The Maryland Film Festival has a goal of bringing filmmakers to Baltimore in order to expand moviegoers’ horizons through movies and videos with diverse voices and unique, uncompromising vision. It is a five-day event during which the festival screens about 50 features and 75 short films, which are documentary, narrative, animation, and experimental.

Besides contemporary American films, the festival also shows a few cutting-edge features from different countries each year. The festival invites celebrity guest hosts who are not part of the film world to present their favorite movies. Some of the previous years’ guests were musicians Branford Marsalis and Harry Belafonte.

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