Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland embarks on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. Franz gives audiences a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.
Relased 2025
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
August 28, 2026 12:00 PM
Location: Coming Soon 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Stick around after the film for a live video Q&A with director Penny Lane!
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A Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco overcomes his years of captivity and lack of survival skills to answer the call of the wild – and discovers he was wild inside all along.
Relased 2026
Directed by Penny Lane
September 6, 2026 4:00 PM
Location: Theater 1 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Stick around after the film for a live Q&A featuring the filmmakers and cast!
Featuring: Megan Rico (writer/director), Kade Atwood (director/producer), Adi Madden Cabrera (actor), and Bryson Alejandro (producer/actor)!
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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 best friend, she secretly forms a band called The NunDead. Her newfound confidence leads to a date with the altar boy but also a fight that gets her suspended. Thinking she bailed on their first gig, her bandmates bust her out of the house just in time to win a Battle of the Bands. But when she faces expulsion and her mother’s wrath at a disciplinary hearing, footage of her kick-ass performance has an unexpected effect on her mom.
Relased 2026
Directed by Megan Rico, Kade Atwood
September 24, 2026 7:00 PM
Location: Theater 1 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Cinema Club moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Professor Emeritus John Wright, Departments of African American & African Studies and English, University of Minnesota.
Cinema Club Saturday screenings are FREE for MSP Film Society Members. Not a Member? Join here. More info on Cinema Club here.
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Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
Cinema Club is generously sponsored by:
Julie and Charlie Zelle Frances and Frank Wilkinson Leni and David Moore
Relased 2025
Directed by Kahlil Joseph
September 12, 2026 11:00 AM
Location: Theater 3 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Introducing Night School, MSP Film’s new monthly repertory series exploring film history and form. Local experts heighten our appreciation of cinema as an art form, social institution, and object of study. Class is in session the second Wednesday of every month – enroll today!
The Night School screening of Rear Window will feature a discussion of theories of spectatorship with Nicole Hinrichs-Bideau, Professor of Film & Humanities, Century College.
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When a professional photographer is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. He suspects his neighbor of murdering his nagging wife and enlists his socialite girlfriend to help investigate, leading to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history.
Relased 1954
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
October 14, 2026 7:00 PM
Location: Theater 3 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Introducing Night School, MSP Film’s new monthly repertory series exploring film history and form. Local experts heighten our appreciation of cinema as an art form, social institution, and object of study. Class is in session the second Wednesday of every month – enroll today!
The Night School screening of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence will feature a discussion of framing and score with Christine Marran, Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota.
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In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Rock star Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed this film’s hypnotic score) plays the camp commander, obsessed with the mysterious blond major, while Tom Conti is the British lieutenant colonel Lawrence, who tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between captor and prisoner. Also featuring actor-director Takeshi Kitano in his first dramatic role, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a multilayered, brutal, at times erotic tale of culture clash, and one of Oshima’s greatest successes.
Relased 1983
Directed by Nagisa Oshima
December 9, 2026 7:00 PM
Location: Theater 3 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Introducing Night School, MSP Film’s new monthly repertory series exploring film history and form. Local experts heighten our appreciation of cinema as an art form, social institution, and object of study. Class is in session the second Wednesday of every month – enroll today!
The Night School screening of Contempt will feature a discussion of camera movement and intermediality with Shima Sahranavard, PhD Candidate, Department of French & Italian, University of Minnesota.
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Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the behind-the-camera struggles of a director (Fritz Lang) and producer (Jack Palance) as they film an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
Restoration: Restored and digitized in 4K by Studiocanal at Hiventy with support from the CNC, from the original 35mm negative, interpositive, and reference print by Raoul Coutard.
Relased 1963
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
November 11, 2026 7:00 PM
Location: Theater 3 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Introducing Night School, MSP Film’s new monthly repertory series exploring film history and form. Local experts heighten our appreciation of cinema as an art form, social institution, and object of study. Class is in session the second Wednesday of every month – enroll today!
The Night School screening of The Great Dictator will feature a discussion of reception studies with Megan Feeney, PhD, author of Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959.
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In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.
Relased 1940
Directed by Charles Chaplin
September 9, 2026 7:00 PM
Location: Theater 3 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police outpost chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village. In the nearby forest, a coterie of local hunters, including Sung-ki(ZoIn-sung) set out to track the beast and find themselves hunted instead. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
Relased 2026
Rated R
Directed by Na Hong-jin
September 9, 2026 12:00 PM
Location: Theater 1 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
Remember BUDDY—the bright orange unicorn and star of that classic childrens’ television show who brought joy and life lessons into your living room?
Inside the colorful world of “It’s Buddy!”, a group of children spend their days singing, dancing, and helping Buddy spread happiness. But when one child refuses to play along, Buddy is not pleased and cracks begin to appear in this seemingly perfect world.
Relased 2026
Rated R
Directed by Casper Kelly
August 27, 2026 7:20 PM
Location: Theater 2 115 SE Main Street Minneapolis, MN 55414
