Directed by Amjad Abu Alala • 2019 • Sudan
Starring Mustafa Shehata, Islam Mubarak, Mahmoud Elsarraj
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best debut film at the Venice Film Festival, Amjad Abu Alala’s revelatory first feature is a visually sumptuous coming-of-death fable. During a child’s naming ceremony, a sheikh predicts that Muzamil (Mustafa Shehata) will die at the age of twenty. Haunted by this prophecy, his mother (Islam Mubarak) becomes fiercely protective of him. As Muzamil escapes his mother’s ever-watchful eye, however, he encounters friends, ideas, and challenges that cause him to question his destiny. Sudan’s first-ever Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is a moving reflection on what it means to live in the present from a captivating new cinematic voice.
Directed by Noah Baumbach • 2013 • United States
Starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner
Greta Gerwig is radiant as Frances, a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her intimate but shifting bond with her best friend, Sop...
Directed by David Gordon Green • 2000 • United States
Starring Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damien Jewan Lee
Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices. An ambitiously constructed, elegantly photographed med...
Directed by Ken Loach • 2019 • United Kingdom
Starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone
Humanist master Ken Loach turns his empathetic eye once again to the experiences of the British working class in this wrenching family drama that exposes the dark side of the gig economy. Having los...
