Festival Perspectives
Committed to highlighting bold, new voices, from film festivals around the world.
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Oddity (2024)
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Director: Damian Mc Carthy Run Time: 98 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Caroline Menton, Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Steve Wall, Tadhg Murphy
World Premiere, SXSW 2024. Every murder lives on. Convinced that there was more to her sister's murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge. | Country: Ireland | Language: English
Summer Solstice (2024)
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Director: Noah Schamus Run Time: 81 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Marianne Rendón, Mila Myles, Monica Sanborn, Yaron Lotan
World Premiere, 2023 Provincetown Film Festival. In Noah Schamus' stunning directorial debut, Leo, a trans man, and his cis and straight friend, Eleanor, go away for an impromptu weekend trip, during which they uncover old secrets, new challenges, and find the answer to the age-old question: can bad sex and good friends mix? | Country: United States | Language: English
Thelma (2024)
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Director: Josh Margolin Run Time: 104 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2024
Starring: Clark Gregg, Fred Hechinger, June Squibb, Malcolm McDowell, Parker Posey, Richard Roundtree
World Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A feisty 93-year-old gets conned by a phone scammer and sets out on a treacherous quest across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken. Margolin's directorial debut is a poignant action-comedy that gives Academy Award nominee June Squibb her first leading role and features the final performance of trailblazing actor Richard Roundtree. | Country: United States | Language: English
Sing Sing (2024)
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Director: Greg Kwedar Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Clarence Maclin, Colman Domingo, David "Dap" Giraudy, Paul Raci, Sean San Jose
World premiere, 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men. | Country: United States | Language: English
Kneecap (2024)
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Director: Rich Peppiatt Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: DJ Próvai, Josie Walker, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, Simone Kirby
Winner of the NEXT Audience Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue. | Country: Ireland | Language: English, Irish Gaelic
CatVideoFest 2024
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Run Time: 75 min. Rating: NR
The Film Center welcomes the world’s #1 cat video festival back to Columbus!
Cuckoo (2024)
Director: Tilman Singer Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Dan Stevens, Hunter Schafer, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csokas, Mila Lieu
World Premiere at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. | Country: United States | Language: English
Dìdi (2024)
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Director: Sean Wang Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Chang Li Hua, Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Macaela Parker, Shirley Chen
2024 Sundance Audience Award Winner. In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. This feature directorial debut from a recent Academy Award-nominee won both the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast at Sundance. | Country: United States | Language: English, Mandarin
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2024)
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Director: William Nunez Run Time: 116 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Dick Powell, John Wayne, Sophie Okonedo, Susan Hayward
World Premiere, 2023 Newport Beach Film Festival. The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that help bring the catastrophe to light. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English
Red Rooms (2024)
Director: Pascal Plante Run Time: 118 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Élisabeth Locas, Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Natalie Tannous
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
The Substance (2024)
Director: Coralie Fargeat Run Time: 140 min. 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