Wisconsin Film Festival
The Wisconsin Film Festival is an annual film festival, founded in 1999. The festival is held every April in Madison, Wisconsin, and has recently been expanded from five days to eight days..
The Festival presents a broad range of independent American and world cinema, restorations and revivals, and locally made pictures from Wisconsin filmmakers. Presented by the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Arts Institute, this is the largest campus-based film festival in the United States.
In 2019 the festival reported an attendance of 29,280, with 153 films shown in 156 screenings across seven screens and five venues, supported by 178 volunteers. In recent years the festival has consolidated many of its screenings at Flix Brewhouse, while still being based in the historic Barrymore Theatre. The 2025 festival featured nearly 90 programs across eight days, with a mixed lineup of original Wisconsin made films, as well as international selections, repertory screenings, and repertory-style revivals including UW-Madison alumnus David Koepp, who introduced a special screening of his 2012 film Premium Rush.