September 24, 2026
SAUNA SICKNESS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Struggling to maintain the peace she mistakes for love, Cleo's steamy New Year's Eve plans fissure into a chilling nightmare. Bios Malin Barr is an award-winning Swedish-born director, writer and actor based between Stockholm and Los Angeles. SAUNA SICKNESS premiered at Sundance and is part...
September 24, 2026
SHEDDING
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 A Chinese-American teen battling hair-pulling compulsions and a tyrannical mother's obsession with discipline reaches a breaking point, unleashing a chilling descent into violence and transformation inside their sewing room. Trailer
September 24, 2026
SABA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 In a world where gravity is reversed, a unique bond forms between a grandfather and his grandson before a turbulent storm strikes and changes their life together. Bios Liron Topaz is an award-winning director, supervising animator and former Animation Department Chair at DreamWorks Animation. His professional...
September 24, 2026
SALVATION (KURTULUŞ)
DescriptionBioDescription Emin Alper’s provocative allegory examines how long-simmering grievances can be stoked by a charismatic leader into hatred and violence, where religion gives way to madness, and a struggle for political leadership gives way to authoritarianism. In a remote mountain village in eastern Turkey, the resident Hazeran clan are disgruntled over the return of their...
September 24, 2026
ROSE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Austria's Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Markus Schleinzer. Academy Award®–nominee Sandra Hüller (ANATOMY OF A FALL) delivers another showstopping performance in Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer's (MICHAEL, AFI FEST 2011) captivating third feature, a transfixing, strikingly original folk tale about a woman who...
September 24, 2026
RIFIFI (DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES)
DescriptionTrailerDescription The American noir crime thriller was widely appreciated in France, and one of the best translations cited is Jules Dassin's beloved heist film RIFIFI. The action in RIFIFI is an unconventional arc — with a meticulous and silent 28-minute safe-cracking scene that is the center of the film, not its climax. While the action...
September 24, 2026
REVOLUTIONARIES NEVER DIE (الثوار لا يموتون أبدًا (ALTHOUAR LA YAMOUTON ABADAN))
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Structured as a cinematic letter to the late Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), Palestinian filmmaker and archivist Mohanad Yaqubi explores Saab’s daring and dynamic documentary work from 1973-1983, when she brought her trenchant insight to the complexities of Lebanon’s civil war, as well as events in Egypt, Western Sahara and Iran. Two months before...
September 24, 2026
REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription United Kingdom's Oscar® submission for Best International Feature Captured and compiled from four decades of archives, REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION is a deeply personal account of Iran's history since the 1979 Revolution, told through actor and documentary filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani’s perspective. Ahangarani draws on footage of street protests in Iran alongside personal material from...
September 24, 2026
RAY GUNN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A decades-in-the-making passion project from Oscar® winner and visionary Brad Bird, RAY GUNN is a retro-futuristic neo-noir mystery. In the city of Metropia, humans and aliens live in uneasy coexistence. Technological marvels abound, but so does danger. Dedicated, old-school private eye Ray Gunn (voiced by Sam Rockwell) and his resourceful alien associate Eyera (Tom...
September 24, 2026
RAMBLE MANIA
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 A naïve poet who dreams of glory competes inside a surreal battle royale. The rules are simple: one hundred wrestlers in a ring, last man talking wins. Trailer
