UPCOMING EVENTS

99 min
2025
Joseph Scrimshaw
Maggie, a young woman struggling to move forward, wants to stream an old horror movie. Her Gen X uncle insists they watch it on DVD. But the disc is haunted and the movie comes to life, taking over Maggie’s entire world. Co-starring Birmingham native Sam Landman. There will be a post screening Q&A with writer/director Joseph Scrimshaw and actor (and former Birminghamian) Sam Landman moderated by Christopher Davis.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 18

10:00 PM
128 min
2026
France, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States of America
Shatara Michelle Ford
With their second film, Shatara Michelle Ford (Test Pattern) puts their singular stamp on the American road movie. Dreams in Nightmares, which stars Denée Benton (The Gilded Age) and Jasmin Savoy Brown (Yellowjackets, Scream 7) follows a group of queer friends in their mid-30s navigating love, identity, and belonging across America. Anchored in themes of chosen family and self-discovery, the film blends humor and emotional depth against the backdrop of a journey through the Midwest and beyond. Dreams in Nightmares is an expansive and tender ode to the chosen family and to the radical act of claiming space to dream—and to exist—in an increasingly fraught country.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 18

2:00 PM 4:30 PM

Sep 19

1:00 PM 3:45 PM 8:30 PM

Sep 20

3:15 PM

Sep 23

2:15 PM 5:00 PM 7:45 PM

Sep 24

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 9:15 PM
90 min
2026
France, Germany, United States of America
Zach Cregger
Bryan, a medical courier, unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 18

2:15 PM 4:30 PM 6:45 PM 9:00 PM

Sep 19

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM

Sep 20

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM

Sep 23

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM

Sep 24

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

Sep 25

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM

Sep 26

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:15 PM

Sep 27

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM

Sep 30

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM

Oct 1

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM
112 min
2026
United States of America
Dawn Porter
In 1983, Ta-Nehisi Coates learns of a Baltimore middle schooler's murder and revisits the case, uncovering how false testimony wrongly imprisoned three teenagers for 36 years. Join us for a Q&A with the film's director, Dawn Porter 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.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 18

7:00 PM
60 min
Dawn Porter
Join us before the Southern Circuit screening of When A Witness Recants to experience the art of the interview with Dawn Porter. This masterclass will explore interviewing techniques and incorporate examples from Dawn's previous films. This is a rare opportunity to learn from an accomplished director whose accolades include the Peabody Award, NAACP Image Award, Emmy Award and more. Dawn Porter is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker and founder of Trilogy Films whose work has appeared on ESPN, Netflix, HBO, PBS, Hulu, and Apple TV+. Recently awarded the National Humanities Medal by former president Joe Biden and received the IDA Career Achievement Award. The Southern Circuit a program of South Arts and is made possible through a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. This event is limited seating, reservations are first come first served.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema - Classroom

Sep 18

5:30 PM
97 min
1984
Germany
Wolfgang Petersen
Join us for our family matinee series on select Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come cozy in your PJs and from 10am - 2pm enjoy light breakfast options for the whole family, plus a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar for the grown-ups. Film Synopsis: While hiding from bullies in his school’s attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 19

10:30 AM

Sep 20

10:30 AM
73 min
2026
United States of America
Salome Cummins, Isaiah Gauthier, David Grabias, Christopher Morgan, Brendon Schulze
Every year, the top under-18 Braille readers and writers from across the English-speaking world gather in Los Angeles to compete in the Braille Challenge. For one weekend, blind and low-vision kids are no longer the minority in the room. They make new friends, face off against old rivals, and chase a rare chance to be recognized not for their disability, but for their skill. In BRAILLED IT, the camera is placed directly in their hands. As the kids document the competition themselves, their fragmented imagery and candid moments of nerves, boredom, joy, and triumph invite audiences to experience the event on their terms. Designed with audio description and accessibility at its core–not as an afterthought but as a fundamental creative tool–the film shifts authorship and perspective to the community on screen, revealing a world defined not by limitation, but by mastery, ambition, and the transformative power of literacy.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 19

6:30 PM
107 min
2002
United States of America
Todd Haynes
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 20

1:00 PM
124 min
2003
United States of America
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
This screening of our Festival de Cine Filmmaker Focus: Alejandro González Iñárritu series will be preceded by an intro and followed by a post-film talkback from Sarah Valentín-Sánchez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish at Talladega College. Synopsis: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 20

6:00 PM

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