September 24, 2026
FLIES (MOSCAS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Returning to the nostalgia-laden black-and-white form of his breakthrough debut DUCK SEASON, Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke crafts a delicate yet wry exploration of grief in his bittersweet new feature. In a busy corner of Mexico City, retiree Olga (Teresita Sánchez) lives a solitary life, swatting flies and playing online Sudoku. In need of some...
September 24, 2026
FOREST HIGH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Belgian filmmaker Manon Coubia spent 10 years working seasonally as a mountain refuge keeper in the French Alps, a wealth of experience which imbues her debut feature film, a triptych of tales set in a mountain refuge across three seasons, with the greatest authenticity. Coubia’s cinematic rendering of life in this mountain waystation, which...
September 24, 2026
FLESH AND FUEL
DescriptionDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Pierre Le Gall. For veteran French trucker Étienne, life on the road has left little room for intimacy beyond fleeting sexual encounters at highway rest stops. But when he meets Bartosz, a Polish driver working for a company that exploits cheaper Eastern European...
September 24, 2026
A FEW THINGS HAPPENING BY A RIVER (ALGUMAS COISAS QUE ACONTECEM AO LADO DE UM RIO)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 A seemingly lifeless body floats downstream, while a fragmented world occupies itself with other things. Bios Daniel Soares is a German-born Portuguese screenwriter and director. His short films have premiered at festivals such as Cannes (Palme d'Or Short Film —Special Mention), Telluride,...
September 24, 2026
EVERYTIME
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Germany's Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Sandra Wollner. After her 2020 Berlin Encounters Special Jury Prize-winning feature THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN’s festival tour was truncated by the COVID pandemic, filmmaker Sandra Wollner returns unimpeded six years later with her third feature...
September 24, 2026
THE FACE OF HORROR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter and producer Anna Biller, cinematographer M. David Mullen, composer Gabriel Andrés Gallegos and actor Jesse Merlin. Anna Biller (VIVA, AFI FEST 2007; THE LOVE WITCH) continues her streak of pulpy, technicolor flair with a reimagined feminist folktale loosely inspired by the Japanese onryō (vengeful...
September 24, 2026
EMULSION
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Once born from the same matter, two forms slowly grow into different beings, suspended between attraction and resistance. Intimacy becomes an unstable state where closeness and individuality struggle to coexist. Bios Shiyu (Shino) Tang is an independent animation director originally from China. She earned...
September 24, 2026
THE END
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 A darkly humorous tale of death and existence set in a large, international airport. Bios Niki Lindroth von Bahr, born 1984 in Stockholm, is an artist and filmmaker focused on stop-motion animation. Niki's films have been shown in and awarded at festivals worldwide. Parallel to her...
September 24, 2026
ELSINORE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription ELSINORE is the deeply emotional and inspirational true story of Ian Charleson, a gifted actor whose greatest challenge becomes his greatest triumph. Best known for his roles in CHARIOTS OF FIRE and GANDHI, Charleson was diagnosed with HIV in 1986 and died of AIDS in 1990. His final role was Hamlet, and he gave...
September 24, 2026
ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Nepal's Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Abinash Bikram Shah and producer Kumudini Shrestha Gurung. Surrounded by wild elephants, a remote Nepalese village is home to a sacred Kinnar community in writer-director Abinah Bikram Shah’s empathetic and atmospheric thriller, winner of the Un...
