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1UP Game Night (FREE!)

This June, 🕹️ 1UP Game Night 🎮 is looking for a hero. A GUITAR 🎸 HERO 🦸🏼‍♂️ to be exact! We're resurrecting 🙌🏽 the popular rhythm 🎶 game and blasting 2009's GUITAR HERO 5 upon the BIG screen! All heroes are invited to the stage...using all four instruments (guitar, bass, drums, vox). Featuring lots of fun 🤩 in the lobby with specialty cocktails at the bar and plenty of designated game zones including hot + vintage 👾 consoles, board 🎲 games, card games and 🧩 puzzles.

  • Jun 11, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Alabama Spotlight Night: Forward, Ever (SOLD OUT)

“For the Love of the Game” is a phrase that is thrown around easily, but for the players on the Birmingham-Southern College baseball team it’s a lifestyle. Far from the money driven world of big-time college athletics and NIL contracts, these are true student athletes that are chasing a dream without scholarships or the perks that come with playing for a major program. Following years of financial difficulty post-Covid and a rollercoaster ride dealing with the state legislature to secure funding, Birmingham-Southern College is out of options and is forced to announce they are closing down. Despite the crushing news and now facing uncertain futures, the BSC Panthers respond with an improbable winning streak that secures a spot in the postseason and lifts the spirit of the BSC faithful. The eclectic collection of players and their inspirational coach are pursuing a legendary playoff run that continues after the demise of the school they play for.

  • Aug 18, 2025 8:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 18, 2025 8:45 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Alabama Spotlight Night: Happy Hour (Free!)

Join us for a happy hour before the Alabama Spotlight Night Film Screening- you'll enjoy drink specials and mingling with Alabama Filmmakers.

  • Aug 18, 2025 5:00 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
    Tickets Available

Alabama Spotlight Night: Shorts

A selection of documentaries, narratives and animated short films by Alabamians or about Alabama.

  • Aug 18, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 18, 2025 6:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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BCRI x Sidewalk Summer Film Series: Shuttlesworth with Post Film Discussion

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is partnering with Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema for a Summer Film Series! We’re using film to spark honest conversation across generations, in hopes of moving us into action together. We’re kicking things off with a screening of Shuttlesworth, a documentary that dives into the fearless leadership of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and his fight for civil rights in Birmingham. Film Synopsis: “Shuttlesworth” traces the unique crucible of Birmingham’s brutal industrial history in creating what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called the “most segregated city in America” and the people that were willing to take it on – personified in the fearless, indomitable Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. After the film, stick around for a candid conversation on leadership—what it meant in the past, what it means now, and what it needs to become. The discussion will feature voices from across generations, each bringing their own perspectives and ideas of what leadership should look like to meet this moment. *Ticketing for this event is on a sliding scale "Pay What You Can" donation structure. Seating is limited and first come, first served.*

  • Jun 10, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Bad Movie Night (Free!)

All we can tell you is that it's a movie and it's bad. Join us for our celebration of bad cinema. Surprises + Fun and it's free! Grab a drink at our bar, you're going to need it. *This is a FREE event and SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. Registering is strongly recommended to help with the check in process but does not guarantee a seat, and due to the popularity of this event seats can not be saved for folks who have not arrived yet. As always, our lobby bar & concessions are open to the public so if you arrive after the theatre has hit capacity please feel free to stick around for some food, drink, and board games.

  • Jun 13, 2025 8:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Black Lens Spotlight Night: Happy Hour (Free!)

Join us for Black Lens Spotlight Night happy hour - you'll enjoy drink specials and fun surprises!

  • Aug 21, 2025 5:00 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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Black Lens Spotlight Night: Paint Me A Road Out Of Here

In 1971, underestimated artist Faith Ringgold made a monumental painting for the women incarcerated at Rikers Island jail. Fifty years later, artist Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, who gave birth in prison 15 years ago, finds herself banding together with an eccentric bunch of activists, politicians, artists, corrections officers and Faith Ringgold to free the painting with the ultimate goal of freeing the women. Paint Me a Road Out of Here is a wild tale of the painting’s whitewashed journey and the two artists who challenge the same powerful, oppressive and persistent institutions, a half century apart with their artwork, their voices and their shared, persistent goals.

  • Aug 21, 2025 8:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 21, 2025 8:45 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Black Lens Spotlight Night: Shorts

A selection of short documentary, narrative, and animated films that highlight the black experience and black filmmakers.

  • Aug 21, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 21, 2025 6:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Book + Film Club July: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. At the end of the month, we host a screening of a film related to the book and host a round-table discussion. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Buy 3 or more months at once with the book included and get 10% off your registration by using code ‘3ormore' at checkout! Already have the book? Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion.

  • Jul 30, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Book + Film Club June: SHOUT - Kubrick's Men in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. At the end of the month, we host a screening of a film related to the book and host a round-table discussion. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Buy 3 or more months at once with the book included and get 10% off your registration by using code ‘3ormore' at checkout! Already have the book? Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion.

  • Jun 25, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Book + Film Club November: The Big Sleep (1946)

Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. At the end of the month, we host a screening of a film related to the book and host a round-table discussion. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Buy 3 or more months at once with the book included and get 10% off your registration by using code ‘3ormore' at checkout! Already have the book? Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion.

  • Nov 19, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Book + Film Club October: Inside Young Frankenstein (1974)

Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. At the end of the month, we host a screening of a film related to the book and host a round-table discussion. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Buy 3 or more months at once with the book included and get 10% off your registration by using code ‘3ormore' at checkout! Already have the book? Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion.

  • Oct 29, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Book + Film Club September: Production Design in Trainspotting (1996)

Sidewalk’s Book + Film Club unites movie and book lovers for a monthly film screening and discussion about famous films and the people who make them. At the end of the month, we host a screening of a film related to the book and host a round-table discussion. Each session is $35 and the includes book, film screening, and discussion. Buy 3 or more months at once with the book included and get 10% off your registration by using code ‘3ormore' at checkout! Already have the book? Select the $15 option for access to the film screening and post film discussion.

  • Sep 24, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Barry Lyndon (1975) 50th Anniversary

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

  • Jun 20, 2025 4:45 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 22, 2025 4:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

  • Jun 13, 2025 2:15 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 14, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 15, 2025 3:45 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

  • Jun 13, 2025 4:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 15, 2025 12:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 15, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963) + Post Film Discussion

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood. This screening and presentation provided in partnership with the Italian American Heritage Society.

  • Jul 20, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Federico Fellini's Amarcord (1973) + Post-Film Discussion

This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema's enduring treasures. This screening and presentation provided in partnership with the Italian American Heritage Society.

  • Jul 27, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) + Post-Film Discussion

The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become. This screening and presentation provided in partnership with the Italian American Heritage Society.

  • Jul 13, 2025 2:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jul 13, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954) + Post Film Discussion

With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit. Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties. This screening and presentation provided in partnership with the Italian American Heritage Society.

  • Jul 06, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Focus: Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

  • Jun 20, 2025 2:15 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Filmmaker Networking Nights (Free)

Join us for our free Monthly Filmmaker Networking night sponsored by Film Birmingham. Network, pitch ideas, and enjoy some special happy hour drinks. We'll see you there!

  • Jun 19, 2025 5:00 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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  • Jul 17, 2025 5:00 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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Friendship

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.

  • Jun 06, 2025 2:15 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 07, 2025 4:15 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 08, 2025 10:45 am
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 12, 2025 2:15 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Italian Cinema Night: Cinema Paradiso (1988) + Post Film Discussion

Young Salvatore Di Vita (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the perfect escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema Paradiso movie house, where projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) instills in the boy a deep love of films. When Salvatore grows up, falls in love with a beautiful local girl (Agnese Nano) and takes over as the Paradiso's projectionist, Alfredo must convince Salvatore to leave his small town and pursue his passion for filmmaking. This screening and presentation provided in partnership with the Italian American Heritage Society.

  • Jul 10, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Knitflix & Chill: Coraline

Join us for a special screening of Henry Selick's Coraline. Lights will be a little brighter than usual in the theater so you can bring your knitting, crochet or any other craft project! If you're looking for something new to make, our friends from KnitBham will be selling kits for your own project. Film Synopsis: Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.

  • Oct 02, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Knitflix & Chill: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Join us for a special screening of Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. Lights will be a little brighter than usual in the theater so you can bring your knitting, crochet or any other craft project! If you're looking for something new to make, our friends from KnitBham will be selling kits for your own project. Film Synopsis: The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

  • Nov 06, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Knitflix & Chill: When Harry Met Sally...

Join us for a special screening of Rob Reiner's. Lights will be a little brighter than usual in the theater so you can bring your knitting, crochet or any other craft project! If you're looking for something new to make, our friends from KnitBham will be selling kits for your own project. Film Synopsis: During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they’re still no closer to finding the answer.

  • Dec 04, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Life & Liberty Spotlight Night: Baby Doe

At 22, Gail gave birth alone and left her newborn in the woods. Decades later, she's arrested for murder, despite claiming the baby was stillborn. This documentary explores the fallout when young women cannot accept the reality of an unplanned pregnancy.

  • Aug 19, 2025 8:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 19, 2025 8:45 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Life & Liberty Spotlight Night: Happy Hour (Free!)

Join us for a happy hour to celebrate Life & Liberty Spotlight Night.

  • Aug 19, 2025 5:00 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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Life & Liberty Spotlight Night: Shorts

A selection of documentary shorts highlighting important human and civil right issues.

  • Aug 19, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 19, 2025 6:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Monthly Movie Trivia (FREE!)

Join us at the Sidewalk Cinema for Monthly Movie Trivia from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, immediately following Networking Nights. Hosted by Owen Roberts. Invite your friends and school your contemporaries over some movie trivia. We'll see you there! *This is a FREE event and SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.*

  • Jun 19, 2025 7:30 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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  • Sep 18, 2025 7:30 pm
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  • Oct 16, 2025 7:30 pm
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  • Nov 20, 2025 7:30 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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Pajama Party - Hairspray (2007)

Join us for our family matinee series on select Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come cozy in your PJs and from 10am - 2pm enjoy light breakfast options for the whole family, plus a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar for the grown-ups.

  • Jun 28, 2025 10:30 am
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 29, 2025 10:30 am
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Pajama Party - Luca (2021)

Join us for our family matinee series on select Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come cozy in your PJs and from 10am - 2pm enjoy light breakfast options for the whole family, plus a Bloody Mary and Mimosa bar for the grown-ups.

  • Jun 14, 2025 10:30 am
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Jun 15, 2025 10:30 am
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Pavements

Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.

  • Jun 06, 2025 5:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Rocky Horror Hot Dogs Present: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Hot Dogs is a live shadowcast experience of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This comedy-based troupe will chill you, thrill you, and fulfill you as they act out your favorite scenes on stage and celebrate a night of debauchery. Outside prop bags are not allowed. Prop Bags will be available at the cinema (while supplies last and include theatre approved props) for purchase with proceeds going to The Rocky Horror Hot Dogs shadowcasters.

  • Jun 06, 2025 11:59 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Sep 26, 2025 11:59 pm
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  • Sep 27, 2025 11:59 pm
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SHOUT LGBTQ+ Spotlight Night: Happy Hour (Free!)

Join us for a happy hour to celebrate Shout LGBTQ+ Film Spotlight Night. You'll enjoy drink specials and some fun surprises!

  • Aug 20, 2025 5:00 pm
    Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
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SHOUT LGBTQ+ Spotlight Night: Love Me Bait Me

This feature documentary explores the historical relationship between Hollywood, television, and the authentic portrayal of diverse LGBTQ+ experiences over the course of more than a century. Interviews and archival footage provide a critique of the U.S. film industry that emphasizes the life-saving role storytelling plays in our collective imagination for a better future.

  • Aug 20, 2025 8:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 20, 2025 8:45 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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SHOUT LGBTQ+ Spotlight: Shorts

A selection of short documentary, and narrative films that highlight the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.

  • Aug 20, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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  • Aug 20, 2025 6:30 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: Batman Returns (1992)

Batman must face The Penguin, a sewer-dwelling gangleader intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Meanwhile, another Gotham resident finds herself transformed into Catwoman and is out for revenge…

  • Dec 22, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a “killer” while the rest tries to “escape”. Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.

  • Sep 25, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: Interview with the Vampire (1994)

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

  • Oct 30, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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SHOUT Movie Night Presented by BAO: Paris is Burning (1990)

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza. *This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. Seating is first come, first served*

  • Jun 26, 2025 7:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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Science on Screen: The Martian (2015) with post-screening discussion with Dr. Jason Heaton

An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.

  • Jun 24, 2025 6:00 pm
    Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
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About Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema

We produce the nationally recognized Sidewalk Film Festival; organize a wide variety of educational programs for filmmakers and hold other events that create interest in and enthusiasm for independent film. To expand on this work and better serve our mission we have opened the Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, a two-screen independent movie theater in the heart of Birmingham’s historic theatre district.