WORLD CINEMA – Page 3 – Mill Valley Film Festival

DECISION TO LEAVE

South Korea BAMPFA, Rafael 2 Oct 15, Oct 9 WORLD CINEMA Film

WORLD South Korea 2022, 138 min, Director: Park Chan-wook South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook continues his transformation from ace provocateur to mature master with this elegant Hitchcockian thriller about obsession and the mysteries of the…

CORSAGE

Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg Lark Theater, Rafael 1 Oct 15, Oct 9 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap Film

MIND THE GAP | WORLD CINEMA Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg 2022, 113 min, Director: Marie Kreutzer Magnetic star Vicky Krieps (Bergman Island, MVFF44) vividly inhabits Empress Elisabeth of Austria in writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s…

CLOSE

Belgium, France, Netherlands Rafael 3, Sequoia 2 Oct 14, Oct 15 WORLD CINEMA Film

WORLD Belgium, Netherlands, France 2022, 105 min, Director: Lukas Dhont Belgian director Lukas Dhont explores the delicacy of boyhood and the shifting dynamics of male friendship with heartbreaking intimacy in his assured sophomore feature.…

CHILE 1976

Argentina, Chile, Qatar TRAILBLAZERS Rafael 2, Rafael 3 Oct 13, Oct 8 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap, Viva el Cine Film

TRAILBLAZERS | ¡VIVA EL CINE! | MIND THE GAP | WORLD Chile, Argentina, Qatar 2022, 95 min, Director: Manuela Martelli Manuela Martelli’s debut feature is the poignant story of a wealthy, upper-middle-class housewife suddenly shaken into…

CHARCOAL (CARVÃO)

Brazil BAMPFA, Roxie Theater, Sequoia 1 Oct 15, Oct 7, Oct 8 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap, Viva el Cine Film

MIND THE GAP | ¡VIVA EL CINE! | WORLD Brazil, Argentina 2022, 107 min, Director: Carolina Markowicz Writer-director Carolina Markowicz’s evocative feature debut is the kind of film that makes you love cinema more than ever. Irene (Maeve…

BROKER

South Korea BAMPFA, Rafael 3 Oct 13, Oct 8 WORLD CINEMA Film

WORLD South Korea 2022, 129 min, Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Song Kang-ho deservedly won Best Actor at this spring’s Cannes Film Festival for his performance in writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest bittersweet exploration of the…

BOY FROM HEAVEN

Sweden TRAILBLAZERS Rafael 3, Sequoia 2 Oct 15, Oct 16 WORLD CINEMA Film

TRAILBLAZERS | WORLD Sweden 2022, 125 min, Director: Tarik Saleh In the latest from Swedish-Egyptian director Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident), Tawfeek Barhom plays a naive religious-scholarship student thrilled to be at Cairo’s prestigious…

THE BLUE CAFTAN

mvff 2022 Morocco HEART Lark Theater, Sequoia 1 Oct 12, Oct 14 WORLD CINEMA Film

HEART | WORLD Morocco 2022, 124 min, Director: Maryam Touzani In Salé, Morocco, Halim (Saleh Bakri, Costa Brava, Lebanon) and his ailing wife, Mina (Lubna Azabal, Adam), own and operate a made-to-measure dress shop. Halim handcrafts caftans…

BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS

mvff 2022 Mexico Rafael 1 Oct 14 BIG NIGHTS, WORLD CINEMA Viva el Cine

SPOTLIGHT ON DANIEL GIMÉNEZ CACHO SCREENING + PRESENTATION OF THE MVFF AWARD FOR ACTING ¡VIVA EL CINE! | WORLD Mexico, 2022, 161 min, Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Named for the Buddhist concept of a transitional state…

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

mvff 2022 Ireland, UK, United States LAUGH Lark Theater, Rafael 1 Oct 7, Oct 9 WORLD CINEMA Film

LAUGH | WORLD Ireland, UK, US 2022, 114 min, Director: Martin McDonagh While civil war rages across Galway Bay, another kind of battle bursts forth on the tiny island of Inisherin when fiddler Colm (Brendan Gleeson) severs his friendship with…