Film Events in DC

Remaining Native

Remaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary about Kutoven “Ku” Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner from Nevada who hopes to compete for the University of Oregon. Training without a coach, Ku works toward a collegiate qualifying time while confronting the story of his great-grandfather, Frank Quinn, who fled an Indian boarding school at age eight by running 50 miles across the desert.

Ibero-American Film Festival

The Ibero-American Film Festival celebrates the cultural richness of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal through short films representing stories, perspectives, and creative voices from across the Ibero-American world. The festival is described as a three-day program, with films presented in English-subtitled versions to make the screenings accessible to a broader audience while highlighting the region’s linguistic diversity.

Love Actually Live in Concert

Richard Curtis’s *Love Actually* follows intertwined stories of romance, friendship, and family in London during the weeks leading up to Christmas. In this live concert presentation, the complete film is projected on a large screen while a full live orchestra performs Craig Armstrong’s evocative score, adding new emotional depth to the film’s tender moments and comic mishaps.

Andrea Gibson’s Love Letter From The Afterlife

Andrea Gibson’s *Love Letter from the Afterlife* is a multimedia celebration combining film, live poetry, music, orchestral performance, and personal storytelling. The centerpiece is a film of Gibson’s final live performance, recorded at Denver’s Paramount Theatre in 2024, with the Goosebumps Orchestra performing Blake Neely’s original score live alongside it.

3 Idiots

3 Idiots is an acclaimed Hindi-language satire from India, directed by Rajkumar Hirani. The film follows three engineering students whose friendship, ambitions, and struggles with India’s demanding education system unfold across two timelines.

Foreign Language Film

Foreign Language Film presents *3 Idiots*, the audience-selected Indian comedy-drama directed by Rajkumar Hirani. Shown in Hindi with English subtitles, the acclaimed satire follows three engineering students as they navigate friendship, ambition, and the intense demands of India’s rigid education system. The story unfolds across two timelines.

Warren Miller’s Days Off, the 77th annual Warren Miller film, presented by Outside, Inc.

Warren Miller’s *Days Off*, the 77th annual Warren Miller film presented by Outside, Inc., brings the Washington, D.C., and Maryland premiere to the region for an international celebration of skiing and mountain culture. The film travels from heli-drops in Alaska and high-alpine mountaineering in Chamonix to deep powder in Hokkaido, Japan, Banff’s skijoring course, Deer Valley, and major mountain destinations across Canada, including Revelstoke, Whistler, and Pemberton.

Bathtubs Over Broadway

*Bathtubs Over Broadway* explores the unusual world of corporate musicals: elaborate Broadway-style productions commissioned by companies such as General Electric, McDonald’s, Ford, DuPont, and Xerox. The film examines this little-known form of entertainment and the surprising shows created to promote major businesses.

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: In Concert 40th Anniversary

Jim Henson’s *Labyrinth: In Concert* returns for the film’s 40th anniversary, combining a full screening of the 1986 fantasy classic with a live band performing the complete soundtrack in sync with David Bowie’s vocals. The experience brings the film’s music, characters, and fantastical world to the stage as audiences revisit Sarah’s journey, Goblin King Jareth, and the creatures created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

Stories That Matter Presents "The Cycle of Love"

Stories That Matter presents a special screening of *The Cycle of Love*, a true-life adventure directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel, known for *The White Helmets*. The film follows a young Indian street artist who sets out on a 6,000-mile bicycle journey from India to Sweden in 1977 as an extraordinary declaration of love and devotion. It considers the courage required to cross social and cultural boundaries and the risks people take in following their hearts.

Foreign Language Film: Life is Beautiful

This audience-selected Foreign Language Film screening presents Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning 1997 Italian film *Life is Beautiful*. Shown in Italian with English subtitles, the film follows Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner who uses his imagination to protect his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

2026 HUMP! Film Festival Fall Season Night 1 - Early Show

Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival returns to Black Cat with an entirely new Fall 2026 collection of short films. The festival showcases independent work about intimacy, identity, sexuality, and connection, bringing together funny, sexy, kinky, provocative, and thoughtful films from creators around the world.

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker (1994) is a free Millennium Stage film screening at the Kennedy Center’s Justice Forum at the REACH. The film follows Marie, who falls asleep after a Christmas Eve party and enters a dreamlike world where her toys become larger than life.

2026 Hump! Film Festival

The 2026 HUMP! Film Festival brings a new Fall 2026 collection of independent short films to Black Cat. Curated by the HUMP! Jury, the 90-minute showcase explores intimacy, identity, connection, sexuality, gender, bodies, and kinks through films that are funny, sexy, provocative, creative, and inclusive.

GALA Film Fest: Latin American Innovation

GALA Film Fest: Latin American Innovation presents seven films at GALA Hispanic Theatre, including six contemporary features by emerging directors and a classic from Mexico’s Golden Age. All films are in Spanish with English subtitles and are identified as Washington, D.C. premieres. The festival includes post-screening conversations, receptions, and appearances by filmmakers, producers, artists, and other guests.

Through the African American Lens: Floyd Norman: An Animated Life

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life is a documentary celebrating the extraordinary career of Floyd Norman, the first African American animator at Disney and a pioneering storyteller whose work has influenced generations of artists. Directed by Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey, the film combines original animation, interviews, and archival footage to explore Norman’s life as an artist, innovator, and cultural trailblazer. Now in his 90s, Norman continues to mentor and inspire new generations of animators.

National Symphony Orchestra Presents: Home Alone in Concert

National Symphony Orchestra Presents: Home Alone in Concert brings the holiday film to life with John Williams’ score performed live by the National Symphony Orchestra while the movie plays on screen. The comedy follows eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, who is accidentally left behind during his family’s Christmas vacation and must protect his home from two inept burglars. The film stars Macaulay Culkin and offers a mix of humor and heart for the whole family.

ReelTalk: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

ReelTalk: *I Never Promised You a Rose Garden* is part of BlackRock Center for the Arts’ 2026–27 ReelTalk season. The series highlights classic and contemporary films prominently made in Montgomery County, showcasing how the County’s cultural resources and communities can inspire vibrant, exciting, and emotionally powerful stories.

Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a free Millennium Stage film screening of the 1942 musical starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. The story follows a Connecticut country roadhouse that becomes a nightclub for 15 nights each year. The film introduced “White Christmas,” which won the Academy Award for Best Song, and its Oscar-nominated soundtrack also includes Irving Berlin songs such as “Easter Parade” and “Happy Holiday.” The Holiday Inn hotel chain took its name from the film.

Movies That Move: “Flow”

“Movies That Move: ‘Flow’” is a visually striking animated adventure about a cat, capybara, lemur, bird, and dog who must find a place to live after a devastating flood. Their journey explores environmental fragility and the strength that comes from cooperation and community. The film is rated PG and identified as a 2025 release.