VIRTUAL FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

AMAZÔNIA GROOVE

Friday, October 16

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Leaving Belem and crossing much of the Para State Amazon region, its towns, and riverside villages, AMAZÔNIA GROOVE reveals artists and their traditions, faith and mysticism, music and life that pound in the northern region of Brazil, which is little known through the eyes of Brazilians themselves. Through its artists, AMAZÔNIA GROOVE gives voice to a fundamental part of Planet Earth, extending Brazil and the world’s look and awareness to an almost unknown musical tradition that has so much to reveal to us. (Brazil, 2018) 81MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2019, ZEISS Cinematography Award, SXSW 2019
DIRECTOR: Bruno Murtinho
WRITTEN BY: Bruno Murtinho
WITH: Mestre Damasceno, Dona Onete, Manoel Cordeiro, Sebastião Tapajós, Waldo Squash
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GUNDA

Monday, October 19

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Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm’s ambient soundtrack, Master director Victor Kossakowsky invites the audience to slow down and experience life as his subjects do, taking in their world with a magical patience and an other worldly perspective. GUNDA asks us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it. Executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix. (Norway, USA, 2020) 93MIN

FESTIVALS/AWARDS: Berlin International Film Festival 2020, New York Film Festival 2020
DIRECTOR: Victor Kossakovsky
WRITTEN BY: Victor Kossakovsky
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HERE WE ARE

Sunday, October 18

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Aharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri. They live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialized home. While on their way to the institution, Aharon decides to run away with his son and hits the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this separation. Or is it, in fact, his father who is not ready? (Israel, Italy, 2020) 92MIN

FESTIVALS/AWARDS: Cannes Official Selection 2020, Toronto International Film Festival 2020, Vancouver International Film Festival 2020; 10 Ophir (Israeli Academy Award) nominations including Best Picture
DIRECTOR: Nir Bergman
WRITTEN BY: Dana Idisis
WITH: Shai Avivi, Noam Imber, Smadar Wolfman
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I AM GRETA

Tuesday, October 20

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The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, Grossman follows Greta—a shy student with Asperger’s—in her rise to prominence and her galvanizing global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world. The film culminates with her extraordinary wind-powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City. (Sweden, 2020) 97MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: Venice Film Festival 2020, Toronto International Film Festival 2020
DIRECTOR: Nathan Grossman
WITH: Greta Thunberg
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KENNY SCHARF: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

Wednesday, October 21

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When Kenny Scharf arrived in NYC in the early 1980’s, he quickly met and befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat; There, amongst the fervent creative bustle of a depressed downtown scene, the trio would soon change the way we think about art, the world, and ourselves. But unlike Haring and Basquiat, who both died tragically young, Kenny lived through cataclysmic shifts in the East Village as well as the ravages of AIDS and economic depression. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE is about the art of fun, about living life out loud, despite setbacks, and about Kenny Scharf’s particular do-it-yourself, high-tone, technicolor artistic vision. (Brazil, USA, 2020) 80MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: SXSW 2020
DIRECTOR: Malia Scharf, Max Basch
WRITTEN BY: Malia Scharf, Max Basch
WITH: Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Jeffrey Deitch, Robert Williams, KAWS, Marilyn Minter
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MINARI

Wednesday, October 21

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A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, MINARI follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream.

The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, MINARI shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. (USA, 2020) 115MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, Audience Award: US Dramatic, Sundance Filmfestival 2020
DIRECTOR: Lee Isaac Chung
WRITTEN BY: Lee Isaac Chung
WITH: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Scott Haze, Yuh-Jung Youn, Will Patton

MLK/FBI

Sunday, October 18

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MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, utilizing a trove of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and unsealed by the National Archives, as well as revelatory restored footage, the documentary explores the government’s history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals. Featuring interviews with key cultural figures including former FBI Director James Comey and directed by Emmy® Award-winner and Oscar®-nominee Sam Pollard, MLK/FBI tells this astonishing and tragic story with searing relevance to our current moment. (USA, 2020) 104MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: Telluride Film Festival 2020, Toronto International Film Festival 2020, New York Film Festival 2020
DIRECTOR: Sam Pollard
WRITTEN BY: Benjamin Hedin, Laura Tomaselli

NIGHT OF THE KINGS

Tuesday, October 20

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A young man is sent to “La Maca”, a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn. (Côte d’Ivoire, France, Canada, Senegal, 2020) 93MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: Venice International Film Festival 2020, Amplify Voices Award, Toronto International Film Festival 2020; New York Film Festival 2020
DIRECTOR: Philippe Lacôte
WRITTEN BY: Philippe Lacôte
WITH: Koné Bakary, Steve Tientcheu, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Issaka Sawadogo, Digbeu Jean Cyrille, Abdoul Karim Konaté, Anzian Marcel, Laetitia Ky, Denis Lavant

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

Friday, October 16

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On one incredible night in 1964, four icons of sports, music, and activism gathered to celebrate one of the biggest upsets in boxing history. When underdog Cassius Clay, soon to be called Muhammad Ali, (Eli Goree), defeats heavy weight champion Sonny Liston at the Miami Convention Hall, Clay memorialized the event with three of his friends: Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge).

Based on the award-winning play of the same name, and directed by Regina King, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… is a fictional account inspired by the historic night these four formidable figures spent together. It looks at the struggles these men faced and the vital role they each played in the civil rights movement and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. More than 40 years later, their conversations on racial injustice, religion, and personal responsibility still resonate. (USA, 2020) 114MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: Venice International Film Festival 2020, Toronto International Film Festival 2020, London Film Festival 2020
DIRECTOR: Regina King
WRITTEN BY: Kemp Powers
WITH: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Joaquina Kalukango, Nicolette Robinson, Beau Bridges, Lance Reddick

SOUND OF METAL

Monday, October 19

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During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career — and with it his life — is over. His bandmate and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf in hopes it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew. Utilizing startling, innovative sound design techniques, director Darius Marder takes audiences inside Ruben’s experience to vividly recreate his journey into a rarely examined world. (USA, 2019) 130MIN

FESTIVALS/AWARDS: Toronto International Film Festival 2019, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020, Deauville American Film Festival 2020
DIRECTOR: Darius Marder
WRITTEN BY: Darius Marder, Abraham Marder
WITH: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, Mathieu Almaric

THE COMEBACK TRAIL

Saturday, October 17

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Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined. (USA, 2020) 104MIN

DIRECTOR: George Gallo
WRITTEN BY: George Gallo, Josh Posner
WITH: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Eddie Griffin, Kate Katzman

UNCLE FRANK

Saturday, October 17

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In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor. She soon discovers that Frank is gay, and living with his longtime partner Walid “Wally” Nadeem (Peter Macdissi) – an arrangement that he has kept secret for years. After the sudden death of Frank’s father – Beth’s grandfather – Frank is forced to reluctantly return home for the funeral with Beth in tow, and to finally face a long-buried trauma that he has spent his entire adult life running away from. (USA, 2020) 95MIN

FESTIVALS | AWARDS: Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2020; Deauville American Film Festival 2020
DIRECTOR: Alan Ball
WRITTEN BY: Alan Ball
WITH: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Lois Smith
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