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The Kalamazoo Film Society offers a diverse selection of films, featuring the best that both American and foreign cinema have to offer.

The Kalamazoo Film Society is a volunteer, registered non-profit organization which was formed in 1988 to enhance the Greater Kalamazoo area's film viewing opportunities. Our mission is to provide the community with first-run, world class cinema which includes both independent and foreign films that would otherwise not be offered locally. From a humble, almost underground, beginning, we continue t

o grow into the most cutting-edge, alternative film experience in town. We encourage you to attend our films and help keep quality cinema alive and well in Kalamazoo.

07/30/2025

Continuing: OH, HI Iris has met her perfect guy, Isaac, and is enjoying their first romantic getaway together-what could go wrong? This charmingly odd dark comedy takes on the highs and lows of modern dating and the ways it makes all involved just a little crazy. Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman are the leads in this quirky rom-com. Writer/Director: Sophie Brooks
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/Oh-Hi!?date=2025-07-30&cinema=003

07/24/2025

Opening Friday: TO A LAND UNKNOWN Palestinian refugee cousins, Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches a plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get Reda and his best friend out of their environment before it is too late. Shot in grainy 16mm, one reviewer called the film bitterly unsentimental, with a dark streak of humor, and real tenderness. Co-writer/director: Mahdi Fleifel
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/To-a-Land-Unknown?date=2025-07-25&cinema=003

07/18/2025

Opening Friday: DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT Bobo is an 8-year-old girl whose childhood unfolds on her family's Rhodesian farm as the Bush War rages to its bitter end and the country becomes the Republic of Zimbabwe. Set against this tumultuous backdrop, we witness the family's attachment to Africa's soil and the scars of a war that reshapes the land and the souls of its inhabitants. This insightful and heartrending film is based on Alexandra Fuller's 2001 memoir; it is actor Embeth Davidtz's first time directing.
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/Don't-Let's-Go-to-the-Dogs-Tonight?date=2025-07-18&cinema=003

06/26/2025

Opening Friday: HOT MILK Suffering with a strange illness, a wheel-chair bound mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure from a shamanic doctor. Along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother when she befriends an enigmatic fellow traveler. Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vincent Perez, Vicky Krieps star in the film based on Deborah Levy's novel. Co-writer/Director: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/Hot-Milk?date=2025-06-27&cinema=003

06/05/2025

Opening Friday: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME The brief description "The story of a family and a family business" seems woefully undescriptive, but Wes Anderson's vision and style can only mean something special is at hand. And if that's not enough, there is a constellation of acting star power aboard, including Benecio Del Toro, Tom Hanks, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Scarlett Johansson, and many more.
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/The-Phoenician-Scheme?date=2025-06-06&cinema=003

05/29/2025

Opening Friday: JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE A charming but clumsy woman is desperately single, spending her days selling books in the legendary British bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, in Paris. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel; her aspiration is to become a writer. When she is invited to a residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to fulfill her dreams. Writer/director: Laura Piani
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/Jane-Austen-Wrecked-My-Life?date=2025-05-31&cinema=003

05/23/2025

Opening Friday: FRIENDSHIP Craig is a suburban father who falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor. As Craig attempts to make an adult male friend, he threatens to ruin both of their lives, as familiarity breeds contempt. Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd and Kate Mara are the leads in this dark, and some say cringey comedy. Writer/Director: Andrew DeYoung
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/Friendship?date=2025-05-24&cinema=003

04/29/2025

Opened Friday: ON SWIFT HORSES Muriel and her husband Lee are beginning a new life in California when he returns from the Korean War. Their stability is upended by the arrival of Lee's brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A love triangle quickly forms. When Julius takes off in search of the young card cheat he's fallen for, Muriel’s longing propels her into a secret life of her own, as she gambles on racehorses and explores a love she never dreamed possible. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter are the leads. Director: Daniel Minahan
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/On-Swift-Horses?date=2025-04-29&cinema=003

04/28/2025

Opened Friday: THE ENCAMPMENTS When a group of students at Columbia University launched a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they sparked a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Encampments at hundreds of other campuses sprang up as students objected to their university’s investment in the US and Israeli arms industry. Featuring detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, viewers see inside America’s student uprising, as light is shed on the movement that continues today.
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/The-Encampments?date=2025-04-27&cinema=003

04/09/2025

Friday Screening Only SEPARATED: a documentary about the first Trump administration's family separation policy. Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, "Separated: Inside an American Tragedy", Morris merges interviews with government officials and narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Panel discussion after the film.

04/03/2025

Opening Friday: THE FRIEND Iris (Naomi Watts) is a writer and teacher who finds her New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) dies suddenly and bequeaths his 150-pound Great Dane, Apollo, to her. The regal beast creates problems, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, and his presence is a constant reminder of her friend's problematic choices. As Iris finds herself bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, her friend, and her creative inner life.
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/The-Friend?date=2025-04-04&cinema=003

03/27/2025

Opening Friday: THE PENGUIN LESSONS Tom Mitchell (Steve Coogan) was a young Englishman who went to work in a boarding school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. His life, however, was turned upside-down after he rescued a Magellan penguin from an oil-slicked beach. How his life was put right by that connection is the core of this heart-warming story. Director: Peter Cattaneo
https://www.celebrationcinema.com/Films/detail/The-Penguin-Lessons?date=2025-03-30&cinema=003

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Kalamazoo, MI
49005

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+12693247469

Website

http://www.kalfilmsociety.net/

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