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March – Monthly Movie Trivia Hosted By Jeremy Burgess

Every third Thursday of the month, join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Networking Nights from 5-7pm and then Monthly Movie Trivia from 8-10pm. Network, pitch ideas, school your contemporaries with movie trivia, and enjoy some drinks. We'll see you there!
Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary

Not Rated / Documentary / 2 hours, 46 minutes For the 18th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 17th. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial […]
Everything Everywhere All At Once

Rated R / Narrative / 2 hour, 19 minutes In celebration of all the Oscar noms we're bringing back Birminghamian and Sidewalk multi-alum director Daniel Scheinert (and Daniel Kwan's) film EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. Film synopsis: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world […]
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The Room (2003) Featuring A Live On-Site Commentary By Star Greg Sestero

Rated R / Narrative / 1 hour, 39 minutes Oh, hi Mark! THE ROOM featuring an on-site live commentary throughout the film by Greg Sestero. SPEND A NIGHT WITH THE MAN WHO SURVIVED THE ROOM Join us for a special evening with Greg Sestero, star of THE ROOM and author of THE DISASTER ARTIST, the […]
Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation

Not Rated / Animated / 1 hour, 37 minutes For the 18th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 17th. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial […]
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Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action

Not Rated / Documentary / 1 hour, 55 minutes For the 18th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 17th. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial […]
Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary

Not Rated / Documentary / 2 hours, 46 minutes For the 18th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 17th. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial […]
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Last Flight Home (2022)

Not Rated / Documentary / 1 hour, 46 minutes In his final days, we discover Eli Timoner and an extraordinary life of wild achievements, tragic loss and most of all, enduring love. LAST FLIGHT HOME shares a stunning verité account of a courageous family confronting life and death. Part of our Women in Film Week
BIG (1988) Programming Selection By Stacey Davis

Rated PG / Narrative / 1 hour, 44 minutes Programmed for Sidewalk Women In Film Week by Stacey Davis - Film Synopsis: After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult. Part of our Women in Film Week
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Women’s Adventure Film Tour

Not Rated / Documentary / 1 hour, 40 minutes The Women’s Adventure Film Tour® (WAFT) is back for the sixth year. The tour is a celebration of the fantastic women around us who are doing extraordinary things in the name of adventure. Part of our Women in Film Week
Eat Pray Love (2010) Programming Selection By T. Marie King

Rated PG-13 / Narrative / 2 hours, 13 minutes Programmed for Sidewalk Women In Film Week by T. Marie King - Film Synopsis: A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey […]
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The Virgin Suicides (1999) Programming Selection By Jackie Lo

Rated R / Narrative / 1 hour, 37 minutes Programmed for Sidewalk Women In Film Week by Jackie Lo - Film Synopsis: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s. Part of our Women in Film Week
Soundtrack Karaoke – Award Winning Songs

*NO TICKETS REQUIRED, SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED* Join us for our 2nd Soundtrack Karaoke event! We'll be celebrating Valentine's a little early with a Kiss'em or Diss'em song list made up of the best love songs and break-up bangers - all from movie soundtracks of course! This is a free event in the […]
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Cocaine Bear

Rated R / Narrative / 1 hour, 35 minutes An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converges in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - $5 Tickets & Free Coffee! The film will have on-screen captions (when provided by […]
Bad Movie Night – FREE

Not Rated / Narrative / 2 hours *NO TICKETS REQUIRED, SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED* All we can tell you is that it's a movie and it's bad. Join us for our monthly celebration of bad cinema. Surprises + Fun and it's free!
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Women’s Adventure Film Tour

Not Rated / Documentary / 1 hour, 40 minutes The Women’s Adventure Film Tour® (WAFT) is back for the sixth year. The tour is a celebration of the fantastic women around us who are doing extraordinary things in the name of adventure. Part of our Women in Film Week
BIG (1988) Programming Selection By Stacey Davis

Rated PG / Narrative / 1 hour, 44 minutes Programmed for Sidewalk Women In Film Week by Stacey Davis - Film Synopsis: After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult. Part of our Women in Film Week
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The Virgin Suicides (1999) Programming Selection By Jackie Lo

Rated R / Narrative / 1 hour, 37 minutes Programmed for Sidewalk Women In Film Week by Jackie Lo - Film Synopsis: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s. Part of our Women in Film Week
“Hollywood Awards Show” Watch Party

Join us to celebrate Hollywood's most celebrated evening and the much nominated Birminghamian/Sidewalker Daniel Scheinert with a FREE watch party including a live stream of the awards ceremony on the big cinema screen AND all three screens in our lobby bar. We'll get started at 5:30pm with the red carpet broadcast and SideTalks Podcast Live. […]
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Southern Circuit – Mama Bears
Southern Circuit – Mama Bears

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema is proud to be a screening venue for the 2022 Southern Circuit. Join us for our screenings of these thought provoking Southern films accompanied by a Q + A with the filmmaking team live and in person! The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers works with a regional network of […]
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Monthly Movie Trivia Hosted

Every third Thursday of the month, join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Networking Nights from 5-7pm and then Monthly Movie Trivia from 8-10pm. Network, pitch ideas, school your contemporaries with movie trivia, and enjoy some drinks. We'll see you there!
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, Dreyer (1928)

Join us for the monthly Sidewalk Film 101 series at the Sidewalk Cinema, it's just like film school without the annoying fear of unemployment. Every month features an important, influential film from a different decade, moving from 1902 in February to 2011 in December. Film screenings include links to additional resources to help historically and […]
Twilight Fest: Twilight (2008)

Team Edward? Team Jacob? Or Team Bella? - All are welcome to the first annual Sidewalk Twilight Fest. Watch one or two of the films in the series or take this opportunity to watch them all, over the course of the week or all at once on Saturday. Lots of surprises! A pass for all […]
Twilight Fest: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

Team Edward? Team Jacob? Or Team Bella? - All are welcome to the first annual Sidewalk Twilight Fest. Watch one or two of the films in the series or take this opportunity to watch them all, over the course of the week or all at once on Saturday. Lots of surprises! A pass for all […]
Cocaine Bear

Rated R / Narrative / 1 hour, 35 minutes An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converges in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - $5 Tickets & Free Coffee! The film will have on-screen captions (when provided by […]
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Leprechaun Night

It’s st Patrick’s day - join us in the Sidewalk cinema lobby for leprechaun shenanigans- content is R rated. It’s free so save yer gold for the drink specials
Twilight Fest: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

Team Edward? Team Jacob? Or Team Bella? - All are welcome to the first annual Sidewalk Twilight Fest. Watch one or two of the films in the series or take this opportunity to watch them all, over the course of the week or all at once on Saturday. Lots of surprises! A pass for all […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 Watch Party
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 Watch Party

Join us in the Sidewalk lobby for the newest episode of RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 15).
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Mandy (2018) Midnight Madness

Not Rated / Narrative / 2 hours, 01 minutes Stay up late and join us for the March installment of Midnight Madness! Film Synopsis: The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of […]
Twilight Fest: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)

Team Edward? Team Jacob? Or Team Bella? - All are welcome to the first annual Sidewalk Twilight Fest. Watch one or two of the films in the series or take this opportunity to watch them all, over the course of the week or all at once on Saturday. Lots of surprises! Buy a pass for […]
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Twilight Fest: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)

Team Edward? Team Jacob? Or Team Bella? - All are welcome to the first annual Sidewalk Twilight Fest. Watch one or two of the films in the series or take this opportunity to watch them all, over the course of the week or all at once on Saturday. Lots of surprises! A pass for all […]
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Skate Night

Not Rated / Narrative / 2 hours Join us for Monthly Skate Night at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema. A monthly celebration of skate videos and culture on the big screen. Bring your favorite skate stories and come embrace one of independent cinemas hidden gems, skate videos!
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

Rated PG / Animation / 2 hours, 17 minutes Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. […]
Cocaine Bear

Rated R / Narrative / 1 hour, 35 minutes An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converges in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - $5 Tickets & Free Coffee! The film will have on-screen captions (when provided by […]
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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 Watch Party

Join us in the Sidewalk lobby for the newest episode of RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 15).
Close

Rated PG-13 / Narrative / 1 hour, 44 minutes The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - $5 Tickets & Free Coffee! The film will have […]
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Amélie (2001) Staff Pick: Jennifer Freehling

Rated R / Narrative / 2 hours, 2 minutes Staff Pick By Jennifer Freehling Film Synopsis: Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.
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Southern Circuit – The Performance of Documentary with Crystal Kwok

Join us before the screening of Blurring the Color Line for this free lecture by director and Ph.D. candidate Crystal Kwok. How does a documentary perform? How does race perform? Crystal Kwok shares her approach in making the film through a performative and feminist lens, focusing on concepts of liminality and the multiple spaces that […]
Southern Circuit – Blurring the Color Line
Southern Circuit – Blurring the Color Line

Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema is proud to be a screening venue for the 2022 Southern Circuit. Join us for our screenings of these thought provoking Southern films accompanied by a Q + A with the filmmaking team live and in person! The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers works with a regional network of […]
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The New Iron Age: A Work-In-Progress Docu-Series

Interested in documentary filmmaking? Metal art? Philosophy? Join Iron City show creators Erick Forsyth and Chris Hilleke as they reveal the creative process behind their new original docu-series entitled ""The New Iron Age."" The event is a guided sneak peek of this work-in-progress with scenes, raw footage, and a panel discussion between blacksmith, filmmaker, and […]
March Book + Film Club – Independent Female Filmmakers / Daughters of the Dust
March Book + Film Club – Independent Female Filmmakers / Daughters of the Dust

Book: Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos by Michele Meek Film: Daughters of the Dust (1991, dir. Julie Dash) The registration fee for Book + Film Club includes a copy of the book and access to a private screening and discussion. Multi-month memberships are available. Books will be mailed to participants […]
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

Rated PG / Animation / 2 hours, 17 minutes Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. […]
Close

Rated PG-13 / Narrative / 1 hour, 44 minutes The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - $5 Tickets & Free Coffee! The film will have […]
Daughters of the Dust

Rated TV-PG / Narrative / 1 hour, 52 minutes A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - $5 Tickets & Free Coffee! The film will have on-screen captions (when provided by distributors) & reduced capacity. While these screenings cater to […]
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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 Watch Party

Join us in the Sidewalk lobby for the newest episode of RuPaul's Drag Race (Season 15).
The Eternal Daughter

Rated PG-13 / Narrative / 1 hour, 36 minutes Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - $5 Tickets & Free Coffee! The film will have on-screen captions (when provided by distributors) & reduced capacity. […]
Enys Men

Rated PG / Narrative / 2 hours, 55 minutes Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare. A Sidewalk Early Bird Special - […]