Wisconsin Film Festival
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The sights and shape(s) of the 2025 Wisconsin Film Festival
Seven writers size up the programming patterns in the eight-day celebration of movies, which runs April 3 through 10 across UW–Madison campus and beyond.
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From the lens of a film festival volunteer
Engaging insights at the movies and with audiences during and after the 26th annual Wisconsin Film Festival this past April.
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Oblique journeys in film (and) criticism
Another post-film festival meditation on our current spaces for dialogue.
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“Take Me Somewhere Nice” offers a gently absurdist look at the vicissitudes of contemporary Balkan life
Writer-Director Ena Sendijarević visits the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 8 to present her candy-coated existential comedy.
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In “String Theory: The Richard Davis Method,” the storied jazz bassist takes the lead
Michael Neelsen’s new documentary on the late musician and UW-Madison professor premieres at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 7.
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“Light Needs” and “Parallel Botany” use the film medium as a means to map plant consciousness
Jesse McLean’s feature documentary, Magdalena Bermudez’s experimental short, and three other botanical shorts screen in a Wisconsin Film Festival program on April 6.
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“Melomaniac” is a blurry but striking snapshot of an obsessive documentarian
Katlin Schneider’s roughshod ode to Chicago indie-rock show taper Aadam Jacobs screens at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 6.
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Gig workers the world over, “Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World”
Romanian postmodernist director Radu Jude’s newest film premieres locally at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 6 and 7.
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Everyday beauty, autofiction, and BDSM: an interview with Joanna Arnow
The Brooklyn-based filmmaker discusses her deadpan comedy, “The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed,” which premieres locally at the 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival on April 5 and 6.
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Screaming in Percepto with schlocky horror classic “The Tingler”
Vincent Price stars as a mad pathologist in William Castle’s 1959 flick, which screens twice during the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 5.
