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2023 Wisconsin Film Festival at multiple venues
April 13, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - April 20, 2023 @ 10:30 pm
The film festival guide’s cover art by Christina King shows a wildly decadent (and filmic easter egg-stuffed) birthday cake to commemorate the festival’s 25th year.
This year is a milestone for the Wisconsin Film Festival in a few ways. First, 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of a festival that reliably comes through with considerable heft. Second, this will be the festival’s last time holding a large portion of its screenings at Hilldale, so next year’s event will likely be a very different experience from those of the past decade. Amid all this, the festival is also taking new risks, this time in the form of a sold-out “secret screening” on April 14 at the Marquee in Union South. Programmers have kept the details of this firmly under wraps, even publishing a playfully redacted entry for the screening in this year’s festival guide.
Most years, the festival boasts more than 150 titles spanning international cinema, narrative features, documentaries, “Wisconsin’s Own” films, restored classics, experimental short films, and even some kid-friendly selections—all programmed with an eager embrace of both prestige and sleaze. Tone Madison‘s film team has been digging into the highlights over the past month, so please make sure to catch up! If you appreciate their work, help us do more of it by donating to Tone Madison. Your contributions literally help us pay these excellent writers.
- Treat yourself to the 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival
- We like movie posters: A 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival gallery
- The dead ends of language in the open-ended short film, Noise
- Trying to reconcile the irreconcilable in Beyond Human Nature
- Young French Cinema illuminates modern familial complexities
- Form follows function in Geographies Of Solitude and The Tuba Thieves and their sensory studies of the natural world
- The flourishingly bittersweet I Like It Here captures the golden essence of humanity
- Searing themes and fleeting presences in five 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival selections
- Nick Prueher of Found Footage Festival stomps baskets and lawsuits in Chop & Steele
- Chandler Levack’s I Like Movies reaches through personal history to find reconciliation
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