Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four of them meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere. *Opening Film – Cannes Film Festival 2024
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble. *Special Jury Prize – Cannes Film Festival – 2024 *Nominated for the Best International Feature Academy Award – 2025
By night Alfred and Klara are pen pals who have never met but who are deeply devoted to each other. By day, Alfred and Klara are co-workers who, just as deeply, dislike each other in The Shop Around the Corner. Academy Award winner Jimmy Stewart stars with Margaret Sullivan as Alfred and Klara in this […]
While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire “Barbarian Cycle” that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented here are the two short films along with another new short and wraparound segments exclusive to this program. RAINER, A VICIOUS DOG IN SKULL […]
Halloween at Cinéma Moderne in collaboration with Panorama-Cinéma Restoration courtesy of Shout! Factory and the American Genre Film Archive. Amy Holden Jones turned down an editing job on E.T. to direct this movie. She made the right choice. Written as a commentary on the inherent sexism of slashers by feminist icon Rita Mae Brown (but […]
Screening with filmmaker Pablo Alvarez-Mesa in attendance THE SOLDIER’S LAGOON (Canada/Colombia, 2024, 77 minutes) Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, The Soldier’s Lagoon retraces The Liberator’s journey across the high-altitude marshlands while searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory. Reflecting on the construction of oral […]
A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously […]
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. Joanna Hogg’s shimmering story of first love and a young woman’s formative years, The Souvenir Part II is a portrait […]
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A slice of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival… at your local art house theater! Whether you’re discovering these shorts for the first time or reliving your 2023 Fest experience, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a great way to sample the artistic offerings of this year’s Festival and get to know an […]