…and Release
2025 / Stuart Parkins
Written by queer writer Asa Haynes, and starring trans actor Jax Guerrero, “…and Release" offers an authentic and nuanced portrayal of Cal, a transgender man on the cusp of a…
- Apr 17 Riverwalk Theatre
A Full Body Act
2024 / Mariana Fagundes
Low vision dancer Renata Mara meets with the musical duo O Grivo for an artistic experience where sound is the element that unites the characters. The film documents the dimension…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
A Gift Undelivered
2025 / YU-XUAN CHEN
After dying unexpectedly, a boy's soul wanders in limbo. At a night market, he meets a mystical cat and recalls a broken promise—to deliver a doll and an apology to…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
A Little Grace
2025 / Jayne McLendon
Sarah wants to be the best mom to her infant son. But when she witnesses an old friend's big moment on TV, she’s launched into a sleepless night of postpartum…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
A Sad and Beautiful World
2025 / Lebanon, USA, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Cyril Aris
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
A Sparrow’s Song
2025 / Tobias Eckerlin
Inspired by a true story, a widowed air raid warden in the midst of World War II struggles to overcome grief and rediscover joy in her life—until she finds a…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
American Comic
2025 / Daniel J Clark
American Comic is a mockumentary that follows two up-and-coming stand-up comedians, who, despite their superficial "cultural" differences, share remarkable similarities when it comes to egotism, self-destruction, and social ineptitude. As…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Ana Sees Her Dad
2025 / Mark Broe
A young girl has a realization about her dad during an inspection of her household chores.
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Animal Farm
1954 / Joy Batchelor, John Halas
In this animated film based on George Orwell's novel, animals on drunken Mr. Jones' (Maurice Denham) farm, led by prize hog Old Major (also Denham), gather to discuss their abuse.…
- Apr 12 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Another German Tank Story
2024 / Jannis Alexander Kiefer
While an American film crew shoots a war series in a former sugar factory in Germany, the residents of the nearby village of Wiesenwalde chase their personal dreams - until…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
Anyone lived in a pretty how town
2026 / Daniel Kreizberg
In a picturesque town, a man named “anyone" rejoices in the beauty of everyday life and celebrates the natural world. The people around him, however, are more focused on conforming…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Artists in Residence
2025 / United States / Katie Jacobs
Purchasing a house together in 1950s NYC, three female artists--Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid and Louise Kruger--defied societal norms and prioritized their art over traditional roles as wives and mothers. Through…
- Apr 10 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Becoming Air
2024 / Alisi Telengut, Diego Galafassi
Take a deep breath. As you exhale, imagine that in about three years, anywhere you would go on the planet you will find molecules that were inside you in this…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Big City Pizza
2025 / Dusty Saunders
As tension rises in the big city for the Omniball Championship, Boney, a skeleton pizza delivery man starts his shift. Animated entirely from Boney’s POV in one continuous, unbroken take,…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Boom Balloon Machine
2025 / Rob Luedtke
A lonely 23-year-old is unexpectedly thrown into the role of guardian for a little girl, whose sudden appearance is devoid of explanation or parental supervision.
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Branching Narratives: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Tappan Oak
2024 / Jennifer Proctor
This film represents both singular and collective stories. A lone undergraduate student communes with a tree to help him feel connected to a college campus from which he felt alienated.…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
Breakin’ on the One
2024 / James Bash
In 1981, a breaking battle between the Rocksteady Crew and the Dynamic Rockers in New York City sparks a movement that grows from its devastated borough origins to influence the…
- Apr 15 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Broken Flight
2024 / Erika Valenciana, Mitchell Wenkus
Winding through the maze of downtown Chicago, the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors work alongside the Field Museum and Willowbrook Wildlife Center to rescue birds that collide with windows, and study…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
Butterfly Kiss
2024 / Zohar Dvir
Carol panics and argues with her girlfriend Ray after an unexpected proposal. The situation gets worse when she wakes up in an apocalyptic reality and terribly discovers that Ray has…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Comedy Against the Odds
2023 / Suzanne Luna
Ten-year-old Austin Eletto brings his personal perspective to the stand-up comedy stage, using humor to bridge identity and build connection. Through his witty observations and sharp timing, Austin crafts material…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Cuming Out
2025 / Jasmine J. Johnson
Kennedy’s desire for a heteronormative experience sees her embark on a one-night-stand. What could possibly go wrong? This film was made as part of the American Film Institute's 2025 Directing…
- Apr 17 Riverwalk Theatre
Dear robot
2025 / YU-ZI LAI
After growing up, a girl encounters a robot in the forest. Accidentally reactivating it, they become companions. In a bittersweet ending, the robot powers down. In despair, she breaks its…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Desire: The Carl Craig Story
2024 / Switzerland, United Kingdom / Jean-Cosme Delaloye
"Desire: The Carl Craig Story" is an intimate portrait of legendary techno producer, DJ and record label creator Carl Craig and an ode to his beloved city, Detroit. Raised in…
- Apr 16 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Dinosaur Fish
2025 / Jason Whalen, Chris Zuker
The Lake Sturgeon has existed virtually unchanged for more than 130 million years. It survived a meteor impact and outlived the dinosaurs but we’ve found out it couldn’t survive in…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
Disorder of Gearwheel
2025 / NAI-LING WANG
Disorder of Gearwheel is a stop-motion animated short film that tells the story of an elderly man suffering from dementia. Caught in a flowing river of reality and hallucination, he…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Draft Paper
2025 / Olivia Moon
Modeled after the real-life practice of US sailors being forced to censor their pin-up tattoos during World War II, Draft Paper tells the story of an unfulfilled fashion designer who…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Edie Arnold is a Loser
2026 / United States / Megan Rico, Kade Atwood
Timid Catholic school dork Edie Arnold is dragged to a punk show where a mishap lands her on stage behind the drums. She's mortified... but a natural. Convinced by her…
- Apr 10 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
End of the Line
2025 / Ian Gilbert
Over the past 15 years, the Dykstra family has built and maintained a whimsical and immersive train layout in their basement. Despite the intergenerational bonds that have been cultivated by…
- Apr 10 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Enduring Destiny
2014 / Thomas Reilly-King
Enduring Destiny follows Max Kenner, an ambitious suburbanite with big dreams of becoming a real life action hero and working for the C.I.A. When Max flies off to a big…
- Apr 8 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Feel The World
2025 / SHU-TING LIANG, ZHAO-QI WU
In a moment of distraction, a mole falls into a fantasy world. Obsessed with his phone, he unexpectedly embarks on an exciting journey with his dog.
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Finding A Way – Revitalizing Nature in America’s Heartland
2025 / Jason Whalen
The midwest has abundant freshwater and wildlife but habitat loss by way of human development has threatened its biodiversity and quality of our water. Habitat restoration, through prescribed fire, native…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
First Feature
2026 / Curtis Matzke
First Feature follows intrepid student filmmaker Thomas Reilly-King (TRK) in this comedic and heartfelt documentary inspired by such classics as American Movie, Best Worst Movie, and Kid Icarus. In the…
- Apr 8 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Following The Line
2025 / JIA-YEE ONG
The story is set in Taiwan during the economic boom of the 1960s and 1970s, when many women were forced to sacrifice themselves due to financial pressures at home, carrying…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Forever in the Mountains
2025 / Grace Eggleston
A story about navigating grief and finding sisterhood in the mountains. When her best “pow day” friend is diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, Stephanie turns her grief…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Furry-Anxi
2025 / MING-JEN YU
This is a story about appearance anxiety. The doll begins by exploring its surroundings, gradually becoming drawn to external objects, and eventually grows dissatisfied with itself, leading to a transformation.…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Game of 21
2025 / N. Ecklund
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* Heath is a somewhat experienced gambler, though he doesn't know the stakes at hand as he enters a game of 21 he was given coordinates for.
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Gaze at you
2025 / SHIH-HAN HUANG, YU-QI PENG
After his brother's funeral, the grieving protagonist longs to see him again. He visits a temple and joins a ritual to descend into the underworld, hoping to reunite and express…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
God forgive me
2025 / Kat Sigalas
Irida, a queer Greek woman living in London, is summoned back to her ancestral home in Greece after the sudden death of her father. Inheriting a crumbling estate and overwhelming…
- Apr 9 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
Grace and the Red Glow
2025 / Lizzy Plimpton
During her final night of pregnancy, an 18-year-old girl named Grace, alone in the sweltering city and haunted by dreams of the future, finds comfort in the surprising kindness of…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Green Summer
2025 / CHEN-YUN MAO, ZI-LING LU
This fantasy adventure tells the story of a grandson who goes missing while searching for the Frog God in the mountains. His grandparents anxiously search for him, deeply portraying the…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Halfway Haunted
2025 / Sam Rudykoff
A tenant in a haunted house teams up with a ghost to stop a real estate developer from demolishing the home they share.
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Hatchlings
2025 / Jahmil Eady
A resentful teenager is forced to babysit her turtle-obsessed half-brother; meanwhile, he dives into a vivid fantasy world where he is a sea turtle and she is a tortoise. This…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
If You Die I’ll Kill You
2025 / Caitlyn Shaw
In the midst of the 1970 Student Strike, a Mother fights to stop her Daughter from attending increasingly dangerous protests.
- Apr 17 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Invaluable
2025 / Faith Hutson
Ms. Smith packs up to leave for the night after a long day of listening to her clients. She’s startled by a sudden knock at the door as she is…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Is That All There Is?
2025 / Kelli Miller
Set inside Detroit’s early-2000s indie rock explosion, Is That All There Is follows filmmaker Kelli Miller’s band through a city’s fleeting musical boom—where some rocketed to fame, others vanished into…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
Jasmine Hamilton-Wray
2025 / Kelli Miller
Jasmine Hamilton-Wray is a singer-songwriter, and third generation artist. Originally from Akron, Ohio, Jasmine grew up in East Lansing. As a student at Michigan State University. During her time as…
- Apr 12 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Joybubbles
2026 / United States / Rachael J Morrison
In the 1950s, a boy discovers he can control the global telephone system simply by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and hungry for connection, his early obsession with the…
- Apr 17 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Kind Mother
2025 / Clare O'Connor
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* An estranged mother arrives at the silent retreat that her daughter is attending. When the two women engage in an unusual - and fantastical - power struggle,…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
LOOK AT ME
2025 / YI-CHUN CHIN, YI-ZHEN WANG
In an alien art museum on a distant planet, extraterrestrial beings admire paintings from Earth. These artworks take pride in their high view counts and likes, striving to stand out.
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
LOST&FOUND
2025 / YU-CHIAO LIN
After being jolted awake by his alarm, a weary Wei-De finds himself overwhelmed by monsters formed from work frustrations and family expectations. As he scrambles to escape, he tears apart…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Las Cosas Que Brillan
2025 / Kristal Sotomayor
A curious trans mermaid defies her mother’s warnings to venture up to the surface, only to discover the world above is not what she dreamt. Las Cosas Que Brillan explores…
- Apr 17 Riverwalk Theatre
Lempicka Trên Mái Nhà (Rooftop Lempicka)
2025 / Hằng Lương Nguyễn
2002 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Like Friend, Like Deer
2025 / Malek Eghbali
Like Friend, Like Deer tells the story of a wildlife ranger in a critical situation who kills an illegal hunter during a confrontation. This short film explores the deep connection…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Little Soldier
2026 / Roxan Karami
A mom is running away from ISIS with her newborn son. She gets into a hidden shelter where ISIS is about to find them. The baby is crying and ISIS…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
MAGNET BRAIN
2025 / Kurt St. Thomas
MAGNET BRAIN is a dark comedy mockumentary about billionaire George Romero, who founded TMS, a company that uses magnets to bring the dead back to life. With zombies stepping in…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Mantis Stream! Like & Subscribe
2025 / Lincoln Robisch, Sarah Maerten
Craig gets engaged and chokes to death on an egg, live on the internet.
- Apr 9 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
Missing Rhythms
2025 / Regina Hoyles
In a mysterious insane asylum full of missing Black women from all over the country, a woman must use rhythm to remember her true identity and fight being lost forever…
- Apr 9 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
Mr. Mittens
2025 / Glenn Maxwell
Mr. Mittens lived with a loving family until one day they decided to neuter him, leaving him with no choice but to get revenge on every person involved in the…
- Apr 9 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
Nothing in Particular (Unboxing Video)
2026 / Morgan Adamson
A woman in Minneapolis reflects on becoming a new mom in the upheavals of 2020 through a seemingly banal object: cardboard. Combining stop motion animation with live action, this experimental…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
On Healing Land, Birds Perch (ĐẤT LÀNH CHIM ĐẬU)
2025 / Naja Pham Lockwood
On Healing Land, Birds Perch is a short documentary that tells the remarkable stories behind one of the most iconic photos in history, while acting as a portal into the…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
On a String
2025 / United States / Isabel Hagen
Isabel (Isabel Hagen) is a young, Juilliard-trained violist still living at home with her parents in the heart of New York City. She’s trying to make a living playing gigs…
- Apr 17 Riverwalk Theatre
Orange Torches
2025 / Dakota Evans
Coasting on wasted potential, an eccentric father spends the week with his twelve year old son. This portrait of dysfunction navigates divorce, scuba diving, skate culture, and addiction, all in…
- Apr 10 Riverwalk Theatre
Organic Network
2025 / Elena Shepherd
Organic Network follows Flint in summer 2024, now in recovery from the water crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic, and the state of urban farming and food sovereignty within the city. Organic…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Our Knotted Gun
Scott Boehm
Our Knotted Gun, the first docuseries on gun violence, takes the mass shooting that occurred at Michigan State University on February 13, 2023 as its entry point for an exploration…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Paranormal Activity
2007 / Oren Peli
Soon after moving into a suburban tract home, Katie (Katie Featherston) and Micah (Micah Sloat) become increasingly disturbed by what appears to be a supernatural presence. Hoping to capture evidence…
- Apr 10 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
Place under the sun
2024 / Vlad Bolgarin
A talented pianist and his 8-year-old son struggle to find a place to sell vegetables at the biggest market in Moldova's 2000'. When the father seems to give up under…
- Apr 10 Riverwalk Theatre
Public Freakout
2025 / Julia Bales
A group of strangers collide at a gas station. This film was made as part of the American Film Institute's 2025 Directing Workshop for Women Program.
- Apr 17 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
RISING THROUGH THE FRAY
2025 / Courtney Montour
Uniting from across continents to bring representation to the sport they love, Indigenous Rising laces up their skates to claim their space on the roller derby track. Indigenous Rising is…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
Reclaiming Bear River
2025 / Kevin Krug
Over 150 years after suffering the worst massacre in U.S. history, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has purchased their ancestral homeland — called Wuda Ogwa, or Bear River…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Run, Hide, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun
2024 / Multiple Directors
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American children and teens. "Run, Hide, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun" is a new 30-minute documentary about how gun violence…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
SUMMER TRIANGLE
2025 / Maryam Esmaeili, Ali Babai
A young girl goes to the rooftop to find her cat and discovers a boy who is attempting suicide. She forces the boy to search for her cat with her…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up
2025 / Tràn Hoàng Calvin
The Clifford family hopes to start a new life by selling their dilapidated, impoverished farm. But when the discovery of an endangered bird on the property threatens to collapse the…
- Apr 10 Riverwalk Theatre
Single Use
2025 / Jonney Zomberg
Set in a far polluted future, a scavenger resourcefully creates to survive in this stop motion film.
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Sleepyhead
2023 / Milly Garnier
Armed with dark humor and imagination, seventeen-year-old Rae battles medical bureaucracy to reclaim her independence. Between fantasy Timothée Chalamet scenarios and plotting fictional revenge on dismissive doctors, she fights for…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Sun Never Again
2024 / David Jovanović
Vid, perceived by his son Dule as the greatest hero in the world, is deeply troubled by the looming presence of an expansive ore mine, threatening their home and way…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Sunday Mornings at the Beach
2025 / Tim Reid, Aaron Hose
When heading to the oceanside, one might expect to see surfers, joggers, and sunbathers—but not this. Each Sunday, a quiet yet powerful ritual unfolds as worshippers in Tijuana and San…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
The Art of Weightlessness
2023 / Moshe Mahler
An animated documentary exploring the life of Bill Shannon, a performance artist born with a degenerative hip condition who redefines movement through dance and skateboarding on crutches. The film captures…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
The Big Picture
2025 / Arthur Cauty
The Big Picture uncovers the untold story of a state-of-the-art cinema quietly forgotten in the center of Bristol, a vibrant UK city known for its countercultural spirit. Once a cutting-edge…
- Apr 10 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
The Bridge Swim: Conquering the Mackinac Straits
2025 / Neil Blake
Hundreds of swimmers take on a once‑in‑a‑lifetime challenge in this documentary about the Mackinac Bridge Swim. Against the backdrop of one of the world’s longest suspension bridges, athletes plunge into…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
The Chaplain & The Doctor
2025 / Jessica Zitter
Filled with warmth and humor, this buddy film follows two unlikely allies working to bring curiosity, connection, and compassion to a broken healthcare system - one patient at a time.…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
The Deep Dive
2025 / Nancy Donnelly
The 2025 MATE ROV World Championships are set to unfold at Michigan's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, pitting the brightest young minds and their custom-built underwater robots against complex, real-world…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
The Last Fry
2024 / Sam Zarrin
Bruce, recently diagnosed with cancer, is looking to create one final happy memory with his family, but the universe seems to refuse to let that happen.
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
The Last Puestero
2025 / Belle Casares
The Last Puestero is a short documentary that tells the story of Adonai, a gaucho -or Argentine cowboy- who spends most of his days alone in a remote Patagonian outpost,…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
2025 / Michael Walker
Set in suburban NY in 1984. Julie Gornick hosts a charismatic, larger than life Spanish exchange student. As he starts hooking up with the girls in her class, Julie falls…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
The Life of a Human Firecracker
2025 / Santino Mattioli
A Michigan man turns danger into performance art in this fiery portrait of John Fletcher, better known as "Gehngis John the Human Firecracker.” Fletcher spent more than two decades captivating…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
The Misadventures of Vince & Hick
2025 / Trevor Stevens
A live action comic book crime odyssey that tells the Legend of your two new favorite bandits. The Winners of Slamdance 2018 Grand Jury Prize and Audience awards for their…
- Apr 17 Riverwalk Theatre
The Polar Bear Plunge
2025 / Gregg Cameron Kearns
Two sisters travel to Atlantic City on New Year’s Day to participate in a cold plunge for cancer, an event their mother participated in annually before succumbing to the disease.
- Apr 17 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
The Story of The Cricket Queen
2025 / Natalie Peracchio
The “Story of The Cricket Queen” recreates digital media tropes, trends, and aesthetics with analog film techniques.
- Apr 9 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
The Third Dream
2025 /
A dreamer resists interrogation by a relentless doctor determined to extract the truth about his dream by coercive use of psychoanalysis. As pressure deepens, memories are altered, erased, and rewritten…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
The Tortoise
2025 / Amirreza Jalalian
An old man with a stone face, living in a land of rigid stones, has had enough of his situation and decides to get rid of himself by destroying himself…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
The Translator
2025 / Milad Shiri
Roya left her job to care for her Alzheimer's-stricken father-in-law and works from home as a translator. One day, he leaves the house due to her negligence. When her husband…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
There’s a Devil Inside Me
2025 / Karina Lomelin Ripper
After a Catholic confirmation class, a mischievous teen decides to pretend to be a saintly nun but things go sideways when she’s given the church’s collection basket full of cash.…
- Apr 10 Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary
Timothy Blackmon Jr.
2025 / Karina Lomelin Ripper
As an educator and artist-in-residence, Timothy Blackmon Jr. has taught masterclasses at The Florida State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Alabama (Birmingham), University of…
- Apr 12 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Tomato Soup
2025 / Brendan Michael Conant
Is one night enough to say goodbye? Tomato Soup follows Dodd, a freshly signed baseball player struggling to say goodbye to his hometown, desperate for a reason to stay.
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Trashy People
2025 / United States / Marissa High
Excited to work at a recycling center, Erykah discovers the job is messy and more wasteful than she thought.
- Apr 17 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Turn Up the Bass
2024 / Ted Evans
A look into the vibrant world of Troi Lee, known as DJ Chinaman, who pioneered the UK's Deaf rave scene. Through his creation of 'Deaf Rave,' Lee has spent two…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
Un Día Normal (A Normal Day)
2024 / Maurizio Dominguez
When she is confronted with the threat of deportation by ICE officers, a distressed young woman must fight through a panic attack to prove her valid DACA status without revealing…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Underworld
2025 / JIE-SYUN KE
A young boy accidentally breaks a taboo while folding spirit money and unknowingly crosses into the underworld, where he encounters a teenage grim reaper. Since the boy’s time in the…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
UnrepAIrable
2025 / Shealyn Paulis
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts everyone, and everything. UnrepAIrable tackles issues caused by AI in the environment, in the schools, in the homes, and in your mind.
- Apr 8 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Warren King: King of Cardboard
2026 / Curtis Chin
Warren King transforms cardboard into sculptural reflections of his Chinese-American family’s immigration and his path from engineer to artist. Preparing for a Wisconsin homecoming show, King explores belonging through art.
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
Waves
2025 / Brett Salamin
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* "Waves" follows Grace, a 17-year-old grappling with a profound, unaddressed grief that manifests as recurring, terrifying memories of her younger sister, Emma, before a tragic accident. Her…
- Apr 14 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
What We Carry
2025 / Aslan Peters
Amid the quiet tension of a rural home, a boy searches for tenderness with a dad who refuses to help grow it. What We Carry is a haunting portrait of…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
When We Get There
2025 / United States / Ryan Welsh, Justin Giddings
After their mother passes away, Cal and Ty embark on a cross-country trek to meet their father. Along with Cal’s girlfriend, Ellie, and a new guitar named Stevie, they are…
- Apr 18 Riverwalk Theatre
When night ends
2025 / Costanza Fusco
Celeste no longer knows how to exist in the world; not even the parties she organizes bring her any joy. After fleeing from one of these gatherings, she stumbles upon…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Who knows what’s on the plate?
2025 / WEI-CHI CHEN
The protagonist is a chef. One day at work, a series of strange events occur. He doesn’t take them seriously. But as he focuses on cooking, he sees a vision…
- Apr 11 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
Wood Street
2026 / United States / Caron Creighton
Two unhoused men turned community leaders— John and LaMonté —organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and a failing social system. Their story is a powerful testament to…
- Apr 12 Riverwalk Theatre
Yalla Parkour
2024 / Areeb Zuaiter
In her relentless pursuit of a memory that reinforces her sense of belonging, Areeb crosses paths with Ahmed, a parkour athlete in Gaza, sparking in a journey where conflicting aspirations…
- Apr 18 Central United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
thóo-kong-á
2025 / HUANG TZU-YUN
“thóo-kong-á” is a stop-motion short about a man performing Taiwan’s traditional bone-collecting ritual for his late grandfather. As the ceremony unfolds, memories and reality blend, revealing their deep bond. The…
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
yer smackin
2025 / John Field Brown
In this nostalgic and heartfelt comedy, an exasperated older brother celebrates his birthday with the person he loves the most—his whiny, obnoxious little sister.
- Apr 11 Riverwalk Theatre
