Beginning with Match Point on Tuesday, Aug. 29, this season’s University of Missouri-Rolla Free Film Festival will showcase 13 critically acclaimed feature films and documentaries.

The films are free and open to the public. The movies will be shown at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays in Leach Theatre of UMR’s Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla, Mo., with the exception of Paradise Now on Oct. 24 and Modern Times on Oct. 31, which will be screened in Room 125 Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Building on the UMR campus.

The Fall 2006 UMR Free Film Festival includes the following motion pictures:

Match Point (Aug. 29)

United 93 (Sept. 5)

Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Sept. 12)

Spirited Away (Sept. 19)

Why We Fight (Sept. 26)

Grizzly Man (Oct. 3)

Tsotsi (Oct. 17)

Paradise Now (Oct. 24)

Modern Times (Oct. 31)

2064 (Nov. 7)

An Inconvenient Truth (Nov. 14)

Free Form Film Festival with Ryan Wylie (Nov. 28)

A Prairie Home Companion (Dec. 5)

The UMR Film Festival is supported by the Missouri Arts Council; the UMR College of Arts and Sciences; the UMR Campus Performing Arts Series; the UMR division of student affairs; the office of the chancellor at UMR; UMR’s Curtis Laws Wilson Library and the UMR department of arts, languages and philosophy.

For more information about the Fall 2006 UMR Free Film Festival call 573-341-4185.