Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) and Dong-soo (Dong-won Gang) run an elaborate scheme in which they take babies left at a drop box of the local church which they work across the street from. Once they have the infants, they find parents on the adoption black market who are willing to pay a handsome sum for the…
God’s Creatures
Aileen (Emily Watson) is delighted when her estranged son, Brian (Paul Mescal), suddenly returns home to their small fishing town on the coast of Ireland. While the mother rejoices, the same cannot be said about the rest of the town, namely Sarah (Aisling Franciosi), an old high school flame of Brian’s that has since grown…
EO
EO is a circus donkey with a close bond to his handler, Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska), but when new laws go into effect banning the use of live animals in performances, EO is taken to a farm to live out his days as a therapy animal for children with disabilities. On the night of his birthday,…
Murina
Julija (Gracija Filipovic) lives at her family’s seafront villa with her controlling father, Ante (Leon Lucev), and unsatisfied mother, Nela (Danica Curcic). When Javier (Cliff Curtis), a wealthy friend of Ante’s comes to visit a parcel of land that he is looking to develop, his eccentric nature instantly captures the attention of Julija and reawakens…
The Catholic School
Edoardo (Emanuele Maria Di Stefano) is a junior at a prestigious catholic school in 1975. Despite being taught to live a life of peace and grace, the boys flirt with violence constantly as they navigate their adolescence, rejecting anyone who is different, and acting on their growing attention to the neighborhood girls. While Edoardo fumbles…
Emancipation
News travels slowly in 1860s America, and the law even slower. While Lincoln had proclaimed that slavery was to be outlawed and persons in servitude were hereby freed, in the eyes of the confederacy, Peter (Will Smith) was still a slave. After being taken from his home and put to work on laying a railway,…
The Wonder
Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is an English nurse called to Ireland during a time of famine to observe a young girl, Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), after she stopped eating on her eleventh birthday some four months prior. Seen by some as a miracle, others as a scientific oddity, as well as a fair number…
Living
Peter Wakeling (Alex Sharp) nervously boards the train for his first day of work under Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy), the no-nonsense head of the London Public Works department in the 1950s. When a group of local women visit the office again to inquire about the construction of a neighborhood playground, Peter is put to work…
The Pale Blue Eye
During the autopsy of Leroy Fry (Steven Maier), a young cadet at West Point Military Academy, it becomes alarmingly aware that his hanging was more likely an act of murder than one of suicide further complicated by the postmortem removal of the young man’s heart. Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is brought in to investigate the…
The Marquee Topic 