The 4th annual Refocus Iowa City film festival will kick off on October 9th with an adaptation of Iowa Writers Workshop alum Denis Johnson’s film Train Dreams (2011).
Train Dreams was directed and co-written by Clint Bentley, in the adaptation, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. Following its film festival screening, the film will have a limited theatrical release on November 7th and a streaming release on Netflix on November 21st.
The Refocus Film Festival will go from October 9th to October 12th, 2025, running concurrently with the Iowa City Book Festival, which itself will be running from October 5th to October 12th, 2025.
Other films to be shown off are the Ice Tower at 6.15 pm on October 10th, Orwell 2+2=5 at 1.10 pm on October 11th, and Play It As It Lays at 4.05 pm on October 12th.
