BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents the crime-drama "Mouse" from director Kenny Riches at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, April 12th. Between stealing bicycles and breaking into cars, Denny’s only social outlet is spending time with his mother. Driven by loneliness, he signs up for a pen pal service through a classified ad. He begins writing letters to a woman named Tess, whom he develops feelings for and lies to about his nonexistent wealth and success. But the pen pal service is a scheme that Tess and her real-life boyfriend, Maury, run to take advantage of the lonely. So when Tess [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents the world premiere of the documentary "When Men Dance" from director Abbas A. Motlagh at 6:15 p.m. Sunday, April 12th. "When Men Dance" invites audiences into the intimate worlds of a diverse group of young male dancers bound by their passion for movement and self-expression. Behind the artistry lies a complex reality: battles with racism, loneliness, financial strain, and a rising tide of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant sentiment. Straight, gay, and nonbinary, these dancers reveal the scars they carry and the courage that keeps them moving. As they prepare for their next performances, each [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents the North American Premiere of "The Dinner (La Cena)" from director Manuel Gómez Pereira at 9:00 p.m. Sunday, April 12th. "The Dinner" is a biting comedy from multiGoya-nominated director Manuel Gómez Pereira, and is nominated for eight Goyas at this year’s awards. Set in the turbulent aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a grand dinner is planned to celebrate the nationalist triumph of Franco in the iconic and luxurious Hotel Palace in Madrid. But what the victors don’t know is who's in the kitchen: A group of defeated Republican chefs are secretly preparing the [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents a special screening of the episodic series "Hal & Harper" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13th. From Cooper Raiff ("Cha Cha Real Smooth") comes "Hal & Harper," a wry and heartfelt series about two siblings whose closeness is both their comfort and their curse. Hal (Raiff) and Harper (Lili Reinhart) have built their adult lives side by side in Los Angeles, tethered by a lifetime of inside jokes and shared pain. When their father (Mark Ruffalo) announces he's having a baby with his girlfriend, Kate (Betty Gilpin), it forces the siblings to reexamine [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents “Stranger Than Fiction:UM Short Documentary Award" program at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16th. A great documentary film captures the human spirit, and this diverse block of films captures that and more. University of Miami Documentary Award Presentation. Featured films are: "Arepas En Bici": A chef cycles through San Francisco, weaving through memories of his immigration and dreams of sharing traditional Venezuelan cuisine. "If You Really Love Me, Outlive Me": An intimate portrait of honky-tonk icon Dale Watson and his wife Celine Lee, using their music to explore a life rooted in Americana. "They [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents “Welcome to Miami: Florida Doc Shorts" program at 9:00 p.m. Thursday, April 16th. There is no place like home. Featuring a diverse range of Made in MIA short documentaries, this program reminds us that Miami really is one of a kind. Featured films are: "The Floor Remembers":On Monday nights at a historic Miami roller rink, skaters gather beneath neon lights and the music that raised them, returning to a wooden floor that holds the memory of a city that is constantly changing. "One Last Order": After 37 years turning drive-thru orders into personal [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents the Florida Premiere of “Forge” from director Jing Ai Ng at 12:00 p.m. Saturday, April 18th. In Miami, the resourceful Zhang siblings sell forged paintings to unsuspecting parties. Despite their thriving underground operation, the two are still short on cash when they cross paths with disgraced millionaire Holden Beaumont. Sensing an opportunity, Holden convinces the Zhangs to forge long-lost masterpieces as a front for his family’s collection. Meanwhile, FBI art crimes agent Emily Lee moves to Miami and discovers a plethora of forgeries cropping up in the South Florida art market. Miami is [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents the East Coast Premiere of “Rope Tied” from directors Chiara Padejka and Evan Friedmann at 2:45 p.m. Saturday, April 18th. Relegated into irrelevance after a controversial exhibition, avant-garde artist Vasil Daslavov (Dimiter D. Marinov) searches for a way to win back the favor of his longtime art dealer, the bombastic Wilhelm Heinkempf (Stuart Murphy). As he prepares a new collection, his eccentric muse, Luna Monroe (Carl Nowak) proposes another, more extreme concept – to tie themselves together by rope for a year. Testing the lengths at which humans can coexist, personal differences are [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents the Florida Premiere of the documentary “Runa Simi” from director Augusto Zegarra at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18th. Fernando Valencia, a 29-year-old voice artist from Cusco, Peru, is an Indigenous activist, painter, and devoted single father. Known for his uncanny ability to voice multiple characters, he launched “Quechua Clips” – a viral project that reimagines iconic animated scenes in Quechua, the ancestral language of the Incas, also known as Runa Simi. The response was overwhelming, uncovering millions of Quechua speakers hungry for stories in their own language. Thus, Valencia sets his sights on [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents "AV Club's 70th Anniversary of MDPLS' 16mm Short Film Collection" at 12:00 p.m. Sunday, April 19th. Featuring films with a Miami connection, this screening of five short films celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s 16mm Film Collection. Featured films are: "Fantasy Fling": The disco phenomenon in America is documented in this cinema verité style. Using a popular disco in Columbus, Ohio, as a typical example, the film moves from a disco dance class to people dressing up for an evening to the final energies of people in the thrall [...]