(Florent Gouelou, France, 2022)
Running Time: 1 hour 43 min
Two shows. Ticketed screening.
This queer romantic comedy tells the story of a young photographer who becomes immersed in the glamorous and gritty Parisian drag scene when he unexpectedly falls in love with the subject of his photographs.
French, English Subtitled
This film is part of Young French Cinema, a program of Unifrance and Villa Albertine.
(Stefan Arsenijevic, Serbia/Bulgaria, 2021)
Running Time: 92 min
One show only. Ticketed event.
A Ghanaian refugee seeks his wife who has escaped across the dangerous Syria/Hungary border in this cruelly romantic modern adaptation of a traditional medieval epic.
English and Serbian, subtitled
(Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine/Netherlands, 2022)
Running Time: 2 hours 1 min
Two shows. Ticketed screenings.
Critically acclaimed Ukranian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa explores the prelude and aftermath of the brutal WWII massacre of 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar in this documentary which features rare and unseen archival footage.
Subtitled
Sponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media
(Chan Tze Woon, Hong Kong, 2022)
Running Time: 98 min
Two shows. Ticketed screenings.
The second feature-length film by award-winning director Chan Tze Woon mixes documentary, fiction, and visions of the future as it links past and present activists fighting for democracy in Hong Kong.
Mandarin and English/subtitled
Sponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media
(Manuela Martelli, Chile/Argentina, 2022)
Running Time: 95 min.
Two shows. Ticketed screening.
After a life of toeing the line as a bourgeois housewife in 1970s Chile, Carmen’s world is rocked when she’s asked to nurse a wounded rebel back to health, opening her up to certain danger in this tense and unforgettable thriller.
Subtitled
(Robert Guédiguian, France / Canada / Senegal, 2021)
Running Time: 2 hr. 9 min.
One show only: Wednesday, March 22, 7 p.m. Cinemapolis
Ticketed screening
When young socialist Samba falls for the spirited and beautiful Lara, the two flee her arranged marriage, but dancing to Rock and Roll and the vibrant style of Malian youth subculture cannot keep them safe from either her intended husband or the political shifts of postcolonial Africa.
Talkback: Mat Fournier, Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Imane Terhmina, moderated by Andrew Utterson
(Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Mexico, 2022)
Running Time: 99 min
Two shows. Ticketed screenings.
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, the visually arresting DOS ESTACIONES tells the story of flinty businesswoman María García and her struggle to save her family’s once-majestic tequila factory in the face of a persistent plague and an unexpected flood.
Subtitled
(F. Richard Jones, US, 1923)
Running Time: 1 hour 8 min
Silent film with live music.
One show only. Ticketed event.
Silent film star Mabel Normand plays a small town girl with big Hollywood dreams in this classic silent film comedy that was released 100 years ago. Screened with live accompaniment by Ithaca faves Common Railers.
Panel/Speakers: Lisa Patti, opening remarks; Common Railers, live music
Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the film
(Chase Joynt, US, 2022)
Running Time: 75 min
Two shows. Ticketed screenings.
A genre-crossing exploration, FRAMING AGNES radically re-imagines trans history by inviting a cast of trans stars to confront and re-enact the legacy of the pioneering transgender woman Agnes.
50 minutes of screening. 90 minute program
One show. FREE. Yi Cui will be present.
Yi Cui (China/USA) is a filmmaker and educator who spent several years in Tibet working with “From Our Eyes," a filmmaking program which supports indigenous communities to produce auto-ethnographic films. She presents short films made by Tibetan filmmakers about daily life, as well as her own film about her experiences working among monks, herdsmen and their families on a highland Tibetan pasture.
(Jeffrey Palmer, director and Austin Bunn, screenwriter, US, 2022), with a selection of shorts on Native youth directed by Jeffrey Palmer
50 minutes of screening total, 90 minute event
One show. FREE
The story of three Kiowa boys' daring escape from a government boarding school in Anadarko, Oklahoma in 1891, to attend a ghost dance ceremony at a distant Kiowa encampment. An oral history of tribal alliance, resistance, and survival from the degradation of forced assimilation.
More on filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer
(Ann Kaneko, US, 2021)
Running Time: 1 hour 24 min
One show. Ticketed screening.
Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese, and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend the land and water at the site of the infamous Japanese internment camp in this impactful independent documentary.
(Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2022)
Running Time: 105 Min.
Two shows. Ticketed screenings.
Humans are producing garbage faster than we can dispose of it: this mesmerizing ecological/anthropological documentary traces the endless struggle to manage it in striking images and sounds drawn from Switzerland, Greece, Albania, Nepal, Maldives, Nevada.
Trailer
German/English, subtitled
Sponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media
(Leonor Seraille, France, 2022)
Running Time: 116 min.
Two shows. Ticketed screenings.
The latest film from writer-director Léonor Serraille (MONTPARNASSE BIENVENÜE) follows the ups and downs in the adventurous life of Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), who emigrates from Abidjan to Paris in the '90s with her two young sons, who grow to manhood over the ensuing years in the company of their headstrong mother.
Trailer
French, English Subtitled
This film is part of Young French Cinema, a program of Unifrance and Villa Albertine.
(Ry Ferro, director and Deborah C. Hoard, director/producer, US, 2023)
Running Time: 87 min
Saturday, March 25, 7 p.m. Directors will be present, and other special guests
One show. Ticketed event.
Dorothy Foreman Cotton was a bold highly effective civil rights leader, who educated thousands in their citizenship rights and inspired generations of activists with her powerful freedom songs. The only woman on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s executive staff, Dorothy was a charismatic, courageous and consistently overlooked key player in the Civil Rights Movement.
East Coast Premiere