Realm Of Satan and Seeking Mavis Beacon
Desire Lines
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jules Rosskam; Writer: Nate Gualtieri; Stars: Theo Germaine, Aden Hakimi, Grant Carriker, Larry Dane, Chevon Dortch, Mike Geraghty, Emilie Modaff, Brandon Rivera, Emj Saab, Steve Silver, Diego Torrado)
Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.
Documentary. World premiere
Kneecap
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Rich Peppiatt; Writer: Rich Peppiatt; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Simone Kirby, Jessica Reynolds, Josie Walker, Cliodhna McCorley, Mo Chara, Cathal Mercer, Móglaí Bap, Emer Casey, DJ Próvai, Arlene Martine Morris, Donagh Deeney, Saorlaoith Brady, Paul Murphy, Paul P. McCrystal)
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
Fiction. World premiere
Little Death
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jack Begert; Writer: Jack Begert, Dani Goffstein; Stars: Jena Malone, Gaby Hoffmann, David Schwimmer, Angela Sarafyan, Talia Ryder, Karl Glusman, Chase Sui Wonders, Fred Melamed, Dominic Fike, Caitlin Reilly, Gino Vento, Cissy Wellman, Travis Bennett, Spenser Granese, Derrius Logan)
A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.
Fiction. World premiere
Realm Of Satan
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Scott Cummings; Writer: Scott Cummings)
An experiential portrait depicting Satanists in both the everyday and in the extraordinary as they fight to preserve their lifestyle: magic, mystery, and misanthropy.
Documentary. World premiere
Seeking Mavis Beacon
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jazmin Renée Jones; Writer: Jazmin Renée Jones; Stars: Jazmin Renée Jones, Olivia McKayla Ross)
Launched in the late '80s, educational software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the program's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY investigators search for the unsung cultural icon, while questioning notions of digital security, AI, and Black representation in the digital realm.
Documentary. World premiere
Little Death and Tendaberry
Tendaberry
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Haley Elizabeth Anderson; Writer: Haley Elizabeth Anderson; Stars: Yuri Pleskun, Kota Johan)
When her boyfriend goes back to Ukraine to be with his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota anxiously navigates her precarious new reality, surviving on her own in New York City.
Fiction. World premiere
