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Milwaukee Film Festival 2025 runs from April 24 until May 8. This year’s Festival will feature about 200 short and feature-length documentary and fiction films.
The Milwaukee Film’s programming team unveiled the first set of selections for MFF25:
– 40 Acres (dir. R.T. Thorne, 2024, Canada)Thorne’s debut feature stars Danielle Deadwyler as a mother who risks mutiny protecting her family farm after a civil War.
– DJ Ahmet (dir. Georgi M. Unkovski, 2025, North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia)This coming-of-age film received the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and Audience Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
– Free Leonard Peltier (dirs. Jesse Shortbull and David France, 2025, USA)The most timely documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film festival, premiering just days after Peltier’s sentence commutation comes from two acclaimed MFF alumni (Lakota Nation vs. United States; How to Survive a Plague).
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