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November 2018
Tuesday Night Movie Club: Ida
This moving inquiry into a national trauma achieves its exceptional power through its intimacy... Filmed in luminous black and-white in the classic Academy aspect ratio, Ida combines some of the year’s best cinematography and art direction to create a truly immersive viewing experience.
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Tuesday Night Movie Club: Marwencol
Join us for the last Tuesday Night Movie Club (TNMC) event in the series this year! We will screen Marwencol, a 2011 Wisconsin Film Festival selection.
Find out more »January 2019
Tuesday Night Movie Club: In Order of Disapperance
Tuesday Night Movie Club (TNMC) returns in 2019 with the dark comedy action film In Order of Disappearance, a 2015 WFF selection. The film is in Norwegian and Swedish with English subtitles.
Find out more »February 2019
Tuesday Night Movie Club: Margaret – extended cut
Join us for the last Tuesday Night Movie Club (TNMC) of the season, featuring a special extended cut of WFF 2012 selection Margaret. As always, TNMC screenings are free and open to the public!
Find out more »March 2019
First Look at the Fest
Join us for our fifth annual First Look at the Fest! This event is your opportunity to peruse the 2019 Film Guide the night before it hits stands in the March 7 issue of Isthmus.
Find out more »September 2019
Festflix & Chill 2019
The fourth annual Festflix & Chill presents 90 minutes of short films from the 2019 Wisconsin's Own section of the Festival, and Hail Satan?, a feature film from the 2019 Wisconsin Film Festival. This event is free and open to the public!
Find out more »November 2019
Thursday Night Movie Club: Pet Names
The Wisconsin Film Festival and the Madison Public Library are proud to present WFF Thursday Night Movie Club - a series of Wisconsin’s Own features from the 2019 Festival - at the Central Library in room 302. Pet Names: When her chemotherapy patient mother urges her to take a vacation from playing nurse, grad school dropout Leigh invites her old high school boyfriend along on the camping trip. The two soon find that confronting old wounds during a weekend in the woods is anything but restful.
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Thursday Night Movie Club: Elephant Path
The Wisconsin Film Festival and the Madison Public Library are proud to present WFF Thursday Night Movie Club - a series of Wisconsin’s Own features from the 2019 Festival - at the Central Library in room 302. 2019 Golden Badger winner Elephant Path (Njaia Njoku) is an indelible tale of friendship and commitment set against the luminous beauty of the Central African Rainforest.
Find out more »Thursday Night Movie Club: Yen Ching
The Wisconsin Film Festival and the Madison Public Library are proud to present WFF Thursday Night Movie Club - a series of Wisconsin’s Own features from the 2019 Festival - at the Central Library in room 302. "What starts as an appetizing, nuts-and-bolts documentary about Milwaukee's beloved Yen Ching restaurant ends as a layered and moving portrait of intergenerational differences and the Chinese-American immigrant experience" (WFF Film Guide).
Find out more »March 2020
First Look at the Fest
Join us for the sixth annual First Look at the Fest! This event is your opportunity to peruse the 2020 Wisconsin Film Festival Film Guide the night before it hits stands in the March 5 issue of Isthmus.
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