Festival Perspectives
Committed to highlighting bold, new voices, from film festivals around the world.
Manhattan Short Film Festival 2020
- Today, Sep 30
- Thu, Oct 1
- Sat, Oct 3
- Sun, Oct 4
Run Time: 136 min. Release Year: 2020
Gateway Film Center is proud to once again be the exclusive Columbus host for Manhattan Short Film Festival, the world’s first global film festival.
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles
- Today, Sep 30
Director: Laura Gabbert Run Time: 75 min.
Starring: Dinara Kasko, Dominique Ansel, Sam Bompas
Official Selection of Tribeca and Hot Docs. One Isreali chef’s attempts to recreate some of the French Monarchy’s most delicious desserts.
Kajillionaire
- Today, Sep 30
- Thu, Oct 1
Director: Miranda July Run Time: 106 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2020
Starring: Debra Winger, Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins
World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival. An awkward young woman raised by petty con artists learns there is more to life after a kind stranger joins the family.
12 Hour Shift
- Fri, Oct 2
- Sat, Oct 3
- Sun, Oct 4
Director: Brea Grant Run Time: 87 min. Rating: NR
Starring: Angela Bettis, Chloe Farnworth, David Arquette, Mick Foley
A shady nurse’s sideline in illicit organ harvesting goes seriously awry during an extra-long work stint at a 1999 Arkansas care facility.
The Forty-Year-Old Version
- Sat, Oct 3
- Sun, Oct 4
- Mon, Oct 5
- Tue, Oct 6
- Wed, Oct 7
- Thu, Oct 8
Director: Radha Blank Run Time: 129 min. Rating: R
Starring: Peter Kim, Radha Blank, Reed Birney, Welker White
Written, directed, and produced by Radha Blank in her directorial debut. Winner of the Sundance U.S Dramatic Competition Directing Award.
Possessor Uncut (2020)
- Sat, Oct 3
- Sun, Oct 4
- Mon, Oct 5
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- Wed, Oct 7
- Thu, Oct 8
Director: Brandon Cronenberg Run Time: 103 min. Rating: NR
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Official Selection of Sundance. An arresting sci-fi thriller following elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos from the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg.
Save Yourselves!
- Sat, Oct 3
- Sun, Oct 4
- Mon, Oct 5
- Tue, Oct 6
- Wed, Oct 7
- Thu, Oct 8
Director: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson Run Time: 93 min. Rating: R
Starring: Ben Sinclair, John Reynolds, Sunita Mani
Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival. A zany sci-fi comedy about a hip Brooklyn couple who head to a cabin in the woods to unplug, blissfully unaware that aliens are attacking the earth.
Time (2020)
- Fri, Oct 9
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- Wed, Oct 14
- Thu, Oct 15
Director: Garrett Bradley Run Time: 81 min. Rating: PG-13
Starring: Fox Rich
Winner Best Director at Sundance 2020. A mother's 20-year fight to free her husband is captured on home video and cut together into a profoundly moving story of hope.
