The 46th Denver Film Festival returns this November 3-12 with the year's best in cinema, creative conversations with award-winning filmmakers in attendance, and carefully curated events for a 10-day cinematic extravaganza!

Explore our full program and purchase your tickets now, or add even more access to your festival experience by purchasing one of our Festival Passes—the best way to fest!

Schedule :

November 3, 2023

6:45 - 8:18 PM : Shorts 1: Narrative - AMC House 2

6:30 - 7:57 PM : The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed - AMC House 3

6 - 7:38 PM : Bad Press - AMC House 4

6:15 - 8:24 PM : Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything / Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen - AMC House 5

6 - 8:10 PM : Concrete Utopia - Sie FilmCenter - H2

6:45 - 8:17 PM : All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - Sie FilmCenter - H3              

7 - 8:37 PM : The Breaking Ice / Ran **** - AMC House 9

7 - 8:51 PM : White Plastic Sky / Müanyag égbolt - Sie FilmCenter - H1

8:45 - 10:38 PM : Riddle of Fire - AMC House 4

8 - 9:57 PM : Opening Night - American Fiction - Ellie Caulkins Opera House

9:15 - 10:48 PM : Shorts 5: Late Night - AMC House 2

9 - 10:33 PM : Molli and Max in the Future - AMC House 3

9:45 - 11:23 PM : Femme - AMC House 5

9:15 - 11 PM : She Is Conann - AMC House 9

9:15 - 10:45 PM : The Sacrifice Game - Sie FilmCenter - H2

9:30 - 10:59 PM : Eight Eyes - Sie FilmCenter - H3

November 4, 2023

9 - 11 AM : Panel - The Jacquard - Chanel

1 - 2:52 PM : Deep Sea / Shen hai - AMC House 2

1:15 - 2:48 PM : Shorts 1: Narrative - AMC House 3

1:30 - 3:08 PM : Bad Press - AMC House 4

1 - 4 PM : The Delinquents - AMC House 9

1:30 - 4:47 PM : About Dry Grasses / Les Herbes sèches - Sie FilmCenter - H1

1 - 2:24 PM : Story & Pictures By - Sie FilmCenter - H2

1:45 - 3:28 PM : On the Edge: Witold-K - Sie FilmCenter - H3        

2 - 3:16 PM : Valeria Is Getting Married / Valeria Mithatenet - AMC House 5                         

3:30 - 5:55 PM : The Taste of Things - Sie FilmCenter - H2

4:15 - 5:47 PM : Motherland - AMC House 2

4:30 - 5:57 PM : The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed - AMC House 3

4:15 - 5:48 PM : Anselm - AMC House 4

4 - 6:09 PM : Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything / Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen - AMC House 5

4:45 - 6:22 PM : The Breaking Ice / Ran **** - AMC House 9

4 - 6:03 PM : Ileana's Smile - Holiday Theater

4:15 - 6:09 PM : Blaga's Lessons - Sie FilmCenter - H3

5:45 - 7:32 PM : Mami Wata - Sie FilmCenter - H1

6:30 - 8:03 PM : Molli and Max in the Future - AMC House 2

6:45 - 8:23 PM : Shorts 3: Animation - AMC House 3

6:45 - 8:23 PM : The Teachers' Lounge / Das Lehrerzimmer - Sie FilmCenter - H3

7 - 8:53 PM : Riddle of Fire - AMC House 4

7:15 - 8:44 PM : Smoke Sauna Sisterhood - AMC House 5

7:15 - 9:06 PM : Caterpillar - AMC House 9

7:30 - 9:23 PM : The Old Oak - Sie FilmCenter - H2                   

8:15 - 9:52 PM : The Settlers - Sie FilmCenter - H1

9:15 - 10:45 PM : The Sacrifice Game - AMC House 2

9:15 - 10:48 PM : Shorts 5: Late Night - AMC House 3

9:45 - 11:10 PM : Fantastic Machine - AMC House 4

9:30 - 11:01 PM : Disco Boy - AMC House 5

9:45 - 11:30 PM : She Is Conann - AMC House 9

9:15 - 10:44 PM : Eight Eyes - Sie FilmCenter - H3

9 PM : Industry Late Night - The Clayton

November 5, 2023

9 - 11 AM : Panel - The Jacquard - Chanel

12 - 2:50 PM : Hoop Dreams - Holiday Theater

1:15 - 2:57 PM : The Crime is Mine / Mon crime - AMC House 2

1:30 - 3:08 PM : Shorts 3: Animation - AMC House 3

1:45 - 3:09 PM : Story & Pictures By - AMC House 4

1:45 - 6:07 PM : Occupied City - AMC House 5

1 - 2:51 PM : Caterpillar - AMC House 9           

3:30 - 5:54 PM : The Shadowless Tower / Bai Ta Zhi Guang - AMC House 9

4:15 - 6:07 PM : Deep Sea / Shen hai - AMC House 2

4:30 - 5:55 PM : Fantastic Machine - AMC House 3

4 - 5:23 PM : Frybread Face and Me - AMC House 4

6:45 - 8:17 PM : Motherland - AMC House 3

6:30 - 8:40 PM : Concrete Utopia - AMC House 4

6:45 - 9:45 PM : The Delinquents - AMC House 9

6:30 - 8:35 PM : Perfect Days - Denver Botanic Gardens

7 - 8:28 PM : Double Vision - AMC House 5

7:15 - 9:22 PM : The Promised Land / Bastarden - AMC House 2

November 6, 2023

4 - 6 PM : A Sensitive Person / Citlivý ?lov?k - AMC House 5

4:15 - 5:57 PM : The Crime is Mine / Mon crime - AMC House 2

4:30 - 6:16 PM : Pamfir - AMC House 3

4:15 - 6:06 PM : The Beautiful Summer / La bella estate - AMC House 9

4:45 - 7:10 PM : Culinary Cinema: The Taste of Things - Sie FilmCenter - H1

4:30 - 6:07 PM : The Settlers - Sie FilmCenter - H2

5 - 6:22 PM : Peak Season - AMC House 4

5 - 6:27 PM : Is There Anybody Out There? - Sie FilmCenter - H3

6:45 - 8:30 PM : Common Ground - AMC House 2

6:45 - 8:53 PM : Milisuthando - AMC House 5

7 - 8:33 PM : Richland - AMC House 3

7 - 8:28 PM : On the Edge: Witold-K - AMC House 9

7 - 9:13 PM : La Chimera - Denver Botanic Gardens

7 - 8:59 PM : Eric LaRue - Sie FilmCenter - H2

7:15 - 8:38 PM : Frybread Face and Me - AMC House 4

7:15 - 9:01 PM : Evil Does Not Exist / Aku wa sonzai shinai - Sie FilmCenter - H3

November 7, 2023

4 - 6:14 PM : Kidnapped - Sie FilmCenter - H3

4:15 - 6 PM : Common Ground - AMC House 2

4:30 - 6:03 PM : Richland - AMC House 3

4:45 - 6:02 PM : Rule of Two Walls - AMC House 5

4:15 - 6:06 PM : The Beautiful Summer / La bella estate - AMC House 9

4:15 - 6:02 PM : Mami Wata - Sie FilmCenter - H1

4:30 - 6 PM : Fancy Dance - Sie FilmCenter - H2

5 - 6:22 PM : Peak Season - AMC House 4

6:45 - 8:31 PM : Pamfir - AMC House 5

6:45 - 8:14 PM : Zinzindurrunkarratz - Sie FilmCenter - H1

7 - 8:44 PM : The Mission - AMC House 2

7:15 - 9:02 PM : Four Daughters / Les Filles d'Olfa - AMC House 3

7:30 - 9:13 PM : Housekeeping for Beginners / Domakinstvo za Pocetnici - AMC House 4

7 - 8:33 PM : Drift - AMC House 9

7 - 8:56 PM : Centerpiece - Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story - Denver Botanic Gardens

7 - 8:11 PM : An Open Door - Sie FilmCenter - H2

7:15 - 8:44 PM : The Great Divide - Sie FilmCenter - H3

November 8, 2023

4 - 6:10 PM : The Animal Kingdom / Le Règne animal - AMC House 2

4:30 - 6:17 PM : Four Daughters / Les Filles d'Olfa - AMC House 3

4:45 - 6:28 PM : Housekeeping for Beginners / Domakinstvo za Pocetnici - AMC House 4

4 - 6:08 PM : Milisuthando - AMC House 5

4:15 - 5:48 PM : Drift - AMC House 9

4 - 5:17 PM : Rule of Two Walls - Sie FilmCenter - H1

4:30 - 5:59 PM : The Great Divide - Sie FilmCenter - H2

4:15 - 5:44 PM : Smoke Sauna Sisterhood - Sie FilmCenter - H3           

6:30 - 8:08 PM : Femme - AMC House 9

6:30 - 7:59 PM : Zinzindurrunkarratz - Sie FilmCenter - H1

6:45 - 8:15 PM : Fancy Dance - Sie FilmCenter - H3

7:15 - 8:39 PM : Iron Butterflies - AMC House 2

7 - 8:35 PM : A Brighter Tomorrow / Il sol dell'avvenire - AMC House 3

7:15 - 8:48 PM : Deep Rising - AMC House 4

7 - 8:36 PM : Shorts 4: Avant Garde - AMC House 5

7 - 9:04 PM : Centerpiece - The Boy and the Heron - Denver Botanic Gardens

7 - 8:51 PM : Colorado Shorts: Documentary - Sie FilmCenter - H2

November 9, 2023

9 - 11 AM : Panel - The Jacquard - Ferragamo

2:45 - 6:02 PM : About Dry Grasses / Les Herbes sèches- Sie FilmCenter - H1       

3:30 - 5:06 PM : Colorado Shorts: Documentary - Sie FilmCenter - H2

4:45 - 5:15 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

4:15 - 5:39 PM : Iron Butterflies - AMC House 2

4:30 - 6:05 PM : A Brighter Tomorrow / Il sol dell'avvenire - AMC House 3

4:45 - 6:18 PM : Deep Rising - AMC House 4

4 - 5:36 PM : Shorts 4: Avant Garde - AMC House 5

4:15 - 6:15 PM : A Sensitive Person / Citlivý ?lov?k - AMC House 9

4:30 - 5:41 PM : An Open Door - Sie FilmCenter - H3

5:30 - 6 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

5:30 - 6:30 PM : Immersive Experience: 40 Watts From Nowhere - Tattered Cover

6:15 - 6:45 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

6:30 - 8:40 PM : The Animal Kingdom / Le Règne animal - AMC House 2

6:45 - 8:12 PM : Banel & Adama - AMC House 5

6:15 - 7:45 PM : Colorado Shorts: Narrative - Sie FilmCenter - H2

6:45 - 8:46 PM : Sorcerer - Sie FilmCenter - H3

7 - 7:30 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

7 - 8:40 PM : Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field - AMC House 3

7:15 - 8:33 PM : King Coal - AMC House 4

7 - 8:27 PM : Is There Anybody Out There? - AMC House 9

7 - 8:41 PM : Dream Scenario - Denver Botanic Gardens

7 - 8:31 PM : The Space Race - DMNS Infinity Theater

7 - 9:43 PM : Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World / Nu a?tepta prea mult de la sfîr?itul lumii - Sie FilmCenter - H1

7 - 8 PM : Immersive Experience: 40 Watts From Nowhere - Tattered Cover

9:00 PM : Colorado Filmmaker Party - Mirus Gallery

9 - 10:32 PM : Late Night with the Devil - Sie FilmCenter - H2

November 10, 2023

9 - 11 AM : Panel - The Jacquard - Ferragamo

1:45 - 3:29 PM : The Mission - AMC House 2

1 - 3:36 PM : Ennio - AMC House 9

1:30 - 3:44 PM : Kidnapped - Sie FilmCenter - H3

2 - 3:16 PM : Valeria Is Getting Married / Valeria Mithatenet - AMC House 3

2:30 - 3:48 PM : King Coal - AMC House 4

2 - 3:31 PM : Disco Boy - AMC House 5

2 - 3:43 PM : They Shot the Piano Player - Sie FilmCenter - H2

3:15 - 3:45 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

4:45 - 5:15 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

4:15 - 5:43 PM : Maestra - AMC House 2

4 - 5:40 PM : Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field - AMC House 3

4:45 - 6:09 PM : In the Rearview / Sk?d dok?d - AMC House 4

4:15 - 5:42 PM : Banel & Adama - AMC House 5

4:30 - 6:54 PM : The Shadowless Tower / Bai Ta Zhi Guang - AMC House 9

4 - 6:43 PM : Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World / Nu a?tepta prea mult de la sfîr?itul lumii - Sie FilmCenter - H1

4:15 - 5:45 PM : Colorado Shorts: Narrative - Sie FilmCenter - H2

4:30 - 5:40 PM : Notes from Sheepland - Sie FilmCenter - H3

5:30 - 6 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

5:30 - 6:30 PM : Immersive Experience: 40 Watts From Nowhere - Tattered Cover

6:15 - 6:45 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

6:45 - 8:23 PM : Blood for Dust - AMC House 2

6:30 - 8:19 PM : Shorts 2: Documentary - AMC House 3

6:45 - 8:29 PM : The Sweet East - AMC House 5

6:45 - 8:31 PM : Evil Does Not Exist / Aku wa sonzai shinai - Sie FilmCenter - H2

6:30 - 8:12 PM : Hey Viktor! - Sie FilmCenter - H3

7 - 7:30 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

7 - 8:31 PM : Smoking Tigers - AMC House 4

7:45 - 9:29 PM : Join or Die - AMC House 9

7 - 8:45 PM : All of Us Strangers - Denver Botanic Gardens

7:30 - 9:09 PM : Student Shorts: Domestic Competition - Sie FilmCenter - H1

7 - 8 PM : Immersive Experience: 40 Watts From Nowhere - Tattered Cover       

9:30 - 11 PM : Infested - AMC House 2

9:15 - 10:53 PM : Somewhere Quiet - AMC House 3

9:45 - 11:03 PM : Cypher - AMC House 4

9:15 - 10:54 PM : Raging Grace - AMC House 5

9:15 - 10:47 PM : Late Night with the Devil - Sie FilmCenter - H2

9 - 10:23 PM : Soft Liquid Center - Sie FilmCenter - H3                   

10 - 11:10 PM : Hello Dankness - Sie FilmCenter - H1

November 11, 2023

9 - 11 AM : Panel - The Jacquard - Ferragamo       

12:45 - 2:34 PM : Shorts 2: Documentary - AMC House 3

12:15 - 3:17 PM : Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell / Bên trong v? kén vàng - AMC House 5

12:45 - 3:21 PM : Ennio - AMC House 9

1:15 - 3 PM : Going Varsity in Mariachi - AMC House 2

1:45 - 3:06 PM : Fallen Leaves / Kuolleet lehdet - AMC House 4

1 - 2:39 PM : Student Shorts: Domestic Competition - Sie FilmCenter - H1

1:30 - 3:05 PM : Totem - Sie FilmCenter - H2

1:15 - 2:25 PM : Notes from Sheepland - Sie FilmCenter - H3

3:30 - 5:08 PM : Blood for Dust - AMC House 3

3:30 - 5:18 PM : Hard Miles - Denver Botanic Gardens

3:45 - 5:36 PM : White Plastic Sky / Müanyag égbolt - Sie FilmCenter - H1

3:30 - 5:12 PM : Hey Viktor! - Sie FilmCenter - H3

4:45 - 5:15 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

4:30 - 6 PM : Songs of Earth / Fedrelandet - AMC House 2

4 - 5:31 PM : Smoking Tigers - AMC House 4

4 - 5:25 PM : Student Shorts: Animation Competition - AMC House 5

4:15 - 5:59 PM : Join or Die - AMC House 9

4 - 5:42 PM : Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project - Sie FilmCenter - H2

5:30 - 6 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

5:30 - 6:30 PM : Immersive Experience: 40 Watts From Nowhere - Tattered Cover

6:15 - 6:45 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

6:45 - 8:13 PM : Maestra - AMC House 2

6:15 - 8:06 PM : Summer of Violence - AMC House 3

6:30 - 7:48 PM : Cypher - AMC House 4

6:15 - 8:02 PM : Parachute - AMC House 5

6:30 - 8:13 PM : Robot Dreams - Sie FilmCenter - H2

6:15 - 8:21 PM : Monster / Kaibutsu - Sie FilmCenter - H3

7 - 7:30 PM : Immersive Experience: Casting - 580 Gilpin St.

7 - 8:40 PM : Publish or Perish - AMC House 9

7:30 - 9:05 PM : Closing Night - I.S.S. - DMNS Infinity Theater

7 - 8:33 PM : Student Shorts: International Competition - Sie FilmCenter - H1

7 - 8 PM : Immersive Experience: 40 Watts From Nowhere - Tattered Cover       

8:30 - 10:14 PM : The Sweet East - AMC House 4

8:45 - 10:24 PM : Raging Grace - AMC House 5

9 - 10:30 PM : Infested - AMC House 2

9:15 - 10:53 PM : Somewhere Quiet - AMC House 3

9:00 PM : Closing Night Party - Meow Wolf - (Sips with a Z)

9:30 - 10:40 PM : Hello Dankness - Sie FilmCenter - H1

9 - 10:32 PM : The People's Joker - Sie FilmCenter - H2

9:15 - 10:38 PM : Soft Liquid Center - Sie FilmCenter - H3

November 12, 2023

11 AM - 12:15 PM : Kesher: The West Colfax Jewish Connection - AMC House 2

11:15 AM - 1:09 PM : Blaga's Lessons - AMC House 3

11:45 AM - 1:18 PM : Student Shorts: International Competition - Sie FilmCenter - H1

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM : National History Day Colorado Student Festival: Frontiers in History - Sie FilmCenter - H3

11 AM - 1 PM : Awards Brunch - The Jacquard - Prada Ballroom                   

12 - 1:42 PM : Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project - Sie FilmCenter - H2       

1:45 - 3:18 PM : Anselm - AMC House 4

1:30 - 2:55 PM : Student Shorts: Animation Competition - AMC House 5

1:45 - 3:25 PM : Publish or Perish - AMC House 9

2:15 - 4 PM : Going Varsity in Mariachi - AMC House 2

2 - 3:51 PM : Summer of Violence - AMC House 3

2:15 - 6:15 PM : Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros - Sie FilmCenter - H1

2:30 - 4:05 PM : Totem - Sie FilmCenter - H2

2:15 - 4:42 PM : Green Border - Sie FilmCenter - H3       

3:45 - 6:47 PM : Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell / Bên trong v? kén vàng - AMC House 5

4:45 - 6:15 PM : Songs of Earth / Fedrelandet - AMC House 2

4:45 - 6:06 PM : Fallen Leaves / Kuolleet lehdet - AMC House

4:30 - 6:17 PM : Parachute - AMC House 9       

5 - 6:24 PM : In the Rearview / Sk?d dok?d - AMC House 3

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Date : November 3, 2023 - November 12, 2023

Location : Various Location

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