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Maria

  Pablo Larraín

  Italy, Germany, United States     123 minutes

Synopsis

Directed by Pablo Larraín (ChicagoIFF selections Spencer, Jackie, Neruda, The Club) and starring Academy Award®-winner Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, Maria presents a tumultuous and beautiful depiction of one of the world’s most renowned artists and reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days in Paris, as La Callas negotiates the blurred boundaries between her public image and private self. The film also stars Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

 English, Greek with subtitles

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Film Credits

  •   Juan de Dios Larraín, Lorenzo Mieli, Jonas Dornbach, Pablo Larraín
  •   Steven Knight
  •   Angelina Jolie, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valeria Golino
  •   Christian Vesper, Andrea Scrosati, Seb Shorr, Steven Knight

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Dramatic Shorts: Talk to Me

  Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Iceland, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, United States     91 minutes

Synopsis

From unforgettable chance encounters to complex lifelong relationships, these powerful films from visionary auteurs explore the depth of human connections, the transcendent nature of shared language, and the ways life’s twists and turns can strengthen — or challenge — those bonds. Featuring works by Adebukola Bodunrin, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Tara Shehata, Rúnar Rúnarsson, and Alkis Papastathopoulos.

In We Are Not Alone (Canada, United States), a young Nigerian immigrant enlists the help of a stranger to communicate with an extraterrestrial vessel approaching Earth that promises to take her away from a lonely world. A man who lives in the forest may be the cause of a series of disasters plaguing a small village in Vox Humana (Philippines, United States, Singapore). Alone with You (Lewahdena) (Egypt) explores the weight of cultural expectations on an Egyptian couple in their thirties. A lonely man struggles to hide his alcohol addiction during an important reunion with an estranged loved one in O (Iceland, Sweden). And in Honeymoon (Greece, France, Cyprus), a road trip is troubled by transphobic violence against two best friends, and the fluctuating emotions between them.

 Arabic, English, Greek, Icelandic, Tagalog 

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Two people with long brown hair facing away embrace, looking out at trees behind a chain link fence.

Honeymoon [short film]

  Alkis Papastathopoulos

  Greece, France, Cyprus     24 minutes

Synopsis

Two best friends, Fay and Sandra, go on a road trip across Greece as one makes plans to leave everything behind and move to France. After a transphobic attack by a former acquaintance, the two end up traveling by different means as the limits of their friendship, flirtation, and intimacy are tested.

This film screens as part of the Dramatic Shorts: Talk To Me program.

  

 Greek with subtitles

Film Credits

  •   Maria Hatzakou, Marion Barré, Soyo Giaoui
  •   Alkis Papastathopoulos
  •   Smaro Papaevangelou
  •   Areti Papaioannou
  •   Mary Petrouliou, Nassia Sydeta, Theofilos Manologlou
  •   Vassilia Rozana
  •   Maria Hatzakou, Marion Barré, Soyo Giaoui
  •   Merricat Films, La Cellule

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Two men sit on a planter in a city

To a Land Unknown

  Mahdi Fleifel

  United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia     105 minutes

Synopsis

Displaced Palestinian cousins Chatila and Reda are stuck in Athens. They live in a crowded group home with other migrants, and steal and save what they can to pay for fake passports that will take them to Germany. When Reda relapses into his addictions and spends all their savings, Chatila devises what seems like a foolproof smuggling operation to earn the money back fast. Then things go terribly awry, and the cousins must concoct an even more sinister scheme in order to save themselves and their families back home.

With an intimate and naturalistic lens on the cousins’ bond and shared dream of a better life, To a Land Unknown is a tightly drawn thriller that presents an audacious, moving testament to the dire circumstances faced by migrants in purgatory.

 Arabic, Greek, English with subtitles

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Film Credits

  •   Geoff Arbourne, Mahdi Fleifel
  •   Mahdi Fleifel, Fyzal Boulifa, Jason McColgan
  •   Halim Sabbagh
  •   Thodoris Mihopoulos (GSC)
  •   Mahmood Bakri (Chatila), Aram Sabbagh (Reda), Angeliki Papoulia (Tatiana), Mohammad Alsurafa (Malik), Mouataz Alshalton (Abu Love), Mohammad Ghassan (Yasser), Monzer Reyahnah (Marwan)
  •   Nadah El Shazly
  •   Elisa Van Waeyenberge, François De Villers, Frank Barat, Sawsan Asfari
  •   Inside Out Films, Nakba Filmworks, Salaud Morisset, Salaud Morisset Deutschland, Homemade Films, Studio Ruba

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