Year-Round Calendar

From monthly Member screenings, to our free Cuban Cinema Series, check out these upcoming presentations from the Miami Film Festival.

What's on in October

October
27
Party/Reception
GEMS Film & Industry Happy Hour

Accredited Industry and Platinum, Visionary & CineClub Members are invited to our GEMS Kick-Off Happy Hour!

Parties
TULUM Rooftop Bar & Restaurant
October
28
Narrative Feature
Marie Antoinette (20th Anniversary) at Vizcaya

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the visually decadent Marie Antoinette in royal style at Vizcaya!

Retrospective
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
October
29-4
SAVE THE DATE
Miami Film Festival GEMS
MFF's Fall showcase that brings you all the Award-Season films.
MFF
October
29
Narrative Feature
The Debut (Opening Night)

When Mona is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms into a zealous method actor in this delightful comedy.

Opening Night Film
Koubek Center
October
29
Narrative Feature
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

An aging pickpocket finds himself in a race against time to return the loot or face the rage of a vengeful crime family.

Silverspot Cinema
October
30
Narrative Feature
Look Back (Rukku Bakku)

Two artists, the brash Fujino and the reclusive Kyomoto, meet and develop a bond over making manga.

Koubek Center
October
30
Narrative Feature
Yellow Letters (Sari Zarflar)

When a celebrated artist couple from Turkey is targeted by the state, their marriage is pushed to a breaking point.

Silverspot Cinema
October
30
Narrative Feature
I Play Rocky

The true story about an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn’t just meant to write Rocky—he was meant to be Rocky Balboa.

The Bill Cosford Cinema
October
30
Narrative Feature
Campeón Gabacho

Director Jonás Cuarón’s funny, defiantly joyful film presents the American dream as belonging to anyone who refuses to let it go.

Silverspot Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
Elsinore (Centerpiece)

When the opportunity to play Hamlet at the National Theatre becomes a reality, it coincides with Ian Charleson receiving a tragic AIDS diagnosis in this emotional true story.

Centerpiece
The Bill Cosford Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
The Beloved (El ser querido)

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts) returns with this riveting actors’ showcase for Victoria Luengo and Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem.

Koubek Center
October
31
Narrative Feature
Iron Boy (Le corset)

An unexpected affliction compels a young boy to wear an iron corset to keep himself upright in this tender, coming-of-age animated gem.

Silverspot Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
Risa and the Wind Phone (Risa y la cabina del viento) – Q&A with Pablo Minces

After losing her father in a tragic fire, 10-year-old Risa discovers that an out-of-service phone booth allows her to speak with the dead.

Q&A
Silverspot Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
Tangles

Sarah must learn to face her mother’s rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s disease in this stunning animated feature about the imperfect beauty of family.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
Paper Tiger (Centerpiece)

Two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true in James Gray’s intense crime thriller.

Centerpiece
The Bill Cosford Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
Rose

The true tale of a deceiver of land and folk, who, defying her birth as a woman, comported herself as a man and committed many a wicked deed.

Koubek Center
October
31
Narrative Feature
River

Three estranged siblings reunite in their hometown after the death of their father. But when their boat breaks down, the trip devolves into a waking nightmare.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
The Huntress (La cazadora)

In the border city of Juárez, México, where violence against women is perpetrated with impunity, an unlikely defender emerges.

Koubek Center
October
31
Narrative Feature
Everytime

Struggling with blame and forgiveness following a tragedy, an unlikely trio take a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened.

Silverspot Cinema
October
31
Narrative Feature
The Love Witch 35 mm screening (10th Anniversary)

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to compel men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

Retrospective
Coral Gables Art Cinema

What's on in November

November
1
Narrative Feature
All of a Sudden (Soudain)

Japan’s official submission to the Academy Awards and the latest from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, All of a Sudden is an exercise in radical empathy.

Silverspot Cinema
November
1
Narrative Feature
Minotaur

When a successful company director finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
November
1
Narrative Feature
The Gallerist

A Miami gallery owner conspires to pass off an accidental corpse as part of an art exhibit, and everything quickly spirals into chaos.

The Bill Cosford Cinema
November
1
Documentary Feature
Time Warp

50 years after The Rocky Horror Picture Show debuted, a fearless dreamer brings its message of personal expression to a small Wyoming town.

Koubek Center
November
1
Narrative Feature
Behemoth! (Centerpiece)

Gifted cellist Alex Serian returns to Los Angeles after 20 years, confronting his past and transforming his future forever.

Centerpiece
The Bill Cosford Cinema
November
1
Narrative Feature
Coward

As WWI drags on, young soldier Pierre, newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself, but finds hidden love instead.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
November
1
Narrative Feature
Ray Gunn

Private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova, in the latest film from director Brad Bird.

Koubek Center
November
1
Narrative Feature
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

When a teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job leading creative writing classes at a maximum security prison, she begins to fall for a charismatic inmate.

Silverspot Cinema
November
1
Narrative Feature
La Bola Negra

A bold tapestry spanning nearly a century of Spanish history. The story of three generations of men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, and love from Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.

The Bill Cosford Cinema
November
1
Narrative Feature
Queen at Sea

As dementia erodes a woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interest.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
November
1
Narrative Feature
Ink

Ink is an explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits who had an idea for a new kind of news.

Koubek Center
November
1
Narrative Feature
Tender Loving Care

Palme d’Or winner and Academy Award nominee Mike Leigh returns with Tender Loving Care, continuing his insightful exploration of contemporary life.

Silverspot Cinema
November
2
Narrative Feature
Wild Horse Nine (Centerpiece)

A CIA mission to Easter Island unravels amid conspiracies, secrets, and Chile’s looming coup in the latest from renowned director Martin McDonagh.

Centerpiece
The Bill Cosford Cinema
November
2
Narrative Feature
Summer of Three – Q&A with Marcel Ruiz

Returning home to his native Puerto Rico after years away, 17-year-old Javi meets Luife and Kiki, two social misfits who flip his entire world upside down.

Q&A
Koubek Center
November
2
Conversations
Variety Creative Vanguard Award – A Conversation with John Turturro

John Turturro is in conversation with Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh about his career and latest film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.

Conversation
Honoree
MDC Wolfson
November
2
Documentary Feature
Rehearsals for a Revolution

Drawing from personal archives, home videos, and footage of street protests, this award-winning documentary retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
November
2
Documentary Feature
Burgundy – Q&A with Michael Dweck

Burgundy explores the region’s exclusive, seductive wine culture, where inherited tradition lives on in passionate rituals of luxury and indulgence.

Silverspot Cinema
November
3
Narrative Feature
Mouse – Q&A with Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson

When her relationship with her best friend Callie is suddenly upended, Minnie forms a complicated bond with her poised, attentive mother.

Q&A
Honoree
Silverspot Cinema
November
3
Narrative Feature
Bunker (Centerpiece)

When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project – building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire – his wife begins to question their marriage.

Centerpiece
The Bill Cosford Cinema
November
3
Narrative Feature
Josephine

Winner of both the Grand Jury and Audience awards at Sundance, Josephine is about a child witnessing a terrible crime.

Koubek Center
November
3
Narrative Feature
La Gradiva

When a group of high school students travels to Pompeii, their desires start to surface with unexpected intensity, leading them toward an irreversible fracture.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
November
3
Narrative Feature
Sad Girlz (Chicas tristes)

The limits of friendship are tested when two best friends face an incident that forces them to choose between silence and speaking out.

Silverspot Cinema
November
3
Narrative Feature
Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad)

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is a self-examination of the filmmaker’s life and artistic process. Direct from Cannes.

The Bill Cosford Cinema
November
4
Conversations
Variety Virtuoso Award – In Conversation with Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo & Guitarricadelafuente

Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi, and Guitarricadelafuente of the film La Bola Negra are in conversation with Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh.

Conversation
Honoree
MDC Wolfson
November
4
Narrative Feature
Being Heumann (Centerpiece)

The revolutionary, irreverent, and deeply human story of the least likely people trying to pull off the impossible and change the lives of millions.

Centerpiece
Silverspot Cinema
November
4
Narrative Feature
Clarissa

An adaptation of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf, and set in Nigeria, Clarissa delivers a unique and deeply felt story.

Coral Gables Art Cinema
November
4
Narrative Feature
The Liberation

A woman in midlife, haunted by the weight of her past encounters, a magnetic young spiritual leader and leaves her family to follow her to an all-female commune.

Koubek Center
November
5
Narrative Feature
Bedford Park

Audrey and Eli, two Korean Americans with troubled pasts, journey through an unexpected relationship that transcends the cultural pressures each of them face.

O Cinema
November
5
Narrative Feature
Club Kid (Closing Night)

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

Closing Night Film
Koubek Center
November
5
Narrative Feature
First Light – Q&A with James J. Robinson

In the Philippines mountains a young construction worker dies in unusual circumstances and forces an elderly nun to reckon with his death.

Q&A
Coral Gables Art Cinema
November
9
Narrative Feature
Hedwig and the Angry Inch – 25th Anniversary Movie Tour with John Cameron Mitchell

Celebrate the 25th anniversary, with director-star John Cameron Mitchell in person to accept our Impact Award and perform.

Retrospective
Conversation
Honoree
Wells Hall at The Parker
November
13
Documentary Feature
Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

Discover the story of legendary designer Salvatore Ferragamo in Luca Guadagnino’s documentary. Presented in partnership with The Wolfsonian.

Retrospective
The Wolfsonian | FIU
November
27
Conversations
Fictional Selves: An Evening with Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan is in conversation with Rene Rodriguez on his extensive career. With Books & Books.

Conversation
Honoree
The Bill Cosford Cinema

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