Category: Film Festival 2020 – Films

It Felt Like Love (2013) | May 30, 3:45 pm

Set over the course of a languid South Brooklyn summer, this unflinchingly honest, refreshingly unsentimental tale of sexual exploration and awakening centers on Lila (Gina Piersanti, in a remarkable debut), a lonely 14-year-old girl who pushes herself into frightening and dangerous new territory in a quest to experience love. – The Criterion Channel

Director: Eliza Hittman

Cast: Gina Piersanti, Jesse Cordasco, Giovanna Salimeni

Country: United States

Distributor: Variance Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 23 minutes

Platform: The Criterion Channel

Special Events: Filmmaker Retrospectives, Shorts Included

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Shorts Included

Also included are Eliza Hittman’s two earlier short films, Second Cousins Once Removed, and Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight. Both films are available to watch on The Criterion Channel.

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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018) | May 30, 1:30 pm

Escaping war, a young girl finds a lone surviving infant and decides to raise him as her son. – IMDb.com

Director: Mari Okada

Cast: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Tomokazu Sugita, Yoshimasa Hosoya

Country: Japan

Distributor: Eleven Arts Anime Studio

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes

Platform: Hoopla

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) | May 30, 11:00 am

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. – Telescope Film

Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor

Cast: Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aïssa Maïga, Lily Banda

Country: United Kingdom

Distributor: Netflix

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes

Platform: Netflix

Special Programming: Family Films

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One Cut of the Dead (2017) | May 30, 1:00 am

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility when they are attacked by real zombies. – Telescope Film

Director: Shinichiro Ueda

Cast: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Harumi Shuhama

Country: Japan

Distributor: Shudder

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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Little Joe (2019) | May 29, 11:00 pm

A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced – especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity. – Telescope Film

Director: Jessica Hausner

Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor

Country: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes

Platform: Hulu

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The Assistant (2020) | May 29, 9:00 pm

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position. – JustWatch

Director: Kitty Green

Cast: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Dagmara Domińczyk, Kristine Froseth, Makenzie Leigh

Country: United States

Distributor: Bleecker Street Media

Rating: R

Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Platform: Video-On-Demand

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Around the World When You Were My Age (2018) | May 29, 6:30 pm

The portrait of a father as seen through the eyes of his daughter by means of a photo album. A travel diary from the 1970s, starting in Japan and around the world: Father and daughter cross views on the memories of the old images and words. – MUBI

Director: Aya Koretzky

Cast: Davi Cabeça Pra Baixo, Aya Koretzky, Jiro Koretzky

Country: Portugal

Distributor: C.R.I.M.

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Platform: MUBI

Special Programming: Documentary Cinema

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Bird Talk (2019) | May 29, 3:30 pm

“Bird talk” is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive, raucous majority: the history teacher tormented by his students, a recently-fired language teacher, a leprous composer, a woman who cleans the house of a banker, a deformed florist and a student fascinated by the cinema. – MUBI

Director: Xawery Żuławski

Cast: Sebastian Fabijański, Eryk Kulm, Andrzej Chyra, Jaśmina Polak

Country: Poland

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes

Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)

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Sweet Bean (2015) | May 29, 1:00 pm

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands… – Telescope Film

Director: Naomi Kawase

Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno

Country: Japan, France, Germany

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes

Platform: Hoopla

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Wanda (1970) | May 29, 11:00 am

Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. – The Criterion Channel

Director: Barbara Loden

Cast: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins

Country: United States

Distributor: Janus Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Platform: The Criterion Channel

Special Programming: Classic Cinema

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