
OUR BROTHERS (NOS FRANGINS)
France SPIRIT Rafael 1, Sequoia 2 Oct 12, Oct 13 WORLD CINEMA FilmSPIRIT | WORLD
France, Algeria 2022, 92 min, Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Police brutality receives considerable media attention during our current Black Lives Matter moment, but French director Rachid Bouchareb’s (Days of Glory, MVFF29) drama…

ONE FINE MORNING (UN BEAU MATIN)
mvff 2022 France BAMPFA, Rafael 3 Oct 8, Oct 9 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap FilmMIND THE GAP | WORLD
France 2022, 112 min, Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Even more moving for eschewing excess drama, writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s subtle film is a bittersweet exploration of how the vicissitudes of fate and the passage…

MY POLICEMAN
UK, United States Rafael 2, Sequoia 2 Oct 12, Oct 14 WORLD CINEMA Film
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UK, US 2022, 113 min, Director: Michael Grandage
The events of the past impact a married couple’s present when a long-estranged friend moves into their home after a stroke in Michael Grandage’s elegant adaptation of Bethan Roberts’…

MOTHER AND SON (UN PETIT FRÈRE)
France Rafael 2 Oct 12, Oct 7 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap FilmHEART | WORLD
France 2022, 116 min, Director: Léonor Serraille
Spanning twenty years, Léonor Serraille’s beautifully sweeping second feature follows Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), who moves from the Ivory Coast to France in 1989 with her…

THE LOST KING
UK Sequoia 1, Sequoia 2 Oct 12, Oct 15 WORLD CINEMA FilmWORLD
UK 2022, 108 min, Director: Stephen Frears
In 2004, Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins, Spencer, MVFF44) takes her son to see a production of Richard III. She becomes intrigued by the story of the malformed king who, per Shakespeare’s play,…

LIVING
UK Sequoia 1, Sequoia 2 Oct 11, Oct 9 WORLD CINEMA FilmWORLD
UK 2022, 102 min, Director: Oliver Hermanus
This beautiful drama, written by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) and directed by Oliver Hermanus (Moffie), poses a question: How does a repressed and ineffectual bureaucrat respond…

LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
UK, United States HEART Sequoia 1 Oct 8 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap FilmHEART | MIND THE GAP | WORLD
UK, US 2022, 105 min, Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s tastefully understated, elegantly updated version of D.H. Lawrence’s novel has bountiful pleasures on offer beyond the…

HOLY SPIDER (عنكبوت مقدس)
Denmark TRAILBLAZERS Rafael 1 Oct 11 WORLD CINEMA FilmTRAILBLAZERS | WORLD
Denmark 2022, 106 min, Director: Ali Abbasi
Filmmaker Ali Abbasi follows up his acclaimed 2018 fantasy romantic drama Border (MVFF41) with a tense and unapologetically feminist procedural based on actual events. Zar Amir…

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…

EMPIRE OF LIGHT
mvff 2022 Sequoia 2 Oct 13 WORLD CINEMA
Sam Mendes fills his superbly cast, deeply personal drama with surprises, all emerging from a cinema in a working-class town in 1980s England. Hilary (Olivia Colman, in another knockout performance) is a single woman who runs the ticket booth,…