17th Annual $10k Party
November 6th @ Workplay
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DIGGER
OCTOBER 2 - 15
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THE SCOUT
OCTOBER 9 - 15
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SIDEWALK FILM 101: VAMPYR (1932)
OCTOBER 15 + 18
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KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS (1971) DIRECTOR'S CUT
OCTOBER 16 - 22
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AMERICAN DOCTOR
OCTOBER 16 - 22
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SOUTHERN CIRCUIT: BUILT ON ZYDECO (WITH FILMMAKER Q+A)
OCTOBER 16
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PJ PARTY: CHICKEN LITTLE (2005)
OCTOBER 17 + 18
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LEMONADE BLESSING (WITH DIRECTOR Q+A)
OCTOBER 17
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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Monthly Movie Trivia (FREE!)
120 min
Join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Monthly Movie Trivia from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, immediately following Networking Nights. Hosted by Owen Roberts. Invite your friends and school your contemporaries over some movie trivia. We'll see you there! *This is a FREE event and SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.*
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Sidewalk Cinema Lobby

Oct 15

7:30 PM

Nov 19

7:30 PM
Filmmaker Networking Nights (Free)
120 min
Join us for our free Monthly Filmmaker Networking night sponsored by Film Birmingham. Network, pitch ideas, and enjoy some special happy hour drinks. We'll see you there!
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Sidewalk Cinema Lobby

Oct 15

5:00 PM
Sidewalk Film 101: Vampyr (1932)
74 min
1932
France, Germany
Carl Theodor Dreyer
After Allan Gray (Julian West) rents a room near Courtempierre in France, strange events unfold: An elderly man leaves a packet on Gray's table, and shadows that are seemingly alive lead him toward a castle. At a nearby manor, he witnesses the same man being murdered and gradually learns about the curse of the Vampyr. As Gray faces the horrors of the castle, he attempts to save the victim's daughters -- one of whom, Léone (Jan Hieronimko), has fallen ill after mysteriously being bitten.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Oct 15

7:00 PM

Oct 18

1:00 PM
Digger
129 min
2026
United States of America
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Oct 15

2:15 PM 7:45 PM
The Scout
89 min
2026
United States of America
Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser
Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot filming in New York City. It’s her job to find the homes, businesses, and exteriors where the show will be filmed. Driving around the city's different neighborhoods, she enters the private spaces of strangers to photograph their cozy apartments and eclectic shops, stepping into the fabric of their lives while trying to satisfy the demands of her erratic employers. Over a day filled with these encounters, Sofia witnesses moments of curiosity, vulnerability, and quiet tension until her work takes a sudden, personal turn. Drawing from her own experience as a location scout, writer-director Paula González-Nasser captures the poetry and costs of being a young creative. Her celebrated directorial debut The Scout, a selection of the 2025 Sidewalk Film Festival, crafts a contemplative exploration of urban disconnection, following one woman's journey through other people's worlds as she struggles to find her own.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Oct 15

4:00 PM 9:00 PM
The History of Concrete
101 min
2026
United States of America
John Wilson
John Wilson, the creator of HBO's "How To with John Wilson," finds himself at a creative turning point when his series ends. Wilson embarks on an odyssey to make a documentary about the history of concrete -- interviewing an oddball assortment of characters and applying lessons from a Hallmark movie workshop and the demands of the documentary marketplace to his film. Come see the much-discussed opening night selection of the 2026 Sidewalk Film Festival.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Oct 15

5:00 PM
Southern Circuit: Built on Zydeco (with filmmaker Q&A)
51 min
2026
United States of America
Milton Arceneaux, Dustin Cravins
Built on Zydeco is a Louisiana music documentary exploring how Zydeco survives not only as performance, but as work, language, lineage, and cultural responsibility. Join us for a Q&A with the film's directors after the screening. The Southern Circuit a program of South Arts and is made possible through a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Oct 16

7:00 PM
Ken Russell's The Devils (1971): Director's Cut
112 min
1971
United Kingdom
Ken Russell
In 17th-century France, Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) is a priest whose unorthodox views on sex and religion influence a passionate following of nuns, including the sexually obsessed Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave). When the power-hungry Cardinal Richelieu (Christopher Logue) realizes he must eliminate Grandier to gain control of France, Richelieu portrays Grandier as a satanist and spearheads a public outcry to destroy the once-loved priest's reputation. Assembled from the original camera negative, this new 4K restoration presents Ken Russell’s definitive vision of The Devils by referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004. Ken Russell's The Devils is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K. PLEASE NOTE: This film is rated NC-17 and will be strictly enforced; no one under 17 and under will be admitted.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Oct 16

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM

Oct 17

10:00 AM 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 PM 10:30 PM

Oct 18

10:00 AM 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 PM

Oct 21

2:15 PM 4:45 PM 7:15 PM

Oct 22

2:15 PM 4:45 PM 7:15 PM 9:45 PM
American Doctor
91 min
2026
Denmark, Palestinian Territory, United States of America
Poh Si Teng
From Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American physicians — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of Congress.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Oct 16

2:15 PM 4:45 PM 9:30 PM

Oct 17

12:45 PM 2:45 PM 4:45 PM 10:00 PM

Oct 18

3:15 PM

Oct 21

2:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:00 PM

Oct 22

2:00 PM 4:00 PM 9:30 PM
AUGUST 23-29, 2027

SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL

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