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Film Screening Type: In-Person
September 17, 2026
Liz Here Now
Anchored by a commanding, powerhouse performance from Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Liz Here Now is a devastatingly poignant and deeply moving exploration of the unsung labor of Black womanhood and caretaking. Taylor stars as Liz, a devoted live-in caregiver in segregated 1960s America who jeopardizes h...
September 17, 2026
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
In a small town in Oklahoma, Karen (Amanda Seyfried) finds work teaching creative writing at a nearby maximum security prison. One of the inmates in her class, Wilson Shedd (Scoot McNairy), takes a particular interest in expressing his feelings on paper—and in Karen’s warmth and generosity. What ...
September 17, 2026
The Liberation
It’s the early 1980s: Rita Cooper (Carrie Coon) is a closed-off mother of two who works as a bank executive, unable to come to grips with her traumatic history. At the bank one day, she meets the radiant Ricki (Lily James) who invites Rita to join her women’s self-empowerment group. Discovering a...
September 17, 2026
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors
Acclaimed filmmaker and slow-cinema practitioner Lav Diaz (Magellan) returns to the Festival with his latest opus. Set in 1617, Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors examines 17th-century Imperial Spain’s forceful colonization of The Philippines. The film tells the story of Padre Enciso, a Spanish pries...
September 17, 2026
La Gradiva
A high school trip to Naples becomes the staging ground for a profound coming-of-age experience in cinematographer Marine Atlan’s spellbinding directorial debut. Exhausted-yet-persistent Latin teacher Mme. Mercier is desperate to convince her unruly students to open their eyes and absorb the worl...
