September 24, 2026
TRUANT
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5 Stranded with a defiant, abandoned boy, a burnt-out social worker is forced to confront the emotional avoidance she’s built her life around. Trailer
September 24, 2026
TROPIC OF THE MOURNING GECKO (ΤΡΟΠΙΚΌΣ ΤΟΥ ΘΡΗΝΟΎΝΤΟΣ ΓΚΈΚΟ)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK Yorgos is about to leave home when he has his first sexual experience with a boy. In these final days, Yorgos’ dreams will give birth to his new skin, at any cost. Bios Stavros Markoulakis is a writer, director and curator, based between...
September 24, 2026
TRIAL OF HEIN (DER HEIMATLOSE)
DescriptionDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Kai Stänicke and actor Paul Boche. German director/writer Kai Stäincke’s impressive debut feature follows the titular Hein, who returns from the mainland to the windswept, fiercely insular island village he left behind as a teenager, determined to reunite with his first love. But...
September 24, 2026
TRADING CARDS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 An exploration of identity, mental health and the erosion of childhood innocence, TRADING CARDS is a dark fantasy animated film about the weight of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Bios Radheya Jang is an Australian filmmaker based in London. Radheya is passionate about film, and the value...
September 24, 2026
THIS IS HOW A CHILD BECOMES A POET
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere This film plays before TUTTI FRUTTI, screening together as a collection of two mid-length films directed by Céline Sciamma. Céline Sciamma explores the documentary form for the first time in her 2023 Venice-premiered short film THIS IS HOW A CHILD BECOMES A POET, in which she pays posthumous tribute to Italian...
September 24, 2026
TOO MANY BEASTS (L’ESPÈCE EXPLOSIVE)
DescriptionBioTrailerDescription Things go deliriously hog-wild in Swiss-Italian filmmaker Sarah Arnold’s wonderfully unpredictable, delightfully deadpan debut, which won the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film at this year's Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. In a small French town, surrounded by bucolic forests and fields, wild boars are multiplying, crops are being destroyed and an increasingly bitter feud has erupted between farmers and game hunters. After a local farmer...
September 24, 2026
TERRI & RICHARD
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 In 1960s NYC, Terri was a manager of folk musicians, while Richard was a pioneer in the literary avant-garde. Now, sixty years later, they reflect on their legacy and mortality. Bios Alex Bijan Zandi is an Iranian-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn. With vulnerability and tenderness, his...
September 24, 2026
TENDER LOVING CARE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Acclaimed British auteur Mike Leigh returns in top form with another astutely observed study on the resilience and compassion of ordinary people after the magnificent HARD TRUTHS (AFI FEST 2024), this time centering on the enduring friendship between two NHS social workers. Amy (Kate O’Flynn, dialing in a familiar charm as her Emmy ®-nominated...
September 24, 2026
A SUPERHERO’S FATHER
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 When his superhero son rallies the town to search for a missing woman, a lonely father demands he first fix the leak in his bedroom. Trailer
September 24, 2026
TANGLES
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter and producer Leah Nelson, actor Abbi Jacobson, actor and producer Seth Rogen and producer Lauren Miller-Rogen. Leah Nelson, in her feature directorial debut, adapts Sarah Leavitt’s acclaimed graphic memoir “Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me” into one of this year’s most...
