk March 24 at 7:00 PM | Screening March 23-25.

Talk: Science and Emotion of Extinction. About the Film: Set in a murky swamp overrun with birders, scientists, and reporters, Ghost Bird explores the limits of certainty, the seductive power of hope, and how one phantom woodpecker changed a sleepy Southern town forever. An initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.

This engagement has ended.

"Part radio play, part creature feature, part action film, and all feminist manifesto." -View From the Dark

In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett (Chloë Grace Moretz) joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Trapped between an oncoming air ambush and an evil lurking within, Maude must push beyond her limits to save the hapless crew and protect her mysterious cargo.

Watch Now. Ends 5/12.

A young woman struggles to keep up different versions of herself when she runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a shiva with her parents.

Watch Now.

This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor, played by frequent Dardenne brothers collaborator Jérémie Renier and featuring a breakthrough role from Noée Abita.

Now Showing. Your ticket includes a pre-recorded Q&A.

With Some Kind of Heaven, first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community – a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this palm tree-lined fantasyland, Some Kind of Heaven invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents – and one interloper – who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise. With strikingly composed cinematography, this candy-colored documentary offers a tender and surreal look at the never-ending quest for finding meaning and love in life’s final act.

MSP Film Society presents special FREE screening and conversation. This event is part of the MSP Film Society's programming initiative, We the People: Required Watching, designed to spark conversation around current events and issues of social impact affecting our community, country and world. This series is generously supported by the George Family Foundation and KNOCK, Inc. All We the People online discussions are generously supported by Kelly and Mike Palmer.

Now Showing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.

Written and directed by Suzanne Lindon (Vincent Lindon’s daughter and 20 years-old at the time of production), Spring Blossom is charmingly refreshing, and oh so French coming of age story that heralds Lindon as a rising international filmmaker to be reckoned with.

MSPIFF39 Redefined Best of Fest | As a child growing up, Rita Davern was always told, with pride, how her family once owned Pike Island at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. But when she discovers that her great-grandparents settled on land stolen from the Dakota people who lived there, her family story takes on a more sinister air in this eye-opening documentary.

Now Showing. Your ticket includes two pre-recorded Q&As.

In Stray, a trio of canine outcasts roam the streets of Istanbul. Through their eyes and ears, we are shown an intimate portrait of the life of a city and its people.

Now Showing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.

Recipient of the Special Jury Prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Take Me Somewhere Nice is the unpredictable, neon-tinted feature debut for Ena Sendijarevic, a Bosnian-born refugee raised in Holland who is now one of Dutch cinema’s fastest rising talents. Her film’s breezy wit and pastel color palette disguise dark truths about national identity, gender, and coming-of-age, making it the first essential road movie about the TikTok generation.

Now Showing.

Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America.

Ended 1/7.
Showcasing the rare talents of Brazilian acting legend Regina Casé (The Second Mother), the latest feature from director Sandra Kogut is a brilliant comedy about gross class disparity and the infinite resourcefulness of those who can never take anything for granted.

Ends March 4.

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato’s biological mother, demanding his return.

Ends 8/19 | Now Playing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary.

Ends July 8 in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.

A winsome, riotous comedy of errors, Paul Negoescu’s second feature is an audience-friendly social satire which merges a stoner’s shaggy-dog story with the sophisticated, intensely realistic style that has made the Romania cinema one of the most popular national film movements in the world.

Now Showing. Your ticket includes a pre-recorded Q&A after the film.

Two retired women, Nina and Madeleine, have been secretly in love for decades. Everybody, including Madeleine’s family, thinks they are simply neighbors, sharing the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, enjoying the affection and pleasures of daily life together, until an unforeseen event turns their relationship upside down and leads Madeleine’s daughter to gradually unravel the truth about them.

WE THE PEOPLE: REQUIRED WATCHING
MSP Film Society presents special FREE screening and conversation. This event is part of the MSP Film Society's programming initiative, We the People: Required Watching, designed to spark conversation around current events and issues of social impact affecting our community, country and world. This series is generously supported by the George Family Foundation and KNOCK, Inc. All We the People online discussions are generously supported by Kelly and Mike Palmer.

Now Showing. Ends 1/14.
A beautiful actress from cinema’s golden age, an actor in the twilight of his life, a frustrated scriptwriter and an old director will do the impossible to try and preserve the world they have created in an old mansion, faced with the threat of a young couple who could put everything in danger.

Wednesdays with Wiseman
Ballet is a profile of the American Ballet Theatre, an important classical ballet company. The film presents the company in rehearsal in their New York studio and on tour in Athens and Copenhagen. Choreographers, ballet masters and mistresses are shown at work with principal dancers, soloists and the corps de ballet. Other sequences involve the administration and fundraising aspects of the company.

Wednesdays with Wiseman
Hospital shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital with the emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations, and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of appropriate health care.

Wednesdays with Wiseman
Sinai Field Mission shows the routine activities of the diplomats and electronics technicians who operate the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system established in 1976 to help facilitate the disengagement between Egypt and Israel after the 1973 war. The major purpose of the Mission is to monitor the approaches to strategic passes and to verify the operations of the Egyptian and Israeli surveillance stations in the Sinai Buffer Zone.

Now Playing in MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
Utterly unique in film history, Mariam Ghani's archival marvel What We Left Unfinished is a probing and engrossing case study in censorship, authoritarianism, and political art.

Starts Friday, November 19 | In MSP Film's Virtual Cinema.
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction, and a chance encounter with the past. Propelled by coincidence and imagination, and guided by love’s gentle current, acclaimed director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Happy Hour, Asako I & II) returns with an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities.

Filmed from 2017-2019, Women In Blue follows Minneapolis’ first female police chief Janeé Harteau, as she works to reform the Minneapolis Police Department by getting rid of bad cops, retraining the rest, diversifying the ranks and promoting women—who statistically use less force than their male counterparts—into every rank of leadership. The film focuses on four women in Harteau’s department, each trying to redefine what it means to protect and serve. This event and series is generously supported by the GEORGE FAMILY FOUNDATION. All We the People online discussions are generously supported by Kelly and Mike Palmer.