The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with the Sedona Historical Society to celebrate the National Day of the Cowboy with a special screening of “Blood on the Moon” on Saturday, July 27 at 3:00 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. This is the Society’s annual screening of a vintage western film made in Sedona. Join us for an afternoon of Sedona classic movie history and entertainment. Director Robert Wise is at the helm as Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, and Barbara Bel Geddes star in this taut Western noir thriller about a gunslinging drifter who realizes he’s been hired to be a villain. Out on the Texas frontier, Jim Garry (Mitchum) rides into town, quickly getting caught in a simmering confrontation between homesteaders and cattle ranchers. After accepting employment from an old mercenary friend, Tate Riling (Preston),

Join us for a family-friendly escape to the movies and celebrate everything CATS! Cat Video Fest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. “Watching silly cat videos is good for you.” — The Wall Street Journal Cat Video Fest is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, and raises money for cats in need through partnerships with local cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters to best serve cats in the area. “Cat Video Fest 2024” is presented in partnership with the Humane Society of Sedona.

Isolated on a seaside estate during the 1918 Spanish Flu, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When the plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their wealthy employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a more sinister agenda, and mind games between master and servant escalate into boisterous class warfare. “A jaunty class-war comedy.” — Variety “Fun! Amusing! Radical!” — The Hollywood Reporter “Exuberant.” — The Guardian

The Sedona International Film Festival presents Dance in Cinema on Wednesday and Sunday, Sept. 25 and 29 when it hosts the big screen premiere of “Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s dance version of Tim Burton’s classic” at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of “Edward Scissorhands” has carved a place in the hearts of audiences worldwide since its premiere in 2005. Based on the classic Tim Burton movie and featuring the hauntingly beautiful music of Danny Elfman and Terry Davies, Bourne and his New Adventures Company return to this witty, bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world. Filmed live in March 2024 at the Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff, this visually arresting and ceaselessly inventive production is the perfect treat for all the family.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to bring movies to Downtown Flagstaff! This series continues on Wednesday, July 31 with the Flagstaff premiere of “42nd Street: The Musical” at 7:00 p.m. at Theatrikos Theatre Company. One of Broadway's most classic and beloved tales, “42nd Street”, comes cinema screens in the largest-ever production of the breathtaking musical from London’s West End. The musical, set in 1933, tells the story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on Broadway. Peggy arrives to New York City from her hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania and her talent catches the eye of legendary Broadway director Julian Marsh. She gets a spot in the chorus of the musical-within-the-musical, Pretty Lady. Dorothy Brock, the classic Broadway diva and star of the show, takes a dislike to the new girl. When Dorothy is injured, Pretty Lady looks like it will have to close.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to bring movies to Downtown Flagstaff! This series continues on Wednesday, Aug. 28 with the Flagstaff premiere of “Forever is Now” at 7:00 p.m. at Theatrikos Theatre Company. Filmmakers Shandi Kano and Sean Slobodan will be in Flagstaff to host the film premiere and Q&A discussion following the screening. “Forever is Now” follows ten people who are Zion National Park’s keepers and caretakers. At a time of increasing tension between recreation and environmental impact, the film follows a path to the future through character stories that are personal, complex, and compelling. Shot in all four seasons across fourteen successive months, the film captures Zion like it’s never been seen before — instilling a sense of awe and ownership for public lands today, tomorrow, and forever. The name "Forever Is Now" comes from the writings of poet Lyman Hafen.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to bring movies to Downtown Flagstaff! This series continues on Wednesday, Aug. 7 with the Flagstaff premiere of “The Dresser” at 7:00 p.m. at Theatrikos Theatre Company. “The Dresser” features an award-winning cast, including Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Ian McKellen and Emily Watson with Sarah Lancashire, Edward Fox and Vanessa Kirby. Adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, “The Dresser” gives the audience a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of traveling stage actors. The film — based on a stage play — focuses on a regional Shakespeare theater troupe traveling the outskirts of England trying to keep the Bard’s work and their craft alive, all while air raid sirens signal a German bombing. In the closing months of World War II, aging actor Sir (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Her Ladyship (Emily Watson) bring Shakespeare to the provinces with a company depleted by conscription.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to bring movies to Downtown Flagstaff! This series continues on Wednesday, Aug. 14 with the Flagstaff premiere of “Widow Clicquot” at 7:00 p.m. at Theatrikos Theatre Company. “Widow Clicquot” is based on the true story of the “Grande Dame of Champagne,” Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin (1777-1866) who — at the age of 20 — became Madame Clicquot after marrying the scion of a winemaking family. Though their marriage was arranged, a timeless love blossomed between Barbe-Nicole (Haley Bennett) and her poetic, unconventional, and erratic husband, François (Tom Sturridge). In the weeds after her spouse’s untimely death, and now a mother to Clémentine, Barbe-Nicole is still enamored and enthralled with François’ avant-garde experiments. Named Veuve (the French word for widow) at age 27, she is determined to protect her family’s legacy and boldly challenge the men.

“Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye” depicts the life and work of Jamie Wyeth, heir to a three-generation dynasty of painters, who has carved out a singular path in the art world. His subjects include John F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudolf Nureyev, animals on his farm and on the islands of Maine, all through his unique, and sometimes unsettling, lens. “Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye” is the first feature length documentary that embraces the full scope of the American artist’s life and work. The filmmaking team had unprecedented access to the artist, his personal archives as well those of his distinguished artist family members. The film is rich in archival footage that creates a sense of time and place. It is packed with sketches, drawings and paintings from the artist’s oeuvre, to illustrate the breadth and depth of his work to date. \

“Kinds of Kindness” is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader. “Kinds of Kindness” — directed by Academy Award-nominee Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite, The Lobster, Dogtooth) stars two-time Academy Award-winner Emma Stone and Academy Award nominees Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe, along with Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn and Hunter Schafer.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the summer encore of the Met Opera’s “La Bohème” (from the 2017-18 season) on Saturday, July 27 at 12 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. An exciting young cast stars in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of “La Bohème”, the most-performed opera in Met history. Sonya Yoncheva stars as Mimì opposite Michael Fabiano as the passionate writer Rodolfo. Susanna Phillips reprises the role of the flirtatious Musetta and Lucas Meachem sings the role of her lover, the painter Marcello. The cast also features Alexey Lavrov and Matthew Rose as Rodolfo and Marcello’s friends Schaunard and Colline and Paul Plishka as Benoit and Alcindoro in this performance, led by Marco Armiliato.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the summer encore of the Met Opera’s “La Cenerentola” (from the 2013-14 season) on Saturday, Aug. 3 at 12 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Rossini’s charming take on the Cinderella story returns to cinemas, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Juan Diego Flórez in Cesare Lievi’s whimsical production. Fabio Luisi conducts. ACT I A fairy-tale kingdom. Angelina, called Cenerentola, lives as a maid in the house of her father, Don Magnifico, and her two stepsisters. The prince, Don Ramiro, who is traveling the country to find a wife, arrives, dressed as a servant to better observe the prospective brides. He and Cenerentola are immediately attracted to each other, while Magnifico and the stepsisters flatter Dandini, Ramiro’s valet, who is disguised as his master.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world to present the global premiere of “Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps” showing July 28 and 30 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Tami Stronach — the iconic Childlike Empress in “The NeverEnding Story” — makes her long-awaited return to the big screen in the new fantasy film “Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps”. When a lonely goatherd discovers that he has been cursed at birth to never take a wife, he makes a bargain with a reclusive witch to reverse the spell, only to find that if he can’t complete her three impossible tasks, he will never find true love. “Man and Witch” features Sean Astin, Christopher Lloyd, Eddie Izzard, Jennifer Saunders, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Michael Emerson, Bill Bailey, Daniel Portman, Stuart Bowman, Martha West and Greg Steinbruner.

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczala as the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct the January 25 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide.

Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran German bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, Chinese soprano Ying Fang and German tenor Magnus Dietrich as the young Marzelline and Jaquino, and Danish bass Stephen Milling as the principled Don Fernando. Susanna Mälkki conducts the March 15 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide.

Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons. Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. American tenor Ben Bliss costars as the Wyoming rancher Eric in a production by Michael Mayer that brings this story to life in a high-tech staging which presents a variety of perspectives on the action. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19.

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy on May 31. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.

On April 26, Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.

Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano Erin Morley as Olympia, South African soprano Pretty Yende as Antonia, and French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as Giulietta to complete Hoffmann’s trio of lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and Russian mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in her company debut as Nicklausse.