Hayao Miyazaki - Forces of Nature invites you to celebrate the wonder of five Miyazaki masterpieces November 24 through December 4 at The Main Cinema in advance of his new film The Boy and the Heron, opening December 7. Become immersed in these stories of nature, resilience, and new worlds before you see the latest hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award®-winning director himself.

David Lynch: Behind the Curtain invites you to revisit three Lynch classics (Wild at Heart | Mulholland Dr. | Blue Velvet) in celebration of Lynch/Oz, a new documentary that inspires a fresh appreciation for Lynch’s body of work by exploring how it intersects and communicates with The Wizard of Oz, his greatest influence.

The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival celebrates an exciting array of new film every year. Along with several highly competitive juried competitions, we are also pleased to present the audience choice awards: the fiction feature, documentary feature, and short films that were ranked highest by festival audiences.

All of the programmers of the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival bring a personal eye to the curation of the fest. We asked our programmers for 5 picks playing in MSPIFF42 to highlight some of these can't-miss films and to spotlight their own unique tastes.

The Great Northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. In an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action, and share the resilient spirit of the North with the world.

In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, White, male American culture.