September 25, 2025
OLDMAN’S BLUES
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 2 Grappling with dementia, eighty-year-old Kang longs to return to China. When a yellow crane appears, memory and reality blur — guiding his spirit home in a final goodbye seen only by his granddaughter. Trailer
September 25, 2025
OLMO
DescriptionBiosDescription U.S. Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Fernando Eimbcke. Set in 1979 New Mexico — with a vibrant, sun-drenched color palette and killer disco soundtrack to match — Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (DUCK SEASON) captures a wry, yet sincere coming-of-age tale through a day in the life of...
September 25, 2025
ONCE IN A BODY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 While dealing with a strange being that lives inside of her, a woman seeks reconciliation with her sister over an incident from their adolescence. Bios Maria Crista Perez Gonzalez is an independent animation filmmaker from Colombia. Early in her career, she discovered animation and...
September 25, 2025
ORPHAN (ÁRVA)
DescriptionBiosDescription László Nemes, an Oscar® winner for 2015’s SON OF SAUL, returns with another trenchant exploration of Hungary’s 20th century history, this time set in 1957, just one year after the USSR brutally suppressed the Hungarian Uprising. Andor (Bojtorján Barabas) desperately longs for the return of his father, a Hungarian Jew named Hirsch, gone missing...
September 25, 2025
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: NEBRASKA LIVE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screening to be preceded by an introduction by director, producer and editor Thom Zimny. Bruce Springsteen performs the songs from his 1982 album “Nebraska” in an intimate soundstage setting. In keeping with the mood of the album, the stage is spare and unadorned, the black-and-white cinematography alternates between stark and shadowy, and...
September 25, 2025
NUREMBERG
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription NUREMBERG chronicles the true story of the war crimes trials held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime. The film centers on American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Oscar® winner Rami Malek), who is tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their atrocities and finds himself in a complex battle of...
September 25, 2025
NIGHT FEEDS
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3 An Arab American mother struggles with postpartum as a night nurse unsettles her, and war floods her screens. This psychological horror where nightmare bleeds into reality paints a visceral portrait of motherhood in our time. Trailer
September 25, 2025
NERVOUS ENERGY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 On the cusp of success/failure, two unhinged female filmmakers decide to break up with their boyfriends and for once, make a bold decision with their lives. Bios Eve Liu is a Chinese Australian filmmaker living and working in New York. A recent MFA graduate of...
September 25, 2025
THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO (LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes. Queer love — in all its capacities — shines with contradicting exuberance in Diego Céspedes’ audacious debut set at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic. With a contemporary twist melding melodrama and western in a reimagined desert town in 1980s Chile,...
September 25, 2025
MY WONDERFUL LIFE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK Grace Lee, an overworked mom in Singapore, collapses at work. She gets admitted into the hospital where she finds newfound freedom as a patient. Bios Calleen Koh is a Singaporean BAFTA-nominated animation filmmaker, writer and artist currently pursuing her MFA in Experimental Animation at the California...
