Events for October 19 - December 3

  BUY TICKETS HERE Join us at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 for the Miami Film Festival GEMS screening of "Left-Handed Girl" (2025), directed by Chinese filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou. After several years of living in the countryside, a single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their way will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and maintain family unity. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her "devil hand," generations of family secrets begin to unravel. Co-written, produced, and [...]

BUY TICKETS HERE Dylan O'Brien, the talented star of "The Maze Runner" and "Teen Wolf" series, is coming to Miami Film Festival GEMS for an exclusive extended Q&A on his latest film, "Twinless," at 5 p.m. Saturday, November 1. "Twinless" was the most-buzzed about feature at Sundance this year, where it won the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Competition. Dylan O'Brien, also received a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting. In "Twinless," two young men meet in a twin support group and form an unlikely friendship. Roman (Dylan O'Brien) and Dennis (James Sweeney) both search for solace and an identity [...]

  BUY TICKETS HERE Join us at 12:45 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2 for a screening of "Train Dreams" (2025), presented by the Miami Film Festival GEMS program. "Train Dreams" is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th-century America. Robert grows into adulthood among the towering forests of the Pacific Northwest, where he helps expand the nation’s railroad empire alongside men as unforgettable as the landscapes they inhabit. And when his life takes an unexpected turn, he finds newfound meaning for the forests and trees he has felled. An [...]

  BUY TICKETS HERE Filmmaker Gus Van Sant will attend a screening of his latest film "Dead Man's Wire" and participate in a post-screening Q&A as part of the Miami Film Festival's GEMS 2025 edition. The event takes place at 7 p.m. Monday, November 3. The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to the Hall’s head. This is the true story of the stand-off that took [...]