Best of Fest 2024

Power Alley

Winner: Best Ibero-American Film.

When a young volleyball player searches for a solution after an unwanted pregnancy threatens to derail her international career path, she becomes the target of the conservative community, igniting a spark of solidarity and sisterhood from her teammates. Read More

Running Time: 100

The Teacher's Lounge

FIPRESCI Best Actress Prize for Leonie Benesch. In this intense study of the power dynamics in contemporary German society, an idealistic middle-school teacher makes a bad decision while trying to do the right thing, and her every subsequent move mires her in an even bigger mess. Join us for a post-screening Q&A with Director... Read More

Running Time: 94

Ezra

An audience favorite!

A New Jersey comic (Bobby Cannavale) at odds with his ex (Rose Byrne) and eccentric father (Robert De Niro) takes off on a road trip with their 9-year-old autistic son (William A. Fitzgerald) in this irresistibly charming dramedy about a father’s love taken to the extreme. Read More

Running Time: 100

The Zone of Interest

FIPRESCI Prize, Best Screenplay.

In Jonathan Glazer’s haunting masterwork, an Auschwitz commandant and his wife maintain an idyllic domestic life with their family in a house and bucolic garden, an existence standing in stark contrast to the sounds coming from the nearby death camp. Read More

Running Time: 106

Richelieu

An audience favorite!

After facing personal hardship, Ariane is hired as an interpreter for seasonal Latin American migrant workers. Despite her vow to stay emotionally distant, the workplace abuses she witnesses force her to decide how, and if, she should fight for justice. Read More

Running Time: 89