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Festive premieres • Movie stars • Major audience interest

Anatomy of a Fall

Dir.: Justine Triet
| 151 minutes

Winner of the 2023 Palme d’Or. For the past year, Sandra, a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed.

Carmen

Dir.: Benjamin Millepied
| 116 minutes

Carmen is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She survives an illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless Volunteer Border Patrol agent. When the guard and his partner Aidan become embroiled in a deadly standoff, the pair is forced to escape together.

Infinity Pool

Dir.: Brandon Cronenberg
| 117 minutes

James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors.

Just the Two of Us

Dir.: Valérie Donzelli
| 105 minutes

When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and together they relocate. Away from her family and her twin sister, Blanche begins a new life. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man

Marguerite's Theorem

Dir.: Anna Novion
| 112 minutes

A brilliant mathematics student at France's top university, the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes the certainty in her planned-out life and she decides to quit everything and start afresh.

 

Merkel

Dir.: Eva Weber
| 94 minutes

Driven by extensive archival material and incisive interviews, MERKEL tells the astonishing story of how a triple political outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became Germany’s first female chancellor and the de facto leader of the free world.

Shortcomings

Dir.: Randall Park
| 92 minutes

SHORTCOMINGS follows Ben, a cynical Bay Area movie theater manager, and his irrepressible best friend Alice. Their conversations traverse Ben’s disintegrating relationship with his girlfriend Miko, Alice’s serial-dating habits, and other obstacles in the way of their personal growth.

 

Upon Entry

Dir.: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vázquez
| 74 minutes

Diego and Elena move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. But upon entering the New York airport’s immigration section, they are taken to a secondary inspection area, where border patrol officers subject them to an unpleasant inspection process and a psychologically grueling interrogation.

The Wall

Dir.: Philippe Van Leeuw
| 96 minutes

Jessica Comley is a proud Border Patrol officer operating in a desert area. She feels herself invested in a mission, that of defending America. This zealous attitude puts her under the surveillance of her hierarchy, but she manages not to cross the line, until the day when she loses control and kills a harmless migrant.