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- No events scheduled for Mar 13, 2023.
- No events scheduled for Mar 14, 2023.
Huahua’s Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations + It’s What Each Person Needs
36-01 35 Ave, AstoriaWeek of Events
Working on It (Day One)
Working on It (Day One)
The Working on It program, which offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process, is open to the public.
Fremont + Away
Fremont + Away
The Opening Night feature of this year's First Look festival is Babak Jalali's Sundance standout, about an immigrant named Donya, who can’t sleep and works in a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Get tickets now for Wednesday, 3/15!
Working on It (Day Two)
Working on It (Day Two)
The Working on It program, which offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process, is open to the public.
First Sight: 2023 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
First Sight: 2023 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
On 3/16, see a selection of jury award–winning undergraduate student films from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Rodeo + Jill, Uncredited
Rodeo + Jill, Uncredited
Hot-tempered and fiercely independent, Julia is a gearhead who thrives in hostile environments and turns every situation to her advantage.
Herbaria + Agrilogistics
Herbaria + Agrilogistics
Listorti’s gorgeously collaged film, shot on both 16mm and 35mm, invites viewers into the delicate work of preserving plants and celluloid, both of which are under threat of extinction and require practices of collection, inspection, and archiving.
Working on It (Day Three)
Working on It (Day Three)
The Working on It program, which offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process, is open to the public.
The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains
The film has a throwback epic scale, spanning decades in its protagonist’s lives and set in some of the most beautiful—and unyielding—vistas on earth, and encompassing a full spectrum of emotions and experiences.
The Taste of Mango
The Taste of Mango
This tender and poetic love letter from daughter to mother expresses a complexity of feeling and affinity that only cinema might approach.
Sloan Student Prize Screenplay Reading
Sloan Student Prize Screenplay Reading
Select scenes from the two screenplays awarded the 2022 Sloan Student Prizes will be read by professional actors as part of this special program, produced and directed by Mêlisa Annis, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Feet in Water, Head on Fire
Feet in Water, Head on Fire
Terra Jean Long's film explores how a landscape has been shaped by ultimately fruitless economic pursuits and a desire for comfort and stability.
The River Is Not a Border
The River Is Not a Border
By the southern bank of the river demarcating the official border between Mauritania and Senegal, filmmaker Diago convenes an open-air assembly of Black Mauritanians who, in 1989, were expelled from their homeland.
A Common Sequence
A Common Sequence
Woven with coolly framed images and carefully layered sounds, A Common Sequence is a richly generative, open-ended experience.
R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity
R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity
Mohanad Yaqubi offers a fascinating, eclectic, and inspiring survey of cross-continental solidarity using a voluminous collection of pro-Palestinian work discovered in Japan.
Persistent Visions Program 1: Always and Only Place
Persistent Visions Program 1: Always and Only Place
Warped records of unexplained disappearances and lost transmissions, abandoned projects and utopian fantasies, echoing in one place then another, moving through time. Fermented ephemera unearthed from the roots of American decay.
Silent Love + Joanna d’Arc
Silent Love + Joanna d’Arc
Thirty-five-year-old Aga starts to look after her teenage brother, Milosz, after their mother’s death. While caring for him with the dedication and responsibility of a parent, she also seeks to become his legal guardian.
Persistent Visions Program 2: Earth in the Mouth
Persistent Visions Program 2: Earth in the Mouth
Beginning with a recitation of Brecht and Weill’s “The Drowned Girl,” here is a sequence of odes, melancholy and ecstatic, to the wonderful difficulty of currently inhabiting this world in these bodies
New Strains
New Strains
Shaw and Kamalakanthan’s film is at once a depressingly accurate evocation of the city’s first few months of lockdown and an endearing display of cinematic ingenuity under extreme duress.
Huahua’s Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations + It’s What Each Person Needs
Huahua’s Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations + It’s What Each Person Needs
With Daphne Xu and Sophy Romvari in person Huahua’s Dazzling World and Its Myriad Temptations Dir. Daphne Xu. China/Canada/U.S. 2022, 82 mins. In Mandarin with English subtitles. In Xiong’an New Area, a government-planned city just ...
Love Life + Tulpa
Love Life + Tulpa
Fukada’s film constitutes a sparkling revival of the emotional currents of classical Japanese melodrama.
A Little Love Package + Tension Envelopes
A Little Love Package + Tension Envelopes
Governed by a musical logic, Solnicki’s film is a sensual and synesthetic delight that culminates in one of current cinema’s most eloquent needle drops.
Three Women
Three Women
The opposite of a detached portrait, Three Women freely engages and communes with the village, capturing the warmth of the place and its people.
Robert Beavers’s The Sparrow Dream and Other Films
Robert Beavers’s The Sparrow Dream and Other Films
Returning to a New York screen with his first film in nearly four years, Robert Beavers will present the North American premiere of his magisterial The Sparrow Dream, screening in context with his previous five films.
Tori and Lokita + Maid
Tori and Lokita + Maid
Playing 3/19, the latest by the Dardenne Brothers is an angry, intimate account of the harrowing odyssey of two African refugees, a young boy and teenage girl, who have come to care for each other like brother and sister.
Art Talent Show
Art Talent Show
Every year the Academy of Arts (AVU) in Prague receives hundreds of applications. Art Talent Show observes every step in the arduous process for three studios.
Mami Wata
Mami Wata
In the waters off the coast of West Africa swims the powerful mermaid goddess Mami Wata. Nigerian filmmaker C.J. "Fiery" Obasi's closing night selection for First Look 2023, on Sunday, March 19, electrifies the eye.