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the 2025 festival wILL BE HELD:

OCTOBER 2—OCTOBER 5, 2025

At the ACX Promenade Cinema

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Nightbitch Screening + Q&A with Rachel Yoder

march 29 | 7:00pm | acx promenade cinema

free admission—Seating is limited—reserve your seats today

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Join the Sioux City International Film Festival as we partner with Sioux City's Celebration of Women In The Arts!

As our 2025 festival theme is Adaptation: Page to Screen, we are excited to welcome author of novel Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder, to discuss her work following a screening of the adaptation. Nightbitch is an outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale. You will want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should.

Support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

Nightbitch, starring Amy Adams, follows an artist who pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mum. She seeks a new chapter in her life and encounters just that, when her nightly routine takes a surreal turn and her maternal instincts begin to manifest in canine form.

2025 Festival Submission is OPEN!!

Early Bird Submissions Deadline: May 1, 2025 ($25)

Regular Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 ($50)

Late Submission Deadline: July 1, 2025 ($100)

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2024 Festival Schedule Overview

The 2025 Festival Schedule will be similar to 2024.

No Right Way | Feature Film Screening | 7:30pm-9:30pm
Followed by live Q&A with filmmakers Chelsea Bo (Director, Writer, Cast), Sean Drummond (Producer), and Ava Acres (Cast).
This event is offered free of charge due, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority.
FILM SCREENINGS
1:00 PM | Documentary | Theater 8
3:00 PM | Drama 2 | Theater 14
7:00 PM | Drama 1 | Theater 8
7:00 PM | Horror/Thriller/Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Theater 14
WORKSHOP (FREE ADMISSION)
6:00 PM | Chelsea Bo and Sean Drummond | Theater 8
FILM SCREENINGS
10:00 AM | Midwest High School and College | Theater 14
12:00PM | Drama 3 | Theater 8
12:00PM | Encore Documentary | Theater 14
3:00PM | Comedy | Theater 8
3:00PM | Drama 1 Encore | Theater 14
7:30PM | Awards | Theater 8
WORKSHOPS (FREE ADMISSION)
11:00AM | Anna Weinstein | Theater 8
2:00PM | John Gray | Theater 8
5:00PM | Filmmakers Roundtable | Theater 8
FILM SCREENINGS
11:00AM | Drama 2 Encore | Theater 8
12:00PM | Comedy Encore | Theater 14
2:00PM | Drama 3 Encore | Theater 8
3:00PM | Horror/Thriller/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Encore | Theater 14
5:00PM | Awards-Encore | Theater 8