Festival Calendar

When a young girl’s body is discovered, police round up suspects who recount their versions of the events in a series of flashbacks. Bertolucci’s debut is a meditation on truth that combines elements of suspense with a poetic atmosphere.

An African-American community struggles to consolidate its cultural identity and achieve justice and equality. This intelligent documentary employs intense poetic qualities to shed light on the disconcerting issue of police violence.

Three starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the Brussels terrorist attacks in 2016: A Flemish doctor, a young man of Algerian descent, and an Italian woman. The same question that seems to haunt the city, looms over their lives.

In a dystopian world, Jessica saves a band of juvenile criminals from a life of violence. Isolated, they spend their time in commando training, until one day, a lost boy crashes into their home, and things begin to change.

In 1994 Korea, a teen passes her days feeling alienated. When a new teacher arrives, it seems as though there is finally someone who understands her. Kim Bo-ra’s debut film about adolescence won prizes at Busan FF and the Berlinale.

Pedro, a male nurse in Brazil needs a bed for a sick friend and decides to help a police-monitored criminal escape from the hospital. He takes the man to his apartment to treat him and a romantic-abusive relationship ensues.

Parasite, Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s (Snowpiercer, Okja) film, which won the Palme d’Or for Best Film at Cannes, follows a poor family whose members infiltrate a wealthy family’s mansion until the plan goes awry.

Aynur, the vibrant beautiful of Turkish immigrants living in Germany, is married at age 16 to a violent man and becomes pregnant. Realizing that life does not have to be what her orthodox Muslim family had in mind, she escapes to Berlin for a new start.

Panh continues the journey he began with The Missing Picture (2013) in which he revisited the atrocities in 1970s Cambodia. The film focuses on Panh’s attempts to locate the burial sites of family members murdered by the Khmer Rouge.

A young chambermaid in a luxury hotel in Mexico City agrees to work endless hours to satisfy her superiors, but she soon realizes that appropriate compensation is not necessarily awarded those who work harder. A prize-winning debut film.