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LuminariesPOSSIBLE LOVE

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POSSIBLE

Two couples cross paths while making a documentary about recent layoffs at a South Korean industrial complex. Lee Chang-dong’s first film in eight years is a sophisticated examination of social and gender inequality, labor, trauma and the ethics of filmmaking that unfolds through engaging storytelling,...

6:00 pm
World CinemaBLACK MONEY FOR WHITE NIGHTS

06:10 pm

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BLACK

When a dream vacation goes disastrously awry, a middle-aged Bulgarian couple accustomed to working the angles finds the tables suddenly turned. Darkly funny and unexpectedly moving, BLACK MONEY FOR WHITE NIGHTS transforms their misfortune into a mordant morality tale about corruption, complicity and the price...

World CinemaROSE

06:15 pm

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ROSE

Academy Award®–nominee Sandra Hüller (ANATOMY OF A FALL) delivers another showstopping performance in Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer's (MICHAEL, AFI FEST 2011) captivating third feature, a transfixing, strikingly original folk tale about a woman who poses as a male soldier in 17th-century Germany.

DocumentarySOUL PATROL

06:20 pm

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SOUL

The travails of the “Soul Patrol” — the U.S. Army’s first all-Black Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol deployed during the Vietnam War — are recounted in this documentary adaptation of Vietnam veteran Ed Emanuel’s memoir. Utilizing a mixture of archival footage, contemporary interviews and reenactments, SOUL PATROL...

DocumentaryCITIZEN OSAMA (AL MOWATEN OSAMA)

06:30 pm

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CITIZEN

In CITIZEN OSAMA, Palestinian photographer turned citizen journalist Osama Al-Ashi documents life in northern Gaza while struggling to keep his young family safe. Amid devastation and the targeting of fellow journalists, his camera bears witness to the devastation while asking what it means to call...

SUMO:

Returning eleven years after THE BIRTH OF SAKE, Erik Shirai delivers another insightful look into a rich and storied tradition of Japanese culture with SUMO: SPIRIT WEIGHS NOTHING, following four professional wrestlers in various stages of their careers across a year of trials and tribulations.

7:00 pm
Red Carpet PremieresWILDWOOD

07:30 pm

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WILDWOOD

From Oscar®-nominated and BAFTA-winning studio LAIKA (CORALINE), WILDWOOD is a sweeping adventure about love, sacrifice and the magic that reveals itself when we dare to look beyond the familiar.

8:00 pm
World CinemaEVERYTIME

08:45 pm

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EVERYTIME

A woman becomes the emotional anchor for her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend in the wake of an unimaginable tragedy. On the sunny beaches during a family vacation, each of the trio’s preferred retreat into the past begins to merge and transform into a surreal new...

9:00 pm
LuminariesBUCKING FASTARD

09:00 pm

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BUCKING

Werner Herzog's singular new film, which stars Kate Mara and Rooney Mara in their first film together, takes inspiration from the extraordinary real-life story of British sisters Freda and Greta Chaplin, twins whose unusual bond and shared life became the subject of public fascination in...

DiscoveryIVÁN & HADOUM

09:00 pm

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IVÁN

Winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlinale, IVÁN & HADOUM offers a positive and complex story on queer love set in a fruit packing facility in Almería. Ian de la Rosa’s feature debut is an exploration of the transformative power of desire and love...

After DarkTHE FACE OF HORROR

09:10 pm

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THE

Anna Biller (THE LOVE WITCH) continues her streak of pulpy, technicolor macabre with this reimagined feminist folktale inspired by the Japanese ghost story, Yotsuya Kaidan. Redressed in medieval England, we follow the beautiful, innocent Eleanor and the handsome but deceitful knight Edward in a tale...

World CinemaA BIT OF LIGHT

09:15 pm

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A disillusioned Iranian doctor methodically prepares to end his life after being arrested and banned from practicing medicine. Ali Asgari’s new film avoids sentimentality by alternating moments of deadpan humor with references to oppressive realities, while Misagh Zare delivers an outstanding performance filled with subtlety...

LuminariesI SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING

09:30 pm

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A group of five friends in their late twenties navigate adulthood, broken hearts and the class divide in Clio Barnard’s (ALI & EVA, AFI FEST 2021) wickedly crowd-pleasing, social realist denunciation of late-stage capitalism.

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