September 25, 2025
HOLDING LIAT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Brandon Kramer and producer Lance Kramer. Brandon Kramer’s profile of an Israeli family seeking the return of their kidnapped loved ones who were abducted during the October 7 Hamas attack won the award for Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival. Beginning shortly after the...
September 25, 2025
GHOST ELEPHANTS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Werner Herzog, editor Marco Capalbo and executive producers Brian Nugent and Andrew Trapani. In GHOST ELEPHANTS, Werner Herzog embarks on an atmospheric journey into the highland plateaus of Angola, accompanying Dr. Steve Boyes, National Geographic Fellow, explorer and conservationist, on a quest to...
September 25, 2025
FUCKTOYS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter and actor Annapurna Sriram, producer Timothy Petryni and editor Lilly Wild, moderated by filmmaker Daniel Scheinert. Welcome to Trashtown, USA, rising like a pastel-hued industrial mirage out of the Louisiana swampland, where everyone has a kink and there’s enough bad luck going around to...
September 25, 2025
LA GRAZIA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reunites with actor Toni Servillo in this parable-like tale of parliamentary politics and difficult decisions. Servillo, who previously starred for Sorrentino in ONE MAN UP, THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE, IL DIVO, THE GREAT BEAUTY, LORO and THE HAND OF GOD, here plays President Mariano De Santis of Italy, an office which...
September 25, 2025
THE GREAT ARCH (L’INCONNU DE LA GRANDE ARCHE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Continuing the tradition of films about obsessive architects, Stéphane Demoustier’s THE GREAT ARCH follows the true story of Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an idealistic and little-known Dane whose design proposal was the surprise winner of a prestigious 1980s international competition to build a futuristic arch in Paris’s La Défense district. Having...
September 25, 2025
FOREVERGREEN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 A joyful adventure featuring an orphaned bear cub and a fatherly tree turns serious when the cub is tempted by the allure of easy food. Bios Nathan Engelhardt is an Animation Supervisor who has worked on films including WRECK-IT RALPH, BIG HERO 6,...
September 25, 2025
FIUME O MORTE!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of both the Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI prize at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, Croatian director Igor Bezinović’s inventive hybrid documentary re-enacts scenes from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s siege and occupation of the Adriatic seaport of Fiume (now Croatia’s Rijeka) in the aftermath of World War I. D’Annunzio was a celebrated Italian poet, playwright...
September 25, 2025
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, legendary indie auteur Jim Jarmusch’s newest work is a wry gem about the timeworn drift of familial intimacy. In this collection of three quietly humorous stories, families struggle to bridge or avoid the distance that has grown between them. Starring Tom Waits,...
September 25, 2025
THE FISHERMAN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK A devout fisherman has his faith tested as a series of supernatural phenomena plague him and his family. Bios Calvin Brown is a 3D animator and filmmaker based in Ohio. In 2024, he graduated with honors from Cleveland State University's School of Film and...
September 25, 2025
FINDING YIYI
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 After losing her mother’s cherished dumpling recipe, 65-year-old YiYi embarks on a journey to piece it back together, leading her to reconnect with a childhood friend and explore the relationship they never had. Trailer
