The 2025 Wisconsin Film Festival will be held

Schedule of Events:

April 3, 2025

5:30 PM - Opening Night Reception + Awards + Film
7:30 PM - Friendship

April 4, 2025

UW Cinematheque

11:00 AM - The Glass Wall
1:15 PM - Souleymane’s Story
1:30 PM - Zodiac Killer Project
3:30 PM - Rosaura at 10 O'Clock
6:00 PM - Premium Rush
8:30 PM - A Woman Is a Woman

Chazen Museum of Art

1:30 PM - When the Light Breaks
3:30 PM - Rocketship
6:00 PM - Wisconsin's Own Experimental Shorts
8:30 PM - Diciannove

Bartell Theatre

3:45 PM - Predators
8:15 PM - The Other Way Around

Music Hall

5:30 PM - Just a Bit Outside: The Story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers
8:30 PM  - Wisconsin's Own Gone Wild

Barrymore Theatre

6:00 PM - One to One: John & Yoko
6:00 PM - Wishing on a Star
8:30 PM - For Worse

The Marquee at Union South

6:15 PM - The Surfer
8:30 PM - Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round

April 5, 2025

Barrymore Theatre

11:00 AM - Shelf Life
3:30 PM - When Fall Is Coming
6:00 PM - The Threesome
9:15 PM - ********** Blues

Bartell Theatre

11:00 AM  - By the Stream
1:30 PM - Zodiac Killer Project
3:45 PM - Dead Lover
6:00 PM - The Dalai Lama's Gift
8:30 PM - Gazer

Chazen Museum of Art

11:00 AM  - Viktor
4:00 PM - Wisconsin's Own Portraits
6:15 PM - Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
8:30 PM - Afternoons of Solitude

Music Hall

11:00 AM - Thank You for Banking with Us!
4:00 PM - Second Chance
6:45 PM - Milk Punch

The Marquee at Union South

11:00 AM - Shorter and Sweeter
3:15 PM - Greetings from Mars
5:15 PM - Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
8:30 PM - 40 Acres

UW Cinematheque

4:00 PM - Tex
7:15 PM - Chris + Heather’s 16mm Big Screen Blow Out!

April 6, 2025

Barrymore Theatre

11:00 AM - Shelf Life
1:45 PM - Savages
4:30 PM - No Packers, No Life
7:00 PM - A Road at Night

Bartell Theatre

11:00 AM - Wishing on a Star
1:30 PM - Dead Lover
4:00 PM - Happyend
6:30 PM - Wisconsin's Own Short Stories

Chazen Museum of Art

11:00 AM - Sliding to 70
1:30 PM - When the Light Breaks
3:45 PM - Viktor
5:45 PM - Wisconsin's Own Fire, Water, Stickball and Dinosaurs

Music Hall

11:00 AM - The New Year That Never Came
2:00 PM - The Sea, The Silence, and the 'Smiths
4:30 PM - The Village Next to Paradise
7:30 PM - Lifers

UW Cinematheque

11:00 AM - Scratchmen, Elvis, and You: the Films of Heather McAdams
1:30 PM - The Wind
3:30 PM - Critics & Cineastes
6:30 PM - Starship Troopers

The Marquee at Union South

11:30 AM - The Long and the Short of It
2:00 PM - Apple Cider Vinegar
4:15 PM - Yasmeen's Element
7:00 PM - Two Women

April 7, 2025

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2

12:00 PM - Second Chance
3:00 PM - Thank You for Banking with Us!
5:30 PM - Motel Destino
8:15 PM - Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 7

12:15 PM - Apple Cider Vinegar
2:45 PM - Diciannove
6:00 PM - Shanghai Blues
8:45 PM - Vixen!

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 8

2:15 PM - Happyend
5:15 PM - Color Book
8:00 PM - Pavements

April 8, 2025

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 8

12:00 PM - Color Book
2:30 PM - The Other Way Around
5:30 PM - Bushido
8:30 PM - Endless Cookie

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 7

12:15 PM - Predators
2:45 PM - Gazer
5:45 PM - Familiar Touch
8:15 PM - The Sparrow in the Chimney

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2

12:30 PM - Motel Destino
3:15 PM - Anywhere Anytime
6:00 PM - Breaking Glass
8:45 PM - Times Square

April 9, 2025

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2

11:30 AM - The New Year That Never Came
3:00 PM - Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
5:45 PM - Anywhere Anytime
8:45 PM - Souleymane’s Story

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 7

11:45 AM - Familiar Touch
2:30 PM - By the Stream
5:30 PM - Shirley Clarke: Thinking in Motion
8:30 PM - Love, Links, Archives: Gems from the Wendy Clarke Collection

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 8

2:00 PM - Bushido
5:15 PM - The Wedding Banquet
8:00 PM - Rosaura at 10 O'Clock

UW Cinematheque

8:00 PM - The Bloody Lady

April 10, 2025

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 7

12:00 PM - Happy Holidays
3:00 PM - The Sparrow in the Chimney
6:15 PM - Shanghai Blues
8:45 PM - Middletown

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 8

12:15 PM - A Woman Is a Woman
2:45 PM - The Searchers
5:45 PM - Two Women
8:15 PM - Middletown

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2

1:30 PM - The Village Next to Paradise
4:45 PM - Afternoons of Solitude

Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 1

6:00 PM - It Came from Outer Space 3-D
8:30 PM - The Glass Web 3-D

Date: April 3 - 10, 2025

Location: Various Venues in Madison, WI

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