September 26, 2023
THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (AS FILHAS DO FOGO)
DescriptionBiosDescription Plays before the feature MUSIC. Acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa crafts a haunting, layered triptych of three women singing in chorus, expressing their deep existential suffering against the backdrop of a blazing inferno. –Julia Kipnis Bios Born in Lisbon, Pedro Costa left his studies in history to attend classes taught by the poet and...
September 26, 2023
TÓTEM
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Mexico’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Following her humanist drama, THE CHAMBERMAID (AFI FEST 2018), Lila Avilés’ sophomore feature unfurls in a single chaotic day. Filtered through the perspective of an observant seven-year-old protagonist Sol (sensitively portrayed by newcomer Naíma Sentíes), TÓTEM follows an extended family busily preparing for the birthday party of...
September 26, 2023
THE TASTE OF THINGS (THE POT-AU-FEU)
DescriptionBiosDescription France’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Trần Anh Hùng (THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA) won the Best Director award in Cannes for this rapturous ode to French gastronomy, and the love between two people pursuing a shared passion. A stately château in France’s Loire Valley, 1885: chef Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) and her assistants...
September 26, 2023
MAMBAR PIERRETTE
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Rosine Mbakam. "Life is hard and you have to keep going" are the sage words of MAMBAR PIERRETTE's eponymous hero as she presses on raising three children, caring for her elderly mother and running a business as a skilled seamstress in Cameroon's largest city of Douala. With her incisive narrative debut,...
September 26, 2023
LOST IN THE NIGHT (PERDIDOS EN LA NOCHE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with writer Martin Escalante. In this noir-tinged revenge thriller from award-winning Mexican auteur Amat Escalante (HELI, THE UNTAMED), idealistic young laborer Emiliano (rising star Juan Daniel García Treviño, I'M NO LONGER HERE, LA CIVIL, ROBE OF GEMS) embarks on a mission to seek justice for his mother when she vanishes after opposing the...
September 26, 2023
THE BURITI FLOWER (CROWRÃ)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Shot over the course of 15 months in four different villages within the Krahôlandia Indigenous Land of Brazil, this spellbinding blend of ethnography and narrative filmmaking sees co-directors João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora (THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS) continue their work with the Indigenous Krahô community, who play themselves and collaborate on a...
September 26, 2023
MIDWIVES (SAGES-FEMMES)
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with actress Héloïse Janjaud. Five years after studying to be professional midwives, Sofia (Khadija Kouyaté) and Louise (Héloïse Janjaud) begin their residency at a hospital, eager to perform "the most beautiful job in the world." The work soon proves to be unlike anything they...
September 26, 2023
TERRESTRIAL VERSES (AYEH HAYE ZAMINI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In this boldly galvanizing film, co-directors Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami confront the oppression and conformity of the Iranian government via a tapestry of vignettes. Throughout progressively frustrating situations, we witness how the people of Iran are restricted in their freedoms of choice and expression in the most innocuous of situations, the absurdity of...
September 26, 2023
MUSIC
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Preceded by DAUGHTERS OF FIRE Abandoned in a storm as a child, Ion is taken in and raised an orphan. Years later, he will murder his anonymous attacker and be sent to prison for patricide. There, he meets and falls in love with a prison guard who is revealed to be his mother. Its...
September 26, 2023
HERE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Recipient of the FIPRESCI Prize and Encounters Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the latest film from Bas Devos (VIOLET, AFI FEST 2014) is a wandering, delicate journey on human connections. Stefan (Stefan Gota), originally from Romania, works odd construction jobs in Brussels, waiting for life to pass him by. Having made a fresh...
