September 24, 2026
WILD HORSE NINE
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Martin McDonagh’s (IN BRUGES, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI) new film continues his exploration of the complexities of male friendship, this time between two CIA agents, Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell), who travel to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) shortly before the end of Salvador Allende’s government in 1970s Chile. Heavily involved in...
September 24, 2026
WHERE WERE WE?
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 A deep dive into an oceanic terrain of essentials and reminiscences transforms the familiar into the extraordinary, gently blurring the line between the world we’re in and the worlds we carry. Bios Suresh Eriyat, born in India in 1973, is a trailblazer in the Indian animation...
September 24, 2026
WE ARE ALL STRANGERS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Singapore's Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Thirteen years in the making, WE ARE ALL STRANGERS serves as the ambitious concluding chapter of Anthony Chen’s (ILO ILO, WET SEASON) Growing Up trilogy, reuniting him with frequent collaborators Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler. The first-ever Singaporean film to be selected for the Berlinale...
September 24, 2026
WE WERE HERE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 In a crumbling Indian town, three retired men stage a protest against machines taking over human jobs by pretending to be household appliances. Bios Pranav Bhasin is a 29-year-old filmmaker and artist from Mumbai. A self-taught filmmaker, he ran a YouTube channel from 2012 to...
September 24, 2026
WE ARE ALIENS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Previously known for his work on animated music videos for bands including J-pop duo YOASOBI, writer-director Kohei Kadowaki’s feature debut is an astonishingly layered, heart-wrenchingly tender portrait of a tumultuous, life-changing friendship. Structured as a diptych spanning from pre-teen to young adulthood, we follow the lonely but measured Tsubasa and the spirited yet sometimes...
September 24, 2026
WATER COOLER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 This documentary short — filmed in New York's Federal Plaza from November 2025 through January 2026 — captures the virulent callousness of ICE agents detaining migrants who are trying to stay in the country legally. Bios Emma V.F. is an Emmy®-nominated documentary filmmaker in New York...
September 24, 2026
VENGEANCE IS ALL I HAVE
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 Consumed by rage, a young man penetrates the insidious facade of a suburban family, setting the stage for a chilling reckoning that exposes his need for more than just revenge. Trailer
September 24, 2026
VENEZIA DIORAMA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Through a series of animated art boards depicting a decaying Venice, the film unfolds like a set of postcards, capturing the mythical city's final moments of fragility. Bios Belgian artist and director Nicolas Piret graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and ENSAV La Cambre....
September 24, 2026
TUTTI FRUTTI
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere This film is preceded by THIS IS HOW A CHILD BECOMES A POET, screening together as a collection of two mid-length films directed by Céline Sciamma. Originally made as part of a collection for the Paris Centre Pompidou, which poses the question “Où en êtes-vous?” (Where are you at?), Céline Sciamma’s...
September 24, 2026
UNION TOWN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and producer Barbara Kopple and subject Tony Rosario, moderated by Manuel Betancourt, Editor, Documentary Magazine. Fifty years after HARLAN COUNTY, USA became a landmark of American documentary filmmaking, two-time Oscar® winner Barbara Kopple returns to the front lines of the labor movement. The culmination of...
