Movies: Wisconsin

Wisconsin, summer. A portrait of brothers and a coming of age story for two teenagers: Stephen and Isaac. It is a boring hot day when the family dog goes missing and Stephen leads a rescue mission into their farmland....

After eight years of one-party control, Wisconsin voters have found their lives increasingly irrelevant to state lawmakers. An ensemble of strong-willed Wisconsin women sets out to be heard in this unnerving portrait of American democracy....

An in-depth look at the early 2011 crisis for public sector unions in Wisconsin, and why it matters in Alberta....

After investigating an Elder cult's meeting place, a professor wakes to find himself in an interrogation room with a grotesquely scarred hand....

This documentary is about the "World's Largest Trivia Contest" held in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Eight questions per hour are asked over 90FM, the student radio station at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, for 54 hours straight. This film ...

Supper club restaurants were the hot dinning trend in the mid twentieth century. They provided a place for people to spend their evenings enjoying cocktails, home cooked, high quality food and entertainment. The supper club scene slowly faded from th...

A Christmas comedy short in which two friends discover a corpse in the trunk of the car they were hoping to buy....

A Chippewa prophecy foretells a time called the 7th Fire when lost traditions will be recovered. Native American filmmaker Sandra Sunrising Osawa examines how the Chippewa Indians of Northern Wisconsin have struggled to restore the centuries-old trad...

'The Boys Night Out' follows a gang of mischievous highschool bullies whose plans to "eliminate" two nerds during the final weekend of summer takes a dark unexpected turn when the deeds turn deadly. One is brought to a secluded rock quarry where a ch...

Ada, a reserved young woman with a passion for entomology, travels north with Marissa, her free-spirited musician girlfriend. She's finally meeting the three brothers who helped raise Marissa: the paternal Ozzie, sensitive Arthur, and wild child Wren...

For over 80 years, Merle Hayden has crusaded to recruit members to the utopian movement Lawsonomy. Founded by aircraft pioneer Alfred Lawson, Lawsonomy advocates for economic reform and clean, communal living that transforms followers into a "New Spe...

Akira is a high school transfer student with a deteriorating relationship with his father. When he arrives at his new school, he stumbles onto a classmate being bullied. His intervention triggers two new friendships — one with the victim Scott and th...

In order to provide for his family after his Father was murdered a young boy lies about his age to enlist in the Navy....

There's something in the woods....

A man with a haunted past returns to his small midwestern town to check on his brother who has had a bit of a mental break. Upon arriving in the town of Savenville, he finds his brother holed up, sitting in front of a boarded up section of his house,...

A defeated superhero is faced with her greatest challenge yet: babysitting duty....

After his brother Seth goes missing Jess must piece together his brother's whereabouts by retracing his steps....

James is the lead singer in a local rock band who is allergic to responsibility. Leslie is the bass player in the band, a middle-aged single mom struggling to connect with her teenage son. And Tim West is Booda, a rapper trying to maintain his dreams...

UW faculty member Lynda Barry takes center stage in this charming documentary about the “Comics Room”, where Dr. Barry and her students–including a student turned faculty, comics veteran Jeff Butler–explore their creativity through the medium of comi...

An adrift musician travels to his family's lake home for the weekend to record music with an ambitious local singer only to be hounded by a starving felon....