RESIDENT EVIL
SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 1
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DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES
SEPTEMBER 18 - 24
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SOUTHERN CIRCUIT: WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS
with filmmaker DAWN PORTER in attendance SEPTEMBER 18
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DEAD MEDIA
with filmmaker JOSEPH SCRIMSHAW and SAM LANDMAN in ATTENDANCE SEPTEMBER 18
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PJ PARTY: THE NEVERENDING STORY
SEPTEMBER 19 + 20
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Pajama Party: The NeverEnding Story (1984)
97 min
1984
Germany
Wolfgang Petersen
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: While hiding from bullies in his school’s attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 19

10:30 AM

Sep 20

10:30 AM
Dreams in Nightmares
128 min
2026
France, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States of America
Shatara Michelle Ford
With their second film, Shatara Michelle Ford (Test Pattern) puts their singular stamp on the American road movie. Dreams in Nightmares, which stars Denée Benton (The Gilded Age) and Jasmin Savoy Brown (Yellowjackets, Scream 7) follows a group of queer friends in their mid-30s navigating love, identity, and belonging across America. Anchored in themes of chosen family and self-discovery, the film blends humor and emotional depth against the backdrop of a journey through the Midwest and beyond. Dreams in Nightmares is an expansive and tender ode to the chosen family and to the radical act of claiming space to dream—and to exist—in an increasingly fraught country.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 19

1:00 PM 3:45 PM 8:30 PM

Sep 20

3:15 PM

Sep 23

2:15 PM 5:00 PM 7:45 PM

Sep 24

2:00 PM 4:30 PM 9:15 PM
Brailled It (One Night Only)
73 min
2026
United States of America
Salome Cummins, Isaiah Gauthier, David Grabias, Christopher Morgan, Brendon Schulze
Every year, the top under-18 Braille readers and writers from across the English-speaking world gather in Los Angeles to compete in the Braille Challenge. For one weekend, blind and low-vision kids are no longer the minority in the room. They make new friends, face off against old rivals, and chase a rare chance to be recognized not for their disability, but for their skill. In BRAILLED IT, the camera is placed directly in their hands. As the kids document the competition themselves, their fragmented imagery and candid moments of nerves, boredom, joy, and triumph invite audiences to experience the event on their terms. Designed with audio description and accessibility at its core–not as an afterthought but as a fundamental creative tool–the film shifts authorship and perspective to the community on screen, revealing a world defined not by limitation, but by mastery, ambition, and the transformative power of literacy.
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Sep 19

6:30 PM
Resident Evil
90 min
2026
France, Germany, United States of America
Zach Cregger
Bryan, a medical courier, unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 19

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM

Sep 20

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM

Sep 23

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM

Sep 24

2:15 PM 4:45 PM 7:15 PM 9:30 PM

Sep 25

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM

Sep 26

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM 9:15 PM

Sep 27

10:00 AM 12:15 PM 2:30 PM 4:45 PM 7:00 PM

Sep 30

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM

Oct 1

2:00 PM 4:15 PM 6:30 PM 8:45 PM
Sidewalk Film 101: Far From Heaven (2002)
107 min
2002
United States of America
Todd Haynes
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 20

1:00 PM
Filmmaker Focus: 21 Grams (2003)
124 min
2003
United States of America
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
This screening of our Festival de Cine Filmmaker Focus: Alejandro González Iñárritu series will be preceded by an intro and followed by a post-film talkback from Sarah Valentín-Sánchez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish at Talladega College. Synopsis: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 20

6:00 PM
Heated Rivalry Reheated Watch Party (FREE!)
120 min
Time to go back to the cottage...this September. Head to the Sidewalk lobby for RE-HEATED watch parties of the award-winning hit series Heated Rivalry along with themed cocktails, giveaways, door prizes, fan zones and music + vibes before and after screenings. Two episodes each week. For mature audiences. REHEATED SCHEDULE: 9/16 • Ep. 1: Rookies + Ep. 2: Olympians 9/23 • Ep. 3: Hunter + Ep. 4: Rose 9/30 • Ep. 5: I'll Believe in Anything + Ep. 6: The Cottage Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.*
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Sidewalk Cinema Lobby

Sep 23

9:00 PM

Sep 30

9:00 PM
SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Free)
102 min
1939
United States of America
Victor Fleming
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 represented.*This is a FREE event and SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. Registering is strongly recommended to help with the check in process but does NOT GUARANTEE A SEAT, and due to the popularity of this event seats can not be saved for anyone who has not arrived.* Film Synopsis: When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 24

7:00 PM
You Had to Be There
98 min
2026
Canada
Nick Davis
Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in a 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell. Featuring interviews with the surviving cast members, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Myers, and more, the film recounts a pivotal moment in comedy history, in hilarious, moving, and inspiring detail. Executive produced by Judd Apatow.
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Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

Sep 25

2:30 PM 4:45 PM 9:30 PM

Sep 26

10:30 AM 12:45 PM 3:00 PM 5:15 PM 10:00 PM

Sep 27

10:30 AM 12:45 PM 3:00 PM

Sep 30

2:15 PM 4:30 PM 9:15 PM

Oct 1

2:15 PM 4:30 PM 9:00 PM
AUGUST 24-30, 2026

SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL

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