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2026 MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival: You Be the Judge!
- Sun, Sep 27
- Wed, Sep 30
Run Time: 165 min. Release Year: 2026
Discover your inner film critic by casting your vote at the 29th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. You’ll join film lovers simultaneously in over 500 venues across the globe!
The Court Jester
- Thu, Oct 1
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 1955
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Parker, Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns
We asked Shakespeare and Francis Bacon would they declare which one wrote this and they both said, “Get outta here!”
The Color Purple w/ Community Leader Conversation
- Thu, Oct 1
Director: Steven Spielberg Run Time: 154 min. Release Year: 1985
Starring: Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Willard E. Pugh
It's about life. It's about love. It's about us.
Digger
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Run Time: 129 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Tom Cruise
A man. A plan. A meltdown.
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Così fan tutte – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Oct 3
Run Time: 237 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: Italian
Starring: Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Federica Lombardi
The Met: Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of...
Jane Elliott Against the World
- Wed, Oct 7
Director: Judd Ehrlich Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Jane Elliott, Killer Mike, Oprah Winfrey, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel
A rural Iowa schoolteacher becomes a national voice against racism after leading a controversial 1968 lesson in discrimination...
Ciller Corn w/ Filmmaker Q&A
- Thu, Oct 8
Director: Caleb Davis Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Ben Rollins, Cody Jenison, Ella Ashlin, Kenny Bristow, Sophia Kilburg
Join us before the film for a special Q&A with the filmmaking team! Carson is ready to leave...
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…
Director: Nick Davis Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Jayne Eastwood, Martin Short, Victor Garber
Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in...
The History of Concrete
Director: John Wilson Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: John Wilson, Josh Safdie, Michael Imperioli, Nathan Fielder, Timothée Chalamet
After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to...
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
- Sat, Oct 10
Director: Christine Lalla, Indhu Rubasingham Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Abigail Cruttenden, Imogen Elliott, Paul Chahidi, Rina Fatania, Sandra Oh
Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the hollow contemporary mantras of kindness and respect. But the bolder she becomes...
The Craft with Audience Interaction
- Tue, Oct 13
Director: Andrew Fleming Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 1996
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Robin Tunney, Skeet Ulrich
Welcome to the witching hour.
My Cousin Vinny w/ Drake University Law School
- Wed, Oct 14
Director: Jonathan Lynn Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 1992
Starring: Fred Gwynne, Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Ralph Macchio
There have been many courtroom dramas that have glorified the Great American Legal System. This is not one of them.
The Bright Path: The Johnny Bright Story – A Free Screening in Partnership with Drake University
Director: Jerald B. Harkness Run Time: 57 min. Release Year: 2022
Chronicles the life of African American Johnny Bright trailblazer who changed College football forever. Despite experiencing one of...
Sense and Sensibility
Director: Georgia Oakley Run Time: 132 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Caitríona Balfe, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Frank Dillane
No one knows your heart like a sister.
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Macbeth – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Oct 17
Run Time: 209 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: Italian
Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists star in Verdi’s thrilling take on Shakespeare’s immortal tale. Following past triumphs in...
Groundswell – A Free Screening w/ Governor Tom Vilsack + Drake University
- Tue, Oct 20
Director: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Demi Moore, Ian Somerhalder, Jaden Smith, Jason Momoa
Join us after the film for a special conversation with Governor Tom Vilsack and producer Laura Turner Seydel!...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Live Shadow Cast
- Thu, Oct 22
- Fri, Oct 23
Director: Jim Sharman Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1975
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry
A different set of jaws.
You Can See Everything
Director: Lance Oppenheim, Nathan Fielder Run Time: 174 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Billy Evans, Christopher Abbott, Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder
Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew...
Get Out
- Tue, Oct 27
Director: Jordan Peele Run Time: 104 min. Release Year: 2017
Starring: Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Keener, Daniel Kaluuya
Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome.
Night of the Creeps w/ The Fright Zone Podcast
- Thu, Oct 29
Director: Fred Dekker Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1986
Starring: Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins, Wally Taylor
The good news is your date is here. The bad news is...He's dead.
Fjord
Director: Cristian Mungiu Run Time: 146 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: Romanian
Starring: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Lisa Carlehed, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Renate Reinsve, Sebastian Stan
When does protection become control?
Wicker
Director: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage
Marriage material.
A Place in the Sun with Karina Longworth of You Must Remember This podcast
- Sun, Nov 8
Sun, Nov 8 @ 7:00 pm: Plus Q&A with Karina Longworth. Read More ›
Director: George Stevens Run Time: 122 min. Release Year: 1951
Starring: Anne Revere, Elizabeth Taylor, Keefe Brasselle, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters
Young people asking so much of life... taking so much of love!
National Theatre Live: Golden Boy
Director: Sam Yates Run Time: 180 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: David Ganly, Jason Barnett, Josh O'Connor, Patrick Martins, Richard Fleeshman
I'm out for fame and fortune, not to be different or artistic! I don't intend to be ashamed of my life!
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Samson et Dalila – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Dec 5
Run Time: 234 min. Release Year: 2026 Language: French
Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive...
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Jan 23
Director: Gary Halvorson Run Time: 195 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: Italian
Starring: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, Matthew Rose, Richard Bernstein, Željko Lučić
Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones,...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Silent Night – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Mar 20
Run Time: 180 min. Release Year: 2027
Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Manon – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Apr 3
Run Time: 264 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: French
Following her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette—which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Apr 24
Run Time: 201 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: Italian
One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider...
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Parsifal – Presented with Des Moines Metro Opera
- Sat, Jun 5
Run Time: 365 min. Release Year: 2027 Language: German
A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for...