Central Michigan International Film Festival

April 3 - 7, 2024

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Check out this year’s film schedule and make plans to join us for our 21st annual festival!

Tickets are on sale NOW. Click here to visit our ticketing site.

Tickets cost $8, $5 discounted rate for students and seniors. Tickets available on-line or at the door.

*Special event pricing varies (Opening Night Film & VHS Night at the Broadway)

Join us at Celebration Cinema Wed. April 3 at 6:30pm for our special Opening Night film WICKED LITTLE LETTERS starring Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Crown, Fleabag), & Jessie Buckley (Women Talking, Wild Rose, The Lost Daughter).


Join us for award-winning movies from across the globe, as well as films made right here in Michigan.

Venues include: Celebration Cinema, Mt. Pleasant; Opperman Auditorium inside CMU’s Park Library; the historic Broadway Theater, downtown Mt. Pleasant, and Mid Michigan College.

Come mix and mingle with our filmmakers and support CMIFF at our Filmmaker Party Saturday, April 6th, 7-9pm at Art Reach of Mid Michigan. Tickets are just $25, and include heavy appetizers and drinks. All proceeds go to support the Central Michigan International Film Festival.

Click here to buy tickets to our Filmmaker Party

Wednesday, April 3rd:
Noon: Problemista Celebration
12:30pm: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Celebration
1pm: Four Daughters Mid Michigan College
3pm: Girls Will Be Girls Celebration
3:30pm: The Taste of Things Celebration
4pm: Camp Ricstar Mid Michigan College
5:30pm: Relentless Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
6pm: Perfect Days Celebration
6:30pm: Wicked Little Letters (Opening Night) Celebration
7:30pm: International Short Films Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
9pm: Problemista Celebration
9:30pm: The Taste of Things Celebration


Thursday, April 4th:
Noon: Girls Will Be Girls Celebration
12:30pm: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Celebration
3pm: Perfect Days Celebration
3:30pm: The Taste of Things Celebration
5pm: Hong Kong: Final Days of Freedom Mid Michigan College
5:30pm: Breed & Bootleg Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
6pm: Problemista Celebration
6:30pm: Walter, Grace & the Submarine (Q&A) Celebration
7:30pm: Cast & Crew (Movie Night Short) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
7:30pm: Common Ground Mid Michigan College
9pm: Girls Will Be Girls Celebration
9:30pm: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Celebration


Friday, April 5th:
Noon: Screendance Shorts Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
Noon: Girls Will Be Girls Celebration
12:30pm: The Taste of Things Celebration
1pm: CMU Spotlight (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
2:30pm: Narrative Short Films Portraying WWII Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
3pm: Perfect Days Celebration
3:30pm: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Celebration
4:30pm: International Shorts Films Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
5pm: Loteria Broadway Theatre
6pm: Problemista Celebration
6:30pm: The Featherweight Celebration
7pm: French Film Shorts Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
7:30pm: Common Ground Broadway Theatre
9pm: Girls Will Be Girls Celebration
9:15pm: When Hope Breaks Through (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
9:30pm: Fluorescent Beast (Q&A) Celebration
10pm: Eternaal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Broadway Theatre


Saturday, April 6th:
Noon: The Stan Project (Q&A) Celebration
12:30pm: K-12 Short Films (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
12:30pm: The Taste of Things Celebration
3pm: Student Shorts (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
3pm: Girls Will Be Girls Celebration
3:30pm: A Little Family Drama Celebration
5pm: Marqueetown (Q&A) Broadway Theatre
5:30pm: Michigan Made Shorts (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
6pm: Perfect Days Celebration
6:30pm: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Celebration
7pm: Filmmaker Party Art Reach
8pm: VHS Night: Office Space Broadway Theatre
9pm: Problemista Celebration
9:30pm: Depraved Mind (Q&A) Celebration
10:30pm: Cast & Crew (Q&A) Broadway Theatre


Sunday, April 7th:
Noon: Short Films (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
Noon: Perfect Days Celebration
12:30pm: Troubled Water (Q&A) Celebration
2:30pm: Short Films Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
3pm: Girls Will Be Girls Celebration
3:30pm: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Celebration
4pm: Common Ground Mid Michigan College
5pm: Short Documentary Films (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
6pm: Problemista Celebration
6:30pm: The Taste of Things Celebration
6:30pm: Four Daughters Mid Michigan College
7:30pm: Short Documentary Films (Q&A) Opperman Auditorium/Park Library
9pm: Perfect Days Celebration
9:30pm: The Featherweight Celebration