In March, KickstART is presenting our annual film festival, which returns exclusively to the Farmington Civic Theater in downtown Farmington with films that celebrate the arts and the creative spirit! Tickets are on sale now at the Farmington Civic Theater. March 5th, 2026 7:00 PM: Cinema Paradiso Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the … Continue reading KickstART Announces Lineup for 2026 Farmington Film Festival
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Update on the Greater Farmington Film Festival
KickstART Farmington is pleased to announce that the annual Farmington Film Festival (formerly known as the Greater Farmington Film Festival) will return exclusively to the Farmington Civic Theater in downtown Farmington on March 5-8, 2026. The Farmington Film Festival will present a mix of documentary and feature films that celebrate the creative spirit and the … Continue reading Update on the Greater Farmington Film Festival
See “Kid Flicks” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival
Let your imagination take the wheel with this FREE presentation of KID FLICKS. Whether dreaming up the fantastical, like a spider’s goal to capture the moon, or the practical, like a young animator’s future stardom, these amazing short films from around the world are sure to inspire curiosity and conversation for viewers big and small! … Continue reading See “Kid Flicks” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival
See “Welcome to Commie High” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival
WELCOME TO COMMIE HIGH explores an experiment in public education: Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The film begins by documenting the school’s humanistic, anti-establishment origins in the early 1970s. By the ’90s, enrollment demands for this alternative, small school led to a wild craze of long lines, camp outs and convoluted lottery systems … Continue reading See “Welcome to Commie High” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival
See “Irena’s Vow” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival
IRENA’S VOW takes place in Warsaw, 1939. When the Nazis invade Poland, nurse Irena Gut (Sophie Nélisse) is displaced and forced to work in support of the German war effort, eventually assigned to run the home of a Nazi commandant (Dougray Scott). Instead of following the path of least resistance and gambling on her status … Continue reading See “Irena’s Vow” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival
See “UnCharitable” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival
What if charity could be transformed from a gesture to an answer—to solving the world’s greatest problems? What if everything we’ve been taught about charitable giving is wrong? What if it’s undermining the very causes we love the most? UNCHARITABLE is a one-of-a-kind movie that shows how our charitable traditions and prejudices have suffocated the charitable sector … Continue reading See “UnCharitable” at the 2024 Greater Farmington Film Festival