LAST CHANCE to get the best prices of the year on Refocus Film Festival passes! Passholders receive first booking opportunities on this and all festival events. Get your Early bird passes now! Sale ends today!. Passes:

We're celebrating the first programming announcement of our 3rd edition w/ a flash sale on passes through this weekend!. Musician Marc Ribot performs a live score to accompany Yakov Protazanov’s 1924 sci-fi film Aelita: Queen of Mars.

Submission Deadline tomorrow (June 7th)!. Refocus Film Festival invites video artists and filmmakers to submit proposals for a video installation during the festival’s third edition, October 17-20. Full Details & Application:

Refocus Film Festival invites video artists and filmmakers to submit proposals for a video installation during the festival’s third edition, October 17-20. Full Details & Application:

Refocus Film Fest 2024 seeks local musicians to perform in our theaters as guests arrive prior to films. We are also looking for visual artists whose work could be displayed as a digital art slideshow on the big screen while guests are arriving. Apply:

Have you gotten your Refocus Film Festival pass yet?!?. Now is the time to get the best price on a festival experience. Early Bird pricing ends April 30th. Passes:

Grab your calendars — the 2024 @RefocusFilmFest returns Oct 17-20, 2024! Iowa City’s one-of-a-kind film fest returns for a third year, celebrating the art of adaptation through cinema. Want the best price? Early Bird passes are on sale now!. @icfilmscene

Reminiscing about the fun we had in 2023. planning for the fun we'll have in 2024!

“I think any adaptation of any kind of interest is one that kind of says to the source material, We appreciate you, we respect you, now goodbye.”. Kristen Roupenian and Susanna Fogel speak with Jane Keranen at Refocus 2023.

Congratulations to our dual Refocus 2023 Audience Award Winners!. THE TASTE OF THINGS.ABOUT DRY GRASSES. This year we introduced the Refocus Audience Award for all films in the official selection. In a surprise none of us saw coming, we had an exact tie!

We fested.

A big thank you to all of our Refocus Film Festival sponsors!

RT @LittleVillage: “When you make films, you have to develop a certain amount of criminal energy. Or you cannot make the films that I do. '….

Goodnight from Refocus. Thanks for festing with us. We’ll see you in 2024. #WernerHerzog #cinemasavant

The man himself. Werner Herzog has arrived. You ready, Iowa City?

Last day of the fest! Make plans to stop by our DENOUEMENT HAPPY HOUR today at the Chauncey from 4:30pm to 6:30pm. Grab a drink and check in with your fellow festivalgoers. Open to the public. Free drink for passholders.

Refocus 2023 continues! Have you seen a movie at the Ped Mall yet?!?

Don't forget to stop by The Green House tonight on your way home from the fest!. UNFOCUS AFTER PARTY. 10pm to midnight. Ft cocktail: Blue Beams - blue raspberry lemonade. Have a nightcap and recap day one! $1 off drinks for festival passholders plus complimentary desserts!. 21+

Make sure to show up early for your festival films so you catch our pre-show entertainment! Every film in our lineup includes either live music or on screen art or poetry slideshows from local artists. Take in some art, select your seat and make sure you don't miss your film!

Do you like coffee AND conversation? See you Saturday and Sunday morning at fix! Coffee then for our Epigraph Coffee Sessions. These events are free and open to the public. Refocus passholders get free drip coffee!. Conversation begins at 10:30am.