Tilted Axes is an ensemble created and led by composer Patrick Grant. Experience a unique procession of electric guitarists carrying mini-amps!

Tilted Axes will be performing on the North Lawn stage.

Concert of Colors takes place at multiple locations across Detroit.

For more information on the full event and to view the full schedule, visit www.concertofcolors.com

New York’s only band reviving and renewing Latin Boogaloo, a style that came from the clubs and streets of 1960s Spanish Harlem. Their music is a mix of soul, R&B, and Latin rhythms.

Concert of Colors takes place at multiple locations across Detroit.

For more information on the full event and to view the full schedule, visit www.concertofcolors.com

What started as a small-town dance crew has grown into one of the most recognized Indian performing arts companies in Michigan and beyond. Mathangi Dance Company will be performing on the North Lawn stage.

Concert of Colors takes place at multiple locations across Detroit.

For more information on the full event and to view the full schedule, visit www.concertofcolors.com

Eljuri is an award-winning Ecuadorian singer-songwriter and guitarist whose music reflects the spirit of this generation. Her sound is a global fusion that blends her Spanish and Lebanese heritage, the uplifting rhythms of her homeland Ecuador, and the reggae, punk, and rock & roll influences from her hometown, New York City, creating a truly unique musical experience.

Concert of Colors takes place at multiple locations across Detroit.

For more information on the full event and to view the full schedule, visit www.concertofcolors.com

One of the festival’s most anticipated annual performances, multiple Grammy winner, Blue Note Records President, producer, musician, and Detroit-raised superstar Don Was curates a special show just for Concert of Colors audiences. 

He brings some of the city’s best musicians to perform the blues, including Thornetta Davis, Chris Canas, Herschel Boone, Tosha Owens, Laith Al-Saadi, Rev. Robert Jones, Steffanie Christi’an, and Mitch Ryder.

Concert of Colors takes place at multiple locations across Detroit.

For more information on the full event and to view the full schedule, visit www.concertofcolors.com

An immersive multimedia experience, this is the newest program from NIYAZ — a Persian, Turkish, and Indian electroacoustic musical tour de force. Prepare to be mesmerized.

Concert of Colors takes place at multiple locations across Detroit.

For more information on the full event and to view the full schedule, visit www.concertofcolors.com

Austria/Germany/2025 — directed by Alexander Horwath | 185 min.

The feature film debut of Austrian film historian and curator Alexander Horwath — former Director of the Austrian Film Museum — Henry Fonda for President is a brilliantly conceived and remarkably entertaining panorama of the history, politics, and culture of the United States as seen through the life and screen performances of the great American actor. 

Though structured chronologically, this transfixing documentary transcends the conventions of traditional film biographies by using Fonda’s own words and experiences, alongside moments from his countless screen characters, to create a luminous prism through which the film ingeniously explores and meditates upon the changing face of the country and of cinema itself. Much more than a clever cinematic stunt, Henry Fonda for President is a revelatory historical vision, packed with insights and observations — and, of course, a must for movie lovers. 

“This transfixing gem is a sheer delight from start to finish.” — Kieron Corless, Sight & Sound

USA/2024 — directed by Constance Tsang | 116 min.

Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy (Ke-Xi Wu) and Didi (Haipeng Xu) navigate romance, the search for happiness, and the obligations of family while thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work demands, the two women have forged an impenetrable sisterhood, which is unexpectedly imperiled when events take a dramatic turn on Lunar New Year. 

Co-starring the extraordinary Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng, who won the Best Actor Prize at the 2024 Cairo Film Festival for his performance here, Blue Sun Palace is at once a stirring immigrant’s tale, a dark workplace comedy, and a deeply modern New York story. Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival; dual Best Actress Prize, Hong Kong International Film Festival. In Mandarin, English, and Min Nan with English subtitles.

“NYT Critic’s Pick! A gorgeously intimate debut feature that creates a whole world.” — Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times

USA/2024 — directed by Sarah Friedland | 90 min.

Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook living in California, prepares breakfast—a dish she seems to have made many times before, though small, puzzling errors now punctuate her familiar routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with her, she mistakes him for a suitor. Their “date” leads them to an assisted living facility, which Ruth does not remember having chosen for herself. There, she begins to accept the warmth and support of two care workers (Carolyn Michelle and Andy McQueen) and discovers new ways to ground herself in her body, even as her mind begins a journey of its own.

Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age feature compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective.

Special event! The showing on Sunday, June 29th will be followed by an in-person Q&A with cast member Carolyn Michelle and producer Matthew Thurm, hosted by DIA Film Curator Elliot Wilhelm.

Winner: Best Debut Film, Best Director, and Best Actress, 2024 Venice Film Festival.

“The delicacy of what acclaimed theater actor Chalfant does in this role is astounding. This is a finely wrought, infinitely tender movie.” —Allison Willmore, New York Magazine

(Vietnam/France/2024 — directed by Trương Minh Quý)

Two young men work deep beneath the earth as coal miners—yet Việt and Nam are also lovers, sharing secret moments of physical pleasure before one embarks on a perilous journey to emigrate to another land. From this intimate story, captured with sensual detail and unflinching eroticism, Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý delves even deeper to unearth the memories and legacies of a nation. Set at the turn of the 21st century, the film resonates with echoes of the country’s war decades earlier, as Nam’s mother leads them on a pilgrimage to discover where his father was killed as a soldier. Shot in a graceful and mesmerizing style on 16mm—and banned in its home country—Việt and Nam is a quietly expressive, mind-bending work about two men with unsettled pasts and uncertain futures. In Vietnamese with English subtitles. (129 min.)

“Ravishing… a sad and sublimely beautiful movie.” —Justin Chang, The New Yorker