The annual 41 North Film Festival begins this Thursday and runs through Sunday, Nov. 7, at the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts. The festival once again offers an exceptional opportunity for people to gather together and watch thought-provoking, entertaining, and award-winning films from around the world that explore a range of issues, ideas, and personalities. Along with over 30 films in the program this year (both features and shorts), there will be special guests and attractions, along with music in the lobby between films.

This year’s program has something for everyone, from films that examine new media technologies and the environment to the amazing feats of scientific explorers, domino topplers and octogenarian undercover agents. Highlights from this year’s program include: “All Light, Everywhere (Anthony, 2021),” winner of the Sundance U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation, screening Thursday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m., and “Storm Lake (Risius/Levison, 2021),” a story about a family-owned and operated small-town newspaper that recently won a Pulitzer Prize. The Storm Lake Times editor, Art Cullen, and filmmaker Beth Levison, will join for a virtual Q&A following the film. The film will screen on Friday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m.

The festival will present two feature films that examine our relationship with nature: “The Lake at the Bottom of the World (Kasic, 2021),” about scientists in the Antarctic, and “The Velvet Queen (Amiguet, 2021),” which follows acclaimed wildlife photographer Vincent Munier’s Tibetan trek in search of the elusive snow leopard. These will be shown on Saturday, Nov. 6.

On Sunday, Nov. 7, the festival offers the family-friendly “Lily Topples the World (Workman, 2021),” the story of young domino artist Lily Hevesh, whose incredible domino creations have earned her over three million Youtube followers. The closing night film is “Summer of Soul (Questlove, 2021),” the remarkable story–almost lost to history–of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Summer of Soul was this year’s winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

See the full line-up of films and events at 41northfilmfest.org. The festival is free and open to the public. Students will need to bring their HuskyCard. All other festival goers may reserve their tickets at tickets.mtu.edu or by calling 906-487-2073. Tickets will also be available in the Rozsa lobby prior to each film.

Major sponsorship for the festival is provided by the Department of Humanities, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Sciences and Arts, and the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.