September 24, 2026
JAIL TIME RECORDS
DescriptionBioContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, producer, cinematographer and editor Dione Roach and director, producer, cinematographer and composer Steve Happi. This winner of Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival mixes verité documentary with flamboyant music videos as co-directors Dione Roach and Steve Happi escort viewers inside New Bell Prison in...
September 24, 2026
IVÁN & HADOUM
DescriptionDescription Winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlinale and three Silver Biznagas at the Málaga Film Festival, Spanish filmmaker Ian de la Rosa’s feature debut follows Iván, a forklift driver at a small-town greenhouse on the path to becoming a manager, and Hadoum, a newly-hired Moroccan-Spanish fruit packer who immediately catches Iván’s attention. Their...
September 24, 2026
IRON BOY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Eleven-year-old Christophe lives with his older brother, kind mother and stern father on an aging farm in France that has seen better days. Christophe is eager to help, but when the young lad suddenly starts tipping over and losing balance, he nearly causes a tractor accident, straining an already tense relationship with his dad....
September 24, 2026
IN THE BEGINNING
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 A space probe called Beresheet, legless birds of paradise, a hamster cull and humanity trying to make the world make sense. Bios Ala Nunu is a Polish animation director currently based in Portugal whose films have screened at festivals such as Annecy, Animafest Zagreb, Bucheon and...
September 24, 2026
IF EVER
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 When a long-anticipated wildfire approaches, a young girl struggles to say goodbye to the only home she’s ever known. Trailer
September 24, 2026
THE IDIOT(S)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription October 22 and 25 screenings to be preceded by an introduction by producer Ilya Stewart. The latest film from co-directors Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert takes an irreverent look at the messy life of one of the world’s great literary icons, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Johnny Flynn), who honeymoons in Baden-Baden with new wife Anna (Aimee...
September 24, 2026
I THINK YOU SHOULD BE HERE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Near Geneva, seven girls on the verge of adulthood recall in their rooms the words and dances of TikTok that shaped their youth. Bios Born in Lithuania, Anna-Marija Adomaityte studied contemporary dance at La Manufacture and visual arts at ECAL. Élie Grappe studied...
September 24, 2026
I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING
DescriptionBiosContactDescription 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. Having grown up in the same council tower block in Birmingham, the crew is always ready for a nostalgic drug-...
September 24, 2026
I PLAY ROCKY
DescriptionBioContactTrailerDescription Academy Award®-winning director Peter Farrelly (GREEN BOOK, AFI FEST 2018) tells the electrifying true story of an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn't just meant to write 1976's ROCKY — he was meant to play Rocky Balboa. Told "no" at every turn, Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) bets everything on himself, holding...
September 24, 2026
I DESERVE A LOVER WHOSE EVERY RISE SETS FIERY DOOMS RAGING ACROSS THE SKIES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Making good on its attention-grabbing and poetic title is an unorthodox documentary befitting subjects Nasser Bakhshi and Roghayeh Najdi, married artists and collectors residing in Tabriz in northwestern Iran. Drawing from disparate sources across the country, Nasser and Roghayeh serve as curators for an archive of found ephemera and uncovered personal belongings ranging from...
