IN FOCUS LOCAL FILM FESTS, SERIES

Here’s what’s at alternative movie venues.

UWM Union Cinema

Unless noted, admission is $5, free for UWM students and Union Cinema members.

“I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman”: Tribute to the late filmmaker includes clips from more than 40 of her movies. 7 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Saturday.

“No Home Movie”: The final film by Belgian director Chantal Akerman explores the filmmaker’s relationship with her mother, a Holocaust survivor. In French with English subtitles. 9 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. Saturday.

“A Series of Concrete and Luminous Images: Recent Work in Ethnopoetics”: Short films on alternatives to ethnography. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free.

“Food Patriots”: A woman whose son nearly died from contaminated food sets out to find out how it happened in this documentary on the food industry. A discussion follows. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.; cinema.uwm.edu

Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival

“Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr”: Khadr, a Canadian citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2002 who was convicted at age 15 and spent a decade imprisoned at Guantanamo, tells his story in this documentary. 2 p.m. Sunday, Lubar Auditorium, Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive. $8.

“Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine”: Documentary follows an African-American gospel choir touring in the West Bank as part of a show about Martin Luther King Jr. and nonviolence. 7 p.m. Thursday, UWM Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. $8, free for UWM students.

Talk-backs follow both screenings.

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JCC Film Series

“Farewell, Herr Schwartz”: Award-winning documentary in which director Yael Reuveny explores her family’s past — her parents were Holocaust survivors — when she returns to Germany. In Hebrew, German and English, with English subtitles. A discussion follows. 4 p.m. Sunday. Free.

“The Farewell Party”: Senior citizens develop a machine for self-euthanasia that makes them very popular. Israeli comedy in Hebrew with English subtitles. 7 p.m. Thursday. A presentation on views on euthanasia precedes the screening at 6:30 p.m. Free.

Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Whitefish Bay; jccmilwaukee .org/jewishfilm

Movie Time / Charles Allis Art Museum

“Lloyds of London”: The fabled English insurance company saves the day, with help from Tyrone Power, in this 1936 historical drama. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. $7, $5 for students and seniors, free for museum members.

1801 N. Prospect Ave.; charlesallis.org