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Misericordia and A Traveler's Needs
All We Imagine As Light
(Country: France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Payal Kapadia; Writer: Payal Kapadia; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad, Anand Sami, Lovleen Mishra, Madhu Raja, Shweta Prajapati, Tintumol Joseph, Ardra K.S., Sisira Anil CK, Aparna Ram, Kashish Singh, Nikhil Mathew)
Triptych explores the lives of three women in Mumbai.
Anora
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker; Stars: Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Lindsey Normington, Karren Karagulian, Ross Brodar, Mark Eydelshteyn, Emily Weider, Alena Gurevich, Paul Weissman, Luna Sofía Miranda, Masha Zhak, Vache Tovmasyan, Charlton Lamar)
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
Apocalypse In The Tropics
(Country: Brazil, US, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Petra Costa, Moara Passoni; Writer: Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, David Barker, Nels Bangerter, Tina Baz, Moara Passoni; Stars: Petra Costa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Silas Malafaia, Michelle Bolsonaro, Elizete Malafaia, Oscar Niemeyer)
Examination of the rise of the far right in Brazil.
April
(Country: Georgia, Italy, France; Year: 2024; Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili; Writer: Dea Kulumbegashvili; Stars: Merab Ninidze, Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili)
After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an ob-gyn, Nina, come under scrutiny amid rumors that she performs illegal abortions for those in need.
Blitz
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Steve McQueen; Writer: Steve McQueen; Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clémentine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Elliott Heffernan, John Mackay, Adam Somner, Liam Smith, Sue Maund, Steve Paget, Sally Messham, Tom Crawley, Erin Kellyman)
A kid sent to the countryside during the Blitz embarks on a night-time odyssey through London.
Donga and Dahomey
The Brutalist
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Brady Corbet; Writer: Brady CorbetMona Fastvold; Stars: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola)
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.
By The Stream
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-hee, Cho Young)
Tale of loneliness, connection, and creativity that transpires during an annual skit festival at a women’s university.
Caught By The Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai)
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Jia Zhang-Ke)
An elusive, decades-spanning love story impacted by life in modern China.
Dahomey
(Country: France, Senegal, Benin; Year: 2024; Director: Mati Diop)
Documentary about the return of artworks to Benin that were looted by French colonisers.
The Damned (Les Damnes)
(Year: 2024; Director: Roberto Minervini; Writer: Roberto Minervini)
Drama about a volunteer troop of soldiers during the American Civil War.
All We Imagine As Light and Oh Canada
Donga
(Country: Libya; Year: 2023; Director: Muhannad Lamin; Writer: Muhannad Lamin)
A man who went to the Libyan frontline to record it on camera looks back at the footage a decade later.
Eephus
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Carson Lund; Writer: Michael Basta, Nate Fisher, Carson Lund; Stars: Frederick Wiseman, Wayne Diamond, Keith William Richards, Conner Marx, Gregory Falatek, Keith Poulson, David Torres Jr., Paul Kandarian, Theodore Bouloukos, Stephen Radochia, John R. Smith Jnr, Jeff Saint-Dic, Annie Tisdale, Chris Goodwin, Cliff Blake)
A pair of New England baseball teams face off for the last time as plans are underway to redevelop their field.
Exposé du Film annonce du film Scénario
(Country: France, Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Writer: Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Nicole Brenez, Jean-Luc Godard; Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno)
A documentary watching Godard at work.
Grand Tour
(Country: Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China; Year: 2024; Director: Miguel Gomes; Writer: Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Babu Targino; Stars: Jani Zhao, Gonçalo Waddington, João Pedro Vaz, Teresa Madruga, Manuela Couto, Crista Alfaiate, Lang Khê Tran, Diogo Dória, Cláudio da Silva, Américo Silva, João Pedro Bénard, Jorge Andrade, Joana Bárcia, André Lourido, Giacomo Leone)
The travels of a civil servant after he runs away from his finacee.
Happyend
(Country: Japan, US; Year: 2024; Director: Neo Sora; Writer: Neo Sora; Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Ayumu Nakajima, Shirô Sano, Yukito Hidaka, Hayato Kurihara, Shina Peng, Kilala Inori, Arazi, Yûta Hayashi, Pushim)
Best friends Yuta and Kou are on the brink of graduating from high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake casts a shadow over daily life.
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig and The Room Next Door
Hard Truths
(Country: UK, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bryony Miller, Michele Austin, Llewella Gideon, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Elliot Edusah, Tiwa Lade, Ani Nelson, Felicita Ramundo)
Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation - only her sister understands and is able to help her.
Harvest
(Country: UK, Germany, US, France, Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari; Writer: Joslyn Barnes, Jim Crace, Athina Rachel Tsangari; Stars: Harry Melling, Caleb Landry Jones, Frank Dillane, Arinzé Kene, Rosy McEwen, Grace Jabbari, Thalissa Teixeira, Stephen McMillan, Gordon Brown, Emma Hindle, Mitchell Robertson, Neil Leiper, Noor Dillan-Night, Gary Maitland, Logan Buchanan)
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
Misericordia
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Alain Guiraudie; Writer: Alain Guiraudie; Stars: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, David Ayala, Jacques Develay, Sébastien Faglain, Salomé Lopes)
A stranger’s appearance exposes the weird behaviour and the secret desires of a village's residents.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
(Year: 2024; Director: Julia Loktev)
Documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia.
Nickel Boys
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: RaMell Ross; Writer: RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, based on the novel by, Colson Whitehead; Stars: Ethan Cole Sharp, Sam Malone, Najah Bradley, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jase Stidwell, Legacy Jones, Ethan Herisse, Jimmie Fails, Ky'druis Follins, Gabrielle Simone Johnson, Peter Gabb, Bill Martin Williams, Ellison Booker, Taraja Ramsess, Zachary Van Zandt)
Tale of two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory.
Hard Truths and Apocalypse In The Tropics
Oh Canada
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Paul Schrader; Stars: Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Richard Gere, Michael Imperioli, Kristine Froseth, Penelope Mitchell, Victoria Hill, Aaron Roman Weiner, Cornelia Guest, Dylan Flashner, Gregory Connors, Ryan Woodle, John Way, Jean Brassard, Gary Hilborn)
A documentary filmmaker, who is terminally ill, reflects on his life.
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
(Country: UK, Zambia, Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Rungano Nyoni; Writer: Rungano Nyoni)
Comedy family drama.
Pepe
(Country: Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France; Year: 2024; Director: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias; Stars: Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García)
A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of
time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming
orality of these towns.
The Room Next Door
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Pedro Almodóvar; Writer: Pedro Almodóvar, Sigrid Nunez; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Victoria Luengo, Alex Hogh Andersen, Esther McGregor, Alvise Rigo, Melina Matthews)
Martha's strained relationship with her mother fractures completely when a misunderstanding drives them apart. Their mutual friend Ingrid sees both sides of the rift.
Scénarios
(Country: France, Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Writer: Jean-Luc Godard; Stars: Jean-Luc Godard)
Film completed just before the director's death.
Pepe and Viet and Nam
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
(Year: 2024; Director: Mohammad Rasoulof)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
The Shrouds
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Al Sapienza, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jeff Yung, Matt Willis, Eric Weinthal, Steve Switzman, Paddington)
A widower invents a gadget that lets the bereaved connect with their loved ones inside a burial shroud... as they decompose.
Stranger Eyes (Mo Shi Lu)
(Country: Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States; Year: 2024; Director: Siew Hua Yeo; Writer: Siew Hua Yeo)
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple begins to receive strange videos, realising someone has been filming their daily life.
Suburban Fury
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Robinson Devor; Writer: Robinson Devor, Bob Fink, Charles Mudede; Stars: Sara Jane Moore)
Documentary about a woman who attempted to shoot president Gerald Ford.
Surfacing (La llegada del hijo)
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato; Writer: Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato; Stars: Maricel Álvarez, Ángelo Mutti Spinetta, Greta Fernández, Cristina Banegas)
Sofía, deep in secret mourning, must take her son into her home on his return from spending years in jail.
April and Surfacing
Transamazonia
(Country: France, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan, Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Pia Marais; Writer: Pia Marais, Willem Droste; Stars: Helena Zengel, Jeremy Xido, Sabine Timoteo, Hamã Luciano, Rômulo Braga, Philipp Lavra, Sérgio Sartório, Iwinaiwa Assurini, Pirá Assurini, João Victor Xavante, Kamya Assurini)
Rebecca, the daughter of a missionary, was declared a 'miracle' after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the Amazon jungle. Years later, she has become a miracle healer, sustaining their mission thanks to her fame. But when illegal loggers invade the land belonging to the indigenous people they evangelise to, her father manoeuvres them into the centre of this escalating conflict.
A Traveler's Needs (Yeohaengjaui pilyo)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Kwon Hae-hyo, Hye-young Lee, Ha Seong-guk, Yunhee Cho)
Iris, a wandering woman teaching French to Koreans, navigates her life with few concerns.
TWST - Things We Said Today
(Country: France, Romania; Year: 2024; Director: Andrei Ujica; Writer: Andrei Ujica; Stars: Tommy McCabe, Shea Grant, Thérèse Azzara, Sarah McCluskey)
Archival film about a Beatles concert in New York's Shea Stadium.
Viet and Nam
(Year: 2024; Director: Truong Minh Quý)
Nam and Việt are coal miners, working 300 meters below ground, where danger awaits, darkness prevails. Nam doesn’t want his future to continue with coal and hires someone to smuggle him to the western world.
Who By Fire (Comme le Feu)
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2024; Director: Philippe Lesage; Writer: Philippe Lesage; Stars: Noah Parker, Arieh Worthalter, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Paul Ahmarani, Antoine Marchand-Gagnon, Sophie Desmarais, Guillaume Laurin, Carlo Harrietha, Irène Jacob, Laurent Lucas)
Seventeen-year-old Jeff is invited by his friend Max’s family to stay with them at the wilderness lodge of film director Blake Cadieux.
Youth (Hard Times) (Qing Chun (Ku))
(Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Wang Bing; Writer: Wang Bing)
Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming more dramatic as the seasons go by. From atop a passageway, workers watch their boss beat up a supplier. In another workshop, the boss has taken off with all the money.
Youth (Homecoming) (Quin Chun Gui)
(Country: France, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Wang Bing; Writer: Wang Bing)
Third instalment of a documentary trilogy about young Chinese workers. It follows them over Chinese New Year.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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