Join the festival programming team and staff for a special edition of our Sneak Peek for the 28th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival line-up and start making your Festival" must-see" list! See trailers from the 2026 Festival line-up and enjoy complimentary Cahaba beers, Vineyard Brands wine, and popcorn. Join us at the bar and concessions starting at 5 pm for Happy Hour, followed by the Sneak Peek at 7:30 pm! This screening is only open to members. *This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED SERVED.* Email [email protected] with any questions.
Join the festival programming team and staff for a special edition of our Sneak Peek for the 28th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival line-up and start making your Festival" must-see" list! See trailers from the 2026 Festival line-up and enjoy complimentary Cahaba beers, Vineyard Brands wine, and popcorn. Join us at the bar and concessions starting at 5 pm for Happy Hour, followed by the Sneak Peek at 6 pm! This screening is only open to sponsors and donors. *This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED SERVED.* Email [email protected] with any questions.
Join the Sidewalk Film Festival programmers for an exclusive Sneak Peek of what's coming up for the 28th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival! Get early access to discover festival news and programming, and view trailers for the films we have in store for you before they're announced to the general public on July 17th.
Come early and join us at the bar and concessions for Happy Hour starting at 5 pm!
*This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED SERVED.*
Andrew Freeman has suffered from sleep paralysis for as long as he can remember. Fed up with a lack of answers, he decides to take matters into his own hands to discover what's really going on. With no one to turn to, Andrew drags his sister, Laurie, into his world and his belief that he's being abducted by aliens.
When the evidence mounts, and he falls further into his self-destructive spiral, Laurie has to choose if she's going to cut ties and save herself, or get dragged down into Andrew's maddening world.
Writer/director William Hopp and co-star Virginia Newcomb are scheduled to attend. Join them after the feature presentation for a Q&A and meet & greet, where you get to learn the story behind the story.
Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Barbara Kopple’s American Dream unflinchingly details the explosive 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, a city ripped apart in the tumult. Fed up with dangerous plant conditions and drastic wage cuts, Austin’s Local P-9 went against the advice of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and, with the help of labor activist Ray Rogers’s campaign to damage the meatpacking giant’s public reputation, conducted a nearly yearlong walkout. But as the strike dragged on, some workers found themselves desperate to make ends meet and ready to cross the picket line, dividing a community already betrayed by a once progressive company and roiled by blockades, riots, and the intervention of the National Guard. Following up her landmark documentary Harlan County USA with another engrossing report from the trenches of working-class America, Kopple poignantly captures the human and political costs of one of the most significant setbacks to organized labor amid the unchecked corporatism of the Reaganomics era.
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 and more.
*This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.*
Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion. Dates, descriptions, and registration deadlines below.
Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion. Dates, descriptions, and registration deadlines below.
Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion. Dates, descriptions, and registration deadlines below.