The Gaily Show x Mia Film Festival

The Gaily Show is coming to the Minneapolis Institute of Art on Sunday, November 1, as part of the Mia Film Festival. The whole thing runs from 10:45 AM to 4:45 PM in the Pillsbury Auditorium, so it's a full day of cinema rather than a single screening. John Parker and Jim Pounds, the duo behind The Gaily Show and This Queer Book Saved My Life, are presenting it, and the lectures throughout the day are sponsored by the Mark and Mary Goff Fiterman Lecture Fund.

The program pairs two screenings, each with its own introduction and a discussion to follow. The first is Cabaret (1972), set in Berlin in 1931 against the rise of the Nazi party and the collapse of the Weimar Republic. The second is I Dream in Another Language (2017), about a linguist who arrives in a small jungle settlement to record the last speakers of the Zikril language. Between the two, you've got the introductions and the discussions, so the films aren't just playing back-to-back—there's space to talk through them before and after.

If you're planning to spend the day there, the general admission to the museum is free, though special exhibitions, classes, and some talks and special events require tickets. The screenings are at the Pillsbury Auditorium, inside the Minneapolis Institute of Art at 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404. It runs from 10:45 AM to 4:45 PM on Sunday, November 1.