Passport Program
When there’s great weather, Milwaukee seizes the opportunity to celebrate and our wealth of summer heritage festivals are some of the best ways to bring communities together. Milwaukee Film is getting in on the fun with our Passport Program series running June through August. We’ll bring masterpieces from international auteurs to the big screen where you can beat the heat and then get back to the fun all summer long.
The Films
Three Colors: Blue
DCP
Drama
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes…
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
Three Colors: White
DCP
Drama
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique,…
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Three Colors: Red
DCP
Drama
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows…
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.
La Dolce Vita
DCP
Classic
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's…
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
La Strada
DCP
Classic
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his…
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
RRR
DCP
Action
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the…
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
DCP
Drama
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and…
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
Querelle
DCP
Drama
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer,…
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Mandabi
DCP
Drama
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He…
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
Xala
DCP
Drama
A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third…
A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.
In Bruges
DCP
Comedy
Crime
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they…
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
Sing Street
DCP
Romance
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress…
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
In the Name of the Father
DCP
Drama
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and…
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Amores Perros
DCP
Drama
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a…
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
Roma
DCP
Drama
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended…
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
The Devil's Backbone
DCP
Horror
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage,…
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
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