September 26, 2023
AMERICAN FICTION
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Cord Jefferson, moderated by Robert Townsend. Acclaimed television writer Cord Jefferson (SUCCESSION, WATCHMEN) makes a triumphant leap to the big screen with his directorial debut, a whip-smart, wickedly funny and stealthily thought-provoking satire which won the People's Choice Award at this year's Toronto International Film...
September 26, 2023
MAXINE’S BABY: THE TYLER PERRY STORY
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz. MAXINE’S BABY: THE TYLER PERRY STORY, directed by Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz, grants the audience unfettered access to the inner world of Tyler Perry, whose story has never fully been told, as he becomes a father and...
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
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
MAESTRO
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription MAESTRO is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). A love letter to life and art, MAESTRO at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love. The film reunites Cooper with Oscar®-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique (AFI...
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...
September 26, 2023
THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS (LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Oscar®-winning filmmaker Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) returns to the big screen with this deliciously meta, hilariously self-aware – and semi-autobiographical – portrait of a DIY filmmaker wrestling with creative and personal demons to complete his latest film. When production executives threaten to bring in a new editor to slim down...
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
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
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...
