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Short film info: Index of titles
OPENING NIGHT
The Social Network
David Fincher directs a scintillating, play-by-play account of the meteoric rise and acrimonious fall of the founders of Facebook. Read more…
Fri Sep 24: 6:00pm (Festival screening/ ATH)
Fri Sep 24: 9:00pm (Gala screening/ ATH) Standby Tickets Only
CENTERPIECE
The Tempest
Helen Mirren leads an extraordinary, all-star cast in Julie Taymor’s brilliantly inventive rendering of Shakespeare’s mystical romance. Read more…
Sat Oct 2: 7:00pm (Gala screening/ ATH) Standby Tickets Only
Sat Oct 2: 10:00pm (Festival Screening/ ATH)
CLOSING NIGHT
Hereafter
The possibility of communicating with the dead is the surprising subject of this enormously emotional work from director Clint Eastwood. Read more…
Sun Oct 10: 7:00pm (Gala screening/ ATH)
Sun Oct 10: 8:15pm (Festival screening/ WRT)
Sun Oct 10: 10:00pm (Festival screening/ ATH)
Another Year
Happiness and loss come and go with the changing of the seasons in Mike Leigh’s exquisite year-in-the-life of a longtime married couple. Read more…
Tue Oct 5: 6:00pm (ATH)
Wed Oct 6: 9:00pm (ATH)
Aurora
Cristi Puiu’s striking third feature is a singular, uncompromising character study of a Romanian man (played by the director) pushed to the end of his tether. Read more…
Sun Oct 3: 5:00pm (ATH)
Black Venus
In his unforgettable telling of the deplorable life of the “Hottentot Venus,” Abdellatif Kechiche delivers a riveting examination of racism. Read more…
Thu Oct 7: 6:00pm (ATH)
Sat Oct 9: 8:30pm (ATH)
Carlos
Olivier Assayas’s astonishing three-part biography creates a dynamic, intelligent, sexy, and suspenseful portrait of the notorious international terrorist. Read more…
Sat Oct 2: 11:00am (ATH)
Certified Copy
Abbas Kiarostami’s dazzling return to form stars Juliette Binoche as an antiques dealer who may or may not be married to a visiting philosopher. Read more…
Fri Oct 1: 9:15pm (ATH)
Sun Oct 3: 11:30am (ATH)
Film Socialisme
A stunning, continually provocative visual and aural contemplation of art and politics that shows Jean-Luc Godard at his most audacious. Read more…
Wed Sep 29: 6:00pm (ATH)
Fri Oct 8: 3:00pm (ATH)
Inside Job
The most timely and relevant film of the year vividly lays out the causes, rationalizations, deceptions, and outright criminality behind the contemporary financial crisis. Read more…
Fri Oct 1: 6:00pm (ATH)
Mon Oct 4: 9:00pm (ATH)
LENNONYC
With rare footage and perceptive interviews, filmmaker Michael Epstein creates a moving, revealing portrait of John Lennon’s New York years. Read more…
Sat Sep 25: 9:00pm (ATH)
Sat Sep 25: 10:30pm (WRT)
Meek’s Cutoff
Set in 1845 Oregon, Kelly Reichardt’s sublime Western explores American myths, precarious safety nets, and the kindness—and cruelty—of strangers. Read more…
Fri Oct 8: 6:00pm (ATH)
Sat Oct 9: 11:30am (ATH)
My Joy
A truck driver’s journey leads him into a world he scarcely imagined existed in this impressive feature debut by Sergei Loznitsa. Read more…
Thu Sep 30: 9:00pm (ATH)
Mysteries of Lisbon
Raul Ruiz’s breathtaking adaptation of a masterwork of Portuguese literature is the crowning achievement of a great director’s career. Read more…
Sun Oct 10: 12 noon (ATH)
Of Gods and Men
Xavier Beauvois’s poetic ensemble drama tells the devastating true story of French monks in North Africa standing their ground in the face of religious extremists. Read more…
Sat Sep 25: 6:00pm (ATH)
Mon Sep 27: 9:00pm (ATH)
Oki’s Movie
Toggling between the present and the past, Hong Sang-soo’s latest, about a woman who loves two men, is his wittiest and most deeply felt work to date. Read more…
Thu Sep 30: 6:00pm (ATH)
Old Cats
Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano mine the hilarity and horror of the nuclear family as a middle-aged daughter (aided by her girlfriend) tries to swindle her mother. Read more…
Fri Oct 8: 9:15pm (ATH)
Sat Oct 9: 2:45pm (ATH)
Poetry
A sixtyish grandmother hears the muses and disciplines her depraved grandson in Lee Chang-dong’s masterful tribute to the strength of a senescent woman. Read more…
Sat Sep 25: 11:30am (ATH)
Sun Sep 26: 5:30pm (ATH)
Post Mortem
An autopsy recorder woos a burlesque dancer in Pablo Larraín’s darkly comic dissection of Chile in the waning days of the Allende presidency. Read more…
Mon Oct 4: 6:00pm (ATH)
Tue Oct 5: 9:15pm (ATH)
Le Quattro Volte
Michelangelo Frammartino’s wondrous meditation on man and nature traces the grand cycle of life through the humble daily rituals of rural Calabrians. Read more…
Sun Sep 26: 3:00pm (ATH)
Revolución
In ten remarkable short films, ten leading Mexican directors offer their unique visions of the legacy of the Mexican Revolution. Read more…
Sat Oct 9: 5:30pm (ATH)
The Robber
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber in Benjamin Heisenberg’s sleek and intelligent character study. Read more…
Mon Sep 27: 6:00pm (ATH)
Wed Sep 29: 9:15pm (ATH)
Robinson in Ruins
Patrick Keiller’s slyly funny and intellectually ambitious cine-essay on financial collapse and global catastrophe, narrated by Vanessa Redgrave. Read more…
Sun Sep 26: 12 noon (ATH)
Silent Souls
Ancient customs and traditions live on in the wake of the former Soviet Union in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s hauntingly beautiful film about a funereal road trip. Read more…
Tue Sep 28: 9:15pm (ATH)
The Strange Case of Angelica
From centenarian Manoel de Oliveira, a radiant ghost story about a dead beauty who comes to life before a camera lens. Read more…
Sun Oct 3: 9:00pm (ATH)
Wed Oct 6: 6:00pm (ATH)
Tuesday, After Christmas
Radu Muntean’s singular, stripped-down look at adultery is distinguished by its masterfully composed long takes and trio of superb performers. Read more…
Tue Sep 28: 6:00pm (ATH)
Fri Oct 1: 3:00pm (ATH)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest is a gently comic and wholly transporting fable of death and rebirth. Read more…
Sat Sep 25: 3:00pm (ATH)
Sun Sep 26: 9:00pm (ATH)
We Are What We Are
A family of Mexico City cannibals tries to provide for itself in first-time director Jorge Michel Grau’s tremendously assured horror allegory. Read more…
Thu Oct 7: 9:45 pm (ATH)
Fri Oct 8: 11:00pm (WRT)
