Festival Perspectives

World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2024. A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military, in the wake of a contested presidential election. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence. | Country: United States | Language: English

Mary Dauterman’s debut feature starring Grace Glowicki has played several festivals, including Fantasia Film Festival 2023. After her dead friend’s cat runs away, Anna grows desperate to find him, ignoring the fact that her life (and body) are totally falling apart. | Country: United States | Language: English

Best Film at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival. The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle. | Country: Canada | Language: French with English subtitles

A young, newly pregnant couple is forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family. A psychological horror film adapted from the Susan Hill short story of the same name. | Country: United States | Language: English

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

A scientist injects his best friend with a compound he’s created to help her stop cheating on her wife, but when the wife finds her new fixation suffocating, the wife gets a dose too, which backfires as she falls for the scientist. Official Selection at 2023 Dances With Films New York. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. In this intimate portrayal of friendship, transition, and America, Will Ferrell and his close friend of thirty years decide to go on a cross-country road trip to explore a new chapter in their relationship. | Country: United States | Language: English

You can’t outrun your future. Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be. | Country: United States | Language: English

The delivery of an unexpected key on his 18th birthday challenges TJ to a cross country road trip of adventure, exploration, and self-discovery in a timeworn 1968 convertible. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, SXSW Film Festival 2022. They are the unsung heroes whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain's shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English

Sundance 2024 World Premiere. What would you ask your older self? An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. | Country: United States, Canada | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 SXSW Film Festival. Many years after the rapture… Among the survivors, some are driven to renounce their sin of Speech. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Something awakens. A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family. | Country: South Korea | Language: Korean

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World Premiere, 2024 Fantastic Fest. Eat your heart out. In a desperate attempt to protect her ten year old daughter, a young widow allows a nightmarish monster to slowly eat her alive. | Country: United States | Language: English

After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by the maniacal rock n’ roll goblin, Frankie Freako. A wacky FX-driven horror-comedy! | Country: Canada | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance, but his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost. | Country: United States | Language: English

World Premiere, 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Turn up the volume on your imagination. Discover the story of the life and career of American musician Pharrell Williams in the style of LEGO animation. | Country: United States, Denmark | Language: English

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

World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours (2024) follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. | Country: Canada, Germany, United States | Language: English, French, Swedish, German

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

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

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

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