Our Programming >> Film Festivals

Every year The Campus Theatre hosts specialized film festivals and retrospectives focusing on a specific national cinema, genre, or director.

The 2007 Lewisburg International Short Film Festival

The 2006 Academy Award Nominated Shorts

April 27 - May 4 , 2007

The Movies Include:
BINTA AND THE GREAT IDEA (BINTA Y LA GRAN IDEA)
ERAMOS POCOS (ONE TOO MANY)
HELMER & SON
THE SAVIOUR

More information about the movies here.

On Saturday April 28th (the day of the Lewisburg Art Festival) the Campus Theatre is proud to present "The Best of the Best Short Films of the Year". Showings at 11, 1 and 3.

The 2006 Documentary Film Festival

November 3 - 9th, 2006 Read the details Here

PAST FESTIVALS

The 2005 Documentary Film Festival

November 4 - 10th, 2005 Read the details Here

October 2001: Library of Congress Film Preservation Festival
33 classic American films including restored prints of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and John Ford's The Searchers. Guests included actress Janet Leigh, independent directors Scott McGehee and David Seigel (who introduced their Golden Globe nominated film, The Deep End) and an extraordinary performance by Rick Benjamin's Paragon Ragtime Orchestra who accompanied 4 silents films live with their original scores!

April, 2002: Festival of New French Cinema
A one week survey of new French films sponsored by the French Embassy

October 2002: Festival of Animation
38 films from 14 different countries in 7 days! Guests included Editor Steve Bloom (Antz).

November 2002: Middle Eastern Film Festival
A festival focusing on rarely seen new films from Israel, Afghanistan, Iran, and Palestine. Guests included Oscar-nominated director B.Z. Goldberg (who introduced his film Promises), Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi (who introduced her film Kabul, Kabul) plus the U.S. Premiere of the 2002 Cannes Grand Jury Prize winning film Divine Intervention

February 2003: Le 2003 Festival du Cinema Francais
An appropriate sequel to last year's festival with more new films, a beautifully restored 35mm print of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, plus 18 rarely-seen French silent shorts loaned to us by The Library of Congress. A special display included Cocteau's original script for Beauty and the Beast, the original set photography, his journal, and The British Film Institute's notes for the film. Click HERE for complete festival schedule.

November 2003:The 2003 Documentary Film Festival

October 2004: The 2004 Documentary Film Festival
sponsored by Sovereign Bank and Weis Market

2 weeks . . .
35 Feature and short films . . .
5 Pennsylvania Premieres . . .
1 World Premiere . . .
8 visiting filmmakers . . .