September 26, 2023
LAST SUMMER (L’ÉTÉ DERNIER)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription After exactly a decade, this unnerving return to cinema from French provocateur Catherine Breillat revisits and rewrites Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s 2019 QUEEN OF HEARTS (with co-writer Pascal Bonitzer). Its premise centers on Anne (Léa Drucker), a successful lawyer who lives in a villa on the outskirts of Paris with her husband Pierre (Olivier...
September 26, 2023
PERFECT DAYS
DescriptionBiosDescription Japan’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Kōji Yakusho won the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes film festival for his portrayal of Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo who performs his job like a dedicated master craftsman, in Wim Wenders’ sweetly meditative drama PERFECT DAYS. Rising early each day, Hirayama executes...
September 26, 2023
ME CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO)
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Italy’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Matteo Garrone, actors Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall, and script consultant Mamadou Kouassi, whose life experiences inspired the film. Matteo Garrone made his name with the landmark Neapolitan crime film GOMORRAH, and has since demonstrated...
September 26, 2023
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription World Premiere In this apocalyptic thriller from award-winning writer and director Sam Esmail (MR. ROBOT), Amanda (Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids, Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rose (Farrah Mackenzie). Their vacation is soon upended when two strangers — G.H. (Mahershala Ali) and...
September 26, 2023
OCCUPIED CITY
DescriptionBiosDescription A monumental accomplishment, Steve McQueen’s (12 YEARS A SLAVE, AFI FEST 2013) rigorous documentary systematically explores Amsterdam under the Nazi occupation of WWII. Rejecting archival footage and first-person narratives, the film excavates history by telling the city’s story one address at a time. Each catalogued entry describes the cruel fate of its residents and...
September 26, 2023
LA CHIMERA
DescriptionBiosDescription English expat archaeologist Arthur (Josh O’Connor) has gone to seed. Having relocated to Tuscany in the early 1980s, he fell in love with Beniamina, the daughter of aging local aristocrat Flora (Isabella Rossellini). But Beniamina has died, leaving Arthur a lost soul, though one with the gift of second sight: he can use a...
September 26, 2023
CLOSE YOUR EYES (CERRAR LOS OJOS)
DescriptionBiosDescription Spanish auteur Víctor Erice returns to cinema after a three-decade-long absence with this hauntingly personal, discursive yet simmering reflection on memory, art and the passage of time. Set years after his lead actor and best friend, Julio, disappears suddenly from a film shoot, filmmaker Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo) is approached by a TV show...
September 26, 2023
COBWEB (GEOMIJIP)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription No stranger to a myriad of genre play, Kim Jee-woon revisits his comedic strand for this metatextual farce on filmmaking. Set in the ‘70s depression period when the censorship board heavily controlled the silver screen in South Korea, Song Kang-ho (PARASITE) plays a struggling director searching for a career comeback. As another underwhelming production...
September 26, 2023
GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival, this propulsive, urgent drama from Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA EUROPA, SPOOR, AFI FEST 2017) depicts the crisis which erupted in 2021 at the Belarus-Poland border after Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko's drew refugees to Belarus with false hope they might cross...
September 26, 2023
IN WATER (MUL-AN-E-SEO)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Desperate to make a film, former actor Seongmo drags two friends to popular vacation spot Jeju Island during the chilly offseason. Waiting for inspiration to strike, they wander the island scouting potential locations, eating junk food and pondering the finer points of love and art. When he spots a woman picking up trash off...
