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2026 World Cinema Day

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World Cinema Day, a collaboration between UW-Madison’s WIRC and the Wisconsin Film Festival that began in 2004, brings school children and teachers to Madison for the screening of a high-quality, international film with an introduction and post-film discussion led by a member of the UW faculty or staff. 

This year’s WCD will feature several short films from this selection:

  • Little Rebel’s Cinema Club, Indonesia (17 min)
  • The Strange Case of the Human Cannonball (El Extaño caso del Hombre Bala), Ecuador (10 min)
  • Riding Time, UK (19 min)
  • América, Peru (16 min)
  • Son, Russia (21 min)
  • The Thief, Greenland (20 min)
Click here to read an article about last year’s World Cinema Day, where we brought 250 middle and high school students from across Wisconsin to the Barrymore Theatre to watch the Pakistani film, Yasmeen’s Element. Please direct questions to Terry Kerr at terry@wifilmfest.org.