Starts December 7 | The Main Cinema

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in 10 years, The Boy and the Heron is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award®-winning director. Produced by Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki, the film features a musical score from Miyazaki's long-time collaborator Joe Hisaishi. The theme song for the film "Spinning Globe" was penned and performed by global J-pop superstar Kenshi Yonezu.

Starts December 7 | The Main Cinema

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in 10 years, The Boy and the Heron is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award®-winning director. Produced by Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki, the film features a musical score from Miyazaki's long-time collaborator Joe Hisaishi. The theme song for the film "Spinning Globe" was penned and performed by global J-pop superstar Kenshi Yonezu.

Thursday, December 7 at 7:00 PM | First Thursday Films @ the Capri | Capri Theater

Post-screening community discussion with Dr. John Wright, along with MSP Film Programmer, Craig Laurence Rice.

Thursday, March 7 at 7:00 PM | First Thursday Films @ the Capri | Capri Theater

Post-screening community conversation with E.G. Bailey and MSP Film Programmer, Craig Laurence Rice. Adenike and Ayodele (The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira and veteran actor Isaach De Bankolé) are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child. Acclaimed director Andrew Dosumnu (Restless City) captures the nuances of this unique and fascinating culture by creating a beautiful, vibrant, and moving portrait of a couple whose joys and struggles are at once intimate and universal.

Thursday, January 4 at 7:00 PM | First Thursday Films @ the Capri | Capri Theater

Post-screening community conversation with Jearlyn Steele. To become the Queen, she needed to find her voice. Academy Award® Winner Jennifer Hudson is Aretha Franklin. Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a young child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul.

Thursday, February 1 at 7:00 PM | First Thursday Films @ the Capri | Capri Theater

Post-screening community conversation with director Sam Pollard. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI), executive produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Oscar-winning Summer of Soul), Tariq Trotter (Descendant), and produced by RadicalMedia, The League celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century.

Cinema Club | Saturday, December 9 at 11:00am | The Main Cinema

Free for MSP Film Society Members. American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Starts December 25 | The Main Cinema

Experience the extraordinary sisterhood of three women who share one unbreakable bond in The Color Purple. This bold new take on the beloved classic is directed by Blitz Bazawule (Black Is King, The Burial of Kojo) and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.

Now Playing | The Main Cinema

Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom, in this wickedly entertaining comedy from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself) and producer Ari Aster.

Starts December 25 | The Main Cinema

It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura (Penélope Cruz) built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley). Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.

Tuesday, December 5 at 7:00 PM | The Main Cinema

A Freshwater screening event with a post-screening conversation. Admission is FREE, but reservations are recommended. Upriver is a 'watershed film' that explores one of the Nation’s most active river conservation movements. Within Oregon’s Willamette River system, the film focuses on people from all walks of life who are coming together to revive the health of this large river and the life it supports.

The Great Northern | Showing Saturday, January 27 at 7:00pm | The Main Cinema

Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood. Anna Hints’ Sundance-winning documentary celebrates the centuries-old smoke sauna tradition, recognized on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The Great Northern | Showing Wednesday, January 31 at 7:00pm | The Main Cinema

Filmmaker Leya Hale and special guests in attendance. Hockey legend Henry Boucha was a former National Hockey League player, a U.S. Olympic Silver Medalist, and member of the Ojibwe Nation. The Electric Indian profiles his outstanding life and hockey career; from early stardom, to crushing defeat, and journey to healing.

Now Playing | The Main Cinema

The Holdovers reunites Sideways’ Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti in a holiday story of three lonely, shipwrecked people at a New England boarding school over winter break in 1970.

Thursday, February 15 at 7:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Thursday, February 15 at 8:30 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Friday, February 16 at 7:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Friday, February 16 at 9:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Saturday, February 17 at 12:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Saturday, February 17 at 2:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Saturday, February 17 at 4:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Saturday, February 17 at 7:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Saturday, February 17 at 9:00 PM | The Main Cinema
Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato's annual festival in Bologna, Italy.

Sunday, February 18 at 7:30 PM | The Heights Theater
Closing night of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour. $20 tickets (not included in festival pass). RESERVE TICKETS HERE.

Starts December 21 | The Main Cinema

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

Now Playing | The Main Cinema

At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder.

Starts December 7 | The Main Cinema

Maestro is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between cultural icon Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). A love letter to life and art, Maestro, at its core, is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

Showing December 2 & 4 | The Main Cinema

Hayao Miyazaki - Forces of Nature invites you to celebrate the wonder of five Miyazaki masterpieces November 24 through December 4 in advance of his new film The Boy and the Heron. Become immersed in these stories of nature, resilience, and new worlds before you see the latest hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award®-winning director himself.

Now Playing | The Main Cinema

Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.

Now Playing | The Main Cinema

Directed by Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok) and based on a true story, Next Goal Wins follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around in this heartfelt underdog comedy.

Now Playing | The Main Cinema

Encore engagement of the 2023 Cine Latino Film Festival Opening Night film and Winner of the Audience Choice award. In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher (Eugenio Derbez) tries a radical new method to unleash the curiosity and potential of his students... and maybe even their genius.

Starts December 14 | The Main Cinema

Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book and one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today.