Bay Area Film Society

Kneecap
2024-12-06 19:30, 2024-12-06 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Kneecap is a 2024 comedy-drama film depicting the rise of Belfast-based hip-hop trio, Kneecap. The film stars the band members as themselves, with Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Best, Simone Kirby, and Michael Fassbender in supporting roles.
The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on 18 January, the first film in the Irish language to do so, where it won the NEXT Audience Award. Its Irish premiere at the 36th edition of the Galway Film Fleadh, won Best Irish Film, the Audience Award and the Irish Language Feature Film Award.
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BAFS Board meeting
2024-11-20 18:00, 2024-10-16 18:00, 2024-08-21 18:00, 2024-04-17 18:00, 2024-03-20 18:00 | Vaughn Library, 502 Main St W,, Ashland, WI, 54806, United States

Sugarcane
2024-11-08 19:30, 2024-11-08 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Sugarcane is a 2024 documentary film, directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and produced by Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn. It follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and descendants.
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Thelma
2024-10-18 19:30, 2024-10-18 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Thelma is a 2024 American comedy-drama film written, directed and edited by Josh Margolin. The film stars June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Clark Gregg, Parker Posey, and Malcolm McDowell.
Thelma premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024, and was released in the United States by Magnolia Pictures on June 21, 2024. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and grossed $10 million worldwide.
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Super Secret Screening
2024-05-04 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
This is a free event for invited folks only!
Sponsored by A to Z Plumbing & Heating

Member/Sponsor/Volunteer Party
2024-05-04 17:30 | The Black Cat Coffeehouse, 211 Chapple Ave., Ashland, WI, 54806, United States

Perfect Days
2024-04-12 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
﻿﻿Perfect Days is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders, from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film combines four short stories and stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a toilet cleaner.
Sponsored by The Bayfield Inn.
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Perfect Days
2024-04-12 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Perfect Days is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders, from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film combines four short stories and stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a toilet cleaner.
Sponsored by The Bayfield Inn.
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The Zone of Interest
2024-03-22 19:30, 2024-03-22 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis. It was a co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland. It stars Christian Friedel as the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, who strives to build a dream life with his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), in a new home next to the German Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Persian Version
2024-02-23 19:30, 2024-02-23 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Persian Version is a 2023 American comedy drama film directed and written by Maryam Keshavarz. The film stars Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Bijan Daneshma﻿nd, Bella Warda, and Tom Byrne. It follows the struggles of a young Iranian-American woman who is often at odds with her family, particularly with her mother.

The Boy and the Heron
2024-02-02 19:30, 2024-02-02 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Boy and the Heron (Japanese: 君たちはどう生きるか, Hepburn: Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka, lit. ’How Do You[a] Live?’) is a 2023 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Produced by Studio Ghibli, the Japanese title references the 1937 novel of the same name by Genzaburō Yoshino, which appears in the film, but the film has an original story that is not connected to the novel.
The Japanese voice cast includes Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, and Shinobu Otake. Described as a “big fantastical film”, it follows a boy named Mahito Maki during the Pacific War who discovers an abandoned tower in his new town after his mother’s death and enters a fantastical world with a talking grey heron.
Film screening sponsored by AdventurUs & Steffenson Carpentry.

16th Big Water Film Festival
2024-01-19 - 2024-01-20 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
https://16thbigwaterfilmfestival.eventive.org/

Anatomy of a Fall
2024-01-12 18:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Anatomy of a Fall (French: Anatomie d’une chute) is a 2023 French courtroom drama thriller film directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay co-written by Triet and Arthur Harari. It stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death.
The film received acclaim from critics, who praised Triet and Hüller, and it has sold over one million admissions in France.
152 minutes
Not Rated
$7.00 for members

Róise & Frank
2023-12-08 19:30, 2023-12-08 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Róise & Frank is a 2022 Irish comedy-drama film directed and written by Rachael Moriarty and Peter Murphy, and starring Bríd Ní Neachtain. The film is set in Ring, a town within Gaeltacht na nDéise in Waterford.
Two years after the death of her husband Frank, Róise becomes increasingly isolated from those around her, going through the motions of her life. An unchipped, apparently ownerless, dog appears at Róise’s doorstep & is insistent on staying with her. The dog manages to reawaken Róise and ends up reconnecting her to her family & community.
This film is sponsored by Bay Area Animal Hospital.
84 minutes
Not Rated
$7.00 for members

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
2023-11-10 19:30, 2023-11-10 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a 2022 American action-thriller film directed by Daniel Goldhaber, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ariela Barer and Jordan Sjol. It relies on ideas advanced in Andreas Malm’s 2021 book of the same name, published by Verso Books. Malm’s nonfiction work examines the history of social justice movements and argues for property destruction as a valid tactic in the pursuit of environmental justice. The film stars Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary and Irene Bedard.
104 minutes
Rated R for language throughout and some drug use
$7.00 for members

Night of the Living Dead - New Restoration
2023-10-20 21:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film that introduced the flesh-eating ghouls that would become synonymous with the term “zombie”. The story follows seven people trapped in a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, under assault by reanimated corpses. The movie was directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, and produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman. It stars Duane Jones and Judith O’Dea.
96 minutes
Not rated
$7.00 for members
Double feature with The Exorcist
$12.00 for members

The Exorcist - 50th Anniversary Director’s Cut
2023-10-20 18:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel of the same name. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. The story follows the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.
This film is sponsored by Play Unplugged.
132 minutes
Rated R for strong language and disturbing images
$7.00 for members
Double feature with Night of the Living Dead
$12.00 for members
