Starring: Demyana Nassar, Samy Bassiouny, Fady Mina Fawzy, Abo Sefen Nabil Wesa
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When a magic trick goes awry at a children’s birthday party, the authoritative father of the family turns into a chicken. An avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls everyone; the mother, whose mundane life was dedicated to her husband and children, is now urged to come to the fore and take care of her family. While moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back and secure their survival, she goes through a total transformation.
Starring: Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros, Yves-Marie Maurin, Monique Thierry, Sady Rebbot
4K restoration
Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) The Time Masters is a visually fantastic foray into existentialist space adventure. After his parents are killed on the dangerous planet Perdide, young Piel (voiced by Frédéric Legros) survives by maintaining radio contact with Jaffar (Jean Valmont), a pilot transporting the exiled Prince Matton (Yves-Marie Maurin) and Princess Belle (Monique Thierry) from their former kingdom. Jaffar seeks the help of Silbad (Michel Elias), a cheerful old-timer who knows how to circumvent Perdide’s hazards, including brain-devouring insects and watery graves. Along the way, Jaffar and company encounter a pair of impish homunculi stowaways, identity-less angels controlled by an amorphous hive mind, and the Masters of Time, mysterious beings who can bend reality and perhaps reveal to the heroes their secret origins and destinies.
The feature will be preceded by:
Mount Vernon and Fairway Phill Skokos, Edel Ferri
U.S. 2024 12 min. English
Based on the eponymous Beach Boys EP, a young prince embarks on a technicolor adventure when he discovers a magic transistor radio in his attic.
Starring: Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Njo Lobé, Marie Bouvet, Sébastien Chassagne, Marthe Keller, Geneviève Doang
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker.
On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.
Starring: Jack Corbett, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Elsie Fisher, Janeane Garofalo, Miya Folick, Tavi Gevinson, Julio Torres, Sarah Sherman
It’s the day after Christmas in suburban Florida and Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett) and his friends pass the seemingly endless days by slacking, shoplifting, and beatboxing. In between lounging on the beach and sneaking into pools, Billy spends his time hustling on the food-on-demand app Grubster, desperate to make $5,000 before New Year’s Eve. As he darts around the city delivering to a series of oddball characters, a routine stop at the mysterious Dolphin Groves Juice Company leads to a run-in with his former classmate—and crush—Rozebud (Miya Folick) and a surprise backpack stowaway in Donut, a bizarre creature from another world. But Dr. Dolphin (Janeane Garofalo), the powerful orange juice CEO, will do anything to get Donut back, and Billy is forced to make hard choices about love, friendship, and how far he’ll go for financial security in a world ruled by capitalism in this absurdist and musical take on a coming-of-age comedy.
An acclaimed documentary crew sets out to chronicle the making of an ambitious “found footage” film about Bigfoot, led by eccentric upstart filmmaker Chase (Brennan Keel Cook) and his ragtag production team. When mysterious and sinister phenomena begin to unfold behind the scenes, it blurs the lines between movie magic and real life. The documentary crew soon learns that they have unwittingly stepped into a very real and very terrifying found footage film of their own making.
A singular portrait depicting Satanists in both the every day and the extraordinary, Realm of Satan is a ritualistic documentary that casts a spell on viewers, luring them into a mystical world of magic, mystery and misanthropy.
Starring: Lee Kang-sheng, Wu Ke-xi, Haipeng Xu
Join The Future of Film is Female for a special screening of BLUE SUN PALACE, followed by a Q&A with director Constance Tsang. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
“For more than 30 years the Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng has forged an indelible, inimitable creative partnership with Tsai Ming-liang. Lee makes as big an impression in Constance Tsang’s Blue Sun Palace, which relocates him to working-class Queens. When wayward Taiwanese immigrant Cheung (Lee) finds his life of part-time work and light extramarital affairs shattered by violence, he connects with workers at a small Queens salon, victims themselves to the indignities forced upon strangers in a strange land.
But Blue Sun Palace is no misery showcase. Intimacy and warmth co-exist with economic anxieties and deep grief that are articulated with uncommon intelligence and understanding of how adults endure any given day. In this debut feature, awarded the French Touch Prize by the jury at the 2024 Cannes Critics’ Week, Tsang shapes an immigrant’s tale, a relationship drama, a workplace comedy, and a great New York story in one.” —Film at Lincoln Center
Starring: Léa Drucker, Thibault de Montalembert, Dominique Reymond, Bernard Alane, Marina de Van
Join The Future of Film is Female for a screening of one of our favorite body horrors, Marina de Van’s IN MY SKIN. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Everything changes for Ester, a young woman with a successful career on the upswing and a devoted boyfriend, when her leg is wounded outside a party one night. Strangely, she is initially unaware of the deep cut, yet it becomes a catalyst for an obsession with her own body, at once disconnected and deeply personal, that sends her into a spiral with no release. She begins to self-harm and hallucinate, becoming increasingly secretive and unreliable as the weeks pass. Like an addict, she books herself into a hotel room to satiate her cravings by amorously consuming herself.
Written and directed by and starring Marina de Van, In My Skin is an entry in the New French Extremity movement that explores, through the metaphor of the body, the search for the self in a very disconnected age. This screening celebrates the 20th anniversary of de Van’s grotesquely intimate film.
Starring: Rentarô Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Osamu Takizawa
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai (Rentarô Mikuni) marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden (Keiko Kishi), but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi (Katsuo Nakamura) is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author (Osamu Takizawa) relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior’s reflection in his teacup.
