Cinema Columbus Film Festival 2025

Recently named Best Film Festival in the USA Today 2025 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards, the Cinema Columbus Film Festival will showcase an incredible lineup of films, with screenings taking place from April 30 to May 4. The festival, which marks its fourth year in 2025, will present more than 20 screenings involving approximately 50 feature and short films at seven locations. The 2025 festival will open at the Southern Theatre with Down to the Felt, directed by Columbus filmmaker Jon Osbeck and written by a trio of Columbus residents – Osbeck, Dino Tripodis, and Ralph Scott. The festival will close with a screening of the 1984 concert/documentary “STOP MAKING SENSE: A Film by Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads,” with a special guest appearance by bandmember Jerry Harrison.

The 2025 Cinema Columbus Film Festival is presented through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Goes to the Movies, with media support from Orange Barrel Media, WCBE, and WOSU.

The full schedule will be announced on Monday, March 31.

Learn more: https://www.cinemacolumbus.com/

You may also like the following events from Cinema Columbus:

• This Thursday, 1st May, 07:00 pm, OUTCRY in Ohio: Short Film & Conversation | Cinema Columbus Film Festival 2025 in Worthington
• This Saturday, 3rd May, 04:00 pm, Saturday Shorts 1 | Cinema Columbus Film Festival 2025 in Bexley

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