Howl at the moon: "Never Cry Wolf," Carroll Ballard's 1983 drama about an animal researcher (Charles Martin Smith) gone wild in Alaska, is this week's entry in the Sundance Institute's Outdoor Film Festival.
    Screenings are at dusk, around 9 p.m., at the following dates and locations: tonight at the City Park, on Park Avenue in Park City; Monday at the Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Salt Lake City; and Wednesday at the Eccles Stage at the Sundance resort in Provo Canyon.
    Admission is free, and blankets are recommended - especially in the mountain venues.
   
    Pull over! "Super Troopers," a comedy about prank-playing state policemen (played by members of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe), plays tonight and Saturday at midnight at the Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $7.75 at the door.
   
    Double docs: Two documentaries about homosexuality in America will screen Monday and Tuesday at the Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, Salt Lake City.
    Cynthia Wade's "Freeheld," which won a special jury prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, focuses on Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police lieutenant who wages a legal battle to leave her pension benefits to her life partner, Stacie.
    "Outside," by Utah filmmaker Natalie Avery, is a look at the estimated 25-to-40 percent of homeless youth
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in the United States who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered.
    "Outside" screens at 4 p.m. Monday, with Avery conducting a post-show Q-and-A session. "Freeheld" (which is vying to qualify for Oscar contention) screens at 7 p.m. Monday, and Wade will be on hand for a Q-and-A afterward. Both movies will then screen in a double feature Tuesday at 4, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
    Admission to Monday's screenings is free. Tickets for Tuesday's shows are $5.
   
    Injustice in Africa: Last year's French-Algerian drama "Indigenes," about North African troops who fought for the Allies in World War II but were denied their place in history, will have a free screening Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City.
    Peter Sluglett, professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Utah, will lead a post-screening discussion. The event is part of the Salt Lake City Film Center's New Face of Africa series.