September 26, 2024
MARIA
DescriptionBiosDescription Directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas, MARIA presents a tumultuous and beautiful depiction of one of the world’s most renowned artists and reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days in Paris, as La Callas negotiates the blurred boundaries between her public image and...
September 26, 2024
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA
DescriptionBiosDescription U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Samir Oliveros and producer Amanda Freedman. In May 1984, a contestant on the popular gameshow PRESS YOUR LUCK – an unemployed ice cream truck driver named Michael Larson (Paul Walter Hauser) – pulled off the longest win streak in the show’s history. Was...
September 26, 2024
KOWLOON!
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 As the biggest Chinese restaurant in the U.S., Kowloon represents the Wong family’s American dream come true. As the third-generation owners approach their 70s, they consider the weight of this family legacy. Bios Mona Xia is a Chinese-American former studio executive turned documentary filmmaker. She grew...
September 26, 2024
MAGIC CANDIES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: FAMILY FRIENDLY Other kids at the park never ask Dong-Dong to play, but he’s fine playing alone. When he accidentally buys a bag of colorful, marble-shaped candies, he gains the ability to hear voices. Based on the Korean Picture Book "Magic Candies" by Heena Baek Bios Daisuke Nishio...
September 26, 2024
THE KINGDOM (LE ROYAUME)
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Julien Colonna. Coming-of-age meets organized crime in Julien Colonna's spellbinding feature debut, which premiered at Cannes. This gritty father-daughter tale unfolds against the backdrop of the criminal and political violence that gripped Corsica during the 1990s. Fifteen-year-old Lesia (phenomenal newcomer Ghjuvanna Benedetti) is...
September 26, 2024
IT’S NOT ME (C’EST PAS MOI)
DescriptionBiosDescription In IT’S NOT ME, Leos Carax, the visionary auteur of ANNETTE, HOLY MOTORS and THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE, playfully and provocatively revisits his own oeuvre and the history of cinema itself, interrogating its imagery and its power. The enfant terrible who burst onto the scene in 1984 with BOY MEETS GIRL has remained...
September 26, 2024
INTERCEPTED
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Both Screenings to be followed by a conversation with sound designer Alex Lane. Filmmaker Oksana Karpovych’s sophomore feature is a harrowing and startling experiment in juxtaposition: haunting shots of Ukrainian villages and towns, marred by the destruction wrought by the ongoing war, are presented alongside chilling audio recordings of phone calls between Russian soldiers...
September 26, 2024
IRANIAN YELLOW PAGES
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Trying to make his new life in London a success, Reza places an advert in an eccentric newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight. Bios Anna Snowball is a British documentary director. Her films have been selected for the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund...
September 26, 2024
JUROR #2
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription World Premiere The World Premiere of Clint Eastwood’s JUROR #2 follows family man Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma...one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict – or free – the accused killer....
September 26, 2024
I’M STILL HERE
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Walter Salles and actors Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello. Based on true events and the bestselling memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva about his family, I’M STILL HERE – directed by Walter Salles – explores early 1970s Brazil, where the military dictatorship is tightening its grip...
