September 26, 2023
GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI
DescriptionBiosDescription Screenings to be followed by a conversation with directors Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn. In this charming documentary set in the South Texas borderlands, a passionate group of student musicians of varying experience levels come together to form Edinburg North High School’s mariachi team, steered by the unflappable Coach Abel Acuña. As the award-winning...
September 26, 2023
LITTLE GIRL BLUE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following the 2016 suicide of her mother – writer Carole Achache, filmmaker Mona Achache (THE HEDGEHOG) decided to tell her mother’s story, as well as the story of the complicated mother-daughter relationships across three generations in her family. The film opens as a straightforward documentary, with the filmmaker going through her mother’s voluminous boxes...
September 26, 2023
CITY OF WIND (SER SER SALHI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription U.S. Premiere Mongolia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature A remarkably assured feature debut from award-winning Mongolian short filmmaker Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, CITY OF WIND follows Ze, a studious 17-year-old village shaman, who is diverted from the straight and narrow when he meets a city girl, wide-eyed rebel Maralaa. Called to perform a pre-heart-surgery protection...
September 26, 2023
THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Joanna Arnow and executive producer Sean Baker. Filmmaker Joanna Arnow portrays Ann, a 30-something New Yorker suffering from aging millennial malaise with the various threads of her life each marked by a sense of discomfort and stagnancy. As she awkwardly shuffles from her low-level, corporate...
September 26, 2023
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT
DescriptionBiosDescription Award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson makes her feature-length debut (produced by Barry Jenkins under his Pastel banner) with a poetic chronicle of Mack, a young Black woman from Mississippi. Eschewing traditional narrative conventions, Jackson weaves through time to capture intimate moments throughout Mack’s life from childhood to adulthood, frequently focusing on tender,...
September 26, 2023
THE SETTLERS (LOS COLONOS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Chile’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature In Felipe Gálvez's visually striking debut, tailor-made for the big screen, three travelers (a British expat, an American henchman, and Segundo, an Indigenous Chilean) trek through 1900s Patagonia on a roughly veiled colonizing expedition at the behest of a Spanish businessman, José Menéndez. As unexpected and intense...
September 26, 2023
MOUNTAINS
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening on Fri, Oct. 27 to be followed by a conversation with director Monica Sorelle. Haitian American filmmaker Monica Sorelle makes her debut with this lovingly crafted portrait of the immigrant experience, set against the backdrop of Miami’s vibrant yet gentrifying Little Haiti. Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) works as a demolition worker with one big...
September 26, 2023
INSHALLAH A BOY (INSHALLAH WALAD)
DescriptionBiosDescription U.S. Premiere Jordan’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature INSHALLAH A BOY makes evident from its outset that in contemporary Jordan, women are not valued or respected as autonomous beings, let alone as heads of households. When Nawal’s husband suddenly dies, she begins an insufferable battle against her family of in-laws who have no...
September 26, 2023
SLOW
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Lithuania’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature In this gorgeously realized, sensual second feature from Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradzė (SUMMER SURVIVORS, 2018), Elena and Dovyda’s unique relationship unfolds and evolves. Dance instructor Elena (played by the alluring Greta Grineviciute) is a sex positive serial dater when she meets Dovyda (Kestutis Cicenas), a soft-spoken but...
September 26, 2023
SHAYDA
DescriptionBiosDescription Australia’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Noora Niasari. Noora Niasari’s poignant debut feature, executive produced by Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett, follows the courageous titular character, Shayda (brought to life by the captivating Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Cannes’ Best Actress winner in last year’s HOLY...
