Model Francesca Tedeschi wears the "Giselle" gown designed by Kirstie Kelly. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

Famke Janssen and Jaymie Dornan in a scene from Chris EigemanÕs Turn The River, One of the entries in the Indianapolis International Film Festival. (Credit: Rick Gilbert/ 2008 Screen Media).

1. Indianapolis International Film Festival

Various times, April 23-May 3, $10 per show (prices for special events vary; package deals available), Keystone Art Cinema, 8702 Keystone Crossing, (317) 513-9379, www.indyfilmfest.org

"Karl Rove, I Love You." "Psycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre!" "The Legend of My Heart-Shaped Anus." These are just three of the 137 films in this year's Indianapolis International Film Festival, which has evolved into the city's premier cinematic event. The festival will screen feature-length films, shorts, documentaries, foreign and animated movies over 11 days at the Keystone Art Cinema, kicking off with an opening-night celebration at Sullivan's Steakhouse on April 23 and a closing-night celebration at the Brazilian Grill May 2.

2. Giselle

8 p.m. April 18-19, 2 p.m. April 20, $17-$28.50, Clowes Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave., (317) 940-6444, www.cloweshall.org

Butler Ballet and the Butler Symphony Orchestra present three performances of "Giselle." The story revolves around Giselle, a young girl whose love for a nobleman disguised as a peasant ultimately leads to her demise. But even in death, Giselle's passion for dance and her inamorato, Albrecht, continues to influence the events of the living.

3. Is You Is or Is You Ain't

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thurdays-Saturdays, April 14 through June 17, free, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, 340 N. Senate St., (317) 634-6622, www.indymoca.org

Is you is or is you ain't into contemporary video art? If you is, then you don't miss this exhibit at iMOCA, which features video art by local and far away artists. Devoted to "helping us understand ourselves through what we aren't, the works vary from darkly sardonic to serious and heartfelt. "Moustache2, by local film collective AnC, comically depicts a pathetic advice-dispensing cabinet salesman. On the other hand, Zoe Charlton's "Dead White Men" examines the filmmaker's role in society as a black woman.

4. Spotlight 2008: One Night, One Stage, One Reason

7:30 p.m. April 21, $32.50, Clowes Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave., (317) 940-6444, www.cloweshall.org

Performers from Dance Kaleidoscope Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Theatre and others will contribute their talents to Spotlight 2008, a blockbuster night designed to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS prevention and testing. All proceeds from the event, which will incude song, dance, theater and more on the Clowes Hall stage, will go to programs supported by the Indiana AIDS Fund.

5. Night at the Museum

7 p.m. April 17, $20, Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., www.cilti.org

Hosted by Central Indiana Land Trust at the Indiana State Museum, "Night at the Museum" is a special event devoted to revealing the relationship between human actions and the well-being of wildlife and humanity itself. Indianapolis Zoo Director Michael Crowther will speak at the event, which includes free access to the ISM exhibit "Footprints: Balancing Nature's Diversity."