Country: France Language: French, Mandarin, EnglishFour young people fall in and out of love while figuring out their lives in Paris. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, based on stories by Adrian Tomine. World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
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Join us for Fright Club Live on July 14 | Meet up with fellow horror movie lovers at 7:30PM and then join us at 9PM for the live recording of the Fright Club podcast hosted by George Wolf and Hope Madden followed by the presentation. | Featuring grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers, and gore-lusting zombies, this stands tall as one of the most unique, bizarre, and satisfying horror-comedies ever made. | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese with English subtitles
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Country: France Language: French, Romany, RussianYuri fights to save his home town – which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin – from demolition. Official Selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
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Country: Bulgaria Language: Bulgarian, EnglishPresented at the Film Center and our Virtual Screening RoomSvetla, a widow who recently lost her job, is living next to the Bulgarian-Turkish border. One day she meets a refugee from Africa who changes her life. Bulgaria’s entry for Best International Feature at the 94th Academy Awards.
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Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, United Kingdom, China, Switzerland Language: English, SpanishThe Film Center is thrilled to present select screenings on 35mm film.From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. Jury Prize Winner at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
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Country: FranceLanguage: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Moly Kane’s short film Les Tissus Blancs/Sër Bi.Aided by the intimate camera work of cult American cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time) and ebullient performances by two of French cinema’s most engaging young actresses, Souheila Yacoub (Climax) and Déborah Lukumuena (Divines), Volpé gives us a story of death that is bursting with life, a fresh take on the restless nights of Paris, and an ode to the power of female friendship. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
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Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Vincent Maël Cardona’s short film Le Monde en Soi/The World Within.Deploying a stellar soundtrack of European post-punk classics, Cardona juxtaposes the eternal thrills of first love and the frustrations of provincial life with a lovingly specific depiction of a bygone period, lending tremendous emotional immediacy to the lives of those who came of age at the dawn of the 1980s. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
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Country: France, KosovoLanguage: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Julien Goudichaud’s short film Confinés dehors/Locked Out.Though only twenty years old, Bajrami displays a distinctly personal approach to filmmaking, perceptible both in the film’s autobiographical aspects and in her impressionistic manner of accumulating apparently banal moments to catch the fleeting sensations of adolescent rage and hope. Selection of Cannes Film Festival 2021 and TIFF 2021.
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Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s short film Le Départ/The Departure.Shot in Herzi’s childhood neighborhood, Bonne mère takes a documentary approach to the struggles of a woman supporting her children and grandchildren, capturing the tedium of the pre-dawn commute to work, the sadness of visits to a son in jail, and the nagging anger of being relegated to a neglected corner of society, yet capturing the resilience and humor that drives the people Herzi films, most of whom are local non-professionals. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
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Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022.Aurélia Georges’s adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ novel “The New Magdalen” focuses on the impact of rigid class hierarchy on the lives of three women, offering a nuanced feminist reading that resonates with the iniquities of our era. Premiered at Locarno IFF 2021.
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