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Film Streams is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in Omaha, Nebraska. Our mission is to enhance the cultural environment of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area through the presentation and…

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See Change Celebration | Ramona Díaz, Grace Lee, Yoruba Richen, Lucy Walker in conversation

On Saturday, July 16, 2022, we welcomed four prominent women from the field of documentary film — Ramona Díaz, Grace Lee, Yoruba Richen & Lucy Walker — for a fundraiser in support of our nonprofit. In attendance were Film Streams supporters as well as groups of Omaha women and girls from Women’s Fund of Omaha, Girls Inc., and the Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands whose free tickets were underwritten by Film Streams donors.

Autoportrait | Trailer | by Film Streams

Sep 13 - 27, 2022 // How do filmmakers reveal a picture of themselves - in the reframing of films already completed, in the face of a ban from filmmaking, or within the tangles of memory and happenstance? The three films in the Autoportrait series — This Is Not a Film, Cameraperson, and Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania — present filmmakers who reflect on themselves and their craft, finding that their telling of others' stories is also a telling…

Girl Friends | Trailer | by Film Streams

A unique perspective within the coming-of-age genre is presented in Girl Friends, a series that focuses on girls, friends, girlfriends, and girl friends. Three films, all directed by queer women, center to some extent on a romantic storyline, though often the most interesting moments revolve around the interactions between friendship and queerness: crushes on friends, social ostracization, the murky distinction between romantic and platonic feelings, sexual discovery, identity and presentation, allyship, and many forms of intimacy.

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Opening at the Dundee Theater on January 12th, 2024

Come see why Jeffrey Wright was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes and SAG! Is an Oscar bid in the cards?

Tickets available now: filmstreams.org/films/american-fiction-2

Opening at the Ruth Sokolof Theater on January 12th, 2024
Come watch the new film from master director Hirokazu Koreeda!

Tickets available now: filmstreams.org/films/monster

Opens at the Dundee Sat & Sun 9/17 & 9/18 → filmstreams.org/films/tim-burtons-corpse-bride

Opened at The Ruth Fri Oct 14 → filmstreams.org/films/starts-at-noon

Opens at The Ruth Fri Oct 14 →https://filmstreams.org/films/anvil-the-story-of-anvil

Will play at the Ruth Oct 9 & 12→filmstreams.org/films/hocus-pocus

Will play at the Ruth Oct 8 & 13→filmstreams.org/films/ganja-hess

Opens at The Dundee Fri Oct 7 → filmstreams.org/films/riotsville-u-s-a