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Film
They Say Nothing Stays the Same – Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / March 10, 2023 / 7:00pm Japanese with English subtitles. 137 minutes. Directed by Joe Odagiri. 2019. Featuring an array of Japan's top stars, this film follows Toichi (Akira Emoto), an aging ferryman in a remote Meiji-era community. His peaceful, cyclical existence is given meaning by the essential role he plays in transporting people, livestock…
Queen of Glory – Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / March 24, 2023 / 7:00pm United States, English language with subtitles. 78 minutes. Directed by Nana Mensah. 2021. Sarah Obeng (Nana Mensah), a doctoral student at Columbia University, is weeks away from following her boyfriend to Ohio when her mother suddenly passes away. Her inheritance is King of Glory, a small Christian bookstore serving…
They Say Nothing Stays the Same – Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / April 14, 2023 / 7:00pm Japanese with English subtitles. 137 minutes. Directed by Joe Odagiri. 2019. Featuring an array of Japan’s top stars, this film follows Toichi (Akira Emoto), an aging ferryman in a remote Meiji-era community. His peaceful, cyclical existence is given meaning by the essential role he plays in transporting people, livestock…
Healthy Lake Winona Film by Mary Farrell
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / April 21, 2023 / 7:00pm / $10.00 Sponsored by Frozen River Film Festival Buy Tickets Online When Lake Winona was being evaluated as an impaired water by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, a group of local citizens formed Healthy Lake Winona in 2014. The group initiated several projects to reduce the problem of…
Salt of the Earth – Film & Cinco de Mayo Celebration
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / May 5, 2023 / 7:00pm Please join us for some food, fun and a film. Enjoy some salsa, chips, non-alcoholic sangria and more … Featuring the classic 1954 film, Salt of the Earth. This is one of the first films to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centers…
The Harvest – La Cosecha – Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / September 29, 2023 / 7:00pm Admission - $5.00 (The best deal in town) Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to…
The Cup – Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / October 6, 2023 / 7:30pm Prayer. Meditation. Rituals. Soccer?? World Cup soccer fever sweeps into a remote Himalayan monastery and centuries-old traditions are threatened—the young monks will do just about anything to watch the final match, posing a unique challenge to the venerable lamas in charge. An engaging tale of colliding cultures, midnight…
tracings: dance film screening and community sharing
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United Statescreated by Sharon Mansur; presented in partnership with the Frozen River Film Festival Saturday / October 7, 2023 / 2:00-4:00pm Join Winona based dance/interdisciplinary artist Sharon Mansur and guests for “tracings: dance film screening and community sharing". This informal event will feature the premiere of tracings, a dance film created by Sharon Mansur in collaboration with…
The Day after Trinity – Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / October 20, 2023 / 7:00pm This 1981 documentary film is directed and produced by Jon H. Else. The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at the Trinity site in New Mexico. It features…
200 Meters – Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesFriday / November 3, 2023 / 7:00pm 96 minutes. Arabic, English and Hebrew with English subtitles. Mustafa (Ali Sulman), a Palestinian construction worker, lives in the West Bank, a mere 200 meters from his wife and children in Israel. Though eligible for an Israeli ID, Mustafa instead chooses to use his work permit to visit…
Frozen River Film Festival at the WAC – Film: Greener Pastures
Greener Pastures captures the day-to-day lives of four small, Midwestern, multigenerational family farms over the course of three years. Through an intimate, observational lens, we examine various farm stressors, policies, and politics that farmers must maneuver to survive, connecting the dots between mental health, industrialization, food production, and climate change. It is a story of…
Frozen River Film Festival at the WAC—WORKSHOP: Lighting for Film
Winona Arts Center 228 East 5th Street, Winona, MN, United StatesLocal film experts Blake Darst and Dr. Danielle Schwartz will lead you through a hands-on workshop that covers the basics of lighting for documentaries, focusing on quality lighting for interviews. You will get the chance to handle basic lighting equipment and learn about affordable “hacks” to adapt lighting you may have at home to create…