Film Festival 2024

Films for the Hearing & Visual Impaired


Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive

An audience favorite!

Gloria Gaynor’s radiant spirit shines in this inspiring portrait of the great disco queen of the ’70s. Overcoming one hurdle after another – a crippling back injury, an abusive husband, a murdered sister – Gaynor roars back with her Grammy-winning gospel album. Read More

Running Time: 99


Chuck Chuck Baby

Helen’s humdrum world takes a surprisingly interesting romantic turn with the return of her charismatic childhood friend Joanne. Moving, funny and charming, this is the musical rom-com set in a Welsh chicken processing plant you never knew you needed. Read More

Running Time: 101


The Color Purple

In conversation with: Actress Danielle Brooks, Actress Taraji P. Henson, Director Blitz Bazawule, and Producer Scott Sanders. Produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, THE COLOR PURPLE is a bold new take on the classic story of love and resilience, adapted from the beloved novel and the... Read More

Running Time: 154


Fallen Leaves

Precise and intelligent, this bittersweet romance between two Helsinki loners (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, both irresistible) posits love as the means to transcend – or at least survive – the grim reality of living in a capitalist society. Read More

Running Time: 81


Housekeeping For Beginners

Dita lives with her girlfriend, her girlfriend’s two daughters, and a group of queer misfits in the North Macedonian capital, Skopje, in this tender story about families – the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Read More

Running Time: 107


Killers of the Flower Moon

In Conversation with: Indigenous Casting Director Rene Haynes, Costume Designer Jacqueline West, and Set Decorator Adam Willis Told through the romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Martin Scorsese’s highly lauded epic tracks the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who... Read More

Running Time: 206


The Kitchen

In a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon its home. Read More

Running Time: 98


Rustin

In Conversation with: Actor Colman Domingo

As advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin (the incomparable Colman Domingo) dedicates his life to the quest for racial equality, human rights and worldwide democracy. However, as an openly gay Black man, he is all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped build. Read More

Running Time: 108


Shayda

In this lyrical drama, a young Iranian mother (renowned Persian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi) on the run from a difficult marriage takes refuge with her 6-year-old daughter in an Australian women’s shelter far from home. Read More

Running Time: 117


The Teacher's Lounge

FIPRESCI Best Actress Prize for Leonie Benesch. In this intense study of the power dynamics in contemporary German society, an idealistic middle-school teacher makes a bad decision while trying to do the right thing, and her every subsequent move mires her in an even bigger mess. Join us for a post-screening Q&A with Director... Read More

Running Time: 94



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Film Festival 2024