September 26, 2023
ANSELM 3D
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Artist and iconoclast Anselm Kiefer probes the past, holding up a mirror to post-war Germany through his photography, sculpture and massive architectural installations. Working again in 3D after his acclaimed documentary PINA, director Wim Wenders brings depth to this stereoscopic portrait, creating a collage of the artist’s past and present to fashion an immersive...
September 26, 2023
THE UNIVERSAL THEORY (DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM)
DescriptionBiosDescription In 1974, author Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow) appears on a German talk show to promote his sci-fi novel “Die Theorie von Allem,” where shadowy Cold War intrigue melds with alternate realities of the multiverse. But instead, Leinert claims his book is fact, not fiction, based on his unpublished doctoral thesis and his own experiences....
September 26, 2023
GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI
DescriptionBiosDescription Screenings to be followed by a conversation with directors Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn. In this charming documentary set in the South Texas borderlands, a passionate group of student musicians of varying experience levels come together to form Edinburg North High School’s mariachi team, steered by the unflappable Coach Abel Acuña. As the award-winning...
September 26, 2023
TIGER STRIPES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Malaysia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Amanda Nell Eu. The first Malaysian film to win the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize, Amanda Nell Eu’s debut feature reimagines a classic tale with an endearing DIY spirit and irreverent playfulness. Precocious and quick-witted 12-year-old Zaffan (vibrantly...
September 26, 2023
FOUR DAUGHTERS (LES FILLES D’OLFA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Tunisia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kaouther Ben Hania. In this hybrid docu-fiction from Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN), Tunisian mother of four, Olfa, recounts and re-enacts scenes from her life with her two younger daughters. Olfa’s two...
September 26, 2023
COPA ’71
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine. Executive produced by Venus and Serena Williams, COPA ‘71 centers on a long-forgotten 1971 tournament held in Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium two decades before the first FIFA-sanctioned Women’s World Cup. Six teams from Europe and Latin America compete for the title amidst a fervor usually reserved...
September 26, 2023
THE SETTLERS (LOS COLONOS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Chile’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature In Felipe Gálvez's visually striking debut, tailor-made for the big screen, three travelers (a British expat, an American henchman, and Segundo, an Indigenous Chilean) trek through 1900s Patagonia on a roughly veiled colonizing expedition at the behest of a Spanish businessman, José Menéndez. As unexpected and intense...
September 26, 2023
SHAYDA
DescriptionBiosDescription Australia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Noora Niasari. Noora Niasari’s poignant debut feature, executive produced by Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett, follows the courageous titular character, Shayda (brought to life by the captivating Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Cannes’ Best Actress winner in last year’s HOLY...
September 26, 2023
THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Joanna Arnow and executive producer Sean Baker. Filmmaker Joanna Arnow portrays Ann, a 30-something New Yorker suffering from aging millennial malaise with the various threads of her life each marked by a sense of discomfort and stagnancy. As she awkwardly shuffles from her low-level, corporate...
September 26, 2023
INSHALLAH A BOY (INSHALLAH WALAD)
DescriptionBiosDescription U.S. Premiere Jordan’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature INSHALLAH A BOY makes evident from its outset that in contemporary Jordan, women are not valued or respected as autonomous beings, let alone as heads of households. When Nawal’s husband suddenly dies, she begins an insufferable battle against her family of in-laws who have no...
