Past Events

Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2019 West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 5:00pm - Films Begin 5:30pm (ends approx. 8:30pm) This event is included in the Spring 2019 season pass. Cinema Falls pioneered the effort to bring the Oscar Nominated Shorts program to South Dakota eight years ago. This year, more than 500 screens across North America, Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Australia will participate. The five nominated documentary shorts will not only include five compelling films, but give…

Cat Video Fest 2019 West Mall 7 Theatres - Matinee ONLY Doors Open 3:30pm - Films Begin 4:00pm TRT: 75 min Rating: Family friendly Genre: Cats, Kittens, Comedy Event is a fur-raising, fun-raiser for All Cats Rescue (This event is NOT included with Fast Pass.) Post-Film Q&A Join us for a brief post-film Q&A with All Cats Rescue Cat Video Fest Summary: Each year, CatVideoFest curates a compilation reel of the latest, best cat videos culled from countless hours of…

Woman at War - (dir. Benedikt Erlingsson) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 101 min Rating: NR Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Drama, World Cinema, Mystery This film included in Fast Pass admission. Festival Selections: Cannes Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, 7 wins & 10 nominations Film Summary: Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known…

Apollo 11 - (dir. Todd Douglas Miller) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 93 min Rating: G Genre: Documentary, Space, Science This film included in Fast Pass admission. Awards: Winner - Editing Award 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Nominated Grand Jury Prize Film Summary: From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued…

Storm Boy - (dir. Shawn Seet) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 98 min Rating: PG (for some thematic elements, mild peril, and brief language) Genre: Drama, Book-to-Screen, Family This film included in Fast Pass admission. Starring: Jai Courtney, Geoffrey Rush, Finn Little, Trevor Jamison, Morgana Davies, Erick Thompson Film Summary: A beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Theile's classic novella Storm Boy, this story set in South Australia's remote Coorong National Park…

The Public - (dir. Emilio Estevez) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 122 min Rating: PG13 (for thematic material, some nudity, language, some suggestive content) Genre: Drama This film included in Fast Pass admission. Starring: Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Jena Malone, Christian Slater Film Summary: An unusually bitter Arctic blast has made its way to downtown Cincinnati and the front doors of the public library. At odds with library officials over how to…

Amazing Grace - (dir. Alan Elliott and Sydney Pollack) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 120 min includes Special Pre-show Bonus Short Film Rating: NR Genre: Documentary, Musical, Gospel, Performing Arts This film included in Fast Pass admission. Awards: 2019 National Society of Film Critics Awards USA Film Summary: In 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded the album Amazing Grace at a church in South Los Angeles. The film has never been released until now.…

Stalag Luft III – One Man’s Story - (dir. Louise Woehrle) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 100 min Rating: Unrated Genre: Documentary, History, WWII, Biography This film included in Fast Pass admission. FILMMAKER ATTENDING Director Louise Woehrle will be attending our film event for a post-film Q&A. The year 2019 marks the 75th Anniversary of "The Great Escape" of Stalag Luft III. Tom Brokaw: “…A love letter from a niece who wants…

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - (dir. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders) West Mall 7 - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 119 min Rating: PG13 (thematic material, disturbing scenes) Genre: Documentary, Literary This film included in Fast Pass admission. Film Summary: TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali,…

Maiden - (dir. Alex Holmes) West Mall 7 - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 97 min Rating: PG Genre: Adventure, Sports, Biography This film included in Fast Pass admission. Film Summary: Maiden is the story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989. Tracy's inspirational dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women…