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91 minutes

Sunday, October 26 at 7:00 PM

The 31st Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival is presented by the Minnesota Jewish Community Center. Co-presented by MSP Film Society and The Main Cinema.

Post-screening conversation featuring writer/director/actor Matthew Shear (Virtual).

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After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters. The girls’ mother, Dianne, is an actor whose once-promising career has stalled; she’s in a difficult marriage to David, a rock bassist. When David goes abroad on tour, Dianne and Sam discover an easy rapport. Sam joins Dianne’s family to babysit for the summer on Martha’s Vineyard, and he ends up in a house with the woman he pines for, her husband, the three kids, and all four grandparents, including his psychiatrist.

Starring Amanda Peet, Matthew Shear, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Jessica Harper, Holland Taylor, Zosia Mamet.

COMMUNITY SCREEN

MSP Film’s Community Screen initiative is a platform and creative space for public screening events at The Main Cinema organized by local artists, neighbors, partners, and local businesses.

Relased 2025

Directed by Matthew Shear

100 minutes

Sunday, October 26 at 4:00 PM

The 31st Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival is presented by the Minnesota Jewish Community Center.

Post-screening conversation featuring director Joy Sela.

ABOUT THE FILM

In a world consumed by political polarization, Joy Sela’s documentary The Other offers a rare revelation. Filmed between 2017 and 2024, it follows Israeli and Palestinian peace activists who, despite profound personal loss, choose connection over division. Their stories—woven against the backdrop of the region’s history and culminating in the October 7 attacks and aftermath—illuminate both resilience and the struggle for dignity and equality. Reflecting Sela’s own transformative journey as an American-Israeli filmmaker, this powerful work challenges us to confront not only the conflict itself but also the beliefs within our own societies, revealing the possibility of change.

COMMUNITY SCREEN

MSP Film’s Community Screen initiative is a platform and creative space for public screening events at The Main Cinema organized by local artists, neighbors, partners, and local businesses.

Relased 2024

Directed by Joy Sela

86 minutes

Sunday, November 9 at 4:00 PM

The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

ABOUT THE FILM

Eleven-year-old Santino is a child of the circus. He loves to spend time with his eighty-year-old great-grandfather, one of Europe‘s last great circus directors, who has become his best friend. Together, they share heartwarming stories: Stories of friendship with an elephant, of farewells, of new beginnings and life on the road. Circusboy chronicles the lives of these modern nomads, capturing a young boy‘s experience growing up among an extended family and animals – a life without a safety net, as free as a bird.

Tickets: $12 at the door • $14 w/online fee

ABOUT THE TWIN CITIES GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

This year’s Twin Cities German Film Festival invites audiences to explore stories of belonging, identity, and reinvention. This year’s films revolve around characters in motion: across borders, through grief, toward connection, and into self-discovery. The festival, produced by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, celebrates the courage to rebuild, the humor to adapt, and the shifting borders that define modern life.

Relased 2025

Directed by Julia Lemke, Anna Koch

86 minutes

Saturday, November 8 at 7:30 PM

The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

ABOUT THE FILM

Ellbogen is a raw and compelling coming-of-age story about Hazal, a 17-year-old Berliner on the cusp of adulthood, yearning for a life beyond the confines of job center training and closed doors. On her 18th birthday, a night of celebration with friends turns into a moment of reckoning after a violent confrontation shatters the illusion of belonging. Forced to flee to Istanbul, the film follows Hazal’s fight for recognition, equality, and a future of her own making. Adapted from Fatma Aydemir’s award-winning novel, Asli Özarslan’s powerful debut is a gripping portrait of a young woman on the run, awake to the tensions of multicultural Berlin and unafraid to confront uncomfortable truths about identity, justice, and belonging.

Tickets: $12 at the door • $14 w/online fee

ABOUT THE TWIN CITIES GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

This year’s Twin Cities German Film Festival invites audiences to explore stories of belonging, identity, and reinvention. This year’s films revolve around characters in motion: across borders, through grief, toward connection, and into self-discovery. The festival, produced by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, celebrates the courage to rebuild, the humor to adapt, and the shifting borders that define modern life.

Relased 2024

Directed by Asli Özarslan

113 minutes

Saturday, November 8 at 4:00 PM

The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

ABOUT THE FILM

In this family comedy, divorced parents Marion and Andi pride themselves on being the perfect co-parenting team until a family holiday in Italy exposes cracks beneath their carefully balanced arrangement. Between their son’s first crush, awkward revelations, and the presence of Marion’s overly eager new boyfriend, simmering emotions resurface. Warm, witty, and full of sun-soaked charm, Everything’s Fifty Fifty is a heartfelt comedy about love, rivalry, and rediscovering what truly holds a family together.

Tickets: $12 at the door • $14 w/online fee

ABOUT THE TWIN CITIES GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

This year’s Twin Cities German Film Festival invites audiences to explore stories of belonging, identity, and reinvention. This year’s films revolve around characters in motion: across borders, through grief, toward connection, and into self-discovery. The festival, produced by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, celebrates the courage to rebuild, the humor to adapt, and the shifting borders that define modern life.

Relased 2024

Directed by Alireza Golafshan

94 minutes

Friday, November 7 at 7:30 PM

The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

ABOUT THE FILM

Presented as part of the Germanic-American Institute’s Spotlight on Switzerland. 

In this modern Heimatfilm, a family devoted to their excavator business is shaken to its core after the sudden death of their daughter. As grief fractures their routine, the film tenderly follows their struggle to find meaning and connection amid the noise of machines and memories. With sensitivity and honesty, Bagger Drama portrays the protagonists of a working-class family learning to rebuild after loss.

Tickets: $12 at the door • $14 w/online fee

ABOUT THE TWIN CITIES GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

This year’s Twin Cities German Film Festival invites audiences to explore stories of belonging, identity, and reinvention. This year’s films revolve around characters in motion: across borders, through grief, toward connection, and into self-discovery. The festival, produced by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, celebrates the courage to rebuild, the humor to adapt, and the shifting borders that define modern life.

Relased 2024

Directed by Piet Baumgartner

88 minutes

Thursday, November 6 at 7:30 PM

The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

ABOUT THE FILM

One of the most viewed Swiss films of all time! Presented as part of the Germanic-American Institute’s Spotlight on Switzerland. 

After a surprise referendum declares French the sole national language of Switzerland, chaos erupts among the country’s German- and Italian-speaking populations. Walter Egli, an officer with the Federal Police, is charged with helping manage the nation’s transition to monolingualism—despite his own shaky grasp of French. Paired with a French-speaking colleague, he travels undercover to the Italian-speaking region of Ticino, where a defiant resistance movement is rising up against the new law. This quirky yet profound satire highlights the cultural complexities of Switzerland through a story of unlikely allies, clashing identities, and the absurdities of bureaucracy turned upside down.

Tickets: $12 at the door • $14 w/online fee

ABOUT THE TWIN CITIES GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

This year’s Twin Cities German Film Festival invites audiences to explore stories of belonging, identity, and reinvention. This year’s films revolve around characters in motion: across borders, through grief, toward connection, and into self-discovery. The festival, produced by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, celebrates the courage to rebuild, the humor to adapt, and the shifting borders that define modern life.

Relased 2023

Directed by Peter Luisi

90 minutes

Thursday, November 6 at 10:30 AM

The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

Free Screening

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Ten-year-old Tom is different from other kids. He doesn’t like change, red things and anything loud quickly becomes too much for him. But his specialty is space. When he is sent with his siblings to spend a month at their grandparents’ rural home, it feels like landing on another planet.

Framing the visit as a “Mars mission,” Tom navigates unfamiliar terrain, eccentric grandparents, and his own fears with imagination and heart. Greetings from Mars is a tender, funny film about discovery, understanding, and how seeing the world differently can be its own kind of superpower.

Tickets: $12 at the door • $14 w/online fee

ABOUT THE TWIN CITIES GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

This year’s Twin Cities German Film Festival invites audiences to explore stories of belonging, identity, and reinvention. This year’s films revolve around characters in motion: across borders, through grief, toward connection, and into self-discovery. The festival, produced by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, celebrates the courage to rebuild, the humor to adapt, and the shifting borders that define modern life.

Relased 2024

Directed by Sarah Winkenstette

Proudly presented by A24

113 minutes

Starts October 30

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With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

From writer/director Mary Bronstein and starring Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, and A$AP Rocky.

Relased 2025

Rated R

Directed by Mary Bronstein

Proudly presented by Mubi

110 minutes

Coming Soon

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In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney (Josh O’Connor) sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks. From celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, First Cow, Certain Women), The Mastermind is a quirky ’70s-set caper featuring Josh O’Connor as a hapless thief.

Relased 2025

Rated R

Directed by Kelly Reichardt