WILMINGTON — The Wilmington International Film Festival will make its debut October 9–12, 2025, bringing four days of global cinema, arts, and community events to the city — including a new scholarship program awarding a full four-year Wilmington University scholarship to a local high school filmmaker. The four-day festival will take place across multiple venues—including Theatre N @ Nemours, The …
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A new art house movie theater opened Friday, drawing 100 patrons to see Oscar-nominated documentaries, animated and live-action shorts. The Screening Room at 1313 is starting business by showing the documentaries, animated shorts and live action shorts nominated for a 2023 Oscar. Co-owners Beverly Zimmermann and Bob Weir have worked together before and had been searching for a new theater …
Two more big changes are coming to the downtown Wilmington space formerly known as the Hercules Building. The Chancery Market Food Hall & Bar will open its 10,000-square-foot garden plaza in May. An independent movie theater — The Screening Room at 1313 — will open this month, showing first-run movies, starting with compilations of the short films nominated for Oscars. …
