Renoir
Synopsis
In 1987 suburban Tokyo, sensitive eleven-year-old Fuki is faced with her father’s terminal illness without much in the way of emotional support from her overwhelmed mother. Left to her own devices, she retreats into her own imagination, developing an interest in telepathy and a penchant for phoning into a dating agency. Seeking out adventures, she begins to navigate the difficult terrain of early adolescence, all the while trying to process the tremendous loss looming on the horizon.
Reaching back to a formative chapter from her own life, Festival alum Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75) fashions an impressionistic sketch of a girl adrift. The irrepressible presence of gifted newcomer Yui Suzuki animates every frame—she delivers a mesmerizing performance of richness and complexity beyond her years, transforming Renoir into a moving, episodic character study filled with illuminating insights and beautiful imagery.
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Film Credits
- Fran Borgia, Christophe Bruncher, Jason Gray, Keisuke Konishi, Eiko Mizuno Gray
- Chie Hayakawa
- Anne Klotz
- Hideho Urata
- Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky, Hikari Ishida
- Rémi Boubal
- Eiko Mizuno Gray
- Akanga Film Asia
- https://filmmovement.com/renoir
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Program Patron
John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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Wind, Talk to Me Vetre, pričaj sa mnom
Synopsis
Returning to his family’s country home for his grandmother’s birthday, filmmaker Stefan Djordjević brings along his camera, hoping to complete a film he’d be making about his mother—a project tragically interrupted by her passing. While en route on the rainsoaked back roads, he accidentally hits a stray dog. Guilt-ridden, he decides to bring her along and nurse her back to health.
Enlisting the help of his family to play themselves, Djordjevic blends footage of his late mother with staged, modern-day scenes of his relatives’ remembrances to create an intimate, tender tribute to her life and memory. Featuring a winning cast of characters, and an impeccable canine performance, all set against the backdrop of the bucolic Serbian backwoods, Wind, Talk to Me is a vulnerable, moving work of docufiction that reflects, remembers, and grieves through its art.
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Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 12:15pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Film Credits
- Stefan Ivančić, Stefan Djordjevic, Ognjen Glavonić, co-produced by: Vanja Jambrović, Jožko Rutar, Miha Černec
- Stefan Djordjević
- Tomislav Stojanović, Dragan von Petrovic
- Marko Brdar
- Negrica Djordjevic, Stefan Djordjevic, Bosko Djordjevic, Djordje Davidovic, Budimir Jovanovic, Ljiljana Jovanovic, Marina Davidovic, Ana Petrovic, Vidak Davidovic, dog Lija
- Ivan Judaš
- Non-Aligned Films (Serbia), co-produced by: Katunga (Serbia), SPOK Films (Slovenia), Restart (Croatia), Staragara (Slovenia)
Sponsors
Program Patron
Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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Cotton Queen
Suzannah MirghaniGermany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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Whitetail
Synopsis
During her shifts supervising a wild swath of southern Irish terrain, park ranger Jen is fierce when it comes to fending off the poachers who attempt to encroach on the wildlife inhabiting the forests she safeguards. But shorts when an old boyfriend returns after a long absence, bringing with him memories of a tragedy that changed the course of their lives, cracks begin to show through her tightly controlled demeanor. As the past rears its head, Jen is faced with reconciling deep-seated traumas with new threats lurking both at home and in the woods.
Crackling with intensity, Whitetail is both a white-knuckle thriller and a meditation on the possibility of redemption for past sins. Anchored by a riveting lead performance from Natasha O’Keeffe, writer-director Nanouk Leopold’s probing character study is amplified by its rugged woodland setting, reflecting the unexplored depths of Jen’s fractured psyche.
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Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 2:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Nanouk Leopold
Closed Captions
Audio Description
Screening
Tue, Oct 21 @ 8:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Nanouk Leopold
- Closed Captions
Open Captions- Audio Description
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Film Credits
- Stienette Bosklopper, Maarten Swart
- Nanouk Leopold
- Katharina Wartena
- Frank van den Eeden
- Natasha O'Keeffe, Andrew Bennett, Aaron McCusker, Rory Nolan, Simone Kirby, Aidan O'Hare
- Stephen Rennicks
- Jorn Baars, Anne Carey, Mike Goodridge, Niam Fagan
- Circe Films, Kaap Holland Film. Co-production companies: Keeper Pictures, Savage Films & VPRO broadcast company
- https://circe.nl/films/whitetail/
Sponsors
Program Patron
John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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True North
Synopsis
This captivating documentary directed by visionary filmmaker Michèle Stephenson (co-director of Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project), is a provocative confrontation of Canada’s historical and ongoing anti-Black racism. Through a masterful blend of insightful interviews and evocative archival footage, the film traces the height of the nation’s civil rights movement of the ‘60s in the unlikely hotbed of Montreal, revealing how the nation’s myth of tolerance masks a legacy of slavery, systemic exclusion, and generational trauma.
Haunting soundscapes, layered visuals, and non-linear storytelling combine to create a visceral atmosphere that echoes the emotional weight of displacement and erasure. The film not only excavates buried truths about Canada’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade and xenophobic immigration policies but also challenges viewers to question national narratives that sanitize oppression. With both personal tenderness and historical rigor, True North shatters illusions of Canadian innocence, demanding accountability and reckoning with the untold stories of resistance, survival, and Black resilience on northern soil.
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Screening
Fri, Oct 17 @ 6:15pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 05
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Director Michèle Stephenson
- Closed Captions
- Audio Description
Screening
Sat, Oct 18 @ 3:00pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Director Michèle Stephenson
- Closed Captions
- T-Coil Devices available
- Audio Description
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Film Credits
- Leslie Norville
- Shannon Kennedy, Sarah Enid Hagey
- Stephen Chung
- Andy Milne
- Miranda de Pencier, Nelson George
- Studio 112, ITVS
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Cynthia Stone Raskin
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Three Goodbyes Tre Ciotole
Synopsis
After what seemed like a trivial argument, Marta (Alba Rohrwacher) and Antonio (Elio Germano) break up. Reeling from heartache, gym teacher Marta withdraws into herself, completely losing her appetite and enthusiasm for life and finding solace in a lifesize K-pop idol cardboard standee. Antonio, a chef, throws himself into his skyrocketing career. Even though he was the one who ended things, he can’t seem to get her off his mind. When Marta discovers that her loss of appetite has more to do with her health than her grief, everything changes: the taste of food, the feel of music, romantic desires, and the certainty of choices made.
At once disarming and devastating, Three Goodbyes is a bittersweet tale of love lost and found—for oneself, for others, and for the joys in life. With gentleness and a touch of humor, celebrated Catalan auteur Isabel Coixet eloquently adapts Michela Murgia’s autobiographical best-seller, crafting a guide for how to navigate life circumstances that create a clear delineation between a before and an after with grit and grace.
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Film Credits
- Massimo Di Rocco, Luigi Napoleone, Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Francesca Longardi, Marisa Fernández Armenteros, Sandra Hermida, Carlo Gavaudan, Marco Miana
- Enrico Audenino, Isabel Coixet, from the romance of Michela Murgia
- Jordi Azategui
- Guido Michelotti
- Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Silvia D'Amico, Galatea Bellugi
- Alfonso Viallonga
- Cattleya, Ruvido Produzioni, Bartlebyfilm, Buenapinta Media, Bteam Prods, Colosé Producciones, Perdición Films, Apaches Entertainment, Tres Cuencos, Vision Distribution, RTVE, with the support of INCAA
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Palestine 36
Annemarie JacirPalestine, U.K., France, Denmark, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan
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