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Minnesota Film Arts Minnesota Film Arts’ is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering an active and living appreciation of the film arts in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. We pursue our mission through numerous programs in the areas of exhibition, education, and advocacy.

Minnesota Film Arts (MFA) was borne of a merger, in 2002, between the 40 year old U Film Society, the Twin Cities’ foremost longstanding exhibitor of art-housed fare and producer of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (M-SPIFF), and the 10 year old Oak Street Arts, one of the most ambitious repertory cinema and community film access organizations in the country. The resulting organization, MFA, is one of the largest and most diversified film-arts organizations in the country, and is the largest exhibitor of artistic films in the upper Midwest, exhibiting some 400 titles annually to an audience in excess of 100,000. It’s inherited 50+ year operating history makes MFA also one of the oldest film-arts organizations in the nation, having been founded before such larger organizations and events as the Toronto Film Fest, Cinema Seattle, and even the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco.