Festival Perspectives
Committed to highlighting bold, new voices, from film festivals around the world.
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Bird (2024)
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Director: Andrea Arnold Run Time: 119 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Barry Keoghan, Frankie Box, Franz Rogowski, Jason Buda, Nykiya Adams
World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere. Starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski. | Country: United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany | Language: English
Heretic (2024)
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Director: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck Run Time: 110 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Chloe East, Elle Young, Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Topher Grace
World Premiere, 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse. | Country: United States | Language: English
We Live in Time (2024)
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Director: John Crowley Run Time: 107 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Aoife Hinds, Florence Pugh, Grace Delaney, Lee Braithwaite
World Premiere, TIFF 2024. Almut and Tobias are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. | Country: France, United Kingdom | Language: English
A Real Pain (2024)
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Director: Jesse Eisenberg Run Time: 90 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Jennifer Grey, Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Kurt Egyiawan, Will Sharpe
World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. | Country: United States, Poland | Language: English
Conclave (2024)
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Director: Edward Berger Run Time: 120 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2024
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci
World Premiere, 2024 Telluride Film Festival. Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English
Anora (2024)
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Mon, Nov 25 @ 7:45 pm: 4K Presentation
Director: Sean Baker Run Time: 139 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Karren Karagulian, Mark Eydelshteyn, Mikey Madison, Vache Tovmasyan, Yuriy Borisov
Winner Palme d'Or, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. From writer-director Sean Baker | Country: United States | Language: English
The Substance (2024)
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Director: Coralie Fargeat Run Time: 141 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, Hugo Diego Garcia, Margaret Qualley
Winner of Best Screenplay at 2024 Cannes Film Festival. A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. If you follow the instructions, what could go wrong? | Country: United States, United Kingdom | Language: English
Life Is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza (2024)
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Director: Mohamed Jabaly Run Time: 93 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023 Language: Arabic
Starring: Mohamed Jabaly
IDFA 2023 Best Directing Award, and Official Selection of Hot Docs Festival 2024. Exiled above the arctic circle in Norway and refusing to accept the boundaries imposed by international politics and rigid bureaucracy, Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly insists on telling heartfelt stories from his hometown Gaza. | Country: Norway, Palestinian Territories | Language: Arabic, Norwegian, and English
The Wild Robot (2024)
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Director: Chris Sanders Run Time: 102 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2024
Starring: Bill Nighy, Kit Connor, Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Stephanie Hsu
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. | Country: United States | Language: English
Maria (2024)
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Director: Pablo Larraín Run Time: 124 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Angelina Jolie, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Pierfrancesco Favino
From the director of Spencer (2021), Jackie (2016), Pablo Larraîn's latest. World Premiere, 2024 Venice Film Festival. Follows the life story of the world’s greatest opera singer, Maria Callas, during her final days in 1970s Paris. | Country: Italy, Germany, Chile, United States | Language: English
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (2024)
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Director: Johan Grimonprez Run Time: 150 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Abbey Lincoln, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Max Roach, Patrice Lumumba
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba. | Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands | Language: French, English, Dutch, Russian
Flow (2024)
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Director: Gints Zilbalodis Run Time: 84 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2024
A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together. | Country: Latvia, Belgium, France | Language: None
Nightbitch (2024)
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Director: Marielle Heller Run Time: 98 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy
World Premiere, 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn. Written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder. | Country: United States | Language: English
Y2K (2024)
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Director: Kyle Mooney Run Time: 93 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Daniel Zolghadri, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Lachlan Watson, Rachel Zegler
World Premiere, SXSW 2024. On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Year's Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives. Directorial debut for Kyle Mooney, of SNL fame. | Country: United States | Language: English
The Invisible Raptor (2024)
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Director: Mike Hermosa Run Time: 115 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Caitlin McHugh, David Shackelford, Mike Capes, Sandy Martin, Sean Astin
World Premiere, 2024 Sitges Film Festival. After a top-secret experiment goes wrong, a hyper-intelligent invisible raptor escapes the lab and begins wreaking havoc in the surrounding neighborhood. | Country: United States | Language: English
The Return (2024)
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Director: Uberto Pasolini Run Time: 116 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Aaron Cobham, Amir Wilson, Charlie Plummer, Claudio Santamaria, Jamie Andrew Cutler, Juliette Binoche, Marwan Kenzari, Moe Bar-El, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Rhys Harries
World Premiere, 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. After 20 years away Odysseus decides to come back. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war. | Country: United States, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Greece | Language: English
Get Away (2024)
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Director: Steffen Haars Run Time: 90 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Aisling Bea, Jouko Ahola, Maisie Ayres, Nick Frost, Sebastian Croft
World Premiere, 2023 Sitges Film Festival. A family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer. Written by, and starring, Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English
The End (2024)
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Run Time: 148 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Bronagh Gallagher, George MacKay, Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, Tilda Swinton
World Premiere, 2024 Telluride Film Festival. From Academy Award-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world. | Country: Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Sweden | Language: English
Queer (2024)
Director: Luca Guadagnino Run Time: 135 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
World Premiere, 2024 Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion nominee. In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of Eugene Allerton stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone. | Country: Italy, United States | Language: English, Spanish
The Graduates (2024)
Director: Hannah Peterson Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Alex R. Hibbert, John Cho, Maria Dizzia, Mina Sundwall, Yasmeen Fletcher
Best Cinematography, 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. A powerful and sharply introspective coming-of-age drama, The Graduates (2024) follows a young woman as she prepares to graduate high school after a tragic event. | Country: United States | Language: English
Oh, Canada (2024)
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Director: Paul Schrader Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Caroline Dhavernas, Jacob Elordi, Michael Imperioli, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman
Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life. | Country: United States, Israel | Language: English
Nocturnes (2024)
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Director: Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Hindi
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival 2024. Nocturnes (2024) transports us to the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas where in the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on the secret world of moths. | Country: India, United States | Language: Hindi, English, Bugun with English subtitles
Nosferatu (2024)
Director: Robert Eggers Run Time: 132 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgård, Emma Corrin, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. | Country: Czechia, United States | Language: English, German, Romanian, Russian
The Fire Inside (2024)
Director: Rachel Morrison Run Time: 109 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2024
Starring: Brian Tyree Henry, Emmanuel Igboke, Kylee D. Allen, Oluniké Adeliyi, Ryan Destiny
World Premiere, 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. The inspirational true story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, arguably the greatest female boxer of all time. Written and produced by Barry Jenkins. | Country: United States | Language: English
Babygirl (2024)
Director: Halina Reijn Run Time: 114 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Esther-Rose McGregor, Harris Dickinson, Nicole Kidman, Sophie Wilde
World Premiere, 2024 Venice Film Festival, Best Actress. A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern. | Country: United States, Netherlands | Language: English