Film-Forward

The long-gestating passion project for actor/filmmaker Andy Serkis, who spent a reported 15 years bringing this adaptation to fruition.

A woozy road movie, a wistful sketch of an Italy fallen from grace, and a wry comedy.

What happens when you have three half-baked premises stacked together to form something only marginally coherent?

All three films offer rich explorations in under 100-minute runtimes and are highly recommended.

A quietly powerful debut feature, set in the American West in 2008, at the height of the financial and housing crisis.

If there was ever a rock star in classical music, it was Leonard Bernstein.

The occasionally stirring biopic of Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson.

The biopic offers a 1980s untainted, sanitized version of the singer that, in its own way, feels like a real-life version of Michael Jackson reaching Neverland.

The festival remains a reliable space for debuting and emerging filmmakers with singular talents willing to challenge themselves (and audiences) to expand the language of cinema.