Closing Night Film Lineup & Special Events

Tonight marks the closing of the 2011 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, and we plan to go out with a bang! See a smattering of festival favorites as well as the highly anticipated sneak preview of Stuck Between Stations (SOLD OUT). At 5pm stop in for the festival awards ceremony at St. Anthony Main, as MSPIFF Competition Jurors celebrate the winners in our Five Competition Categories , then, after 9pm, head to the adjacent Aster Cafe for a closing night party complete with complimentary drinks and appetizers ($15 cover). For more info on closing night festivities click HERE.

Bonus: The Festival may be ending, but St. Anthony Main will be screening "Best of the Fest" through May 12th! Visit www.mspfilmfest.org for details.

4:45pm: Kinshasa Symphony




4:45pm: Dumas




5pm: Winds of Heaven





7pm/7:15pm/7:30pm: Stuck Between Stations (SOLD OUT)

Fest-O-Gram #5

Become a Member of The Film Society today and get two FREE Fest tickets, discounted admission rates at the Fest and year-round at Screen 3, and help sustain international, independent and art-house cinema in the Twin Cities! Stop by the Fest headquarters, next door to the theater, for more information.
-Filmmakers This Week:

• Lead Actor and Producer Khaled Abol Naga - MICROPHONE - Monday, May 2 at 6:15 and Wednesday, May 4 at 6:45.
• Director Rajko Grlic - JUST BETWEEN US - Monday, May 2 at 9:00 and Wednesday, May 4 at 7:00.
• Filmmaker Roland Rydstrom - PARADISE RECOVERED - Monday, May 2 at 5:00.
• Director Chris Panneck - THE LUTEFISK WARS - Tuesday, May 3 at 5:00.
• Director Ian Cheney - TRUCK FARM - Tuesday, May 3 at 7:00
• Director Mike Mills - BEGINNERS - Tuesday, May 3 at 7:00
• Filmmakers, Cast and Crew - MN SHORTS: NARRATIVES - Wednesday, May 4 at 9:45.
• Filmmakers, Cast and Crew - ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDWEST - Wednesday, May 4 at 10:00.
• Filmmakers, Cast and Crew - STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS - Thursday, May 5 at 7:00 (sold-out online), 7:15 (sold-out online), 7:30

-Tickets are going fast for the Closing Night Feature STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS. Get your tickets here!
-LATE ADDITION: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDWEST - 5/4 at 10pm
-See exclusive Festival video interviews with Ahmed Ahmed, Jeff Lipsky, Rich Garella + more here!
-Check out Director Mike Mills' BEGINNERS Tuesday, May 3 at 7:00 & read up on Mike's "blog of people-places-things-in-around-alongside the film Beginners"

Win a Kartemquin DVD set with 'A Good Man' and 'The Interrupters' ticket stubs!

The Interrupters and A Good Man both screen this week at the Minneapolis / St. Paul Film Festival, with this coming Sunday giving the opportunity for Kartemquin fans to see both films back-to-back, with Gordon Quinn and Steve James in attendance. Here are the dates:

• A Good Man: April 24, 2:00pm
• The Interrupters: April 24, 4:30pm
• The Interrupters: April 25, 7:30pm
• A Good Man: April 26, 6:45pm

If you plan on attending both, Kartemquin want to hear from you! Simply email, facebook post, or tweet a pic of your tickets to both films to score a free Kartemquin DVD set of our Early Years Collection, featuring 6 classic documentaries in return!

Check out the trailer for The Interrupters:



Check out the trailer for A Good Man

MSPIFF Tweet Round Up!

We rounded up some of the best MSPIFF related tweets from the past week! Tweet about your favorite movies and experiences during the festival and tag us with the official festival hashtag: #MSPIFF

 Al is tough! expect to see him out and about at the Mid-Fest party at Nick & Eddie Saturday night!

 Now that's the kind of review we like to hear! Check out Louder Than a Bomb this Sunday!

 Badass is an understatement. Final screening TONIGHT (Friday) at 9:45pm!

 We love our local filmmakers and so does City Pages!

 Punk poet Paul D. in a suit? Pix please! Lots of shorts still on the schedule btw.

 MSPIFF makes for a SUPER cute date night. Toss in a post-film nightcap at the Aster Cafe!

 We can provide the guide and the key, but please leave your fire and knives at home!

Lots of spots to lock up your bike along St. Anthony Main! Speaking of bikes, catch the last screening of the documentary on bike-riding fashion photog Bill Cunningham on Tuesday the 26th.

MID FEST Minnesota-Made PARTY

Come help us recognize the great creative strain running through Minnesota’s filmmaking community and through our festival! in the inimitable ambiance of everyone’s favorite local night spot, Nick & Eddie.  Food and drink specials. Local Musician, Kevin Steinman, and friends perform a “Minnesota Made” set. Your movie ticket gets you into the party! $5 with no ticket stub.


Friday, April 22nd / 9pm

Nick & Eddie: 1612 Harmon Pl., Minneapolis

For more special events throughout the festival click HERE.

Review a film on TC Daily Planet!

Let your voice be heard! Pop on over to TC Daily Planet and review films you've seen at the festival. We'll hope for all 5-star reviews!

Need some guidance? April 22nd and 23rd you can catch screenings of Norman Mailer: The American and review it yourself here.

For a full schedule of films, synopsis and trailers, visit our main site at www.mspfilmfest.org.

Director Jon Foy in town for 'Resurrect Dead' screening April 21st

Meet n' greet with director Jon Foy tonight! Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles screens Thursday, April 21st at 7pm and again on April 30th at 9:30pm

About the film:

Hundreds of tiles bearing some variation on the above cryptic message have been found embedded in city streets as far apart as Philadelphia, New York, St. Louis, and in the South American cities of Santiago and Buenos Aires. First appearing in the 1980’s, the enigma of the tiles -- who made them and why -- has been the sole consuming passion of Philadelphia house painter and aspiring artist and musician Justin Duerr.

Duerr’s search leads him from newspaper clippings, to hijacked local news broadcast, to a David Mamet play, and even to a Jupiter colonization organization. His search also moves inward, examining his desire to connect to the zealous tiler and what this may say about his equally obsessive personality. As an outsider himself, the search may be his own attempt to find a pattern within the chaos of the world.

An enthralling, artfully constructed portrait of global communication, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles will take audiences down the rabbit hole that lies just beneath their seats.

Click HERE for more info and to purchase tickets!