DALLAS — The Oak Cliff Film Festival will return once again next month, and the 13th installment invites the audience to widen its eyes with this year's theme: "Movies are all around us." This year's festival features 27 feature films, along with 58 shorts, many of them made by North Texans. More than a dozen of the films will be making their Texas premiere.
The Texas Theatre, Bishop Arts Theatre Center and the Kessler Theater will host these films along with other venues around Oak Cliff. "Experience the bizarre, brutal, and beautiful habits of film in its natural environment: your life!" the OCFF press release states. "These stunningly unique cinema creatures can only be observed June 2023 at the historic Texas Theatre and other venues in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood.
Widen your eyes at the discovery that every day is a film festival and movies are all around you!" The festival will open June 20 with the DFW premiere of Omar and Cedric: If this Ever Gets Weird , a documentary showing rare archive footage charting the relationship between Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, of the band At the Drive-In, and Cedric Bixler-Zavalar, of The Mars Volta. Texas bands Perdidos and Dezorah will play behind the screen of the Texas Theatre following the screening. To close the festival, a new Jason Schwartzman film, Between the Temples, will be screened.
The crisis-of-faith comedy from Nathan Silver follows Schwartzman, who plays a cantor losing his voice and will to live, but finds hope in an .
