September 25, 2025
YES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Nadav Lapid. From the moment YES begins, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid (AHED’S KNEE, AFI FEST 2021) takes viewers on a surprising, at times uncomfortable, and wildly absurd journey into the eccentric lives of jazz musician Y (Ariel Bronz) and dancer Yasmin (Efrat Dor)....
September 25, 2025
WE BELIEVE YOU (ON VOUS CROIT)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Tensions rise and family secrets unravel over the course of a crucial day in first-time directing duo Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys’ astutely layered, gripping courtroom drama. Myriem Akheddiou, frequent collaborator with the Dardennes (THE KID WITH A BIKE, YOUNG AHMED), gives a powerhouse performance as Alice, a strained mother herding her two reluctant...
September 25, 2025
WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU
DescriptionBiosContactDescription “It’s rare for kids to turn out better than their parents” proclaims the middle-aged father at the center of prolific Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s latest film. Retaining his signature style and languid rhythm yet adopting a more wistful tone, Hong expands his frequent focus on friends and lovers to include the intricate dynamic between...
September 25, 2025
WATER SPORTS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK Jelson and Ipe, students deeply in love, undergo trials of the mind and body as they prepare to survive a world devastated by climate change. Bios Whammy Alcazaren is a multi-awarded director and production designer. He is a graduate of the University of...
September 25, 2025
WELCOME HOME FRECKLES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 After four years apart, a daughter returns home to confront the unresolved family conflicts and violence that plagued her childhood, discovering the generational cycle of abuse only she can break. Bios Huiju Park is a Korean documentary filmmaker based in London, whose work deeply explores the...
September 25, 2025
TWO PROSECUTORS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Set in 1937, at the peak of Josef Stalin’s Great Purge — yet chillingly relevant today — Sergei Loznitsa’s dark parable of tyranny is based on a short story by the dissident writer and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was himself imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Against all odds, a complaint letter written in blood...
September 25, 2025
TRAIN DREAMS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Clint Bentley, actor and executive producer Joel Edgerton, and actors William H. Macy and Kerry Condon. Clint Bentley’s adaptation of Denis Johnson’s acclaimed novella stars Joel Edgerton as a man who spends his life logging in the Pacific Northwest, and over the years...
September 25, 2025
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
DescriptionBiosContactDescription On January 29, 2024, five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and six members of her family attempted to flee to safety during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military shelled and shot at the fleeing vehicle, killing Hind’s family and trapping the young girl in the wreckage of the car. Hind was...
September 25, 2025
A USEFUL GHOST (PEE CHAI DAI KA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. Poised as a confident new entry in the cinematic canon of unlikely possessions, Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s absurdist, shapeshifting feature debut marks the era of the electrical appliance phantasmagoria. Self-proclaimed Academic Ladyboy calls for tech support after his new vacuum cleaner...
September 25, 2025
THE TALE OF SILYAN
DescriptionBiosDescription October 26 screening to be followed by a conversation with director and producer Tamara Kotevska and cinematographer and producer Jean Dakar. Oscar®-nominated documentarian Tamara Kotevska (HONEYLAND) returns with a poetic and lyrical documentary set in rural Macedonia where family farms are struggling as their traditional way of life has become unsustainable. Looking down on...
