September 26, 2023
ME CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO)
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Italy’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Matteo Garrone, actors Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall, and script consultant Mamadou Kouassi, whose life experiences inspired the film. Matteo Garrone made his name with the landmark Neapolitan crime film GOMORRAH, and has since demonstrated...
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
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
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
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
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
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....
