Nuestra Tierra Landmarks
Synopsis
From acclaimed Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel, known for her poetic and dreamy class-conscious dramas (La Cienaga, The Holy Girl, The Headless Woman) comes a very different, but no less compelling, portrait of inequality. Martel chronicles the trial of three men who entered the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina to take ownership of the land and then killed the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. Drawing on vivid archival video of the incident, caught on cellphone cameras, Martel closely follows the story of the crime, its punishment, and its far-reaching consequences.
Part courtroom drama and part lyrical look at the past, present, and future of the Chuschagasta people, Nuestra Tierra provides a broader context for the murderous act and offers a space for members of the community to reclaim their lives from a government that has long tried to deny not only their rights to the land but even their very existence. With a keen eye for symbolic details and for the tensions between tradition and modernity, nature and technology, Martel also tells a larger tale about the perennial struggles and injustices embedded in contemporary society.
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Film Credits
- Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Galelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Julio Chavezmontes, Javier Leoz
- Lucrecia Martel, María Alché
- Jeronimo Pérez Rioja, Miguel Schverdfinger
- Ernesto de Carvalho
- Comunidad Chuschagasta
- Alfonso Olguín
- Danny Glover, Lynda Weinman, Susan Rockefeller, Tony Tabatznik, Maxyne Franklin, Brenda Coughlin, Marco Perego, Michael Cerenzie, Natalia Meta
- Rei Pictures, Piano, Pio & Co, Louverture Films, Lemming Film, Snowglobe
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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.
Screenings & Events
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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Cotton Queen
Suzannah MirghaniGermany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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The Secret Agent O Agente Secreto
Synopsis
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a university researcher, is on the lam. He holes up in the seaside city of Recife, hoping to reconnect with his young son before ultimately escaping the country. Fearing for his life, he assumes an alias to avoid attracting the attention of Brazil’s military dictatorship. As he awaits his opportunity to flee, mysterious forces beyond his control start to close in around him.
Director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Pictures of Ghosts) offers an urgent, entertaining political thriller replete with international intrigue, mistaken identities, and red herrings galore. The film is at once a loving snapshot of a place in time and a timely fable about greed, power, and forces beyond our control. Winner of both the Best Actor (Wagner Moura) and Best Director prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent captivates with its twisting, turning plotlines and colorful ’70s flare.
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Film Credits
- Emilie Lesclaux
- Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Eduardo Serrano, Matheus Farias
- Evgenia Alexandrova
- Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, Hermila Guedes
- Brent Travers
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Two Prosecutors
Synopsis
In the midst of Stalanist Russia’s Great Terror, hundreds of party critics are unjustly imprisoned in deplorable conditions. The detainees write letters, thousands of them, in hopes that their pleas for freedom will fall into the hands of someone who can help. The secret police burn them before they are sent. Against all odds, though, one such letter reaches the desk of Alexander Kornev, an idealistic prosecutor. When attempting to offer counsel to the prisoner who authored the missive, though, he’s met with suspicion and resistance from local officials. Suspecting foul play, he embarks on a quest to Moscow, intent on justice.
An exacting, austere visual style—a mostly immobile camera captures the action in long, unbroken takes—creates a mounting sense of chilling, Kafkaesque paranoia. Festival award-winner Sergei Loznitsa (Natural History of Destruction, 2022) returns with this unflinching, absurdist confrontation with the Soviet state’s grim, totalitarian reality.
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Film Credits
- Kevin Chneiweiss
- Sergei Loznitsa
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoli Beliy
- SBS Productions
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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
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
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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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