For its 13^th year, the Sunscreen Film Festival once again delivers to St. Petersburg an eclectic mix of feature films, documentaries, and short films that’s sure to have something for every cinephile.

Looking at the festival’s schedule, there’s a clear effort to hold features with Hollywood star power in reserve for Saturday night, but that doesn’t mean you should wait until Sunday to enjoy what the weekend has to offer.

Below you’ll find five selections spread out in the schedule over all four days of the event. If you’re limited on time but you want to make sure you see some of this year’s most memorable selections, try to make time for these films, at the very least.

Thursday, April 26 (Opening Night)

Wild Honey

Starring Rusty Schwimmer, Todd Stashwick, Stephnie Weir and Timothy Omundson. Directed by Francis Stokes. 88 minutes. Venue: AMC Sundial, 7 p.m.

The festival kicks off its 2018 schedule with a film about a lonely Chicago woman (Rusty Schwimmer) working as a phone sex operator who after becoming enamored with a caller decides to drop everything in her messy “real” life to venture to L.A. and meet the object of her affection.

Schwimmer carries this sharply written and very funny piece with charm, wit, and heart. Though she’s a mess and just about everything goes sideways for her character, you’ll be cheering for her from start to finish. This one’s a crowd pleaser that should get the festival off to a great start.

Friday, April 27

Captain Black

Starring Jeffrey S.S. Johnson, Georgia Norman, Linara Washington, Joaquin Camilo, Charley Koontz, Liesel Kopp, Nico David, Kirsten Roeters, and Robert Maffia. Written and directed by Jeffrey S.S. Johnson. 86 minutes. Venue: AMC Sundial, 6 p.m.

“Captain Black” has already scored 3 award nominations and 2 wins, including Best Director at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and Best Actor at the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, and once you see the film it’s easy to see why.

Writer/director/star Jeffrey S.S. Johnson plays Mike, a likeable restaurant manager who unexpectedly develops an interest and fantasy life built around the comic book adventures of the film’s titular “Captain” and his femme fatale love interest, “Kitt Vixxen.” Sparks fly in Mike's real life when he dresses up as his new hero for a Halloween party and runs into another guest dressed at Kitt (Georgia Norman).

Their night together turns out to be the stuff of fanboy-fangirl fantasies, but it also comes with real-world consequences. Mike’s actions once he realizes what’s happened take audiences down a compelling journey of fear, anxiety and, finally, a sort of redemption. Thoughtful and well-acted, “Captain Black” should leave audiences talking and provide plenty of fodder for discussion with Johnson, who will be attending the festival this weekend.

Saturday, April 28

Our New President

Directed by Maxim Pozdorovkin. 78 minutes. Venue: AMC Sundial, 5:15 p.m.

Think our media coverage here in the U.S. of the 2016 Presidential Election was out of control? One look at the footage of Russian news coverage of the election and its aftermath included in “Our New President” and you may come away thinking our cable network news is tame in comparison.

Film maker Maxim Pozdorovkin builds this documentary feature around footage from Kremlin-controlled news sources produced both for the nation and for international audiences, appearances by Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Kiselyov, the head of the nation’s government-owned news agency, and YouTube videos made by Russians themselves, all of which proclaim their tremendous affection for one Donald J. Trump.

Aside from the YouTube videos, which are often really funny, what’s illuminating here are the statements by Kiselyov defining the editorial approach of the news outlets under his control, an approach that regards journalistic impartiality as antiquated and useless in the modern world and embraces the opportunity 24-hour media offers to shape cultural values and attitudes. Kiselyov even openly dismisses the term “propaganda,” saying it, too, and its negative connotations are obsolete notions, and that news media should be driven by nationalistic fervor.

Once you grasp what Kiselyov, and by extension Putin, are out to accomplish with these governing ideas, it's easy to understand where all that goodwill in the YouTube videos comes from, and why our president might wish the government's relationship with the media worked here a little more like it does in Moscow.

Butterfly Kisses

Directed by Erik Kristopher Myers. 91 minutes. Venue: AMC Sundial, 8 p.m.

The best way to explain “Butterfly Kisses” is say that it seems to aspire to be the end-all, be-all of “found footage” suspense thrillers.

See if you can follow this: the film follows a documentary crew filming a character study about an amateur film maker who becomes obsessed with material shot ten years before by a pair of student film makers exploring a Maryland urban legend surrounding a supernatural being known as “Peeping Tom.”

Having literally discovered the student-shot footage in his parents-in-law’s home, he undertakes to finish the students’ work, then release it to a mass audience to unravel the mystery surrounding not only “Peeping Tom,” but also the students themselves, who now seem to have disappeared.

There’s just one large problem – since he can’t find the original film makers or just about anyone else involved in the original production, he can’t prove the materials he’s found are actually genuine, and since he’s a film maker himself, experts he talks to about his finding suspect he in fact created them as part of some grand hoax/publicity stunt to promote a found footage horror film.

Got all that? Admittedly, this one gets a little tiresome in its “meta” approach to the found footage genre. It is memorable, however, for a few good scares and in just how far the film takes its approach, including appearances in its cast by real-life local history chroniclers, mythbusters, ghost-hunting groups and even one of the directors of “The Blair Witch Project.”

Sunday, April 29

Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story

Starring Darlinda Just Darlinda, Miss Jezebel Express, Gal Friday, James Habacker, Murray Hill, Hazel Honeysuckle, and Perle Noir. Directed by James Lester. 85 minutes. Venue: AMC Sundial, 5 p.m.

One of two documentary features selected to wrap up this year’s festival, “Getting Naked” is easily the more fun selection. A fascinating and beautifully constructed glimpse into the lives of four very different New York-based burlesque performers, the film examines the rise of “Neo-Burlesque” in the 1980s to the current day, and how each of the performers define their identities and their daily lives within the context of the burlesque art form.

Director James Lester treats his subjects and their respective journeys, challenges, triumphs and setbacks with reverence, humor, and humanity. The stories the women tell, covering everything from costume making to juggling jobs, struggling to make rent, effects on their personal lives and relationships, and of course performing on a nightly basis in the toughest city in the world weave a compelling and unforgettable narrative as well as a vivid portrait of their world and their place in it.

Does it have a lot of nudity? Sure – it’s a documentary about burlesque dancers, of course it does. But the women “getting naked” is only the beginning of the story, and it’s a story that, if you give a chance, you’ll want to see to the end.

For more information and a full schedule of events at the 13^th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival, visit sunscreenfilmfestival.com.