Film Birmingham's new Film Calendar is a dedicated site to help highlight all of the great independent screenings and cinema events happening around our area, both within Birmingham as well as around Jefferson County. A one stop shop for all of your cinephile needs, we aim to help people find out about both unique film events, as well as networking and workshop opportunities for those interested in learning more about the industry as a whole.
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Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is...
Jun 14 - Jun 18, 2026
Sun, Jun 14 @ 1:00 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 3:30 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 2:00 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 4:30 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 2:00 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 4:30 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 9:15 pm
Disclosure Day
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.
Jun 12 - Jul 02, 2026
Sun, Jun 14 @ 1:45 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 4:45 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 7:45 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 2:15 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 5:15 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 8:15 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 2:15 pm
...
Backrooms
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
May 28 - Jun 18, 2026
Sun, Jun 14 @ 6:00 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 8:30 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 2:00 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 2:00 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 9:15 pm
Book + Film Club June: SHOUT - All of Us Strangers
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. Register by the deadline and select and books are mailed to participants or available for...
Jun 17, 2026
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
SCREENING FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! This visionary music documentary traces the turbulent, transcendent life of Gregg Allman — from a childhood ruptured by his father’s murder to the soulful emergence that reshaped American music. Through archival...
Jun 17, 2026
Filmmaker Networking Nights (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our free Monthly Filmmaker Networking night!
Meet fellow filmmakers, pitch ideas, and enjoy some special happy hour drinks. We'll see you there!
Jun 18, 2026
Sidewalk Film 101: The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring...
Jun 18 - Jun 21, 2026
Thu, Jun 18 @ 7:00 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 1:00 pm
Monthly Movie Trivia (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Monthly Movie Trivia from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, immediately following Networking Nights. Invite your friends and school your contemporaries over some movie trivia. We'll see you there!
*This is a FREE event and...
Jun 18, 2026
Selma (2014) [FREE!]
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for Blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for...
Jun 19, 2026
Fri, Jun 19 @ 2:00 pm
Fri, Jun 19 @ 7:00 pm
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) [FREE!]
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day...
Jun 19, 2026
Fri, Jun 19 @ 4:45 pm
Fri, Jun 19 @ 9:45 pm
Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World) Watch Party (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Do you remember? Legendary nine-time Grammy Award-winning band Earth, Wind & Fire is getting a two-hour documentary produced and directed by 'Summer of Soul' director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson...and we're hosting an encore watch party in the...
Jun 19, 2026
PJ Party: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our family matinee series on select Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come cozy in your PJs and from 10am - 2pm enjoy light breakfast options for the whole family, plus a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar for the grown-ups.
Film Synopsis: A...
Jun 20 - Jun 21, 2026
Sat, Jun 20 @ 10:30 am
Sun, Jun 21 @ 10:30 am
Time and Water
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule.
From Academy Award nominee Sara Dosa, director of Sidewalk Cinema...
Jun 20 - Jun 25, 2026
Sat, Jun 20 @ 12:45 pm
Sat, Jun 20 @ 5:15 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 5:15 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 9:45 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 4:30 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 9:00 pm
Jinsei
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Our hero, called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student,...
Jun 20 - Jun 25, 2026
Sat, Jun 20 @ 3:00 pm
Sat, Jun 20 @ 9:30 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 3:15 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 7:30 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 2:15 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 6:45 pm
Thu, Jun 25 @ 4:30 pm
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Stolen Kingdom
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
We're bringing back the beloved opening night selection of the 2025 Sidewalk Film Festival for one night only!
Stolen Kingdom is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief, scandal, and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading...
Jun 20, 2026
House of the Dragon Watch Party (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Come to Sidewalk and watch the return of The House of the Dragon, the award-winning fantasy drama series and prequel to Game of Thrones. The event will take place in the bar + lobby area with multiple screens for perfect viewing. Themed cocktails...
Jun 21, 2026
SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: Brokeback Mountain (2005) FREE!
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
SHOUT Movie Night is a film series presented and curated by BAO (Birmingham AIDS Outreach) in conjunction with Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema. Our goal is to offer a diverse and inclusive film series that ensures all members of our community are...
Jun 25, 2026
The Chronology of Water
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.
Part of our SHOUT Film Spotlight Weekend sponsored by...
Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2026
Fri, Jun 26 @ 4:30 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 10:30 am
Sat, Jun 27 @ 6:15 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 3:45 pm
Thu, Jul 02 @ 4:15 pm
Mulholland Drive (2001) - 25th Anniversary
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble...
Jun 26 - Jun 28, 2026
Fri, Jun 26 @ 7:00 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 3:15 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 12:45 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 6:30 pm
Blue Film
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Drawn by the promise of easy money and anonymous sex, queer camboy Aaron Eagle is shocked to discover a personal connection with the mysterious stranger who has paid for his company. Over the course of one night, the two men engage in a war of...
Jun 26 - Jun 28, 2026
Fri, Jun 26 @ 10:00 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 1:15 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 9:00 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 10:30 am
Sun, Jun 28 @ 9:30 pm
BET Awards 2026 Watch Party (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Culture's biggest night. BET Awards 2026. Hosted by Druski. Join us at the Sidewalk lobby + bar for a festive watch party celebrating and honoring the individuals who contribute to Black culture as writers, musicians, filmmakers, philanthropists...
Jun 28, 2026
Knitflix and Chill: Grease (1978)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for a special screening of Randal Kleiser's classic. Lights will be a little brighter than usual in the theater so you can bring your knitting, crochet or any other craft project!
Film Synopsis: Australian good girl Sandy and greaser...
Jul 02, 2026
The Popcorn List Pop Up Series: Fucktoys (One Night Only)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Part-time sex worker, full-time chaos magnet, AP is convinced that the universe has it out for her... and she might be right. In Fucktoys—the wild, unfiltered debut from writer/director/star Annapurna Sriram—AP seeks a cosmic reset after a...
Jul 03, 2026
PJ Party: Superman (1978)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our family matinee series on select Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come cozy in your PJs and from 10am - 2pm and enjoy light breakfast options for the whole family, plus a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar for the grown-ups.
Film Synopsis:...
Jul 04 - Jul 05, 2026
Sat, Jul 04 @ 10:30 am
Sun, Jul 05 @ 10:30 am
The Popcorn List Pop Up Series: Seeds (One Night Only)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, SEDDS is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys and struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and...
Jul 11, 2026
Filmmaker Networking Nights (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our free Monthly Filmmaker Networking night!
Meet fellow filmmakers, pitch ideas, and enjoy some special happy hour drinks. We'll see you there!
Jul 16, 2026
Sidewalk Film 101: Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
There's a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land's owner,...
Jul 16 - Jul 19, 2026
Thu, Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm
Sun, Jul 19 @ 1:00 pm
The Odyssey
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.
Jul 16 - Aug 06, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 2:00 pm
Fri, Jul 17 @ 5:30 pm
Fri, Jul 17 @ 9:00 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 10:45 am
Sat, Jul 18 @ 2:15 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 5:45 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 9:15 pm
...
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Do the Right Thing (1989)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria...
Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 2:15 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 4:00 pm
Wed, Jul 22 @ 7:30 pm
Thu, Jul 23 @ 4:30 pm
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Financially irresponsible Giant (Spike Lee) manages a jazz group, but his sax player, Shadow (Wesley Snipes), wants to replace him with a better businessman. Bleak (Denzel Washington), the band's trumpeter, then tries to defend his close pal...
Jul 17 - Jul 22, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 4:45 pm
Fri, Jul 17 @ 10:00 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 1:15 pm
Wed, Jul 22 @ 4:45 pm
SUMMER OF SPIKE: School Daze (1988)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long!
At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political...
Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 7:30 pm
Thu, Jul 23 @ 2:00 pm
Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is...
Jun 14 - Jun 18, 2026
Sun, Jun 14 @ 1:00 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 3:30 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 2:00 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 4:30 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 2:00 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 4:30 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 9:15 pm
Disclosure Day
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.
Jun 12 - Jul 02, 2026
Sun, Jun 14 @ 1:45 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 4:45 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 7:45 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 2:15 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 5:15 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 8:15 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 2:15 pm
...
Backrooms
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
May 28 - Jun 18, 2026
Sun, Jun 14 @ 6:00 pm
Sun, Jun 14 @ 8:30 pm
Wed, Jun 17 @ 2:00 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 2:00 pm
Thu, Jun 18 @ 9:15 pm
Book + Film Club June: SHOUT - All of Us Strangers
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. Register by the deadline and select and books are mailed to participants or available for...
Jun 17, 2026
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
SCREENING FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! This visionary music documentary traces the turbulent, transcendent life of Gregg Allman — from a childhood ruptured by his father’s murder to the soulful emergence that reshaped American music. Through archival...
Jun 17, 2026
Filmmaker Networking Nights (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our free Monthly Filmmaker Networking night!
Meet fellow filmmakers, pitch ideas, and enjoy some special happy hour drinks. We'll see you there!
Jun 18, 2026
Sidewalk Film 101: The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring...
Jun 18 - Jun 21, 2026
Thu, Jun 18 @ 7:00 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 1:00 pm
Monthly Movie Trivia (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Monthly Movie Trivia from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, immediately following Networking Nights. Invite your friends and school your contemporaries over some movie trivia. We'll see you there!
*This is a FREE event and...
Jun 18, 2026
Selma (2014) [FREE!]
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for Blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for...
Jun 19, 2026
Fri, Jun 19 @ 2:00 pm
Fri, Jun 19 @ 7:00 pm
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) [FREE!]
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day...
Jun 19, 2026
Fri, Jun 19 @ 4:45 pm
Fri, Jun 19 @ 9:45 pm
Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World) Watch Party (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Do you remember? Legendary nine-time Grammy Award-winning band Earth, Wind & Fire is getting a two-hour documentary produced and directed by 'Summer of Soul' director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson...and we're hosting an encore watch party in the...
Jun 19, 2026
PJ Party: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our family matinee series on select Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come cozy in your PJs and from 10am - 2pm enjoy light breakfast options for the whole family, plus a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar for the grown-ups.
Film Synopsis: A...
Jun 20 - Jun 21, 2026
Sat, Jun 20 @ 10:30 am
Sun, Jun 21 @ 10:30 am
Time and Water
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule.
From Academy Award nominee Sara Dosa, director of Sidewalk Cinema...
Jun 20 - Jun 25, 2026
Sat, Jun 20 @ 12:45 pm
Sat, Jun 20 @ 5:15 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 5:15 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 9:45 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 4:30 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 9:00 pm
Jinsei
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Our hero, called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student,...
Jun 20 - Jun 25, 2026
Sat, Jun 20 @ 3:00 pm
Sat, Jun 20 @ 9:30 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 3:15 pm
Sun, Jun 21 @ 7:30 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 2:15 pm
Wed, Jun 24 @ 6:45 pm
Thu, Jun 25 @ 4:30 pm
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Stolen Kingdom
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
We're bringing back the beloved opening night selection of the 2025 Sidewalk Film Festival for one night only!
Stolen Kingdom is a documentary that delves into the history of mischief, scandal, and theft at Walt Disney World, ultimately leading...
Jun 20, 2026
House of the Dragon Watch Party (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Come to Sidewalk and watch the return of The House of the Dragon, the award-winning fantasy drama series and prequel to Game of Thrones. The event will take place in the bar + lobby area with multiple screens for perfect viewing. Themed cocktails...
Jun 21, 2026
SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: Brokeback Mountain (2005) FREE!
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
SHOUT Movie Night is a film series presented and curated by BAO (Birmingham AIDS Outreach) in conjunction with Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema. Our goal is to offer a diverse and inclusive film series that ensures all members of our community are...
Jun 25, 2026
The Chronology of Water
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.
Part of our SHOUT Film Spotlight Weekend sponsored by...
Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2026
Fri, Jun 26 @ 4:30 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 10:30 am
Sat, Jun 27 @ 6:15 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 3:45 pm
Thu, Jul 02 @ 4:15 pm
Mulholland Drive (2001) - 25th Anniversary
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble...
Jun 26 - Jun 28, 2026
Fri, Jun 26 @ 7:00 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 3:15 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 12:45 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 6:30 pm
Blue Film
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Drawn by the promise of easy money and anonymous sex, queer camboy Aaron Eagle is shocked to discover a personal connection with the mysterious stranger who has paid for his company. Over the course of one night, the two men engage in a war of...
Jun 26 - Jun 28, 2026
Fri, Jun 26 @ 10:00 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 1:15 pm
Sat, Jun 27 @ 9:00 pm
Sun, Jun 28 @ 10:30 am
Sun, Jun 28 @ 9:30 pm
BET Awards 2026 Watch Party (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Culture's biggest night. BET Awards 2026. Hosted by Druski. Join us at the Sidewalk lobby + bar for a festive watch party celebrating and honoring the individuals who contribute to Black culture as writers, musicians, filmmakers, philanthropists...
Jun 28, 2026
Knitflix and Chill: Grease (1978)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for a special screening of Randal Kleiser's classic. Lights will be a little brighter than usual in the theater so you can bring your knitting, crochet or any other craft project!
Film Synopsis: Australian good girl Sandy and greaser...
Jul 02, 2026
The Popcorn List Pop Up Series: Fucktoys (One Night Only)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Part-time sex worker, full-time chaos magnet, AP is convinced that the universe has it out for her... and she might be right. In Fucktoys—the wild, unfiltered debut from writer/director/star Annapurna Sriram—AP seeks a cosmic reset after a...
Jul 03, 2026
PJ Party: Superman (1978)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our family matinee series on select Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come cozy in your PJs and from 10am - 2pm and enjoy light breakfast options for the whole family, plus a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar for the grown-ups.
Film Synopsis:...
Jul 04 - Jul 05, 2026
Sat, Jul 04 @ 10:30 am
Sun, Jul 05 @ 10:30 am
The Popcorn List Pop Up Series: Seeds (One Night Only)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, SEDDS is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys and struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and...
Jul 11, 2026
Filmmaker Networking Nights (FREE!)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join us for our free Monthly Filmmaker Networking night!
Meet fellow filmmakers, pitch ideas, and enjoy some special happy hour drinks. We'll see you there!
Jul 16, 2026
Sidewalk Film 101: Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
There's a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land's owner,...
Jul 16 - Jul 19, 2026
Thu, Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm
Sun, Jul 19 @ 1:00 pm
The Odyssey
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.
Jul 16 - Aug 06, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 2:00 pm
Fri, Jul 17 @ 5:30 pm
Fri, Jul 17 @ 9:00 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 10:45 am
Sat, Jul 18 @ 2:15 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 5:45 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 9:15 pm
...
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Do the Right Thing (1989)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria...
Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 2:15 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 4:00 pm
Wed, Jul 22 @ 7:30 pm
Thu, Jul 23 @ 4:30 pm
SUMMER OF SPIKE: Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Financially irresponsible Giant (Spike Lee) manages a jazz group, but his sax player, Shadow (Wesley Snipes), wants to replace him with a better businessman. Bleak (Denzel Washington), the band's trumpeter, then tries to defend his close pal...
Jul 17 - Jul 22, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 4:45 pm
Fri, Jul 17 @ 10:00 pm
Sat, Jul 18 @ 1:15 pm
Wed, Jul 22 @ 4:45 pm
SUMMER OF SPIKE: School Daze (1988)
Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center
at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham
Join Sidewalk Cinema for the Summer of Spike, where we will be showcasing films by filmmaker Spike Lee all summer long!
At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political...
Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2026
Fri, Jul 17 @ 7:30 pm
Thu, Jul 23 @ 2:00 pm