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
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (AKU WA SONZAI SHINAI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following up on his widely acclaimed, Oscar®-winning film DRIVE MY CAR (AFI FEST 2021), Ryusuke Hamaguchi reins in a pensive, enigmatic eco-drama contemplating the tug and pull between humans, nature and the nature of humans in EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival....
September 26, 2023
GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival, this propulsive, urgent drama from Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA EUROPA, SPOOR, AFI FEST 2017) depicts the crisis which erupted in 2021 at the Belarus-Poland border after Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko's drew refugees to Belarus with false hope they might cross...
September 26, 2023
COBWEB (GEOMIJIP)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription No stranger to a myriad of genre play, Kim Jee-woon revisits his comedic strand for this metatextual farce on filmmaking. Set in the ‘70s depression period when the censorship board heavily controlled the silver screen in South Korea, Song Kang-ho (PARASITE) plays a struggling director searching for a career comeback. As another underwhelming production...
September 26, 2023
FALLEN LEAVES (KUOLLEET LEHDET)
DescriptionBiosDescription Finland’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature After a six-year hiatus, Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki (THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE, AFI FEST 2017) returns with this delightfully deadpan tragicomedy once again examining class, love and loneliness in modern-day Helsinki. Ansa (Alma Pöysti), a recently fired supermarket employee, is longing for connection. Holappa (Jussi Vatanen)...
September 26, 2023
CLOSE YOUR EYES (CERRAR LOS OJOS)
DescriptionBiosDescription Spanish auteur Víctor Erice returns to cinema after a three-decade-long absence with this hauntingly personal, discursive yet simmering reflection on memory, art and the passage of time. Set years after his lead actor and best friend, Julio, disappears suddenly from a film shoot, filmmaker Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo) is approached by a TV show...
September 26, 2023
IN WATER (MUL-AN-E-SEO)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Desperate to make a film, former actor Seongmo drags two friends to popular vacation spot Jeju Island during the chilly offseason. Waiting for inspiration to strike, they wander the island scouting potential locations, eating junk food and pondering the finer points of love and art. When he spots a woman picking up trash off...
September 26, 2023
IN OUR DAY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Hong Sang-soo’s wily 30th feature probes the mind of the artist to find meaning in the mundane. Sangwon (Kim Min-hee, Hong’s regular collaborator turning in another winning, naturalistic performance) is a 40-something former actress, taking refuge at the home of a dear friend. She’s visited by a fragile younger cousin, looking for advice on...
September 26, 2023
KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA
DescriptionBiosDescription Bologna, 1858. A well-to-do Jewish family suffers an unfathomable fate when their six-year-old son, Edgardo, is ripped from their arms. Secretly baptized, he must now be raised a Catholic. Under instruction of the Papal State, he is abducted and taken to the Vatican to be put under the care of Pope Pius IX himself....
September 26, 2023
ABOUT DRY GRASSES (KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Turkey’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Eastern Anatolia is once again the setting for the films of celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (THE WILD PEAR TREE, AFI FEST 2018). To art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloglu), the landscape is relentless, characterized by a harsh cold that breaks to a dry heat. Now in...
