
SHORTS: FREE TO BE ME
mvff 2022 Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Mongolia, United States Sequoia 2, Virtual Oct 6, Oct 9 FAMILY FILMS, SHORTS FilmTotal program 80 min
We can all feel a little awkward or insecure sometimes, but the young people featured in this international selection of shorts demonstrate some admirable examples of how to believe in yourself—regardless of what others…

THE PUPILS (LE PUPILLE)
mvff 2022 Italy LAUGH BAMPFA, Lark Theater, Rafael 3, Sequoia 1 Oct 12, Oct 15, Oct 8, Oct 9 SHORTS FilmLAUGH | MIND THE GAP | SHORTS
Italy 2022, 37 min, Director: Alice Rohrwacher
From the very first frames of Alice Rohrwacher’s The Pupils, “a film clumsily and freely based on a letter the writer Elsa Morante sent to her friend Goffredo…

EO
Italy, Poland LAUGH Rafael 1, Sequoia 1 Oct 12, Oct 16 WORLD CINEMA FilmLAUGH | WORLD
Poland, Italy 2022, 86 min, Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Revered Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski creates a new way of seeing the world in a film that chronicles nature’s beauty alongside human kindness and cruelty, from a…

ALCARRÀS
mvff 2022 Italy, Spain GROW BAMPFA, Rafael 1 Oct 10, Oct 13 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap FilmGROW | MIND THE GAP | ¡VIVA EL CINE! | WORLD
Spain, Italy 2022, 120 min, Director: Carla Simón
Winner of the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival, Carla Simón’s gorgeous drama is a warm-hearted, multi-generational portrait…