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Lady Bird
THIS EVENT HAS PASSED | Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, LADY BIRD is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.
A Korean in Paris
A Korean man scours the lower depths of the city in a poignant search for the wife who went missing on their honeymoon two years earlier. “Steadily absorbing… increasingly blurring the line between tragic reality and surreal fantasy.” Variety Warning: contains scenes of a graphic nature.
A War
A tense investigation of how people react under extreme pressure. The stakes are high as a Danish company commander is forced to choose between his responsibility for his troops, the Afghan locals, his family back in Denmark and the written and unwritten rules of war.
Agnes
Bright, strange Agnes has a proposition for middle-aged writer Walter: why doesn’t he write a book about her? Digging into those elusive and deceptive areas where fiction and reality, attraction and illusion entwine, Schmid’s smart, seductive love story cuts between different stages of the couple’s relationship, some of them entirely fictional.
Atomic Heart
Pitched somewhere between dream and reality, this surreal tale follows two party girls and their close encounter with… the devil? “An exciting example of Iranian independent filmmaking, one that gives hope for the future.” Alissa Simon, Variety
Enclave
Set in 2004, and unfolding through the eyes of a lonely lad who lives in the isolated Serbian Orthodox quarter in a majority Albanian Muslim village in Kosovo. This poignant coming-of-age story questions whether co-existence is possible between the two communities. Winner: Audience Award, Moscowl.
Endorphine
A puzzle that circles back on itself in fascinating ways, André Turpin’s dark drama—likened to Lynch and Resnais—cuts between different stages in the life of Simone (played by three actresses) as she struggles with the recurring memory of her mother’s murder.
Interruption
During a performance of Orestes, a group of armed men and women enter the theater and begin to direct the show. Enthralling and provocative, director Yorgos Zois’ debut feature is a bold reflection on the nature of performance and the borders between fiction and reality.
Ixcanul
Caught between rural Mayan tradition and an alien urban world that has no care for her, a young Guatemalan woman burns for a wild local boy. A reckless night has disastrous consequences in this vivid, visceral movie. “A knock-out.” The Guardian
Let Them Come
In Brahimi’s suspenseful and powerful debut feature, one secular couple struggles to live a normal life during Algeria’s 1990s civil war between the government and Islamist rebels. This potent and timely drama packs a punch.