Schedule:

1:00 Pm First Case
Runtime: 98 Minutes

With This First Feature, Writer/director Musiedlak Constructs A Thrillingly Tangled Web Of Ethical Dilemmas And Necessary Lies, All Held Together By The Glue Of Eroticism And The Dark Lure Of The Forbidden.  Nora, A Newly Minted Lawyer Straight Out Of Law School, Is Assigned To Defend A 19-year-old Accused Of Kidnapping And Murder.  Running Interference With The Brutally Aggressive Cop Who Is Handling The Interrogation, She Soon Finds Herself As Frighteningly Stranded In Unknown Territory As The Boy She Is Representing.  Nora’s Vulnerability Leaves Her Wide Open To The Bold Sexual Advances Of Her Nemesis, Who Sees Her Inexperience As His Advantage.  In French With English Subtitles.

4:00 Pm Eternal You
Runtime: 87 Minutes

Eternal You Takes An Incisive Look At The Ways Artificial Intelligence Technology Is Transforming The Ways Humans Deal With Death.  A New Industry Offers The Tempting Opportunity To Allegedly Communicate With Deceased Loved Ones By Way Of An Avatar That Appears To Channel Their Voices, Current Thoughts, Emotions And Memories.  In Uncanny And Increasingly Unsettling Encounters, Including With The Mom Who Would Go To Any Lengths To Again Hug Her Dead Child, The Filmmakers Survey The Startling And Sometimes Shocking Experiences Of Users.  Interviews With Multiple Developers Of The Technology Skirt Around The Ethical Implications While Eagerly Plunging Into The Future.  In English And Korean With English Subtitles.

7:00 Pm There’s Still Tomorrow
Runtime: 118 Minutes

Italy’s Biggest Box Office Hit In Years Is A Canny Comedy/drama Shot In Black-and-white With A Look That Mimics The Style Of Italian Neorealism.  Director Cortellesi, A Multitalented Popular Star, Casts Herself As Delia, A Longsuffering Working-class Wife And Mother In Mid-1940s Rome.  This Dark Comedy Riffs On The Stereotypical Image Of A Family Under The Thumb Of A Tyrannical Father And Irascible Grandfather, With Domestic Violence Staged For Rueful Laughs, But Delia Just May Have The Last Laugh.  One Day She Receives A Mysterious Letter That Holds The Earth-shaking Promise Of Change.  Special Jury Award, Audience Award, 2024 Rome Film Festival.  In Italian With English Subtitles.