Film screening of Feet in the Sand with guest filmmaker Gustavo Ramos Perales. Additional Information: To purchase tickets, please visit the Woodward Theater's website.

Short films from up-and-coming filmmakers and established artists working in a dizzy range of documentary forms and tones. Among this year's highlights is Jill, Uncredited (Anthony Ing, 2022), a playful yet profound portrait of the prolific background actor Jill Goldston who has appeared in almost 2000 films and TV programs ranging from Mr. Bean to…

This intimate and surprising David vs. Goliath story closely follows a group of current and former Amazon employees who seek to unionize within one of the world's largest and most powerful companies. After the screening, the film's co-director Brett Story will be in conversation with the Ohio filmmaker Steven Bognar, an Oscar-winner for his powerful…

Training for Freedom Summer presents the history and personal stories of those who came together in Oxford, OH, as they prepared to help register Black voters in the Deep South. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. Limited accessible parking available. Closed Captions available on film. If you have accessibility needs, please contact artmuseum@miamioh.edu.

Shot entirely within the notoriously violent world of Grand Theft Auto, this film charts the ridiculous, hilarious and moving adventure of Sam and Mark as they attempt to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game. Winner of the 2024 South by Southwest Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary (89 minutes, DCP). Additional Information:…

​​Following an unlikely collaboration between a Palestinian filmmaker and an Israeli journalist, this is a powerful record of life in Occupied Palestine. Bearing witness to the everyday horrors of life under occupation, and the stark inequality it gives rise to, this is a welcome and urgent act of witness and testimony (96 minutes, DCP). In…

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the unique history of Yellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its residents in comical scenes. Through interacting with their own previously recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time and storytelling. Sound Spring was supported by the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio and…

This tribute to the late and beloved Oscar-winning Ohio documentarian Julia Reichert by her long-term partner celebrates her legacy and spirit through never-seen-before footage of her life and work. This program will bring Julia’s inspirational spirit to the Wexner Center with three short films by Bognar that highlight the incredible woman who was so often…

DRIVER follows three years in the life of long-haul trucker Desiree Wood and her community of women drivers, presenting a snapshot of a quickly-disappearing labor landscape, told through the women who are living it every day. Desiree and her sisterhood of truckers are fueled by a sense of gallows humor and a fiery outrage as…

When Mats Steen was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and increasingly lost control of his body, he fell into the world of computer games with the aid of specially built chairs. His parents had worried about the isolation of the last years of his life but after his death at the age…

Anand Partwardhan is known for his brave documentaries that question his country’s dominant Hindu nationalist ideology. In The World Is Family (an old Sanskrit phrase), Anand looks at his family’s elders who had fought for India’s Independence alongside Mahatma Gandhi in the first half of the 20th century. Today self-confessed supremacists whose ideology once inspired…

Film screening of Rafaela with guests Judith Rodriguez (actress) and Cristian Mojica (screenwriter). Additional Information: To purchase tickets, please visit the Woodward Theater's website.

Film screening of Rafaela with guests Judith Rodriguez (actress) and Cristian Mojica (screenwriter).

Reading Freedom Summer (Andy Rice and partners) is a reflection on Freedom Summer 1964, a documentary featuring letters and songs read and sung by Oxford citizens and Miami University students. Additional Information: Limited accessible parking available and wheelchair access available. Closed Captions available on film. If you have accessibility needs, please contact artmuseum@miamioh.edu

Film screening of All the Flowers with director Carmen Oquendo (via videoconference) and producer Alejandro Angel Torres (in person). Additional Information: To purchase tickets, please visit the Woodward Theater's website.

This event will feature the full screening of the documentary Don't Talk About It, Be About It, featuring the viewpoints and life's work of Cincinnati native Omar Childress. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. Reserved access accommodations available.