47TH CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

ANNOUNCES JURIED COMPETITIONS AND ADDITIONAL PROGRAM DETAILS

The 47th Cleveland International Film Festival is delighted to announce its juried competitions. Thirty-two feature films are included in three esteemed competitions, with $30,000 in cash prizes available. In addition, dozens of short films will be included in CIFF’s three Oscar® qualifying categories, with $3,000 in cash prizes available.

Schedule:

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 – Opening Night

Opening Night Film: Butterfly in the Sky

CIFF47 will kick off its 11-day run at Playhouse Square with our Opening Night Film BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY. The evening includes the screening of the film in the stunning Connor Palace, followed by a post-film conversation with guests Bradford Thomason, Dava Whisenant, Kathy Kinsner, and Ellen Doherty. Attendees are then invited to a post-film reception. A cash bar will be available.

Tickets to Opening Night are $100 ($80 for CIFF members).

BUY TICKETS

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Upper Allen:

11:55 AM -- La Maternal
2:35 PM -- My Sailor, My Love
5:05 PM -- Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities
7:25 PM -- The Year Between
10:05 PM -- Viking

KeyBank State Theatre:

12:00 PM -- Deep Rising
2:40 PM -- Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
4:55 PM -- Plan 75
7:35 PM -- Chevalier
10:00 PM -- Subtraction

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

12:05 PM -- And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
2:25 PM -- Riceboy Sleeps
5:10 PM -- Category: Woman
7:15 PM -- Olympic Oaks, Continuing Jesse Owens' Legacy
9:50 PM -- Butterfly Vision

Allen Theatre:

12:10 PM -- Sweet As
2:30 PM -- Shorts Program 1
5:00 PM -- Ukrainian Shorts
7:30 PM -- ????? (We Will Speak)
9:55 PM – Manticore

Friday, March 24, 2023

Upper Allen:

12:05 PM -- The Year Between
2:30 PM -- Viking
5:05 PM -- Stories Not To Be Told
7:30 PM -- Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities
10:05 PM -- Smoking Causes Coughing

KeyBank State Theatre:

12:10 PM -- Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
2:25 PM -- The Grab
5:00 PM -- A Rising Fury
7:40 PM -- Chop & Steele
10:10 PM -- The Knocking

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

11:55 PM -- The Highway Family
2:40 PM -- Sonne
5:10 PM -- Playing Through
7:25 PM -- Riceboy Sleeps
9:55 PM -- Mamacruz

Allen Theatre:

12:00 PM -- Black Barbie: A Documentary
2:35 PM -- Alis
4:55 PM -- Shorts Program 2
7:35 PM -- Shorts in Focus: Breakwater Studios
10:00 PM -- After Hours Shorts 1

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Upper Allen:

9:30 AM -- My Sailor, My Love
11:50 AM -- The 50
2:20 PM -- Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
5:05 PM -- Rye Lane
7:30 PM -- Comedy Shorts 1
10:00 PM -- Pamfir

KeyBank State Theatre:

9:40 AM -- Patrick and the Whale
11:55 PM -- The Grab
2:35 PM -- Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
4:50 PM -- We Are the Troopers
7:25 PM -- Join or Die
9:55 PM -- Chop & Steele

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

9:35 AM -- King Coal
12:05 PM -- Blue Jean
2:30 PM -- Sam Now
5:00 PM -- Everybody Wants to Be Loved
7:20 PM -- Kindling
9:50 PM -- Citizen Sleuth

Allen Theatre:

9:25 AM -- Family Shorts 1
12:00 PM -- Mavka: The Forest Song
2:25 PM -- Homegrown: Future Visions
4:55 PM -- In Search of Bengali Harlem
7:35 PM -- Black Barbie: A Documentary
10:05 PM -- Satanic Hispanics

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Upper Allen:

9:30 AM -- Smoking Causes Coughing
12:05 PM -- Martinez
2:25 PM -- Valeria Is Getting Married
4:50 PM -- SHTTL
7:20 PM -- Love Life

KeyBank State Theatre:

9:25 AM -- The Smell of Money
11:50 PM -- Join or Die
2:40 PM -- PRE FAB!
5:00 PM -- Nurse Unseen
7:35 PM -- 20 Days in Mariupol

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

9:35 AM -- And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
12:00 PM -- King Coal
2:30 PM -- Kindling
4:55 PM -- Afghan Dreamers
7:25 PM -- Citizen Sleuth

Allen Theatre:

9:40 AM -- Nayola
11:55 PM -- Shorts Program 3
2:35 PM -- Groundbreaker Shorts
5:05 PM -- 26.2 to Life
7:30 PM -- Shorts Program 4

Monday, March 27, 2023

Upper Allen:

11:45 AM -- Love Life
2:25 PM -- La Maternal
5:05 PM -- Shimoni
7:25 PM -- Bad Press

KeyBank State Theatre:

11:50 PM -- Nurse Unseen
2:35 PM -- Deep Rising
5:10 PM -- The Conspiracy
7:30 PM -- Jeannette

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

11:55 PM -- Butterfly Vision
2:30 PM -- Blue Jean
5:00 PM -- The Tuba Thieves
7:35 PM -- A Still Small Voice

Allen Theatre:

12:00 PM -- Shorts Program 5
2:40 PM -- Sweet As
4:55 PM -- Shorts Program 6
7:40 PM -- Daughter of Rage

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Upper Allen:

12:00 PM -- Valeria Is Getting Married
2:25 PM -- Pamfir
5:10 PM -- Bolan's Shoes
7:20 PM -- The Happiest Man in the World

KeyBank State Theatre:

11:45 PM -- The Disappearance of Shere Hite
2:35 PM -- Charcoal
4:55 PM -- Finding Her Beat
7:15 PM -- Being Mary Tyler Moore

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

11:55 PM -- A Still Small Voice
2:40 PM -- Eternal Spring
5:05 PM -- Home Is Somewhere Else
7:30 PM -- Amanda

Allen Theatre:

11:50 AM -- Falcon Lake
2:30 PM -- Shorts Program 7
5:00 PM -- Parability Shorts
7:25 PM -- Local Heroes Shorts 1

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Upper Allen:

12:00 PM -- The Happiest Man in the World
2:35 PM -- Ordinary Failures
4:55 PM -- Egghead & Twinkie
7:35 PM -- Sorcery

KeyBank State Theatre:

11:45 AM -- Lakota Nation vs. United States
2:25 PM -- Joonam
5:05 PM -- Going Varsity in Mariachi
7:25 PM -- Ithaka

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

11:55 AM -- Amanda
2:30 PM -- Cowboy Poets
5:00 PM -- Who Are the Marcuses?
7:30 PM -- Chrissy Judy

Allen Theatre:

11:50 AM -- Before I Change My Mind
2:20 PM -- Shorts Program 8
4:50 PM -- Shorts Program 9
7:20 PM -- Local Heroes Shorts 2

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Upper Allen:

11:50 AM -- January
2:20 PM -- It Runs in the Family
4:45 PM -- March '68
7:15 PM -- America
10:10 PM -- Ordinary Failures

KeyBank State Theatre:

11:55 AM -- Little Richard: I Am Everything
2:25 PM -- An Accidental Life
4:50 PM -- The Disappearance of Shere Hite
7:35 PM -- Judy Blume Forever
9:45 PM -- Satanic Hispanics

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

11:40 AM -- PLAN C
2:10 PM -- It's Only Life After All
5:05 PM -- Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom
7:25 PM -- 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
10:00 PM -- The Gravity

Allen Theatre:

12:00 PM -- Shorts Program 10
2:30 PM -- Shorts Program 11
5:00 PM -- DReam Maker Shorts
7:20 PM -- Backwards
9:50 PM -- Falcon Lake

Friday, March 31, 2023

Upper Allen:

11:50 AM -- Other People's Children
2:15 PM -- Joyland
5:00 PM -- January
7:15 PM -- Comedy Shorts 2
9:50 PM -- R.M.N.

KeyBank State Theatre:

11:45 AM -- Joonam
2:30 PM -- Food and Country
4:55 PM -- In the Company of Rose
7:25 PM -- Little Richard: I Am Everything
10:00 PM -- Follow Her

Mimi Ohio Theatre:

11:55 AM -- Driving Mum
2:20 PM -- Silent Beauty
4:45 PM -- PLAN C
7:20 PM -- Susie Searches
10:05 PM -- Sick of Myself

Allen Theatre:

12:00 PM -- UÝRA: The Rising Forest
2:25 PM -- Shorts Program 12
4:50 PM -- I Have Electric Dreams
7:30 PM -- All Man: The International Male Story
9:55 PM -- After Hours Shorts 2

Saturday, April 1, 2023 – Closing Night

7:20 PM -- Gumbo Coalition at Allen Theatre

7:25 PM -- Other People's Children at Upper Allen

7:30 PM -- I Like Movies at KeyBank State Theatre

7:35 PM -- Casa Susanna at Mimi Ohio Theatre

Dates: March 22 - April 1, 2023

Venue: Various Venues in Cleveland, OH

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