September 26, 2023
FINGERNAILS
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Christos Nikou. Greek director Christos Nikou (APPLES, AFI FEST 2020) makes a bold English-language debut with this charming lo-fi sci-fi about the clash between our over-reliance on technology and the primal drive to find true love. Anna (Academy Award® nominee Jessie Buckley, WOMEN TALKING, AFI FEST 2022) and her partner Ryan...
September 26, 2023
QUIZ LADY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening introduced by director Jessica Yu Humdrum homebody Annie (Awkwafina) loves only two things, her pug Mr. Linguini and her favorite game show, CAN’T STOP THE QUIZ. In fact, she’s never missed an episode, turning into a trivia savant over the years. But when her gambling addicted mother absconds to Macau, a vengeful bookie...
September 26, 2023
FREUD’S LAST SESSION
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Matt Brown. London, 1939. On the eve of the Second World War, the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), hosts Oxford don and committed Christian C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) at his Hampstead home. Lewis, who would later author “The Chronicles of Narnia,” had recently written a minor fantasy...
September 26, 2023
MEMORY
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Michel Franco and actor Peter Sarsgaard. Thirteen years sober, Sylvia (Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain) has worked hard to create a stable life for herself and her teenage daughter. She regularly attends her AA meetings and is dedicated to her job at an adult daycare...
September 26, 2023
PERFECT DAYS
DescriptionBiosDescription Japan’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Kōji Yakusho won the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes film festival for his portrayal of Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo who performs his job like a dedicated master craftsman, in Wim Wenders’ sweetly meditative drama PERFECT DAYS. Rising early each day, Hirayama executes...
September 26, 2023
ME CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO)
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Italy’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Matteo Garrone, actors Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall, and script consultant Mamadou Kouassi, whose life experiences inspired the film. Matteo Garrone made his name with the landmark Neapolitan crime film GOMORRAH, and has since demonstrated...
September 26, 2023
LA CHIMERA
DescriptionBiosDescription English expat archaeologist Arthur (Josh O’Connor) has gone to seed. Having relocated to Tuscany in the early 1980s, he fell in love with Beniamina, the daughter of aging local aristocrat Flora (Isabella Rossellini). But Beniamina has died, leaving Arthur a lost soul, though one with the gift of second sight: he can use a...
September 26, 2023
LAST SUMMER (L’ÉTÉ DERNIER)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription After exactly a decade, this unnerving return to cinema from French provocateur Catherine Breillat revisits and rewrites Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s 2019 QUEEN OF HEARTS (with co-writer Pascal Bonitzer). Its premise centers on Anne (Léa Drucker), a successful lawyer who lives in a villa on the outskirts of Paris with her husband Pierre (Olivier...
September 26, 2023
OCCUPIED CITY
DescriptionBiosDescription A monumental accomplishment, Steve McQueen’s (12 YEARS A SLAVE, AFI FEST 2013) rigorous documentary systematically explores Amsterdam under the Nazi occupation of WWII. Rejecting archival footage and first-person narratives, the film excavates history by telling the city’s story one address at a time. Each catalogued entry describes the cruel fate of its residents and...
September 26, 2023
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription World Premiere In this apocalyptic thriller from award-winning writer and director Sam Esmail (MR. ROBOT), Amanda (Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids, Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rose (Farrah Mackenzie). Their vacation is soon upended when two strangers — G.H. (Mahershala Ali) and...
