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 [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents the East Coast Premiere of “Kangaroo” from director Kate Woods at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, April 19th. Hop into the cinema for this adorable family comedy about two unlikely friends caring for injured kangaroos in a remote Australian town. With plenty to “awww” about, this film is a treat for the whole family, including adults of all ages. "Kangaroo" is a heart-warming comedy about an accident-prone TV personality, Chris Masterman, who becomes stranded in a town outside Alice Springs, located in the very center of Australia. There, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous Australian girl [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE The Miami Film Festival presents a special screening of the episodic series “M.I.A.” at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19th. Restless in the Florida Keys, Etta Tiger Jonze dreams of a glittering life in Miami. But when her family’s drug-running business shatters in tragedy, Etta embarks on a dangerous journey through Miami’s neon-lit underbelly that will define who she is and what she’s ultimately capable of. Shot in Miami, "M.I.A." is executive produced by creator Bill Dubuque ("Ozark"), showrunner Karen Campbell ("Dexter", "Outlander"), and Alethea Jones ("Spider-Noir"), who also directed the first two episodes of this new Peacock crime [...]