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- No events scheduled for Mar 11, 2024.
- No events scheduled for Mar 12, 2024.
Week of Events
Working on It (Day One)
Working on It (Day One)
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
Sujo
Sujo
For First Look 2024 opening night on 3/13, see the Sundance-awarded drama in which a young man, orphaned by the Mexican drug cartels, grows up in the shadow of violence. Directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, two of the finest filmmakers of their generation.
Working on It (Day Two)
Working on It (Day Two)
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process.
First Sight: 2024 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
First Sight: 2024 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
For the seventh consecutive year, First Look presents Jury award–winning graduate and undergraduate student films from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Hazel (dual) + Gwetto
Hazel (dual) + Gwetto
In the economic capital of Madagascar, four undocumented workers from across the country at a neighborhood car wash endure their lot until they can earn enough to secure their identity papers and seek a better future. Paired with Everson’s mesmerizing black-and-white diptych.
Magic Mountain
Magic Mountain
In the spectacular mountains of southwest Georgia sits the Abastumani sanatorium, a treatment hospital for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, which becomes a site of fantasies and nightmares, a home of the living and the dead, in this reflection of a place and moment.
The Echo (El Eco)
The Echo (El Eco)
Young women in the remote Mexican town of El Echo exude vivacious optimism while shouldering disproportionately gendered responsibilities of family, farm life, and town. See it 3/14 with director Tatiana Huezo in person for First Look 2024.
Working on It (Day Three)
Working on It (Day Three)
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
Solaris Mon Amour
Solaris Mon Amour
The same year that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour was released, science fiction writer and theorist Stanisław Lem began writing his influential novel Solaris, an artistic confluence that inspires this wholly original and emotionally resonant found footage film.
Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020
Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020
Over the past thirteen years, Zhang has documented her father’s village in Hubei, China, as a repository of ancestral memory; for the tenth of these films, Zhang installed herself permanently in the village upon the outbreak of COVID-19. The result is an immense accomplishment, vividly depicting a year in the life of a stoic rural community, far removed from an urban-centered pandemic.
Tendaberry
Tendaberry
This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.
Flying Lessons
Flying Lessons
The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished.
What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?
What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?
This poignant, warts-and-all portrait of a family separated by space but still profoundly connected in each other’s hearts, minds, and dreams is composed almost entirely of webcam footage between the Berlin-based, Iranian émigré filmmaker, his parents, and his friend.
Illuminations Program: Elsewhere/Here
Illuminations Program: Elsewhere/Here
Playful, elusive, and tactile, these eclectic works are unified by their filmmakers’ attempts to orient themselves in a world of constant, turbulent flux.
Achilles
Achilles
In Farhad Delaram’s seductive, shape-shifting debut feature, former filmmaker Farid works nights at a Tehran hospital—and sleeps there most days too. Estranged from his partner and hopeless about the future, he starts to awaken after meeting a patient in the psychiatric ward whose supposed fits of madness he innately understands.
1489
1489
Documenting her family’s attempts at locating her brother after he goes missing in a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Shoghakat Vardanyan films things we don’t often see: the struggles, emotions, and Kafkaesque runarounds when missing soldiers and their families are reduced to a statistic. Screens 3/16 as part of First Look 2024.
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors
In 1968, Brazil’s military dictatorship enacted Institutional Act No. 5, which suspended the constitution, silenced citizens, and opted overtly into totalitarianism. This astonishing and ingenious film features archival audio document of the meeting that decided this act, combined with blithe moving image propaganda perpetuated by the government.
The Featherweight
The Featherweight
Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.
Knit’s Island
Knit’s Island
The filmmakers drop into the fictional landscape of the videogame DayZ as journalistic avatars and must battle a zombie apocalypse while endeavoring to stay alive long enough to film their interactions with the surprising community of people who spend their time in this VR world.
Mimang
Mimang
In Kim Taeyang’s richly cryptic debut feature, a young man and woman, unnamed former acquaintances, meet by chance in the historic Jongno district at the heart of Seoul, then walk and talk, visiting and revisiting Jongno’s landmarks and byways over the years, much of the city and them changing beyond recognition.
The Clinic
The Clinic
In Yangon, Myanmar, a couple, Aung Min and San San Oo, operate a neighborhood clinic, providing low-cost treatments and therapies for a range of physical and psychological maladies. They also make art—paintings and films—as revealed in this shapeshifting film that starts as direct cinema then blossoms into a self-reflexive examination of the Burmese soul.
Arthur&Diana
Arthur&Diana
In this form-blending, refreshing work of autofiction, siblings Arthur and Diana are on a meandering road trip through France, Germany, and Italy that brings out deep-seated family dynamics that will feel familiar to older sisters and younger brothers.
Samsara
Samsara
Lois Patiño’s latest inquiry into the spiritual valences of cinema travels first to the temples of Laos and then to the shores of Tanzania by way of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Screening 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.
Limitation
Limitation
Georgian filmmakers Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze construct an archival horror film about 1991’s bloody military coup d'état against the government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first democratically elected president, forgoing contextual titles, narration, or interviews.
An Evening Song (for three voices)
An Evening Song (for three voices)
Graham Swon’s sophomore feature, displaying a remarkable devotion to craft, combining elements of Gothic horror, pulp mystery, and period romance, screens 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.
Gasoline Rainbow
Gasoline Rainbow
In the First Look 2024 closing night film, five recent high-school graduates escape small-town Oregon for one last adventure together, trekking 500 miles westward for their first visit to the Pacific coast. The latest film from Bill and Turner Ross is a joyous exploration (and detonation) of the borderlands of reality, mythology, narrative, improvisation, the discernable, and the ineffable.