The Bill Cosford Cinema

“MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING” (2025) FREE SCREENING
2025-09-24 21:00 - 23:59, 2025-09-27 20:00 - 23:00 UTC | Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The University of Miami’s Cinematic Arts Commission invites you to a free screening of “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” (2025) on Wednesday, Sept. 24th at 9 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 27th at 8 p.m.
Hunt and the IMF pursue a dangerous AI called the Entity that’s infiltrated global intelligence. With governments and a figure from his past in pursuit, Hunt races to stop it from forever changing the world.
Admission is FREE and no tickets required!

"THE LOST BUS" (2025) FREE PREVIEW SCREENING
2025-09-25 19:30 - 21:30
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You’re invited to a free advance screening of “The Lost Bus” (2025), director Paul Greengrass’ white-knuckle film based on the true story of a wayward school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera) battling to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno of one of America’s deadliest wildfires.

Admission is FREE but registration required at link above. Seating is limited so please arrive early.

SUNDAYS AT THE U WITH MOVIES: "THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS" (1990)
2025-09-28 13:00 - 15:00
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Join us at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, for a screening of director Paul Schrader’s psychosexual thriller “The Comfort of Strangers.”
Adapting the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter lends his trademark unnerving dialogue and air of creeping menace to this spellbinding study of power, control, and the frighteningly thin line between pleasure and pain.
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo.
What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread by the elegantly gliding tracking shots of cinematographer Dante Spinotti, lush score by Angelo Badalamenti, and carefully controlled direction of Paul Schrader, who choreographs a mesmerizing pas de quatre of sustained erotic and emotional tension.

“Paul Schrader’s “Comfort of Strangers” is about decadence in Venice, a place of long golden afternoons, steamy nights, grand palazzos, dark alleys, incredible beauty, unrecognized malignancies and, finally, death.
“The movie is too much, which is just about right for a horror film so romantic that its true nature is only revealed at the very end, when escape is no longer possible.
“Harold Pinter, who adapted the screenplay from Ian McEwan’s novel, has never written a film as alarmingly ghoulish as this tale of terminal love. “The Comfort of Strangers” is a Grand Guignol variation on the kind of scary Pinter play in which the menace remains discreet. Not here.” — Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Tickets are $6 and available at the link above. Students use code STUDENT at checkout for free admission (must show Cane card at the door).

"THE PHANTOM THREAD" (2017) FREE SCREENING
2025-09-28 17:00 - 19:30
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Join us at 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, for a free screening of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s sublime drama “The Phantom Thread,” about a renowned dressmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) in 1950s London whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman (Vicki Krieps) who becomes his muse and lover.

Admission is FREE but registration required at link above.

“SUPERMAN” (2025) FREE SCREENING
2025-10-01 21:00 - 23:30, 2025-10-04 20:00 - 22:30
The University of Miami’s Cinematic Arts Commission invites you to a free screening of “Superman” (2025) on Wednesday, Oct. 1st at 9 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 4th at 8 p.m.
Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.
Admission is FREE and no tickets required!

SUNDAYS AT THE U WITH MOVIES: "AMARCORD" (1973)
2025-10-05 13:00 - 15:00
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Join us at 1 p.m. Sunday, October 5 for a screening of Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning masterpiece “Amarcord” (1973).
Federico Fellini returned to the provincial landscape of his childhood with this carnivalesque reminiscence, recreating his hometown of Rimini in Cinecittà’s studios and rendering its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge.
Sketching a gallery of warmly observed comic caricatures, Fellini affectionately evokes a vanished world haloed with the glow of memory, even as he sends up authority figures representing church and state, satirizing a country stultified by Fascism.
Winner of Fellini’s fourth Academy Award for best foreign-language film, “Amarcord” remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.

““Amarcord” is like a long dance number, interrupted by dialogue, public events and meals. It is constructed like a guided tour through a year in the life of the town, from one spring to the next. There are several narrators, including an old rummy-dummy who visibly forgets his lines, and a professor who lectures us learnedly on the town’s historical precedents.
“Other narrators include the singing voices of the children, heralding the arrival of the first dandelion balls of spring, and a confiding voice on the soundtrack that is Fellini himself.” — Roger Ebert
Tickets are $6 and available at link above. Students use code UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission (must show Cane card at the door).

"AFTER THE HUNT" (2025) FREE EARLY SCREENING
2025-10-07 19:30 - 21:30
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Join us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 7, for a free early screening of the new film by director Luca Guadagnino, “After the Hunt,” starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Chloe Sevigny.
Roberts plays a Yale professor who is competing for a tenured job with her close friend and fellow teacher (Garfield). Then a graduate student (Edebiri) accuses him of sexually assaulting her.

Admission is free but registration required at link above. Ticket does not guarantee entry so please arrive early.

"RASHOMON" SCREENING ON 16MM FILM -- FREE ADMISSION
2025-10-08 17:20 - 19:30
Join us at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 for a free screening of Akira Kurosawa’ seminal 1950 drama “Rashomon” on 16mm film! Tickets are not required.
In feudal Japan, a samurai is murdered, and his wife assaulted, but the details are unclear. Conflicting accounts emerge as this ground-breaking Japanese psychological thriller leaves the audience questioning which version, if any, reflects reality—and justice.
“‘Rasho-Mon,’ … is, indeed, an artistic achievement of such distinct and exotic character that it is difficult to estimate it alongside conventional story films. On the surface, it isn’t a picture of the sort that we’re accustomed to at all, being simply a careful observation of a dramatic incident from four points of view, with an eye to discovering some meaning—some rationalization—in the seeming heartlessness of man” (Bosley Crowther, New York Times, December 27, 1951).

This screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) is presented in 16mm film as an AV Club program with thanks to Katharine Labuba, film archivist and special collections librarian of the Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Branch.
AV CLUB is an ongoing program of curated 16mm short film screenings designed to provoke discussion, create awareness of unique library resources held by the Special Collections Division of the Miami-Dade Public Library System and generate enthusiasm for learning and research.
The Miami-Dade Public Library holds one of the remaining, circulating 16mm film collections. The collection dates to 1956 and was developed to be a teaching collection designed for public programming.

“JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH” (2025) FREE SCREENING
2025-10-15 21:00 - 23:00, 2025-10-18 20:00 - 22:00
The University of Miami’s Cinematic Arts Commission invites you to a free screening of “Jurassic World: Rebirth” (2025) on Wednesday, Oct. 15th at 9 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 18th at 8 p.m.
Five years post-“Jurassic World: Dominion” (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
Admission is FREE and no tickets required!

3RD ANNUAL SOUTH FLORIDA GREEK FILM FESTIVAL
2025-10-19 13:30 - 21:00
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The Hellenic Cultural Society’s Film Program celebrates and promotes the work and talent of established and emerging Greek, Cypriot and Greek/Cypriot Heritage filmmakers.
At the South Florida Greek Film Festival and at Film Nights, screenings of full-length films, documentaries, shorts, discussions, provide opportunities to connect, to inspire, to entertain and to share the richness of the Greek culture. All screenings have English subtitles.
Click on each title for more information. Tickets are $10 and available at link above.
1:30PM
ALWAYS SOMETHING MISSING
DIRECTOR: Elena Housni | 2025 | WITH: Parthenopi Armenaki, Despina Kaila, Philipos Tzeretas | RUNNING TIME: 41 Mins

Set against the Greek island of Samos, the film follows Parthenopi, a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral home after years abroad. Haunted by unresolved feelings toward her late father, she embarks on a journey of memory, ritual, and confrontation. At its core, Always Something Missing is a meditation on reconciliation: not with the living, but with the absence that lingers after death.
Q+A with Producer/Cinematographer

US Premiere

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2:45PM
ATHENS MIDNIGHT RADIO
DIRECTOR: Renos Haralambidis | 2024 | WITH: Renos Haralambidis, Eleftheria Stamou | RUNNING TIME: 75 Mins

A veteran late-night radio producer, turning 50, realizes with unease that he no longer belongs among the youth. While he unravels his life on air and messages from a distant past are transmitted from a forgotten answering machine, an old love affair left in limbo comes back to haunt him. The army services at the National Guard Evzones, the silent nocturnal audience, a midnight marathon, the dimly lit Athenian antiquities and the nocturnal landscape, all mingle nostalgically and dreamily with the radio waves…
A film from a veteran filmmaker and actor, considered one of the pioneer directors of the modern Greek Indie cinema with his first films “No Budget Story” and “Cheap Smokes”. A tribute to night radio and the analog world that the new century has banished.
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5:00PM
PIRATELAND
DIRECTOR: Stavros Petropoulos | 2025 | WITH: Kostas Koronaios, Asteris Rimagmos, Marianthi Pantelopoulou | RUNNING TIME: 28 Mins

As the winter season begins in Creta, an overly touristic Greek island, a family of locals, owners of a small struggling bed & breakfast, get an unexpected visit from a Nordic family of tourists looking for a tour into the piratic past of the area. The relationship between Manos, the Greek father and Tassos, his son, is being tested as they are struggling to meet the increasingly challenging demands of the tourists looking to live the authentic pirate experience.

Official Selection 2025 Tribeca International Film Festival

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KYUKA: BEFORE SUMMER’S END
DIRECTOR: Kostis Charamountanis | 2024 | WITH: Simeon Tsakiris, Elsa Lekakou, Konstantinos Georgopoulos | RUNNING TIME: 103 Mins

Summertime. A family of three, a single father, Babis, and his twin children on the verge of adulthood, Konstantinos and Elsa, sail to the island of Poros on the family boat for their holidays. In the midst of swimming, sunbathing and making new friends, Konstantinos and Elsa meet unbeknownst to them, their birth mother Anna who abandoned them when they were babies. This encounter will stir up long-held feelings of resentment in Babis, resulting in a sun-kissed, bittersweet coming-of-age journey for everyone involved.

Acid Cannes 2024 Film D’ Ouverture
LA Greek Film Festival Winner Best Feature Fiction 2025 Special Jury Recognition

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"HEDDA" (2025) FREE ADVANCE SCREENING
2025-10-20 19:30 - 21:30
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Join us at 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 20, for a free advance screening of “Hedda,” writer-director Nia DaCosta’s playful, sexy reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s renowned stage drama from 1891, starring Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss and Imogene Poots.
Set in early 20th-century England, the film follows the titular Hedda (Tessa Thompson), a recently married woman from a good family whose desire for further wealth has put her academic husband George into debt.
The couple has recently returned from their extended honeymoon abroad to a country estate they cannot really afford. That is, unless George gets a prestigious professorship and an endowment at the university where he teaches. Hedda devises a party allegedly to help him achieve this goal.
Things appear to be going well until the arrival of fellow academic Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss), a recently sober alcoholic and Hedda’s ex-lover.
As Hedda manipulates to undo all the work that Eileen’s new companion, Thea (Imogen Poots), has done to sober her up, her real objective for the party becomes clear.

Admission is free but registration required at link above.

“THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME” (2025) FREE SCREENING
2025-10-22 21:00 - 23:00, 2025-10-25 20:00 - 22:00
The University of Miami’s Cinematic Arts Commission invites you to a free screening of “The Phoenician Scheme” (2025) on Wednesday, Oct. 22nd at 9 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 25th at 8 p.m.
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins.
Admission is FREE and no tickets required!

"MIAMI VOICES: A SERIES OF DOCUMENTARY FILM SHORTS BY LOCAL FILMMAKERS"
2025-10-25 15:00 - 17:00
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Join us on Saturday, October 25th at 3PM for 4 amazing documentary shorts by local filmmakers!
The Video Consortium (VC), a global nonprofit network of documentary storytellers, is teaming up with Miami-Dade County to present a new event series spotlighting South Florida’s vibrant filmmaking community.
This Saturday, VC Miami will present “Miami Voices” A series of documentary film shorts by local filmmakers:
Mango Movie – Jayme Kaye Gershen
An ode to the mango and its connection with the Miami community.
Python Huntress – Matt Deblinger, Nicholas Orris
A fascinating glimpse into the life of Donna Kalil, a Python Elimination Specialist working in the Everglades
Night Train Last Stop – Gina Margillo
A portrait of the late jazz DJ & host of WLRN’s Nighttrain, Ted Grossman.
Querido Pequeño Haiti – Diana Larrea
This short captures the evolving landscape of Little Haiti, a neighborhood fast disappearing to redevelopment.
3pm refreshments and live jazz ode to Ted Grossman will be featured on the Loggia of the theater
3:45pm- Screening will begin
There will be a post screening Q&A will the filmmakers!

Launched October 17th with an event at Historic Hampton house, the series focuses on screenings of short documentaries, conversations and panels with local filmmakers and skill-building workshops.
The series will run October 2025- December 2025 with events hosted in partnership with local cultural institutions such as the University of Miami, Historic Hampton House and the Women’s Club of Coconut Grove.
All events are open to the public!
About the Video Consortium
The Video Consortium (VC) is a global nonprofit network uniting and supporting today’s leading visual journalists, documentarians, and filmmakers through community, mentorship, and shared resources. With chapters in over 25 cities worldwide, VC fosters collaboration and creative growth through local events and initiatives.
Learn more: www.videoconsortium.org
About the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs develops cultural excellence, diversity, and participation throughout Miami-Dade by providing grants, resources, and support to artists and arts organizations. Learn more: www.miamidadearts.org

A FEW FILM HISTORY TREATS: CLASSIC SHORT FILMS ON 16MM FILM- FREE ADMISSION
2025-10-29 17:20 - 19:30
Join us at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29th for a series of short films on 16mm film! Free and open to the public! Tickets are not required.
A Few Film History Treats:
“For those who seek unusual films in attractive and comfortable surroundings” – Bosley Crowther, New York Times, December 27, 1951
The program includes:
The Great Train Robbery, Edwin Porter, 1903, 12 minutes
Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passengers’ valuables, and then escape, and the station master’s daughter frees her father, alerts a group at a dance who then chase and overtake the robbers.

The Adventurer, Charlie Chaplin, 1917, 25 minutes
Chaplin, as an escaped convict, eludes the law in a series of wild chases, slapstick, and pantomime.

Oscar Micheaux: A Film Pioneer, 1982, 28 minutes
Oscar Micheaux (early African American filmmaker and author) is remembered for his work as a pioneer producer-director whose films offered complex characters and incisive commentary on serious community issues during the 1920s and 1930s. The program is built around the on-camera reminiscences of two performers who appeared in Micheaux films: Bee Freeman, dubbed the “Sepia Mae West” and Lorenzo Tucker, the “Black Valentino.”

Les Mistons/The Brats, François Truffaut, 1957, 17 minutes
A story about the awakening of the sensuality, the innocent malice, the unpredictable jealousy, and the unknown desires of adolescence. A gang of boys living in a small town in southern France follow and spy upon two young lovers, persecuting them by writing comments about them on the walls of the town.

Charlotte et Veronique ou Tous les Garcons s’appellent Patrick/All Boys are Named Patrick, Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, 1957, 21 minutes
College roommates become acquainted with the same ardent Patrick on the same day in separate encounters. Each falls for his line and agrees to a later date with him. They do not realize they have dates with the same Patrick until later, when they see him giving another girl “the rush.”

Herzog Eats His Shoe, Les Blank, 1980, 22 minutes
German filmmaker Werner Herzog is shown as he prepares to eat his shoe, due to a lost bet. He explains that his stunt is not so much for publicity as it is to encourage other filmmakers. He also offers information about filmmaking, showing his devotion to the craft.

This AV Club screening of “A Few Film History Treats” is a class screening for International Film History and is open to the public as part of a 3-series collaboration between Dr. Terri Francis, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts and Katharine Labuda, film archivist and special collections librarian of the Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Branch. All films are presented in 16mm film format.
AV CLUB is an ongoing program of curated 16mm short film screenings and feature presentations designed to provoke discussion, create awareness of unique library resources held by the Special Collections Division of the Miami-Dade Public Library System and generate enthusiasm for learning and research.
The Miami-Dade Public Library holds one of the last remaining circulating 16mm film collections. The collection dates to 1956 and was developed to be a teaching collection designed for public programming.

“28 YEARS LATER” (2025) FREE SCREENING
2025-10-29 21:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-01 20:00 - 22:00
The University of Miami’s Cinematic Arts Commission invites you to a free screening of “28 Years Later” (2025) on Wednesday, Oct. 29th at 9 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 1st at 8 p.m.
A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors.
Admission is FREE and no tickets required!

MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS: "LEFT-HANDED GIRL" (2025)
2025-11-01 13:00 - 15:00
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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 edited by Oscar winner Sean Baker, who is fresh off his Best Picture win for “Anora” and also known for “Red Rocket,” “The Florida Project,” and “Tangerine.” Baker and director Shih-Ching Tsou previously co-directed the Sundance hit “Take Out” in 2004.

Tickets are $16.50 and available at link above (while supplies last).
Now in its 12th year, Miami Film Festival GEMS brings the year’s biggest films to Miami along with filmmaker appearances, seminars, parties, and special events.
Formerly known as MIFFecito, Miami Dade College and the Miami Film Festival introduced Gems in 2014 as a seven-day event featuring 10 red-carpet premieres and in-person appearances. it was rebranded as GEMS Film Festival in 2015.

MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS: "TWINLESS" (2025) WITH DYLAN O'BRIEN IN ATTENDANCE
2025-11-01 17:00 - 20:00
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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 without their other halves and soon become inseparable outside the group.
But when Roman meets Dennis’ ebullient co-worker, Marcie (Aisling Franciosi), all is revealed to be not what it seems, as each man harbors secrets that could unravel everything.

Tickets are $25 and available at link above (while supply lasts).
Now in its 12th year, Miami Film Festival GEMS brings the year’s biggest films to Miami along with filmmaker appearances, seminars, parties, and special events.
Formerly known as MIFFecito, Miami Dade College and the Miami Film Festival introduced Gems in 2014 as a seven-day event featuring 10 red-carpet premieres and in-person appearances. it was rebranded as GEMS Film Festival in 2015.

MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS: "TRAIN DREAMS" (2025)
2025-11-02 12:45 - 15:00
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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 ode to a vanishing way of life and to the extraordinary possibilities that exist within even the most simple of existences, “Train Dreams” captures a time and place that are now long gone, and the people who built a bridge to a future they could only dream of. With William H. Macy, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr., and Kerry Condon.

Tickets are $16.50 and available at link above (while supplies last).
Now in its 12th year, Miami Film Festival GEMS brings the year’s biggest films to Miami along with filmmaker appearances, seminars, parties, and special events.
Formerly known as MIFFecito, Miami Dade College and the Miami Film Festival introduced Gems in 2014 as a seven-day event featuring 10 red-carpet premieres and in-person appearances. it was rebranded as GEMS Film Festival in 2015.

MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS: "DEAD MAN'S WIRE" (2025) WITH GUS VAN SANT IN ATTENDANCE
2025-11-03 19:00 - 21:30
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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 the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, and a personal apology from the Halls for cheating him out of what he was “owed.”

The movie stars Bill Skarsgard, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino. After the film, acclaimed director Gus Van Sant (“Good Will Hunting,” “Elephant”) will be in attendance to receive the Festival’s Precious Gem Award following a live recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast moderated by Scott Feinberg, Executive Editor of Awards.
Tickets are $30 and available at link above (while supplies last).
Now in its 12th year, Miami Film Festival GEMS brings the year’s biggest films to Miami along with filmmaker appearances, seminars, parties, and special events.
Formerly known as MIFFecito, Miami Dade College and the Miami Film Festival introduced Gems in 2014 as a seven-day event featuring 10 red-carpet premieres and in-person appearances. It was rebranded as GEMS Film Festival in 2015.

“THE THIRD MAN” SCREENING ON 16MM FILM — FREE ADMISSION
2025-11-05 17:20 - 19:30
Join us at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5th for a free screening of Carol Reed’s cinematic masterpiece “The Third Man” (1949) on 16mm film! The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.
Quoting from the New York Times 1950 review of The Third Man:
“The haunting music of a zither (a stringed musical instrument with a flat, horizontal soundboard and strings stretched across), the ring of Vienna’s cobbled streets and a ghostly Graham Greene story, about a man-hunt in that seamy capital flow smoothly and beautifully together into one piece of top screen artifice in Carol Reed’s most recent (and most touted) mystery-thriller-romance, The Third Man (1949). …The simple fact is that The Third Man, for all the awesome hoopla it has received, is essentially a first-rate contrivance in the way of melodrama—and that’s all. It isn’t a penetrating study of any European problem of the day (except that it skirts around black-markets and the sinister anomalies of ‘zones’). It doesn’t present any ‘message.’ It hasn’t a point of view. It is just a bang-up melodrama, designed to excite and entertain. …
Into this strangely off-beat story of a young American visitor’s attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery of a friend’s dubious ‘death’ in Vienna’s streets, Mr. Reed has brilliantly packaged the whole bag of his cinematic tricks, his whole range of inventive genius for making the camera expound. His eminent gifts for compressing a wealth of suggestion in single shots, for building up agonized tension and popping surprises are fully exercised.
His devilishly mischievous humor also runs lightly through the film, touching the darker depressions with little glints of the gay or macabre. To be sure, Mr. Greene has contributed conspicuously to the job with a script that is cleverly constructed and pungently laced with dialogue. The smoothness and ease with which the edges of the mystery plot tongue and groove—with which the missing man’s sweetheart joins the drama, the police build the case and such as that, while all the while little bits of color and character are worked in—make for complete fascination.
Except for one far-fetched allowance for poor police-craft (a dead man is not properly identified) and a chase through the sewers for the climax (which is graphic but conventional) the script is tops. So, too, are the performances of everyone in the cast—of Joseph Cotten as the American who blunders upon mystery and romance; of Valli, the cool Italian actress, who plays the refugee girl of the ‘dead’ man; of Trevor Howard as a British police major, a beautifully crisp and seasoned gent; of Bernard Lee as his capable sergeant and of several grand continental ‘types.’ Even our old and perennially villainous friend, Orson Welles, does a right nice job of shaping a dark and treacherous shadow as the ‘third man.’
However, with all due allowance, top credit must go to Mr. Reed for molding all possible elements into a thriller of super consequence. And especially must he be credited with the brilliant and triumphant device of using the music of a zither as the sole musical background in this film. This eerie and mesmerizing music, which is rhythmic and passionate and sad, becomes, indeed, the commentator—the genius loci—of the Viennese scene. Pulsing with hopefulness and longing with ‘menace’ and poignance and love, it thoroughly completes the illusions of a swift and intriguing romance. (Bosley Crowther, New York Times, February 3, 1950)

This AV Club screening of Carol Reed’s The Third Man on 16mm film is also a class screening for International Film History and is open to the public as part of a 3-series collaboration between Dr. Terri Francis, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts and Katharine Labuda, film archivist and special collections librarian of the Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Branch.
AV CLUB is an ongoing program of curated 16mm short film screenings and feature presentations designed to provoke discussion, create awareness of unique library resources held by the Special Collections Division of the Miami-Dade Public Library System and generate enthusiasm for learning and research.
The Miami-Dade Public Library holds one of the last remaining circulating 16mm film collections. The collection dates to 1956 and was developed to be a teaching collection designed for public programming.

"WITHOUT SHADE, WITHOUT REST" (2025) FREE SCREENING
2025-11-10 18:00 - 19:30
Join us on Monday, November 10th at 6:00 PM for a screening of “Without Shade, Without Rest” (2025), a new short film by Six Eye Films. Free and open to the public! Tickets are not required.
“Without Shade, Without Rest“ tells the powerful story of two Florida-based organizations, WeCount! and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and their efforts to protect outdoor workers from the dangers of extreme heat. After the film, we’ll be hosting a brief Q&A with WeCount! worker leaders and filmmakers of Six Eye Films.
For more information, visit sixeyefilms.org/withoutshadewithoutrest.

“HIM” (2025) FREE SCREENING
2025-11-12 21:00 - 23:00, 2025-11-15 20:00 - 22:00
The University of Miami’s Cinematic Arts Commission invites you to a free screening of “Him” (2025) on Wednesday, Nov. 12th at 9 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 15th at 8 p.m.
A young athlete descends into a world or terror when he’s invited to train with a legendary champion whose charisma curdles into something darker.
Admission is FREE and no tickets required!

"PAPER CHILDREN" + "EN MANOS DE DIOS" FREE SCREENING
2025-11-17 18:15 - 20:30
Register for the week-long Human Rights in the Americas symposium
REGISTER HERE FOR MOVIE AND SNACKS
As part of the University of Miami School of Law’s week-long Human Rights Symposium, you are invited to a free screening of two films that illuminate the lived experiences of migrant families navigating the U.S. immigration system at 6:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17. Admission is free but registration required at links above.
“Paper Children,” directed and produced by acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Codina, reveals America’s invisible refugee crisis through the eyes of one family that defies a broken system with their unwavering resilience.
Deep in the everyday life of the loving and optimistic Gonzalez family, the horrific violence of gang-ridden Honduras and the encroaching threat of draconian US enforcement are almost forgotten. The film goes beyond the traditional immigration narrative to a nuanced, intimate story which implicates us all in how we care for the most vulnerable. Runtime: 64 minutes.

“En Manos de Dios” (“In the Hands of God”) is the missing piece in the immigration narrative—what happens after the journey to refuge and navigating the immigration roulette. In this intimate portrait of a new father, trauma is replaced by tenderness and the promise of a future. (15 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles.)
A panel discussion following the screening will explore the experiences of immigrants – in U.S. immigration proceedings as well as in the Dominican Republic and other parts of the Americas –and how film can serve as a vehicle for truth-telling, healing, and mobilization in the face of systemic injustice.
The panel will be anchored by Codina and will reflect on the intersection of storytelling, legal advocacy, and community resilience.
Speakers include:
Gabrielle Apollon, Director of Haitian Immigrant Rights Project in the Global Justice Clinic at the New York University School of Law;
Sui Chung, the Executive Director of Americans for Immigrant Justice and a nationally recognized leader in immigration defense;
Sarah Paoletti, Founder and Director of the Transnational Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, whose scholarship and advocacy center on transnational labor rights and migrant justice in the U.S.;
Andrea Pochak, IACHR Commissioner and Rapporteur for Human Mobility and for Memory, Truth, and Justice.
Free food and drinks will be provided outside the cinema starting at 5:30 p.m.
Admission is FREE but registration required at links above.

WALESA: MAN OF HOPE
2025-11-17 18:30 - 21:00
Register for free tickets here
The American Institute of Polish Culture invites you to a free screening of “Walesa: Man of Hope” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17.
The film, directed by the Oscar-winning Andrezj Wajda, is a depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and the legendary leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
The movie is in Polish with English subtitles.
A pre-screening reception with light bites and drinks will precede the film.
To attend, please register at the link above.
