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Trilingua Cinema, 287 Maria Ave, Saint Paul, MN (2026)

02/06/2026

The Bodyguard: Date Night + Friendship/Dating Mixer!

February 13th
MIXER: 6pm-7pm
MOVIE STARTS: 7:15pm
East Side Freedom Library
1105 Greenbrier St, St Paul, MN 55106
REGISTER at the link in our bio!

Love in the time of Occupation! Join us for a special pre-Valentine’s day screening of beloved 90’s Whitney Houston vehicle The Bodyguard. In addition, come early to mingle and meet new people during a special pre-screening dating/friendship mixer. We’ll have free popcorn + Valentine’s day treats! To attend the mixer you must be 21+ and register ahead of the event here. Suggested donation is $10.

PLEASE NOTE: The mixer is from 6pm-7pm. The movie starts at 7:15pm. If you are only attending the movie please arrive at 7pm or after. Thanks!

Synopsis

The Bodyguard follows former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) hired to protect superstar singer Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) from a dangerous stalker, leading to intense clashes over his strict security and their growing, forbidden romance, culminating in a life-or-death showdown at the Oscars where duty clashes with love.

This film is rated R. Parents or guardians are encouraged to consult Common Sense Media.

This film will be screened in English with English subtitles.

02/03/2026

MOVIES FOR A CAUSE: AN EAST SIDE RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDRAISER
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

February 5 | 7:00 PM
Eagle’s Club 33
287 Maria Ave, St. Paul

We’re continuing our fundraiser screening series in support of East Side Rental Assistance with a free screening of Rogue One. This event raises funds for Rent Assistance for Families Affected by ICE, an online fundraiser hosted by Cempazuchitl Collective, with a goal of $75,000.

Thank you to everyone who contributed and showed up for the last screening, your support made a real impact. We hope you’ll join us again and help keep the momentum going.

We’ll have free popcorn. And drinks and pizza will be available for purchase at the bar, and Eagle’s Club 33 will donate $1 from every purchase to the fundraiser. is a neighborhood, volunteer-run space, and families and children of all ages are welcome.

A $25 donation is recommended to attend. Please share the event and donate to support more of our neighbors if you are able.

Learn more and donate here, or at the link in our bio:
https://www.givemn.org/story/arpbcg

Rated PG-13. Screened in English with English subtitles.

01/29/2026

EAST SIDE RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDRAISER

With evictions looming, our community is showing up for each other. We’re supporting *Rent Assistance for Families Affected by ICE*, a campaign hosted by . Funds raised are being collected and distributed to community members and we’re working together to help meet their $75,000 goal.

If you safely can, we invite you to gather with us, rest in community, and help keep our neighbors housed. Join us for a community movie night screening of Minari, a beautiful, heartfelt immigration story, part of our series, We Belong: Immigration in Film.

Event details
Saturday January 31st | 7:00 PM
At East Side Freedom Library
1105 Greenbrier St, St. Paul
Free popcorn
$25 suggested donation

This event is made possible through support from community partners like .side.freedom.library , .mn, , and many beloved community partners and friends who continue to show up for East Side neighbors.

About the film:
Minari follows a Korean-American family building a home on an Arkansas farm, exploring resilience, migration, and what it truly means to belong. (Rated PG-13. Screened in English and Korean with English subtitles.)

Donate + learn more: (link in linktree)
[https://www.givemn.org/story/arpbcg](https://www.givemn.org/story/arpbcg)

Come for the cause. Stay for the film. Share if you can.

💛

12/28/2025

Get ready for a Minnesota Special 30th Anniversary Screening of Fargo featuring the film Fargo + a Hotdish Competition!

January 10 | 7:00 PM
East Side Eagle’s Club
287 Maria Ave, St. Paul
**$10 admission, or free entry with a hotdish to share**

We’re screening the Coen Brothers’ cult classic at the Eagles Club. Admission is $10, or **free with a hotdish to share**. Audience members will vote for the best hotdish. Meat, vegetarian, and vegan dishes are all welcome! Please include a printed ingredient list with your dish.

**Synopsis:**
Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a Minneapolis car salesman in serious financial trouble, hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in a desperate attempt to collect ransom money from his wealthy father-in-law. The plan unravels quickly, with darkly comic consequences.

*Rated R.* Parents or guardians are encouraged to consult Common Sense Media.
Screened in English with English subtitles.

Find tickets at the link in our bio.

12/01/2025

FREE Holiday Movie Nights on the East Side!

ELF
December 6 · 7:00pm
At the East Side Eagles Club — 287 Maria Ave, St. Paul

Join us for a free screening of Elf with free popcorn, plus a full bar, special holiday cocktails and pizza available for purchase from the eagles club volunteers!

Synopsis:
Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised among Santa’s elves. As an adult, he travels to New York in full elf uniform to find his real father—and discover where he truly belongs.

Rated PG. Parents/guardians are encouraged to consult Common Sense Media.

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
December 19 · 7:00pm
East Side Freedom Library — 1105 Greenbrier St, St. Paul

Enjoy a free screening of this classic holiday family film with free popcorn and hot cocoa!

Synopsis:
The Muppets retell Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: the story of a cold-hearted man who, through magical encounters, discovers the warmth and love of Christmas.

Rated G. Parents/guardians are encouraged to consult Common Sense Media.

Screened in English with English subtitles.

11/20/2025

Help Bring a Neighborhood Cinema to the East Side — Give to the Max 2025!

Our community deserves more places to hang out, connect, learn, and see ourselves reflected on screen. A neighborhood cinema can do that! Community cinemas provide something more than movies: we create gathering spaces, spark social connection, bring diverse stories to the forefront, boost the local economy, and open doors for learning and community power-building.

TriLingua Cinema is a crew of friends and neighbors who love and live on the East Side. Since 2020, we’ve been hosting free and low-cost screenings that reflect the languages and cultures of our community.

After five years as a mobile pop-up cinema, we’re opening a more permanent space. With support from our longtime partners at the East Side Freedom Library, .side.freedom.library we’re transforming the library’s lower level into a micro-cinema, a cozy weekend home for films, conversations, workshops, and more. This space will bring consistent, accessible, multicultural movie experiences to the East Side year-round.

To make this happen, we partnered with ESFL to collaboratively raise $10,000 this Give to the Max Day!

Your support helps us:
•Build out and improve this dedicated screening space
•Host more regular film screenings, conversations, and community events
•Keep programming free and low-cost
•Grow our multilingual film offerings
•Increase our partnership opportunities with ESFL and other local orgs
•Move closer to our ultimate goal of opening a full-time, community-run nonprofit movie theater for the East Side!

Support TriLingua Cinema this Give to the Max Day:

ESFL & TriLingua — A Double Feature to the Max!
(Link in Bio)

Thank you for believing in community storytelling and the power of movies to bring people together!

-Team TriLingua

11/10/2025

November Movie Nights with TriLingua Cinema
All November screenings are free and open to the community! (FREE POPCORN TOO Y’ALL!) 🍿

I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en otro idioma)
Saturday, November 15 · 7:00 PM
East Side Freedom Library
1105 Greenbrier St, St. Paul
A poetic story about love, memory, and the last two speakers of a dying Indigenous language.
Screened in Spanish and Zikril with English subtitles.

UNION
Thursday, November 20 · 7:00 PM
East Side Freedom Library
1105 Greenbrier St, St. Paul
An awesome documentary following Amazon workers organizing one of the most inspiring labor movements of our time. This is a collaborative screening with .side.freedom.library for GIVE TO THE MAX DAY! Come support and celebrate solidarity.
Screened in English with English subtitles.

Stand By Me
Saturday, November 29 · 7:00 PM
St. Paul Eagle’s Club
287 Maria Ave, St. Paul
The classic coming-of-age story that defined a generation. Free popcorn, with a full bar from the volunteers at the Eagles Club, and pizza available for purchase.
Screened in English with English subtitles.

All November films are free, with optional donations supporting our neighborhood cinema.
Find more details at the link in bio.

10/13/2025

CARRIE + HALLOWEEN PROM DANCE PARTY

It’s gonna be a bloody good time!

Join us October 25th at 8PM at the East Side Eagles Club (287 Maria Ave, St Paul, MN) for a screening of the horror classic Carrie, followed by a prom-themed Halloween dance party you won’t forget.

•Screening of Carrie
•Cheap drinks from the volunteer-run bar at the East Side Eagles Club
•Free popcorn
•Photo Booth
•DJ — to be announced soon
•Costume contest with a prize from

Come ready to dance!

Get your tickets soon.

10/07/2025

Saturday October 11th, 7:00pm
East Side Eagle’s Club
287 Maria Ave, St Paul, MN 55106

Join us for the MIDWEST PREMIERE of Robbie Banfitch’s sophomore follow-up to his psychedelically experimental micro budget horror opus The Outwaters. Banfitch will be with us to host a Q&A and sign autographs!

Synopsis

This film follows Robbie Lyle (Banfitch), a New Jersey filmmaker who starts documenting his mother’s grief surrounding the disappearance of his sister, Noelle, some years prior. As Lyle sinks deeper and deeper into the project, he starts to discover things he never knew about her disappearance, and the terror mounts as he begins to search for her down Tinsman Road. The film is truly a haunting ghost story that dares to explore the lives those left behind are forced to build around the emptiness of loss.

This intense mystery/horror film is not rated, but probably not appropriate for most children.

It will be screened in English for English subtitles.

Motion sensitive viewers should be aware that this is a handheld, found footage movie.

09/24/2025

Upcoming Screenings! 🫢

DIDI
Sept 27 | 7:15pm
Rivoli Bluff Farm – 749 Arkwright St
A free outdoor screening in collaboration with Roots. Bring a blanket, bring a friend.

FREAKS w/ Dan Chaon
Oct 3 | 7:00pm
East Side Freedom Library – 1105 Greenbrier St
Tod Browning’s 1932 cult classic, introduced by National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon, celebrating the release of his new novel One of Us.

TINSMAN ROAD – Midwest Premiere
Oct 11 | 7:00pm
East Side Eagles Club – 287 Maria Ave
Director Robbie Banfitch ( ) joins us for his latest mind-bending horror film, plus a Q&A and autograph signing.

CARRIE + HALLOWEEN PROM DANCE PARTY
Oct 25 | 8:00pm
East Side Eagles Club – 287 Maria Ave
A screening of the horror classic Carrie, followed by a prom-themed dance party. Costumes encouraged. Pig’s blood optional.

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