During the final days of 1999, a former police officer turned VR bootlegger must negotiate the sleazy L.A. underworld to uncover a massive conspiracy and unmask a murderer in director Kathryn Bigelow’s underrated cyberpunk noir. Screening in 35mm
Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s cinematic swan song conjures a future world of surreal and phantasmagorical monuments, once intended as symbols of unity and brotherhood, now abandoned beacons beaming their message into the wilderness.
Michael Schultz’s underappreciated oeuvre celebrates the sights and sounds of Black life in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Featuring Motown hits, disco classics and early rap, Schultz’s films are a veritable crash course in the evolution of modern music and how what we listen to as a community moves us and informs our sense of time and place.
Trying to navigate their final year of high school, a group of three outsiders confront first love, friendship, and the pressure of impending adulthood in Kateryna Gornostai’s gentle and beautiful merging of reality and fiction.
Gorgeously shot and superbly acted, Chadian master Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s latest is a generous exploration of the intricate support networks women weave to survive the harsh laws of men.
Chaitanya Tamhane’s masterfully composed second feature examines a lifetime journey devoted to the art of Indian classical music. Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remains elusive.
A hardworking Maltese fisherman is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living, or he can cast his lot with the black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population. (Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize)