Starring: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall

In 1974, acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist’s life to his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz, capturing a single day’s activities in touching and funny detail: from interactions with cultural icons of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, to the texture and energy of downtown New York in its heyday. Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the elegant and intimate new piece from filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages) — a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre — that is both a masterful portrait of a time & place and a captivating film about the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.

Starring: Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Niko, Tayarisha Poe, Alexios Shaw, Artemis Shaw, Katerina Shaw, Robert Shaw, Mons Vi

Kallia and Ram are at their wits’ end with their sleepless baby when they realize Kallia’s Greek mother is on a secret mission to exorcise the family from the evil eye. Trapped between the pressures of new age parenting, old world superstitions, and meddling in-laws, they fight to hold onto their dreams. Filmmakers Shaw and Kamalakanthan turn the lens on themselves and their loved ones—including their actual baby and parents—in this fearless, intimate comedy.

A Cinema Conservancy Release

Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman

A stranger (Philip Baker Hall) mentors a young Reno gambler (John C. Reilly) who weds a hooker (Gwyneth Paltrow) and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Robert Ri’chard, Rob Brown, Nana Gbewonyo, Antwon Tanner, Channing Tatum, Ashanti

In 1999, Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak. But when their grades start to suffer, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the court.

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Charles S. Dutton, Brenda Fricker, Donald Sutherland, Ashley Judd

Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) is a heartbroken black father who avenges his daughter’s brutal rape by shooting the bigoted men responsible for the crime as they are on their way to trial. He turns to Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey), an untested lawyer, to defend him. Brigance struggles to believe that he can get Hailey acquitted in this small, segregated Southern town, given Hailey’s race and the deliberate nature of his crimes, but Carl has unshakable faith in him.

Virginal librarian Alice (Playboy cover-girl Kristine De Bell) nods off during her afternoon read and stumbles down more than a rabbit hole, embarking on some seriously psychedelically-sexual encounters… with Knights, Queens, Mad Hatters… to songs like “If You Haven’t Got Dreams, You Ain’t Got Nothing (19 Going on 90),” “His Ding-A-Ling Is Up,” and “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing on a Knight Like This?”… and soft-shoes choreographed by Broadway’s Buddy Schwab (The Boyfriend, Mack and Mabel, and Camelot)!!

Shot on 35mm in 10 days on a slim $100k – plus an additional $250,000 for post-production – Osco and producer Jason Williams released the flick via their newly formed ‘General National’ distro company (yes, to be confused with the giant National General company) after every other studio passed. But joke’s on them: after premiering at the National in Times Square (with Andy Warhol in the crowd!), ALICE IN WONDERLAND went on to make $90 million globally (with nary a cent going back to any of the cast or crew)…

Fresh off his success with FLESH GORDON, legendary producer Bill Osco, who’s first uncredited producing role was 1970’s MONA: THE VIRGIN NYMPH – now considered a watershed title that helped inaugurate the ‘Golden Age of Porn’ – would then expand his career, making “straight” films like Walter R. Cichy’s COP KILLERS, and Jackie Kong’s THE BEING and NIGHT PATROL… all in a style that Vincent Canby described as “consistent vulgarity”…  Kinda like your lovers on The Deuce!!

Join The FOFIF for Standing Above the Clouds, the debut feature documentary by one FOFIF filmmaker, Jalena Keane-Lee, who will be there for a Q&A! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female (a non-profit org), select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Standing Above the Clouds highlights the movement to protect Mauna Kea through the intergenerational stories of women in three Native Hawaiian families as they stand for the sacred mountain. The film follows teacher and community organizer Pua Case and her two daughters — artist-activists Hāwane Rios and Kapulei Flores — who have been called to stop the telescope since 2010. Their lives quickly become consumed with frontline actions and court proceedings and immersed in ceremonies and cultural practices. As they face opposition and arrests, they are joined by a community who have dedicated their lives to protecting Mauna Kea.

Starring: Zazie Beetz, Myha’la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, Patricia Arquette

A woman takes a housekeeping job in a mysterious New York City high-rise. As she unravels the building’s dark history of disappearances, she uncovers links to a possible satanic cult.

Starring: Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur, Jess Alexander, Victoria Wyant, Kevin McNally, Kae Alexander

A group of friends’ tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.