It’s beautiful to watch humanity’s best friends alleviate modern coming-of-age anxieties in troubled teens.
• Toronto Star •
How can a city move forward without acknowledging the past? That’s not just a question for Natchez…
• Hollywood Reporter •
Underland plays like a sprawling epic about the scope of human existence.
• Observer •
[OBEX is] a “Dungeons and Dragons”-coded adventure, and an ode to classic horror.”
• RogerEbert.com •
Cat Town USA is a story about commitment, honor and love that also spreads a deeper message…
• Milwaukee Magazine •
[Rian Johnson’s first film, Brick,] is an alluring, all-encompassing mystery that draws you under and holds you down.
• The Guardian •
How Deep Is Your Love is one spectacular visual extravaganza.
• POV •
The Librarians is as well-crafted as it is profoundly alarming.
• New York Times •
If we believe in a right to die, Life After asserts that we should also believe in a right to live.
• Screen Daily •
This is the birding of gas stations, ponds behind a women’s prison, and “the bird’s right there on the mud next to the Wiffle ball and the tire.”
• Slate •
Where too much American animation feels frantic — desperate to keep our attention — Flow’s images possess a kinetic elegance.
• NPR •
Major sponsorship of the 41 North Film Festival is provided by the Department of Humanities, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Sciences and Arts, and the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.
Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
All events are free and open to the public. The festival will be held in the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts on the Michigan Tech campus, with additional films hosted by MTU Film Board in Fisher 135.
For more information about the festival, including how to become a festival sponsor or volunteer, please contact Erin Smith at ersmith@mtu.edu.
Visit the Archives to see festival programs from years past.