September 25, 2025
DEMONS TO DIAMONDS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK In the cold business district of La Défense, where steel towers pierce a restless sky and CCTV watches every shadow, a wave of suicides exposes the fractures of a crumbling society. Bios Valentin Noujaïm is a French Lebanese experimental filmmaker whose work has been...
September 25, 2025
DEAD MAN’S WIRE
DescriptionBiosDescription Gus Van Sant returns with the incredible true story of an infamous 1977 kidnapping and ransom over a business deal gone bad, with the kidnapper (Bill Skarsgård) demanding restitution and an apology from the mortgage broker (Dacre Montgomery) whose company ripped him off. Skarsgård plays Tony Kiritsis, a would-be Indianapolis real estate developer, who...
September 25, 2025
DIVINE COMEDY (KOMEDIE ELAHI)
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Notable Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari (co-director of TERRESTRIAL VERSES, AFI FEST 2023) blurs the lines between fiction and reality / cinema and truth in his latest feature, DIVINE COMEDY. Featuring rival filmmaker twins Bahram and Bahman Ark (as themselves), Bahram has just completed his newest film with producing and romantic partner...
September 25, 2025
DANDELION
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen Margaret gets thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a social worker tasked with finding her a new home. Trailer
September 25, 2025
THE CURRENTS (LAS CORRIENTES)
DescriptionBiosDescription While in Switzerland to accept an award for her work as an acclaimed fashion designer, Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) finds herself drawn to the frigid Alpine waters and inexplicably jumps in. Unhurt, but badly shaken, Lina returns to her home in Buenos Aires a changed woman. Now deathly afraid of water, she refuses...
September 25, 2025
COYOTES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 A Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever. Bios Said Zagha is a Palestinian British director born in Jerusalem, raised in Ramallah and...
September 25, 2025
COVER-UP
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors and producers Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. A gripping portrait of one of America's most formidable investigative journalists, COVER-UP traces the incendiary career of Seymour Hersh: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, whose six decades of fearless reporting have helped expose some of the most harrowing abuses of...
September 25, 2025
CHRISTY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription With CHRISTY, director David Michôd (ANIMAL KINGDOM) tells the gripping true story of a sporting icon who refused to be defeated — both in and out of the ring. Sydney Sweeney delivers a career-defining performance as Christy Martin, the trailblazing boxer who became a household name in the 1990s, publicly transforming women’s boxing while...
September 25, 2025
CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG (如你所愿)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 In a struggle of love, legacy and belief, a southwest Chinese family tries to purge an unwanted entity from their queer heir. Bios Hao Zhou is a filmmaker from southwest China, focusing on queer and feminist themes through both narrative and nonfiction films. Zhou’s work has...
September 25, 2025
THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Kristen Stewart is an Academy Award®-nominated actress who has portrayed a challenging assortment of characters. Adapting Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir of the same name, shards of an abusive childhood, like memories sharp enough to draw blood, pierce the screen in jumbled, rapid succession, as Lidia (a revelatory Imogen Poots) attempts to gather the pain and...
