Milwaukee movie fans, rejoice! The best two weeks of the calendar year are back, as the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival has returned to a big screen near you now through May 4. And to help you chow down on a cinematic feast not seen since "Big Night," here is its full lineup and schedule of movie selections. 

Featuring hundreds of movies spread out across two weeks and three locations – the Oriental Theatre, the Times Cinema and the Avalon – the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival is predictably unpredictable. You can find just about anything in this lineup – from feature length films to sensational shorts, tense modern indie horror chillers to adorable animated kids movies about the world's most precious (and least potty-trained) pig, legendary rock docs ("Madonna: Truth or Dare" takes the place of "Stop Making Sense" this year, though the dancing in the aisles should stay the same) to chronicles about the most infamous part of the "Star Wars" universe. Fake nipples, the latest from Jafar Panahi, the cinematic adaptation of an iconic coming-of-age novel, warring unicorns, menacing beavers, Little Richard, Karen Carpenter, a silent classic and satirical superheroes: They're all in attendance for this year's festival, too.

As always, if you can't find at least one thing at the Milwaukee Film Festival that intrigues or interests you, you may just not find anything interesting. That's a you problem.

And that's all just the stuff on screen, as the Milwaukee Film Festival always surrounds its film fanaticism with all sorts of insightful conversations, entertaining parties and community engagements. Movies may take place in dark rooms, but at the film festival, it's never a solitary experience. 

For full descriptions of each film selection, the entire virtual program book, details about the festival's virtual screening options and – most importantly – information on purchasing tickets or passes, head over to Milwaukee Film's website. But to help you Sharpie and highlighter your schedule of glorious cinematic shenanigans – whether you're here for the docs, the classics, the teen dramas, the local gems, the animated excellence, the late-night ridiculousness, the shorts or some brilliant blend of them all – here's the day-by-day schedule to 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival ongoing now! Time to live on nothing but Buncha Crunch, water and movie credits!

Anyways, here's the full schedule – and here's to seeing you all at the movies!

Day 12: Monday, May 1

Oriental Theatre - Main House

3:30 p.m. – "And The King Said, What a Fantastic Machine"
7:30 p.m. – Cinebuds LIVE with "Enter the Dragon"

Oriental Theatre - Side Houses

1 p.m. – "Godland"
1:30 p.m. – "All Man: The International Male Story"
4 p.m. – "Black Barbie: A Documentary"
4:30 p.m. – "The Happiest Man in the World"
7 p.m. – "Shorts: Stories We Tell"
8 p.m. – "The Five Devils"
9:15 p.m. – "Beyond Human Nature"

Avalon Theater

1 p.m. – "The Quiet Epidemic"
4 p.m. – "Chile '76"
6:30 p.m. – "King Coal"
9:15 p.m. – "The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution"

Times Cinema

1 p.m. – "Finding Her Beat"
3:45 p.m. – "Our Father, The Devil"
6:45 p.m. – "Egghead & Twinkie"
9:15 p.m. – "Kokomo City"

Day 13: Tuesday, May 2

Oriental Theatre - Main House

2 p.m. – "La Jauria"
4:30 p.m. – "Gods of Mexico"
7 p.m. – "The Milwaukee Show II"

Oriental Theatre - Side Houses

12:30 p.m. – "Is There Anybody Out There?"
1 p.m. – "1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture"
3 p.m. – "Call Me Dancer"
3:45 p.m. – "A Common Sequence"
6 p.m. – "The Unknown Country"
6:30 p.m. – "It's Only Life After All"
9 p.m. – "Hundreds of Beavers"
9:30 p.m. – "I Like Movies"

Avalon Theater

1:30 p.m. – "Bones of Crows"
4:30 p.m. – "Finding Satoshi"
6:30 p.m. – "Hung Up on a Dream"
9:30 p.m. – "King Coal"

Times Cinema

1 p.m. – "We Are Still Here"
3:15 p.m. – "Next Sohee"
6:30 p.m. – "Dear Thirteen"
8:45 p.m. – "Smoking Causes Coughing"

Day 14: Wednesday, May 3

Oriental Theatre - Main House

1 p.m. – "Riceboy Sleeps"
4:15 p.m. – "The Right to Read"
7 p.m. – "Shorts: Date Night"
9:30 p.m. – "Shorts: Surprise, Surprise!"

Oriental Theatre - Side Houses

12:15 p.m. – "The Eight Mountains"
1:30 p.m. – "Pianoforte"
3:45 p.m. – "Bonnie Blue: James Cotton's Life in the Blues"
4:45 p.m. – "We Are Not Ghouls"
6:30 p.m. – "Living Wine"
7:45 p.m. – "The Starling Girl"
9 p.m. – "Love & Irony"

Avalon Theater

1:30 p.m. – "Bad Press"
4:15 p.m. – "Viking"
7 p.m. – "Golden Years"
9:30 p.m. – "To Live and Die and Live"

Times Cinema

1 p.m. – "Pay or Die"
3:45 p.m. – "Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities"
6:30 p.m. – "Falcon Lake"
9:15 p.m. – "Time Bomb Y2K"

Day 15: Thursday, May 4

Oriental Theatre - Main House

1:15 p.m. – "The Happiest Man in the World"
4 p.m. – "Lakota Nation vs. United States"
7:15 p.m. – "A Disturbance in the Force"

Oriental Theatre - Side Houses

12:30 p.m. – "Being Mary Tyler Moore"
1:45 p.m. – "Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV"
3:30 p.m. – "Karaoke"
4:30 p.m. – "The Grab"
6:30 p.m. – "Ajoomma"
7:45 p.m. – "Peak Season"

Avalon Theater

1:30 p.m. – "Little Richard: I Am Everything"
4:15 p.m. – "The Unknown Country"
7:15 p.m. – "Coyote"

Times Cinema

2:30 p.m. – "Chile '76"
5 p.m. – "A Witch Story"
7:30 p.m. – "The Warm Season"