Bay Area Film Society

Anora
2025-01-31 19:30, 2025-01-31 17:00 (America/Chicago) | 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, 2024-03-20 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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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
