September 26, 2023
STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with executive producer Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, producer Alisa Payne and executive producer Mara Brock Akil. Adapting the celebrated book by historian and National Book Award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi, director Roger Ross Williams (LIFE, ANIMATED; the Oscar®-winning short film MUSIC BY PRUDENCE) cinematically explicates Kendi’s groundbreaking...
September 26, 2023
MENUS-PLAISIRS – LES TROISGROS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Located just across from the train station in the unassuming village of Roanne, France, is La Maison Troisgros, which continues to thrive in its third generation of ownership. Through a bright, open concept dining area and kitchen and into the verdant farmland where ingredients are sourced, Frederick Wiseman’s observational, and exceedingly delectable documentary reveals...
September 26, 2023
ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (ORLANDO, MA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Philosophically probing and brimming with delight, writer/intellectual Paul Preciado’s directorial debut composes a letter to Virginia Woolf, concerning her nearly 100-year-old novel "Orlando: A Biography." In it, an aristocrat changes gender while sleeping and awakes as a woman who then traverses centuries. Preciado convenes 26 trans and non-binary people, between the ages of eight...
September 26, 2023
THE ECHO (EL ECO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN, AFI FEST 2021) makes a visually arresting return to nonfiction filmmaking with this immersive portrait of multi-generational family life in the remote Mexican highlands. Focusing on a tightknit trio of families, the film is named for the village where the families have farmed for generations, just...
September 26, 2023
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD
DescriptionBiosDescription Estonia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Anna Hints and producer Marianne Ostrat. Tucked away in a lush forest in southern Estonia, a group of women gather seasonally in a communal smoke sauna. A traditional practice of the Võro community, recognized on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List, they bare their all...
September 26, 2023
FOUR DAUGHTERS (LES FILLES D’OLFA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Tunisia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Kaouther Ben Hania. In this hybrid docu-fiction from Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN), Tunisian mother of four, Olfa, recounts and re-enacts scenes from her life with her two younger daughters. Olfa’s two...
September 26, 2023
TIGER STRIPES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Malaysia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Amanda Nell Eu. The first Malaysian film to win the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize, Amanda Nell Eu’s debut feature reimagines a classic tale with an endearing DIY spirit and irreverent playfulness. Precocious and quick-witted 12-year-old Zaffan (vibrantly...
September 26, 2023
COPA ’71
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine. Executive produced by Venus and Serena Williams, COPA ‘71 centers on a long-forgotten 1971 tournament held in Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium two decades before the first FIFA-sanctioned Women’s World Cup. Six teams from Europe and Latin America compete for the title amidst a fervor usually reserved...
September 26, 2023
ANSELM 3D
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Artist and iconoclast Anselm Kiefer probes the past, holding up a mirror to post-war Germany through his photography, sculpture and massive architectural installations. Working again in 3D after his acclaimed documentary PINA, director Wim Wenders brings depth to this stereoscopic portrait, creating a collage of the artist’s past and present to fashion an immersive...
September 26, 2023
THE UNIVERSAL THEORY (DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM)
DescriptionBiosDescription In 1974, author Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow) appears on a German talk show to promote his sci-fi novel “Die Theorie von Allem,” where shadowy Cold War intrigue melds with alternate realities of the multiverse. But instead, Leinert claims his book is fact, not fiction, based on his unpublished doctoral thesis and his own experiences....
