September 26, 2024
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (UNE LANGUE UNIVERSELLE)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Both screenings to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Matthew Rankin and writer and producer Ila Firouzabadi. Winner of the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award in Cannes, the delightfully offbeat second feature from Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin (THE TWENTIETH CENTURY) imagines a parallel universe somewhere between Winnipeg, Montreal and Tehran, where the dominant...
September 26, 2024
UNSTOPPABLE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director William Goldenberg, actors Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez, and subjects Anthony Robles and Judy Robles moderated by Executive Editor (Awards) of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg. UNSTOPPABLE tells the incredible real-life story of Anthony Robles, born without a leg, who became a champion high school...
September 26, 2024
VERMIGLIO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription October 27 screening to be followed by a conversation with director Maura Delpero. Director Maura Delpero examines the intersection of midcentury gender politics, imposed tradition and religion in this year’s Silver Lion Grand Jury Winner from the Venice Film Festival. It is 1944 in the remote alpine village of Vermiglio, Italy. Removed from the...
September 26, 2024
TEACHES OF PEACHES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at this year's Berlin Film Festival and named for the infamous turn of the millennium album by iconic Canadian musician, producer, director and performance artist Peaches (née Merrill Nisker), Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer's rousing and rollicking documentary was shot during "The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary...
September 26, 2024
TENNIS, ORANGES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job and sets out to find community and purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops. Bios Sean Pecknold is a film director based in Los Angeles. He has created films for...
September 26, 2024
THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US!
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Laila Abbas and actress Yasmine Al Massri. Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas' stellar narrative feature debut is a riveting tale of two sisters unexpectedly reunited in a race against the clock to secure their inheritance under Islamic law. Mariam (Clara Khoury)...
September 26, 2024
A TRAVELER’S NEEDS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Reuniting with prolific Korean director Hong Sang-soo for the third time, Isabelle Huppert stars as Iris, an eccentric French teacher making her way in Seoul. Clad in a bright green cardigan, she meets with a trio of students and probes their psyches to reveal an emotional truth worth translating. Her unorthodox methods are often...
September 26, 2024
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription One of the year's must-see narrative debuts which premiered at Cannes, Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel's (A WORLD NOT OURS) visceral and timely thriller is set among a group of Palestinian refugees in Greece. Cousins Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah) are stranded in a squat in Athens after fleeing a camp in Lebanon...
September 26, 2024
TAKE CARE (CALANTABA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Jose, a Mexican in his mid-50’s, dedicates his life to taking care of his 90-year-old mother with late-stage Alzheimer’s. Bios Brenton Oechsle is an American cinematographer and award-winning filmmaker. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Tribeca, Hollyshorts, Nowness...
September 26, 2024
SUJO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Fernanda Valadez. Nature and nurture clash in this lyrical coming-of-age tale from directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez (IDENTIFYING FEATURES), which won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. When his father is branded a traitor and murdered by the very cartel he...
