What Marielle Knows Was Marielle Weiss
Synopsis
Julia, Tobias, and their eleven-year-old daughter Marielle seem like the perfect family. The parents have high-powered corporate jobs and a stylish home complete with a designer kitchen. Yet beneath this bourgeois facade, trouble is brewing. When a friend at school slaps Marielle on the playground, she inexplicably develops telepathic powers, gaining the ability to see and hear everything her parents do—even when she’s not in the room. Under a state of constant surveillance, the parents’ patience is put to the test, and cracks in their marriage emerge. Through their daughter, they begin to engage in a series of manipulative games, leading to increasingly awkward and absurd situations.
Clever, incisive, and darkly funny, What Marielle Knows careens toward an unforgettable end as the fretting parents must do whatever they can to strip their daughter of her psychic abilities. From this absurd premise, director Frédéric Hambalek builds a hilarious and scathing satire of upper middle-class family life.
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- Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker
- Frédéric Hambalek
- Anne Fabini
- Alexander Griesser
- Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Atesçi, Moritz Treuenfels
- Walker + Worm Film
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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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- 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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Wind, Talk to Me Vetre, pričaj sa mnom
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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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- 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)
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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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Young Mothers Jeunes Mères
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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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- 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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Two Prosecutors
Sergei LoznitsaFrance, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania
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Shorts 1: After Dark
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Unfulfilled dreams, dark obsessions, and illicit desires take center stage in this program that transports viewers into the bold and blood-curdling world of genre film. From ventriloquist dummies to unrequited love, these shorts expose our darkest fears… and create new ones.
Blue Violet is a camcorder video compilation for Violet’s birthday that captures just how far Blue will go to prove her devotion to her beloved. While driving home alone on a deserted West Bank road, a Palestinian woman’s flat tire forces her to accept the help of a stranger with unknown intentions in Coyotes. Dummy! takes place in an alternate universe populated by ventriloquist dummies, where a human woman dreams of following in her domineering mother’s footsteps as a cabaret singer. In Earworm, an office worker seeks medical attention after being driven to madness by the notorious earworm “Cotton Eye Joe.” Between a tough-as-nails instructor, apathetic classmates more interested in partying than practicing medicine, and a lack of cadavers to help him hone his skills, Wolfe feels he has no choice but to take his dream of becoming an anesthesiologist into his own hands in Pinpoint. Following her partner’s death, a pregnant woman with a mysterious wound along her spine is visited by an old lover who wants to help her heal in Hotel Acropole.
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Screening
Fri, Oct 17 @ 10:45pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Hôtel Acropole director Sarah Lasry
Dummy! director Francesca Pazniokas
Pinpoint director Michael Merlino
Screening
Mon, Oct 20 @ 3:00pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Dummy! director Francesca Pazniokas
Pinpoint director Michael Merlino
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