Starring: Brandon Wilson, Ethan Herisse, Luke Tennie, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Daveed Diggs, Jimmie Fails

Elwood Curtis’ college dreams are shattered when he’s sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South. Clinging to his optimistic worldview, Elwood strikes up a friendship with Turner, a fellow Black teen who dispenses fundamental tips for survival.

Starring: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello, Valentina Herszage

Eunice Paiva begins a lonely battle to learn the truth behind the disappearance of her husband, former PTB deputy Rubens Paiva, while trying to keep her family together.

Starring: Katie Corwin, Delaney Buffett, Zachary Quinto, Cazzie David, Mason Gooding, Casey Wilson, Owen Thiele, Benjamin Norris

Join The Future of Film is Female for a special screening of Delaney Buffet’s debut feature ADULT BEST FRIENDS. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Katie and Delaney, inseparable since childhood, find their paths diverging in their 30s. While Katie is happily committed and living with her boyfriend, Delaney is still single and living with a roommate. Despite the differences in their lives, their friendship is still a top priority. They’ve always been the most important person in each other’s lives. That is, until Katie’s boyfriend proposes.

Funny, fresh, and full of heart, ADULT BEST FRIENDS is the first feature from filmmaking team Delaney Buffett (director/co-writer/star) and Katie Corwin (co-writer/star). The pair drew upon their own decades-long friendship and brought together a close-knit crew and cast, that includes Zachary Quinto, Cazzie David, Mason Gooding, Casey Wilson, Owen Thiele, and Benjamin Norris, to capture the joy of growing up with a best friend – and the angst of potentially moving beyond them.

Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Richard Pryor

4K restoration

For Valentine’s Day, The FOFIF honors the extraordinary life of David Lynch with a special screening of LOST HIGHWAY, edited by longtime collaborater Mary Sweeney. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“’We’ve met before, haven’t we?’ A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.” – Criterion

ABOUT MARY SWEENEY: Award winning filmmaker Mary Sweeney was a key collaborator with David Lynch as his producer, writer and editor for twenty years. She edited TWIN PEAKS TV, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, HOTEL ROOM, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE, for which she was awarded the 2001 British Academy Award for Best Editing. Sweeney wrote, produced and edited THE STRAIGHT STORY earning Richard Farnsworth an Academy Award nomination. Her producing credits include LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and INLAND EMPIRE, directed by Lynch, NADJA, and BARABOO, her directorial debut based on her original screenplay.

She was a Consulting Producer for Matthew Weiner’s series THE ROMANOFFS, , and writer of episode three, HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE. Sweeney teaches Graduate Feature Screenwriting Thesis and “Dreams, the Brain and Storytelling” in the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Television, and “Myth and Metaphors” in the Division of Media Arts + Practice.

Starring: Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, West Mulholland, Lucas Papaelias

A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

Starring: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel

Top dog Gromit springs into action to save his master when Wallace’s high-tech invention goes rogue and he’s framed for a series of suspicious crimes.

Starring: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos

Two con-men (Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh) get hold of a map to the lost City of Gold, El Dorado. After stowing away onto one of the ships of the Spanish explorer Cortez, the pair escapes and eventually do find the city. There, a priest (Armand Assante) proclaims them to be gods in a scheme to win control of the city for himself. Meanwhile, they meet a beautiful girl (Rosie Perez) who helps them in their ruse.

Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jack O’Connell, Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Starring: Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott, Sam Jaeger, Matilda Firth

With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.