The Sarasota Film Festival emphasizes the best in cinema alongside exciting programs and events, with more than 200 films screened each year including features, documentaries, shorts, and kid-friendly picks.

Schedule:

April 5, 2024

Regal 7, 3, and 8

6 - 8 PM - Opening Night Film: Bull Street [EAST COAST PREMIERE]

The Sarasota Modern

8 - 11 PM - Opening Night Party 2024

April 6, 2024

Cinebistro

6 - 8:40 PM - Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

Regal 3

12 - 2 PM - Documentary Shorts 1

2:30 - 3:44 PM - Women of the Watershed

5 - 6:33 PM - Puddysticks [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

8 - 9:42 PM - Stylebender

Regal 7

12 - 1:30 PM - Foreign Shorts 1

3:30 - 5:30 PM - 2023 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films

5:30 - 7:20 PM - Luther: Never Too Much [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

8 - 9:50 PM - Pet Shop Days [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 8

12 - 1:30 PM - Sarasota Narrative Shorts

2 - 3:30 PM - JessZilla

4 - 5:40 PM - 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime

5:45 - 7:37 PM - The Nature of Love [SOUTHEASTERN PREMIERE]

8:15 - 9:48 PM - Bad Like Brooklyn Dancehall

April 7, 2024

Cinebistro

6 - 8:08 PM - Taking Venice [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 3

12 - 1:21 PM - Narrative Shorts: Deeply Poignant

3 - 4:45 PM - Common Ground

6 - 7:37 PM - Thelma

8:30 - 10 PM - Minted

Regal 7

1 - 2:33 PM - The Mammoth Hunt [U.S. PREMIERE]

3:30 - 5:05 PM - Good Bad Things

6 - 7:37 PM - Thelma

8:30 - 9:45 PM - The Meaning of a Ritual

Regal 8

12:30 - 1:45 PM - Ringling Shorts

2 - 4 PM - Bloom [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

4 - 5:10 PM - Clowns Like Me [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

6 - 8:32 PM - Green Border

April 8, 2024

Cinebistro

6 - 8:30 PM - My Name is Alfred Hitchcock

Regal 3

1:30 - 3:03 PM - Puddysticks [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

4 - 5:33 PM - Bad Like Brooklyn Dancehall

6 - 7:40 PM - No One Asked You

8:30 - 9:45 PM - Someone Lives Here [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 7

2 - 3:33 PM - The Mammoth Hunt [U.S. PREMIERE]

4:30 - 6:05 PM - Good Bad Things

7 - 8:30 PM - Into the Spotlight: The Jake Ilardi Story [WORLD PREMIERE]

Regal 8

1 - 2:43 PM - Feel Good Shorts

3:30 - 4:20 PM - Narrative Shorts

5:45 - 7:21 PM - UnBroken

8 - 9:43 PM - Hellbent on Boogie

April 9, 2024

Cinebistro

6:30 - 8:14 PM - Curry Scent [WORLD PREMIERE]

Regal 3

1 - 2:13 PM - Bloom

3 - 5:10 PM - No One Asked You

5:30 - 7:23 PM - The Old Oak [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

8 - 9:11 PM - Chuck Chuck Baby

Regal 7

1 - 2:36 PM - UnBroken

4 - 5:38 PM - Taking Venice

6 - 7:47 PM - Daughters [SUNDANCE AWARD WINNER]

8:15 - 9:53 PM - Porcelain War [SUNDANCE AWARD WINNER]

Regal 8

1:30 - 3:22 PM - The Nature of Love [SOUTHEASTERN PREMIERE]

4 - 5:30 PM - Foreign Shorts 2

6:15 - 7:49 PM - Art Thief

8:30 - 9:58 PM - The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

April 10, 2024

Cinebistro

6:30 - 8:20 PM - How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 3

1 - 2:30 PM - JessZilla

3:30 - 5:04 PM - Art Thief

6 - 7:40 PM - Left Alone Rhapsody

8:15 - 9:46 PM - Copa '71

Regal 7

1:30 - 3:30 PM - My Name is Alfred Hitchcock

4 - 5:28 PM - The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

6 - 8:49 PM - Organic Rising + Panel Discussion

Regal 8

3:30 - 5:10 PM - 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

6 - 8 PM - Goodbye Julia

8:15 - 9:45 PM - Songs of Earth [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

April 11, 2024

Regal 3

12 - 2:30 PM - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

3 - 5:10 PM - Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

5:30 - 7 PM - A House Is Not a Disco [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

8 - 9:35 PM - Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 7

12:30 - 2:10 PM - How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

3 - 4:40 PM - Left Alone Rhapsody

6 - 7:46 PM - MoviePass, MovieCrash [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

8:30 - 9:43 PM - Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager

Regal 8

1 - 2:37 PM - Hitchcockian Shorts

3:30 - 4:53 PM - The Old Oak [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

6 - 6:49 PM - Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge Present: The Making of Within Us -The 25th Anniversary Album

7:30 - 9:07 PM - Fielding Dreams [WORLD PREMIERE]

April 12, 2024

332 Cocoanut

7 - 11 PM - Fantastical Street Party

Cinebistro

6 - 8 PM - Ex-Husbands

Regal 3

12 - 1:15 PM - Someone Lives Here

4 - 5:13 PM - Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager

6 - 7:30 PM - This is a Film About The Black Keys [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

8:15 - 9:44 PM - The Death Tour [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 7

12 - 1:32 PM - Green Border

12 - 1:38 PM - Porcelain War [SUNDANCE AWARD WINNER]

2 - 3:30 PM - A House Is Not a Disco [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

4 - 5:30 PM - Songs of Earth [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

6 - 7:30 PM - This is a Film About The Black Keys [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

8:15 - 10:04 PM - The Trouble with Jessica [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 8

3 - 4:23 PM - Nocturnes

5 - 7 PM - The Man In The White Van [SOUTHEASTERN PREMIERE]

7:30 - 8:20 PM - Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

April 13, 2024

Cinebistro

6 - 8:22 PM - Merchant Ivory

Regal 3

12:30 - 2 PM - The Fentanyl Project + Discussion

3 - 5:03 PM - Documentary Shorts 2

6:30 - 8:15 PM - Closing Night Film & Awards Ceremony: The Listener [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 7

1:30 - 3:24 PM - Maka

3 - 4:10 PM - The Line [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

6:30 - 8:15 PM - Closing Night Film & Awards Ceremony: The Listener [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 8

12 - 1:45 PM - Yours in Freedom, Bill Baird [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

3:30 - 5:05 PM - Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Sage

8 - 11 PM - Closing Night Party 2024

April 14, 2024

Cinebistro

6 - 8:08 PM - Thelma

Regal 3

1:30 - 3:15 PM - Yours in Freedom, Bill Baird [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

4 - 5:36 PM - Lady Like [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

Regal 7

11 AM - 12:30 PM - Foreign Shorts 3

1 - 2:50 PM - Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

4 - 5:50 PM - Luther: Never Too Much [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

6:30 - 8:30 PM - Red Rooms

Regal 8

12 - 1:30 PM - The Death Tour [FLORIDA PREMIERE]

2 - 3:30 PM - Susan Feniger: Forked

4:30 - 6:17 PM - Sugarcane [SUNDANCE AWARD WINNER]

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Date: April 5-14, 2024

Location: Various locations in Sarasota

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