MINNEAPOLIS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Running Oct. 1-5 at St. Anthony Main, the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival includes shorts, dramas, comedies and documentaries by local and nonlocal filmmakers on a wide range of topics. The opening-day schedule includes Minneapolis director John Ervin's period noir "The Tiki War," set in a bar in Chicago in 1961, but shot at the Red Dragon in Minneapolis. The documentary "Tamara W." provides an inside look at a transgender Bronx girl whose experience includes vogueing, drugs, working as an escort and sexual abuse. If you have wondered about the heavy-metal music scene in Botswana, "March of the Gods" will appeal. A young actress goes to extremes to prepare for a role in "A Method," "Doomsdays" is a slacker comedy about two squatters who inhabit vacation homes in the Catskills, and "Freeload" is a documentary about young modern-day hobos who ride the rails in search of their version of the good life. (Various times, Wed.-Oct. 5, St. Anthony Main Theatre, $9, or buy a pass, 612-548-4159, www.mplsundergroundfilmfest.com.) CLAUDE PECK
