September 25, 2025
MEMENTO MORI (ZINC)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 As rhythmic machines press zinc sheets into coffins, factory workers reflect on their own mortality. Does daily contact with death heighten their awareness of life’s impermanence? Bios Ainara Vera is a Spanish filmmaker and editor whose work has captivated audiences at renowned festivals such as Locarno...
September 25, 2025
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Maria Friedman. This filmed version of the Tony Award®-winning 2023-2024 revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s cult 1981 stage musical stars Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, formerly the best of friends and artistic collaborators, now in various stages of disappointment and burnout....
September 25, 2025
THE MAN OF SHIT (L’HOMME DE MERDE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 Between college and her luxury hotel job, Fernanda wonders if she’ll ever achieve something meaningful in life. The arrival of The Man of Shit will give her an unexpected opportunity. Bios Sorel França is a Brazilian filmmaker, who after obtaining a Law degree, moved to...
September 25, 2025
MAJONEZË
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 Elyria follows the strict rules imposed by her father, hiding her anger with obedience. A powerful desire for rebellion grows in her day by day that leads to a necessary act of revolution. Bios Giulia Grandinetti was born in 1989 in a small village in...
September 25, 2025
MĀRAMA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Taratoa Stappard. Taratoa Stappard's haunting and visceral debut feature — a gothic revenge horror filtered through a Māori lens — melds the chills of a haunted house thriller with a stark exploration of Britain's dark colonial legacy. In 1859, Mary Stevens (Āriana Osborne),...
September 25, 2025
A MAGNIFICENT LIFE (MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Sylvain Chomet, an Oscar® nominee for THE OLD LADY AND THE PIGEONS, THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE and THE ILLUSIONIST, returns with his first animated feature in 15 years. As with THE ILLUSIONIST, which was based on an unproduced autobiographical screenplay by Jacques Tati, Chomet investigates the life of another beloved member of France’s artistic...
September 25, 2025
LOVE+WAR
DescriptionBiosDescription From Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi (FREE SOLO) comes this engrossing portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer Lynsey Addario, who has spent decades documenting humanity at its most fragile and resilient — from the frontlines of Ukraine to the Middle East, Africa and beyond. With remarkable courage and a striking visual...
September 25, 2025
MAGELLAN (MAGALHÃES)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Lav Diaz. In Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT, AFI FEST 2014) gorgeously mounted, anti-colonial epic, Gael García Bernal stars as infamous Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. After the brutal conquest of Malacca in 1511, Magellan returns to Europe poised to continue his expeditions...
September 25, 2025
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (ÁSTIN SEM EFTIR ER)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Against the backdrop of Iceland’s magnificent landscape — a rugged island filled with winding roads amidst a majestic tundra — a marriage falls apart, threatening to fracture a loving family. Fisherman Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) has just moved out of the house he shares with his visual artist wife Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and their three...
September 25, 2025
LUCKY LU
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Lloyd Lee Choi. Following his Grand Jury Prize for Live Action Short at AFI FEST 2023, filmmaker Lloyd Lee Choi returns with his visceral feature debut. Set amidst the cutthroat streets of New York City’s Chinatown, Lu (Chang Chen) is a delivery driver...
