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Asteroid City
Early Show June 22 | Opens June 23 | The Main Cinema
Asteroid City takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955. Synopsis: The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

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BlackBerry
Now Playing | The Main Cinema
MSPIFF42 Encore Engagement. An irreverent look at the meteoric rise and stunning fall of the world's first smartphone. Writer/director Matt Johnson is joined on screen by Jay Baruchel (This Is the End) and Glenn Howerton (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) in outstanding seriocomic turns that have us rooting for the doomed misfits behind this incredible true story.

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Blue Jean
Opens June 30 | The Main Cinema
MSPIFF42 Encore Engagement. In Georgia Oakley’s stunning directorial debut Blue Jean, it’s 1988 England and Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean (Rosy McEwen, in a powerhouse performance), a gym teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new student catalyzes a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.

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Chile '76
Now Playing | The Main Cinema
10th Cine Latino Encore Engagement. Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Manuela Martelli's searing debut feature, Chile '76, builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement.

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Cinema Club: Past Lives
Cinema Club | Saturday, June 10 at 11:00am | The Main Cinema
Free for MSP Film Society Members. Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.
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The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
Opens June 9 | The Main Cinema
MSPIFF41 Encore Engagement. A lyrical rumination on family, nature, renewal, and resurrection, Francisca Alegría’s poignant and stunning debut feature, The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future, is an ambitious proposal for acceptance and healing, suggesting that the dead return when they are most needed.

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Elemental
Opens June 16 | The Main Cinema
Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.

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How Love Won - 10 Years Later
Special Screening + Conversation Wednesday, June 7 at 7:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Join us for a special screening and conversation to mark 10 years since Minnesota legalized same-sex marriage. The 2016 MSPIFF Audience Award-winning How Love Won: The Fight for Marriage Equality in Minnesota traces the unlikely victories for same-sex marriage supporters in Minnesota.

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L'Immensità
Opens June 9 | The Main Cinema
MSPIFF42 Encore Engagement. Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. Their trans son Andrew yearns for another life, escaping into his own imagination to defuse family tensions in this creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.

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The Little Mermaid
Now Playing | The Main Cinema
The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.

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Midnight Mayhem: The Big Lebowski
Midnight Mayhem: Saturday, August 5 at 10:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Arguably the most quoted movie of the 90s, this mistaken-identity caper has delighted everyone from slackers to surrealists with its tale of backstabbing, bowling and bewilderment. Directed by Joel Cohen and starring Jeff Bridges (True Grit) and John Goodman (C.H.U.D.), you haven't experienced The Big Lebowski until you've seen it with a theater full of people cheering The Dude on with you. It's the 25th anniversary screening that will really tie the room together.

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Midnight Mayhem: They Live
Midnight Mayhem: Saturday, July 1 at 10:00 PM | The Main Cinema
The 80s cult classic turns 35 with a message that's more potent than ever! Director John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape From New York) and actor "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (Hell Comes to Frogtown, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") combine their powers to bring a chilling indictment of Reagan-era capitalism as they satirize consumer society with some incredible action sequences and one-liners along the way. Before there was Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dave "Batista" Bautista, and John "John Cena" Cena there was "Rowdy" Roddy Piper stepping outside the wrestling ring and into the steel cage of celluloid for a certified cinema classic.

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Midnight Mayhem: Wet Hot American Summer
Midnight Mayhem: Saturday, September 2 at 10:00 PM | The Main Cinema
How did a parody of 80s summer camp movies starring a collection of future A-List comedy icons not become an instant hit shattering box office records? Probably the September 12, 2001 release date. Still, despite being released at a time nobody wanted to laugh, it became the definition of a word-of-mouth cult hit that would go on to launch Oscar and Emmy winning careers as well as two spin-off prequel and sequel Netflix series a decade later. An end-of-summer staple in Minneapolis since 2004, we're proud to re-ignite the tradition as part of Midnight Mayhem.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Now Playing | The Main Cinema
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.

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You Hurt My Feelings
Now Playing | The Main Cinema
From acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said, Friends with Money) comes a sharply observed comedy about a novelist (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) whose long standing marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband (Tobias Menzies) give his honest reaction to her latest book. A film about trust, lies, and the things we say to the people we love most.

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