Bay Area Film Society

Sorry, Baby
2025-10-17 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Sorry, Baby is a 2025 American independent black comedy-drama film written and directed by Eva Victor in their filmmaking debut. The film stars Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, Hettienne Park, E. R. Fightmaster, Lucas Hedges, and John Carroll Lynch.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2025, where it received widespread critical acclaim. It was released by A24 in select theaters in the United States on June 27, 2025, before expanding nationwide on July 25.
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
2025-09-26 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
﻿Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (French: Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) is a 2024 French romantic comedy film written and directed by Laura Piani.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2024. It was released in France on 22 January 2025 and in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics on May 23, 2025.
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
2025-09-26 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (French: Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) is a 2024 French romantic comedy film written and directed by Laura Piani.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2024. It was released in France on 22 January 2025 and in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics on May 23, 2025.
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4th Annual Stand with the Banned Music Festival
2025-06-07 12:00 - 20:00 | Honest Dog Books, 38 S 2nd St, Bayfield, WI, 54814, United States
Join the 4th Annual Stand with the Banned Music Festival!
Music, food, and talks will take place in the courtyard behind the bookstore. Screen printing will be next door at Penny Print Studio.
12 pm Documentary: Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship (90 min)
Visionary teenagers, public protests, threats, criminal charges, and drama-filled school board meetings: this is the explosive world of BANNED TOGETHER, the first feature documentary about fighting book bans and censorship in the U.S. This award-winning doc presented with the Vaughn Library and Bay Area Film Society. (Also showing Friday, June 6 at 7 p.m.)
1-4 pm Wear Your Mood: Screen Prints at Penny Print Studio
Penny Print Studio will be screen printing original art with Ban the Fascists, Save the Books on your tees. $10 fee. One (1) t-shirt per customer. Penny Print will also have T-shirts available for sale for screen printing or get your Honest Dog Books tee and print it on the back.
2-3:15 pm Polka on Purpose w/ Jan Lee, Tom Mitchell, Jane Aleckson
Polkas & good time music as well as the annual sing-along of our original banned books anthem, “When Will This Madness End?”
3:30-5:15 pm Molly Otis & the Danger Band
Singer, songwriter, fiddle, mandolin, guitar player, and regional favorite Molly Otis fronts this country, blues band.
5:30-7:30 pm Spring Fed
Spring Fed is a cooperation of the chillest musicians on the shores of Lake Superior. Funk, Reggae, Blues.
Hosted by Honest Dog Books and Penny Print Studio with thanks to major sponsorship from Big Top Chautauqua.

Flow
2025-04-11 19:30, 2025-04-11 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Flow (Latvian: Straume) is a 2024 animated adventure film directed by Gints Zilbalodis, written and produced by Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža. A Latvian, French, and Belgian co-production, it features no dialogue and follows a cat trying to survive along with other animals in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world as the water level dramatically rises.
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The Brutalist
2025-03-14 18:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
The Brutalist is a 2024 epic period drama film directed and produced by Brady Corbet, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mona Fastvold. It stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States, where he struggles to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy client changes his life.
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I'm Still Here
2025-02-21 19:30 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
﻿﻿I’m Still Here (Portuguese: Ainda Estou Aqui) is a 2024 political biographical drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir of the same name.
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I'm Still Here
2025-02-21 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
I’m Still Here (Portuguese: Ainda Estou Aqui) is a 2024 political biographical drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir of the same name.
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Anora
2025-01-31 19:30, 2025-01-31 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Anora is a 2024 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Sean Baker. It follows the beleaguered marriage between Anora (Mikey Madison), a young sex worker, and Vanya Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian oligarch.
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17th Big Water Film Festival
2025-01-17 - 2025-01-18 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
17thbigwaterfilmfestival.org
Our live Festival will be at the historic Bay Theater in Ashland on January 17-18, 2025.
Our virtual Festival will run one week before and one week after the live Festival, from January 10 to January 26. Films to be announced soon.

Robot Dreams
2025-01-10 19:30, 2025-01-10 17:00 | Historic Bay Theater, 420 Main Street West, Ashland, WI, 54806
Robot Dreams is a 2023 animated tragicomedy film written and directed by Pablo Berger. A Spanish-French co-production, it is based on the 2007 comic of the same name by Sara Varon. The film follows an unusual friendship between a dog and a robot in New York City in 1984. The film does not contain any dialogue.
Robot Dreams had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2023, in the Special Screenings section. It received critical acclaim and won Best Film in the Contrechamp section of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival as well as Best Independent Animated Feature at the 51st Annie Awards. It also won the Goya Award for Best Animated Film and the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
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BAFS Board meeting
2024-12-18 18:00, 2024-11-20 18:00, 2024-10-16 18:00, 2024-08-21 18:00, 2024-04-17 18:00 | Vaughn Library, 502 Main St W,, Ashland, WI, 54806, United States

Kneecap
2024-12-06 19:30, 2024-12-06 17:00 | 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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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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