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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

  • Withdrawal
    • Mary D. Fisher Theatre
    • August 14 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Raw, unflinching, and surprisingly funny, “Withdrawal” is the winner of 12 awards on the festival circuit including Best Feature/Best Director at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and Best Actress at the Kanazawa Film Festival.

  • Battle of Oslo
    • Mary D. Fisher Theatre
    • August 15 - August 20

    “Battle of Oslo” tells the true story of Colonel Eriksen, who, on April 9, 1940, sank a German warship approaching Oslo. His decision delayed the Nazi invasion and saved the king and government — yet he was later treated unfairly by a military commission.

  • Aida: Met Opera Encore
    • Mary D. Fisher Theatre
    • August 15 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    In this powerful 2025 Met performance, soprano Angel Blue sings the title role of Verdi’s Egyptian drama, with tenor Piotr Beczała as the warrior Radamès and mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi as Amneris in Michael Mayer’s spectacular staging.

  • Outdoor Film: A Fish Called Wanda
    • Village of Oak Creek Association Park
    • August 17 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    British gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his hapless aide, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), draft a pair of arrogant Americans, grifter Wanda Gerschwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) and weapons expert Otto West (Kevin Kline), for a massive diamond heist.

  • Flagstaff Premiere: Old Man Lightning
    • Theatrikos Theatre Company
    • August 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

    Cranky, yet witty bouldering legend John “Verm” Sherman has lost his mojo and is jonesing to regain it. What better way than to climb the world’s most famous boulder problem, Yosemite’s iconic Midnight Lightning?

  • Outdoor Film: 500 Days of Summer
    • The Wilde Resort and Spa
    • August 19 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    In the 2009 romantic drama/comedy “500 Days of Summer” Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), suddenly dumps him.

  • I Am
    • Mary D. Fisher Theatre
    • August 20 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    “I Am” is a thought-provoking documentary by Tom Shadyac, director of “Ace Ventura”, and the “Nutty Professor”. Following a life-changing accident, Shadyac set out on a journey to explore the biggest questions of life.

  • Outdoor Film: Overboard
    • Basecamp Sedona Beer Company
    • August 20 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    Oscar-winner Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell team up for this warm and funny, hilarious and touching comedy. While her yacht is stuck for repairs in a small Oregon town, spoiled socialite Joanna Stayton (Hawn) hires local carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to remodel her closet … but then refuses to pay him.

  • The Art of Adventure
    • Mary D. Fisher Theatre
    • August 21 - August 26

    In 1957, world renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and spirited biologist Bristol Foster embarked on a global expedition in a Land Rover they called “The Grizzly Torque” — a journey that ignited a deep love of our planet and set in motion a powerful story of environmental activism through art and science.

  • The Librarians
    • Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre
    • August 21 - August 27

    America’s war on books is more than a war on words. As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.

  • Franz
    • Mary D. Fisher Theatre
    • August 21 - August 27

    Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.

  • Diamonds
    • Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre
    • August 21 - August 27

    A film director calls all his favorite actresses to film a movie set in Rome in the 70s that tells the vicissitudes revolving around a prestigious tailoring. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal much: he observes them, takes cue.