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New films by today’s most renowned and influential film directors

About Endlessness

Dir.: Roy Andersson
| 76 minutes

Acclaimed filmmaker Roy Andersson’s film, recipient of the Best Director prize at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, presents a series of short vignettes of the world at its most absurd, while singing a praise song to the love and grace it holds.

 

Days

Dir.: Tsai Ming-Liang
| 127 minutes

Kang is suffering from an unexplained pain that grips his body and he tries to find treatment that will provide some relief. Non lives in a modest apartment in Bangkok and works hard cooking traditional dishes. When the two meet at a hotel, their loneliness seems to disappear for a few moments. The newest film by Taiwan's master Tsai Ming-Liang (The Wayward Cloud).

 

Desert One

Dir.: Barbara Kopple
| 107 minutes

Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple tells the full tale of the covert mission to rescue 52 American hostages held in the American Embassy in Teheran in 1980.

 

Hidden

Dir.: Jafar Panahi
| 18 minutes

Jafar Panahi’s new short film follows the filmmaker, his daughter, and her theater-producer friend to a remote Kurdish village to visit a woman, a preternaturally gifted singer, whose traditional family refuses to allow her to perform publicly.

 

Irradiated

Dir.: Rithy Panh
| 88 minutes

The new film by Rithy Panh (The Missing Picture) is cinematic triptych that delves into the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. Panh’s unique language creates an intense and unsettling audio-visual presentation that is both poetic and rich in imagery.

Kajillionare

Dir.: Miranda July
| 106 minutes

The new film by Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know), features a pair of swindlers who have been nurturing their only daughter for 26 years while perfecting her skills for trickery and deceit. 

 

Onsite Screening

The Salt of Tears

Dir.: Philippe Garrel
| 100 minutes

Veteran French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s new film follows a provincial youngster who travels up to Paris to sit an entrance exam for a "grande école". His path crosses that of a young woman and they strike up a short-lived relationship.

Undine

Dir.: Christian Petzold
| 90 minutes

Esteemed German filmmaker Christian Petzold adapts the legend of Undine, the water virgin, to the screen, set in modern-day Berlin with a surprising twist. The film stars acting duo Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski who worked with him with great success on his previous film, Transit.

Vitalina Varela

Dir.: Pedro Costa
| 124 minutes

The new film by Portuguese master Pedro Costa follows Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde arriving in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She has been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. 

 

Vivos

Dir.: Ai Weiwei
| 112 minutes

Acclaimed Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, follows the horrific incident that occurred in Mexico in 2014, when dozens of students were kidnapped and murdered by the police force and masked men. 

 

The Woman Who Ran

Dir.: Hong Sang-soo
| 77 minutes

The 24th film by the Korean master Hong Sang-soo follows a young woman who meets three friends in the suburbs of Seoul, while her husband is away on a business trip. She visits the first two at their homes, and the third, an old acquaintance, she happens to meet at the cinema.