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In addition to these film screenings, the festival will also host a number of events.
Calendar Girls and Rye Lane
Big Night
(Country: US; Year: 1996; Director: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci; Writer: Stanley Tucci, Joseph Tropiano; Stars: Marc Anthony, Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rosselini, Liev Schreiber)
Two brothers try to save their restaurant.
Calendar Girls
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen; Writer: Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen)
A coming-of-golden-age look at Florida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
Hidden Letters
(Country: China; Year: 2022; Director: Violet Du Feng, Qing Zhao; Writer: Violet Du Feng, John Farbrother; Stars: Simu Wu, He Yanxin, Xin Hu)
In modern-day China, two women strive to preserve Nushu, an ancient secret language that bonded generations of Chinese women together through centuries of oppression in a clandestine support system of sisterhood and survival.
How To Save A Dead Friend
(Country: Sweden, Norway, France, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Marusya Syroechkovskaya)
Together, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.
Klondike
(Country: Ukraine, Turkey; Year: 2022; Director: Maryna Er Gorbach; Writer: Maryna Er Gorbach; Stars: Evgeniy Efremov, Oleg Shcherbina, Oksana Cherkashyna, Oleg Shevchuk, Artur Aramyan)
The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia - Ukraine during the start of war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after, they find themselves at the center of an air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
Klondike and My Love Affair With Marriage
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp; Writer: Dean Fleischer-Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley; Stars: Jenny Slate, Isabella Rossellini, Dean Fleischer-Camp)
Marcel, a one-inch-tall shell, lives a miniature life with his grandma Connie and their pet lint, Alan. When the trio goes viral, they get millions of fans and new hope for finding their long-lost family.
Monsters And Men
(Year: 2018; Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green; Writer: Reinaldo Marcus Green; Stars: John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan)
This interwoven narrative explores the aftermath of a police killing of a black man. The film is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball player.
My Love Affair With Marriage
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Signe Baumane; Writer: Signe Baumane; Stars: Dagmara Dominczyk, Michele Pawk, Matthew Modine, Cameron Monaghan, Stephen Lang, Erica Schroeder, Emma Kenney, Anna O'Donoghue, Tanya Franks, Clyde Baldo, Najla Said, Keith Randolph Smith, Dan Domingues, Florencia Lozano, Ruby Modine)
Some people spend their lives wondering why a marriage didn’t last. Signe Baumane set out to get some answers. The result is this animated film, which combines ancient mythology and contemporary neuroscience.
Rye Lane
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Raine Allen-Miller; Writer: Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia; Stars: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah)
Two twenty-somethings reeling from bad break-ups deal with their nightmare exes and connect over the course of an eventful day in south London.
Soft & Quiet
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Beth de Araújo; Writer: Beth de Araújo; Stars: Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Eleanore Pienta, Dana Millican, Melissa Paulo, Jon Beavers, Cissy Ly)
An afternoon in the life of Emily, a female white supremacist and elementary school teacher.
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