Country: Canada, Greece, France Language: EnglishA celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in this 2022 Palme d’Or nominee from one of Canada’s most celebrated and controversial auteurs.
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As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. | Country: United States, France, Poland | Language: English, Polish
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Country: United States Language: English10th Anniversary Screening and Fundraiser with ticket proceeds benefiting Simply Living and Columbus School for Girls’ Sustainability Club. Stay after the screening for a discussion with the film’s writer, director and producer, Jenny Deller, and additional panelists on climate change, youth activism and how environmental justice has evolved over the past decade. Deller will give a brief preview of her new project set to film in Columbus next year.
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Country: Romania Language: Romanian, English, French Presented in our Virtual Screening RoomA young gay police officer who’s worked hard to keep his sexuality hidden must face his inner demons when he’s forced to intervene during an anti-gay protest. Veteran theater director Eugen Jebeleanu’s highly polished debut feature is inspired by real events in Romania.
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Country: Hungary Language: HungarianFamily ties become a trap from which a woman struggles to escape in Mészáros’ quietly devastating sophomore feature. Rare among her works in its focus on a wealthy, rather than working-class, milieu, it strikingly illustrates how the predicaments of patriarchy affect all women.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianOne of her most formally experimental works, Mészáros’ music-driven counterculture snapshot traces the odyssey of a young woman joining a touring band on the eve of her marriage, reflecting the cultural sea change sweeping Europe at a time when traditional values were being shaken by a youthquake of individual self expression.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianThe first Hungarian film directed by a woman, Márta Mészáros’ debut feature is an assured expression of many of her recurring themes: broken families, the relationships between parents and children, and the search for stability in an uncertain world.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianIn representing Hungarian society’s clashing attitudes and prejudices Mészáros depicts a working class woman’s attempt to overcome the perceived inferiority of her social status as well as her own familial dysfunction and feelings of inadequacy.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianMészáros gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing slice-of-life drama, which became the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianA defiant woman asserts her autonomy in the face of a disapproving society in Mészáros’ complex look at the ways in which women’s bodies and minds are held in check by the strictures of patriarchy.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
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