September 27, 2023
COLORS OF SOLACE
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 COLORS OF SOLACE is a story about a black cop wrestling with his identity and the redemption he finds in this struggle when he is tasked with helping his son harness his own inner powers. Trailer
September 27, 2023
ARO’S WORLD
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 After losing his father, Adi, a grief-stricken preteen boy, befriends sock-puppet ARO who mysteriously operates from his hand while his older brother Marcus becomes his caretaker. Trailer
September 26, 2023
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Spain’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director J.A. Bayona. Returning to Spanish language cinema for the first time since his acclaimed debut THE ORPHANAGE, J.A. Bayona (THE IMPOSSIBLE, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM) brings breathless thrills and emotional gravitas to the tragic, true story of Uruguayan Flight 571. A chartered flight filled...
September 26, 2023
THE BIKERIDERS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Jeff Nichols. The rise and fall of a Chicago motorcycle gang is given epic treatment in Jeff Nichols’ magnificent THE BIKERIDERS, which confirms the writer/director of LOVING, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, MUD and TAKE SHELTER as one of the most distinctive artists in American cinema today. Inspired by Marlon Brando’s iconic turn in...
September 26, 2023
THE END WE START FROM
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Mahalia Belo. Postpartum meets post apocalypse in BAFTA award-winning British director Mahalia Belo’s (ELLEN, THE LONG SONG) trope-busting feature debut, a tense survival thriller that doubles as an astute meditation on the life-changing – sometimes bitterly lonely – experience of birth and new...
September 26, 2023
ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Rob Reiner profiles Albert Brooks, comedic legend, acclaimed filmmaker, talented character actor and a lifelong friend, who Reiner first met in their high school drama club. Brooks began his comedy career while still a teenager, and was soon booking spots on THE TONIGHT SHOW and virtually every other variety program on the...
September 26, 2023
SLY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Thom Zimny, producer Sean Stuart and executive producer Braden Aftergood. Sylvester Stallone looks back at his life and career in this intimate and surprising documentary directed by Thom Zimny. World famous as the face of the ROCKY, RAMBO and EXPENDABLES franchises, this Oscar®-nominated actor/writer/director/producer started...
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
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
ALL OF US STRANGERS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Andrew Haigh. One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between the pair, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds...
