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April 2024
Saturday, 27 April
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Daily Programme
Films
If Only I Could Hibernate
12:05 PM
The first Mongolian film to ever play in official selection at Cannes, writer/director Zoljargal Purevdash’s beautifully photographed debut feature is a hope-filled coming-of-age drama about resilience and determination against the odds.
Films
Evil Does Not Exist
12:10 PM
Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village near Tokyo in this eco-fable from the Oscar and BAFTA-winning director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Talks & Engagement
Revolutionary Love with Joy James
2:00 PM
In this talk followed by a Q&A, Joy James will address writing as political protest and agency, and how all of her work addresses crises in US abolition, feminism, anti-Blackness, academic "radical" vanguards and state violence.
Films
The Teachers' Lounge
2:30 PM
The Oscar-nominated feature from German writer-director İlker Çatak’s is a brilliantly observed drama, which expertly explores the fault lines of contemporary society.
Films
Open City Documentary Festival 2024
Grandma's Grammar Programme 2: Refusals of the Given
3:00 PM
Grandma’s Grammar traces the persistence of the figure of the grandmother as locus of feminist historicity in non-fiction film, considering the grandmother as cinematic medium and privileged subject for modelling alternative modes of storytelling, inter-generational genealogies, and archives of memory and lived experience.
Films
Kidnapped
4:30 PM
9:10 PM
Never one to shy away from controversial subject matter, the veteran Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio (
Fists in the Pocket
,
The Conviction
) here brings to life an unbelievable true story lifted from the pages of a shocking and horrifying history.
Films
Open City Documentary Festival 2024
The Films of Narcisa Hirsch
5:45 PM
This programme curated by Jessica Sarah Rinland explores the work of Argentine filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch.
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Omen
7:10 PM
This magic realist film is a tale of family, relationships, suspicion and belonging. It navigates the thin layer between reality and sorcery to weave a distinct, deeply impressionistic aesthetic.
Live
Afterlife: Louis Schou-Hansen & Karoline Bakken Lund
8:00 PM
Afterlife
by Louis Schou-Hansen moves through a series of twisted dances from the late Italian Renaissance and early French Baroque, dispersed with a weird pop-cultural referential landscape.
Films
Open City Documentary Festival 2024
Essay Film Festival: Milestones
8:00 PM
A film about the American Left in the 1970s and the afterlives of political activism, a sprawling epic that interweaves the lives of numerous characters - hippies, farmers, immigrants, Native Americans and activists - as they navigate the complexities of American life.
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