The 18th Annual Big Water Film Festival is excited to bring the Friday and Saturday blocks of films to the Bay Theater in Ashland! Schedule & tickets available at www.bigwaterfilmfestival.org.
Blue Moon is a 2025 American biographical comedy drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Robert Kaplow. The film follows songwriter Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) as he reflects on himself on the opening night of Oklahoma!, a new musical by his former colleague Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott).
Folktales is a 2025 documentary film, directed and produced by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. It follows teenagers at a folk high school in Norway, where they must rely on each other and a pack of sled dogs as they grow. It had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025, […]
Join us for our screening of "The Brutalist" on Friday, March 14th at 6:00 p.m. at the Bay Theater. Winner of 3 Academy Awards including Adrien Brody for Best Actor. Due to the length of this film, there will be only one screening which includes a 15 minute intermission. There will be a special "Oscar" […]
Plan to join us for the screening of the new Brazilian film by acclaimed director Walter Salles. "I'm Still Here" is nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Fernanda Torres), Best International Feature, & Best Picture. This one is meant to be shared with an audience on the BIG screen!
Come join us for a special screening of FEBRUARY at the historic Bay Theatre in Ashland, WI, followed by a Q&A with the film's writer/director Nathan Deming. Admission is free.
January 31 at 5pm and 7:30pm. 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.
Happening Tuesday, January 21 @ 2pm, Bay Theater in Ashland. Come sign the traveling banner! It'll be going to the International Screening of the movie Bad River! Sign, draw, tape pictures, send your messages to Toronto and Montreal! Free popcorn and soda!
January 17 & 18, 2025. 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.
January 10 @ 5 pm and 7:30 pm. 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 […]
