Calle Malaga
Synopsis
Fiercely independent eighty-year-old Spaniard María is a vibrant lifelong member of her beloved Tangier community, but her stability is threatened when daughter Clara arrives for a long-overdue visit. In dire financial straits after a divorce, Clara intends to sell the family home, left to her by her late father, and even begins liquidating the property’s antiques to hasten the proceedings. But María won’t go so easily. Determined to find the financial means to keep her apartment and win back her belongings, María sets out on a surprising, romance-fueled late-in-life adventure.
Screen legend Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver) delivers an unforgettable performance suffused with warmth, humor, and gentle defiance in this crowd-pleasing story of a woman refusing to relinquish neither her independence nor her dignity. Making her Spanish-language debut, Moroccan director and Festival alum Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan) brings a palpable sense of place to the screen. She renders María’s colorful coastal enclave in bright hues and her winning ensemble of neighbors with affection, richness, and complexity.
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Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 5:30pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Film Credits
- Nabil Ayouch, Amine Benjelloun, Jean-Rémi Ducourtioux, Simon de Santiago, Fernando Bovaira, Fred Burle, Sol Bondy, Sebastian Schelenz
- Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch
- Teresa Font
- Virginie Surdej
- Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane, María Alfonsa Rosso
- Freya Arde
- Les Films du Nouveau Monde, Mod Producciones, One Two Films, Velvet Films, Ali n’ Productions
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo La misteriosa mirada del flamenco
Synopsis
The Chilean desert, 1982. It is rumored that a single loving gaze between two men is how the plague spreads—an illness both mysterious and lethal that is tearing through a remote mining town. At the center of the paranoia is a community on the margins: a home where eleven-year-old Lidia grows up among a fierce and loving queer family. As fear and violence begin to spread even faster than the plague, Lidia sets out to find the truth about this mythical epidemic to protect her beloved kin.
With sensuous magical realism and poetic tenderness set against the harsh desert backdrop, director Diego Céspedes draws us into a pivotal moment in queer history as lived by its most marginalized and misunderstood protagonists. An ode to the care and resilience of trans family, this breathtaking debut never loses sight of the power of love in the face of dire circumstances.
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Screening
Fri, Oct 17 @ 7:45pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 01
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Director Diego Céspedes
Screening
Sat, Oct 18 @ 8:15pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Director Diego Céspedes
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- Giancarlo Nasi, Justin Pechberty, Damien Megherbi
- Diego Céspedes
- Martial Salomon
- Angello Faccini Rueda
- Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca, Claudia Cabezas, Luis Dubó
- Florencia Di Concilio
- Quijote Films, Les Valseurs, Weydemann Bros. GMBH Germany, Irusoin, Wrong Men
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Reedland Rietland
Synopsis
Johan lives a quiet and reclusive life on his farm, cutting reeds in the Dutch lowlands and caring for his granddaughter. His world is shaken when he comes upon the lifeless body of a young woman on his property. While the mysterious tragedy stirs up conflicts and tensions between neighboring factions in the community, Johan senses a presence much more sinister lurking in the marshlands.
An atmospheric character study of both the reed-cutter and the land itself, Sven Bresser’s simmering debut breathes vivid life into the landscape—a beautiful yet foreboding wild that harbors secrets among the labyrinth of reeds. These secrets give way to a void of pervasive darkness that lies just below the surface of the everyday.
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Screening
Thu, Oct 16 @ 7:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 05
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Director Sven Bresser
Screening
Fri, Oct 17 @ 5:30pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Director Sven Bresser
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Film Credits
- Marleen Slot
- Sven Bresser
- Lot Rossmark
- Sam du Pon, NSC
- Gerrit Knobbe, Loïs Reinders
- Mitchel Van Dinther, Lyckle de Jong
- Viking Film
- https://www.thepartysales.com/movie/reedland/
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Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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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.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 2:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Nanouk Leopold
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Screening
Tue, Oct 21 @ 8:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Nanouk Leopold
- Closed Captions
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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/
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John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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Young Mothers Jeunes Mères
Synopsis
Inside a home for young mothers in the Belgian town of Liège, five teens learn to care for their newborns, and themselves, as they navigate the challenges of early parenthood. Finding camaraderie and stability among the fellow members of their community, Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane, and Naïma come to rely on one another for support, finding a kind of sisterhood as they bond with their babies. Grappling with the lasting impacts of addiction or abandonment, mental illness and family strife, each girl struggles to break free from the darker aspects of her past, hoping to forge a path toward a brighter future.
Brimming with compassion and poignancy, Young Mothers earned the Best Screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the venerable writer-directors famed for films including the Palme d’Or winners Rosetta and L’Enfant. The Dardennes beautifully capture the small moments that pass between mother and child, soliciting such naturalistic performances from their young actors that the film often feels closer to documentary than fiction. Despite the difficult circumstances facing the characters, Young Mothers finds uplift and the possibility of a better tomorrow.
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Screening
Fri, Oct 17 @ 5:45pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 06
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Directors Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Screening
Sat, Oct 18 @ 2:15pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Directors Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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Film Credits
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Denis Freyd
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- Marie-Hélène Dozo
- Benoit Dervaux (SBC)
- Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaina Halloy Fokan, Lucie Laruelle, Samia Hilmi
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