Experience these celebrated short films on the big screen ahead of the Oscars®. The Oscar® Nominated Animated Shorts Program unites film lovers and the global filmmaking community in a shared cinematic experience.

Experience these celebrated short films on the big screen ahead of the Oscars®. The Oscar® Nominated Documentary Shorts Program unites film lovers and the global filmmaking community in a shared cinematic experience.

Experience these celebrated short films on the big screen ahead of the Oscars®. The Oscar® Nominated Live Action Shorts Program unites film lovers and the global filmmaking community in a shared cinematic experience.

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

A celebration of life filled with raw honesty, surreal bursts of imagination, and brazen irreverence, André is an Idiot shows us what it really means to live happily, truthfully, and hilariously. In this Sundance award winning documentary, André Riccardi sets out to chronicle his final journey after receiving a diagnosis he could have prevented, through comedic vérité storytelling and fantastical stop-motion interludes.

From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Lost Daughter) and starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley and Academy Award winner Christian Bale comes The Bride! A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories.

A lonely Frankenstein (Christian Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Jessie Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!

Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411

Conversation Leader: Professor Dr. John Wright

New 50th Anniversary restoration! An unforgettable masterpiece of late-’60s counterculture, Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope remains a vital provocation on race, pop culture and America.

Putney Swope, the only African-American exec at his firm, is unexpectedly elected its president and turns the industry on its ear through a series of outrageous, taboo-busting TV commercials (strewn throughout the film like comedic landmines.) As Swope becomes the Generalissimo of Madison Avenue, Downey takes no prisoners and skewers the entire political spectrum. Essential viewing.

Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411

Conversation Leader: Attorney Francois Ecclesiaste

Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane (Sangare) is struggling to stay afloat. In two days, he has to report for an asylum application interview, where he must plead his case to an immigration officer (Nina Meurisse) who will determine his future in France. As he rides, he repeats his story. But Souleymane is not ready. Drawing inspiration from Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and evoking the humanist films of the Dardennes, Boris Lojkine’s urgent, propulsive third feature never leaves Souleymane’s side in a deeply affecting account of the daily trials and uncertain futures faced by migrants in France and around the world. 

Cherri is gay, loves classical ballet, and has a body that is a flamboyant celebration of weight. He is the choreographer of a plus-size ballet troupe at a Havana weight clinic while looking after his disabled husband.

Three stories of migration, exile and memory develop in the Cuban town of San Antonio de los Baños, a place that time forgot.

"The Mystery of Musica Cubana - La Clave" – is a passionate documentary about the multilayered and fascinating musical soul of a country in transition; a story that has to be told.

Oscar® Nominee - Best Documenatry Feature Film

As the first elected councilwoman of her remote Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi fearlessly breaks patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.

Masochistic, relentless, pushing the edges are just some of the ideas used to explain ultra running. Women make up only 30% of the ultra running field in the U.S. Two race directors and a coach decided it was time to change that.

Mizna and The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) co-present a double feature and panel discussion in honor of Land Day and Mohammad Bakri, featuring his films JENIN JENIN (2002) and JANIN JENIN (2024).

From writer/director Harry Lighton and starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling. A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first.

In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.

Official Iraq entry in Best International Feature at the 98th Academy Awards

While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, the President requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients and prepare the mandatory cake in The President's Cake

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

Oscar® Nominee - Best International Feature Film (Spain)

A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

Don’t miss the world premiere of The Great Northern’s first original documentary, Rooted: Stories from Minnesota’s Farming Future. Directed and produced by Liz Tracy, this documentary short follows the day-to-day lives of two Minnesota farmers, offering an intimate portrait of small-scale agriculture in the Upper Midwest. Rooted is a love letter to land stewardship and climate resilience, reminding us that local solutions can respond to global challenges and model a more sustainable food future for all.

Based on a true story, Tow follows Amanda Ogle (Rose Byrne), a woman living in her aging Toyota Camry on the streets of Seattle. When her car — her only lifeline — is stolen and impounded, Amanda is thrust into a relentless legal battle against an indifferent system. What begins as a fight to reclaim her car evolves into a deeply human story of resilience, dignity, and the power of one woman’s voice in the face of systemic failure.

The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.