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
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT
DescriptionBiosDescription Award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson makes her feature-length debut (produced by Barry Jenkins under his Pastel banner) with a poetic chronicle of Mack, a young Black woman from Mississippi. Eschewing traditional narrative conventions, Jackson weaves through time to capture intimate moments throughout Mack’s life from childhood to adulthood, frequently focusing on tender,...
September 26, 2023
MOUNTAINS
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening on Fri, Oct. 27 to be followed by a conversation with director Monica Sorelle. Haitian American filmmaker Monica Sorelle makes her debut with this lovingly crafted portrait of the immigrant experience, set against the backdrop of Miami’s vibrant yet gentrifying Little Haiti. Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) works as a demolition worker with one big...
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...
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
20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In this sun-soaked, sublimely sensitive debut, writer/director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren sets her lens on an eight-year-old’s identity crisis over one uncertain summer vacation. Ane, in the midst of separating from her husband, takes her children to her hometown, a sleepy village on the Spanish side of Basque Country, to stay with her mother. There,...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: YOUNG AT HEART
CLOSING DYNASTY 2022 USA 16 MIN DIRECTOR Lloyd Lee Choi On a school day, a seven-year-old hustles strangers for money on the streets of New York City. STARLING 2023 USA 9 MIN DIRECTOR Mitra Shahidi The spirit of a little girl shoots down from the heavens to spend her birthday with her family. SAVI THE...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2
MIISUFY 2023 Estonia 10 MIN DIRECTOR Liisi Grünberg Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, MIISUFY observes the world through the eyes of digital pets. A KIND OF TESTAMENT (UN GENRE DE TESTAMENT) 2023 France 16 MIN DIRECTOR Stephen Vuillemin A CRAB IN THE POOL (UN...
September 26, 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1
THE MIRACLE 2022 Belgium 14 MIN DIRECTOR Nienke Deutz Forty-year-old Irma goes on a vacation to an all-inclusive resort. Soon after her arrival she realizes the place is meant for young families, and Irma has to find her own place in this holiday paradise. SWEET LIKE LEMONS 2023 UK | Finland 5 MIN DIRECTOR Jenny...
