Stonewalling Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka, Japan, 148m Hunanese with English subtitles U.S. Premiere For more than a decade, Beijing-based wife-and-husband team Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka have been making films about the lives of young people in China—in many cases “left-behind children,” or those whose parents are forced to leave their families to find jobs […]

Stars at Noon Claire Denis, 2022, France, 137m English and Spanish with English subtitles North American Premiere A dissolute young American journalist (Margaret Qualley) and an English businessman (Joe Alwyn) with ties to the oil industry meet by chance while on different, mysterious assignments in modern-day Nicaragua. The two tumble into a whirlwind romance despite […]

Showing Up Kelly Reichardt, 2022, U.S., 108m North American Premiere Continuing one of the richest collaborations in modern American cinema, director Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women) reunites with star Michelle Williams for this marvelously particularized portrait of a sculptor’s daily work and frustrations in an artists’ enclave in Portland. Lizzy (Williams) struggles to put the finishing […]

Scarlet Pietro Marcello, 2022, France/Italy/Germany, 103m French with English subtitles North American Premiere Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with an enchanting period fable based on a beloved 1923 novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin. Beginning as the tale of a sensitive brute (Räphael Terry) who returns home […]

Return to Seoul Davy Chou, 2022, France/Germany/South Korea/Belgium, 115m Freddie (Park Ji-Min), a young French woman, finds herself spontaneously tracking down the South Korean birth parents she has never met while on vacation in Seoul. From this seemingly simple premise, Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou spins an unpredictable, careering narrative that takes place over the course […]