Sunday, February 15, 2026
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Screening + post film Q&A and reception
All Ages
$20 ($26.55 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$25 ($29 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission
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For the first time since its debut on The Sundance Channel 25 years ago, writer-director-musician Eric Tretbar’s iconic film SNOW returns to the big screen for a special gala event. Dreams of youth give way to the realities of adulthood when a struggling guitarist spends a romantic 24 hours with an ex-punk rock girl around wintry Minneapolis.
Newly restored in high-def 4K, this 25th anniversary screening will be followed by a Q&A with Tretbar and actors Rose Mailutha, Shane Barach, Lara Miklasevics, and other key collaborators (including director of photography, Philip Harder) and a cocktail reception in the Parkway’s lobby.
Produced in 1998, SNOW (82 min, 16mm b/w) captured the spirit of the ‘90s Minneapolis music scene. The film was shot in real Minneapolis clubs and hang-outs, many of its cast and crew (including Tretbar) themselves part of the music scene the film depicts. SNOW was a film made by the very people it's about, featuring the faces and places of the scene that spawned Husker Du, The Replacements, Big Trouble House, The Funseekers, and The Suburbs. Starring Shane Barach and Rose Mailutha, with Lara Miklasevics, Erika Remillard, and John Crozier; and featuring music by Chan Poling of The Suburbs and Eric Tretbar.
Upon its original release, SNOW garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination, strong critical praise, and a wide national audience during its premiere on The Sundance Channel in 1999-2001. Critics called SNOW a “subtle, moving film” (LA Weekly) with “a skittish grace and a genuine poignancy” (LA Times), and Tretbar “ a unique voice in the wilderness” (Variety).
In 1999, Robert Redford came to Minneapolis in support of SNOW's premiere on his Sundance Channel, the indie cable TV network affiliated with his Sundance Film Festival. Such was Redford’s fierce and gracious support of Independent Cinema, the loosely-affiliated worldwide film movement producing films like SNOW through the 1990s and beyond.
4K Restoration Associate Producer Tom Arneson, Executive Producer Kirk Hoaglund.
SNOW's stunning cinematography by renowned music video director Philip Harder (Prince, Barenaked Ladies, Low) will finally be seen as originally intended, with improved exposure, correct 1:1.66 aspect ratio, and the increased resolution of a direct transfer of the original 16mm black and white camera negative (Kodak 7222). Blu-Ray DVDs of this new 4K restoration will also be available for purchase at the event.
Minneapolis-based Eric Tretbar grew up in his father's darkroom, intrigued by the camera's ability to both document and transform the world. Inspired by international post-war films, he moved into motion picture, mixing documentary observation with the imagination of fiction. His scripted stories explore the intimate conflicts and variations of love — as gift, desire, sacrifice, and duty — between lovers, friends, family, and community. Tretbar’s films have won a Berlin Film Festival Audience Award, an Indie Spirit Award nomination, aired on the Sundance Channel, German TV, NBC, and Amazon Prime. They’ve screened at film festivals around the world, including Toronto, London, Hong Kong, Vienna, Sao Paulo, Warsaw, Melbourne, New York, Los Angeles, AFI, Seattle, and Minneapolis. His films include SNOW, THE USUAL, THE HORRIBLE FLOWERS, GIGI 12x5, GIRL MEETS BIKE, and FIRST PERSON PLURAL. His next film, CLEAR BLUE WATER, will create a new form of movie musical and is slated to begin shooting in Minnesota in 2026.