September 26, 2024
THE KINGDOM (LE ROYAUME)
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Julien Colonna. Coming-of-age meets organized crime in Julien Colonna's spellbinding feature debut, which premiered at Cannes. This gritty father-daughter tale unfolds against the backdrop of the criminal and political violence that gripped Corsica during the 1990s. Fifteen-year-old Lesia (phenomenal newcomer Ghjuvanna Benedetti) is...
September 26, 2024
IRANIAN YELLOW PAGES
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Trying to make his new life in London a success, Reza places an advert in an eccentric newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight. Bios Anna Snowball is a British documentary director. Her films have been selected for the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund...
September 26, 2024
IT’S NOT ME (C’EST PAS MOI)
DescriptionBiosDescription In IT’S NOT ME, Leos Carax, the visionary auteur of ANNETTE, HOLY MOTORS and THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE, playfully and provocatively revisits his own oeuvre and the history of cinema itself, interrogating its imagery and its power. The enfant terrible who burst onto the scene in 1984 with BOY MEETS GIRL has remained...
September 26, 2024
INTERCEPTED
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Filmmaker Oksana Karpovych’s sophomore feature is a harrowing and startling experiment in juxtaposition: haunting shots of Ukrainian villages and towns, marred by the destruction wrought by the ongoing war, are presented alongside chilling audio recordings of phone calls between Russian soldiers on the front lines and their families back home that were intercepted by...
September 26, 2024
THE HUMAN HIBERNATION
DescriptionBiosDescription US Premiere In the harsh, dead of winter, a young boy emerges from a hole in the cold, snow-covered ground. He is part of a community of humans who hibernate through the long winter months but has accidentally woken from his slumber too early. When spring finally arrives, his sister Carla starts to search...
September 26, 2024
HUSH, MY DEAR (拥抱)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 In the midst of divorce and a custody battle, Xu Rui attends a kindergarten event, witnessing her son being bullied. Her impulsive reaction ripples throughout her life, forcing her to face repercussions. Bios Xiaoman Yang received her MFA in Directing from the...
September 26, 2024
HUMANTIS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 When one "Humantis" unexpectedly goes through a physical transformation, it struggles to adapt and grow into its new self. Bios Paris Baillie is an artist and animator from Los Angeles. Her childhood dreams of being a Broadway star, teenage years of experimenting with photography...
September 26, 2024
HERETIC
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Starring Hugh Grant, HERETIC follows two young missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) who are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse. The film is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and...
September 26, 2024
I’M STILL HERE
DescriptionBiosDescription Based on true events and the bestselling memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva about his family, I’M STILL HERE – directed by Walter Salles – explores early 1970s Brazil, where the military dictatorship is tightening its grip on civil society. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a middle-class mother of five, must reinvent her life after her...
September 26, 2024
HERE
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Reuniting the director, writer and stars of FORREST GUMP – a modern classic that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year – HERE is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences. Zemeckis directs from a screenplay...
