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Celebrating 32 Years!
We are your ticket to the hottest show in town! Enjoy the BEST independent films from around the world: February 21-March 1, 2026 — celebrating 32 years!
From features to shorts, documentaries to animation and foreign films to student films, you will be treated to a cinephile’s dream … NINE DAYS and more than 150 films!
Come enjoy our biggest celebration yet! Experience the world without ever leaving your theater seat! See you at the movies!

Founded in 1995 as a 3-day exhibition of independent film and introduced the festival workshops as a way of teaching and inspiring filmmakers of tomorrow.
Now Playing & Coming Attractions
- Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre
- August 7 - August 8
“Of Color and Ink” is an extraordinary documentary film that uncovers the little-known exile journey of global artist Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983), China’s foremost 20th-century painter. He has often been compared with Picasso, and his paintings outsell Van Gogh and have broken records at auction.
- Mary D. Fisher Theatre
- August 8 - August 10
Come celebrate the 35th anniversary of an iconic Grateful Dead show as it makes a high-energy return to the big screen! Join Dead Heads in your neighborhood — and around the world — for the 2026 Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies.
- Mary D. Fisher Theatre
- August 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
From packing comedy venues across the globe to regular television appearances on shows like "The Tonight Show" and "Last Comic Standing", veteran comedian Claude Stuart has come a long way from his down-home, southern roots. Claude's explosive, in-your-face, rapid-fire, madman stage style is truly an exhilarating assault on the senses.
- Mary D. Fisher Theatre
- August 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The In the Living Room Music Series continues its summer momentum at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Aug. 10 at 7:00 p.m. This month, series creator and award-winning singer-songwriter Shondra Jepperson is joined by the masterful jazz saxophonist Chris Counelis for an unforgettable evening of musical artistry.
- Village of Oak Creek Association Park
- August 10 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
When a childless couple — an ex-con and an ex-cop — decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated. "Raising Arizona" stars Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Frances McDormand and more.
- Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre
- August 11 - August 13
From Golden Globe Award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akin, “Amrum” is a tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence set against the waning days of the Second World War.
- The Wilde Resort and Spa
- August 12 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
In 1977, college graduates Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) share a contentious car ride from Chicago to New York, during which they argue about whether men and women can ever truly be strictly platonic friends.
- Mary D. Fisher Theatre
- August 13 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
“Living” is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
- Basecamp Sedona Beer Company
- August 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The adventure continues in this "Star Wars" sequel. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth.
- Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre
- August 14 - August 20
Fourteen-year-old Olmo and his family are struggling to make ends meet in 1979 New Mexico. Due to an illness that keeps his father Nestor confined to his bed, his mother Cecilia, his sister Ana, and even he himself must contribute to the daily caretaking responsibilities.
- Mary D. Fisher Theatre
- August 14 - August 19
Writer/director Jane Campion’s brilliant masterpiece “The Piano” has undergone a stunning 4K restoration and being re-released in theatres for a big screen theatrical encore. The film — starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin — was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
- Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre
- August 14 - August 20
A prejudiced Franco-Peruvian woman is forced by financial necessity to open a restaurant in her home after her husband leaves her for another woman. Alongside a Nikkei chef, an indigenous cook and an Afro-Peruvian driver, she discovers Peru’s cultural and culinary diversity during the prosperous yet turbulent Lima of 1965.











