FROM 10 AM to 4 PM
Three films + Q&As - Screenings at The Alluvion are May 1, May 2, and May 3.
Seated film screening - All ages - General admission
May 1 films:
10 AM - “Nuisance Bear” / Feature Documentary
12 PM - “Power of Identity” / Shorts Program
2 PM - “Resurgo: The Rise From Within” / Feature Documentary
The Alluvion is an official host of Fresh Coast Film Festival: Traverse City 2026. This new celebration of Great Lakes stories and culture is filled with adventures. Presented by Old Mission Culture Co.
The films celebrate the outdoor lifestyle, water-rich environment, and resilient spirit of the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, with nearly two dozen filmmakers attending from across 11 states.
See all info for the film festival HERE.
Learn about May 1 films at The Alluvion below.
MAY 1 FILMS
“Nuisance Bear” / Feature Documentary
“Nuisance Bear” / Feature Documentary
Directed by Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman
2026 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Winner for U.S. Documentary
90 mins
A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape. Set in Churchill, Manitoba — affectionately known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World” — the result is a striking portrait of the fraught coexistence between polar bears and humans, guided by an Inuit narrator whose insights resist simplification.
There is a thrill in watching a polar bear outwit human efforts to contain it, underscoring the bears’ resilience and the fragility of the systems that attempt to control them. By challenging the conventions of a nature documentary and favoring confrontation over moralism, Nuisance Bear invites us to reconsider our assumptions about wildlife as spectacle.
Michigan Premiere
General Admission / First-Come First-Served Seating
Bar Service and Non-Alcoholic Beverages Available
Ticket Code: ALLUV01
“Power of Identity” / Shorts Program B
“Power of Identity” / Shorts Program B
Identity is the soul's unique map, providing the essential sense of belonging, purpose, and continuity that anchors our human existence. This is a celebration of that.
Presented with support from Green Brick Foundation
Special Guests: Filmmakers Jason Lindsey and Julián Trejo Bax with butterfly advocate Claudia Galeno-Sánchez
Six short films:
“A Wilderness Act”
“Breaking Ice: The Making of Cracks in the Ice”
“Gigiigemin Baaga’adoweyang ‘We are healed by stickball’”
“This is FLINT: Kevin Burdick”
“This is FLINT: Mama Sol”
“Sueños De Una Monarca (Dreams of a Monarch)”
Learn about each film HERE.
General Admission / First-Come First-Served Seating
Bar Service and Non-Alcoholic Beverages Available
“Resurgo: The Rise From Within” / Feature Documentary
“Resurgo: The Rise From Within” Feature Documentary
Directed by Stephen McGee
94 mins
Presented with support from Casamara Club
Special Guest: Filmmaker Stephen McGee
Detroit endured six decades of massive disinvestment, losing its primary industry in what is often described as the largest economic withdrawal in U.S. history. Its industry collapsed, its skyline dimmed.
Yet the city’s spirit refused to vanish. Some call what followed the greatest comeback story in the nation. Others insist Detroit never left at all. Now, through the eyes of a two-time Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and the voice of a celebrated poet, comes a story told from the ground up.
Drawn from a twenty-year archive of over three million photographs and thousands of hours of unseen footage, this cinematic journey redefines an iconic city through the lives of the people who lived it.
General Admission / First-Come First-Served Seating
Bar Service and Non-Alcoholic Beverages Available
Ticket Code: ALV03
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