MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee Film has announced the "Cream City Cinema" lineup for the 15th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival, showcasing a diverse range of local filmmaking talent. The program, presented by Associated Bank, features eight feature-length films and 36 short films.

The festival lasts from April 20 until May 4.

Feature-length films for Cream City Cinema include:

• "A Common Sequence" -- A meditation on power dynamics, the shifting border between the natural and unnatural, and questions of value, extraction, and adaptation.
• "Beyond Human Nature" -- A true crime story chronicling the grisly 1992 Tom Monfils homicide investigation.
• "Earlybird" – A struggling theater owner tries to revive his business with outlandish play productions.
• "Hundreds of Beavers" -- A 19th-century supernatural winter epic about a fur trapper battling beavers.
• "Love & Irony" -- An existential bike mechanic discovers universal truths and transformative powers of love.
• "The Warm Season" -- A story of an alien visitor searching for a new home for his dying planet.
• "We Are Not Ghouls" -- A US Air Force JAG attorney battles corruption while defending a Guantanamo Bay detainee.
• "What We're Hungry For" -- A documentary about Wisconsin food pantries' response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The short films that have been announced include:

• 100 Seconds to Midnight
• Body Legato
• Clark's Revival
• Coming to Small Town America
• Controlling The Change
• DAKHLA
• Dinner Set Gang - "Are You Someplace Else?"
• Fadó
• Friday Night Blind
• Fuzzysurf - "Sheep Shed"
• Grapes
• Hawaiian Pizza
• Language Unknown
• mother nature
• Of Wood
• Paralelos
• Parental Orbit
• Patient
• Pet World
• Polka Time!
• Pretty Boys
• Provenance: A letter to my daughter
• Radium Girls Book Trailer
• RIP
• Seen//Unseen
• Seventeen
• Sit Where the Light Corrupts Your Face
• Split Memories
• Stuck Somewhere
• The False Prince Book Trailer
• The Happening
• The Indicators
• Tim Meets Mat
• Trash Man 2: Trash Man Goes On Vacation
• Unconventional: Living Life to the Max
• Zayde

The festival also offers the "Cream City Cinema Jury Awards," with an external jury awarding three films at least $12,500 in cash. Tickets, packs and passes are available at mkefilm.org/mff.