WE LIVE IN TIME
US PREMIERE
Saturday, October 5th, 2024
8:00pm – East Hampton Middle School
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
7:30pm – East Hampton Regal UA
Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together — falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family — a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley’s decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
THE ORDER
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
8:15pm – East Hampton Regal UA
Sunday, October 13th, 2024
8:00pm – East Hampton Regal UA
For over a year, a series of bold daylight bank robberies and armored car heists leaves law enforcement baffled and the public panicked throughout the Pacific Northwest. As the attacks become increasingly violent, FBI agent Terry Husk (Academy Award® nominee Jude Law) becomes convinced that the robberies are the work of domestic terrorists that plan to use the loot to finance an armed uprising against the U.S. government. A taut thriller based on shocking real-life events, Justin Kurzel’s (MACBETH, HIFF 2015) latest follows Husk and his team into a tangled world of domestic terrorists whose ideas and actions laid the early groundwork for today’s political extremism.
THE PIANO LESSON
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Saturday, October 5th, 2024
2:30pm – East Hampton Middle School
Friday, October 11th, 2024
8:00pm – Sag Harbor Cinema
A battle is brewing in the Charles household, centered on a prized heirloom piano tearing two siblings apart. On one side, Boy Willie (Golden Globe nominee John David Washington) plans to build the family fortune by selling it. On the other, his sister Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler) will go to any lengths to hold onto the sole vestige of the family’s heritage. Their uncle (Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson) tries to mediate, but even he can’t hold back the ghosts of the past. In his feature debut, HIFF Breakthrough Director Malcolm Washington adapts August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork to explore the intergenerational dynamics of identity, resilience and transcendence—revealing startling truths about how we perceive the past and who gets to define our legacy. Director Malcolm Washington, Actor John David Washington, and Acotr Danielle Deadwyler will attend the October 5th Screening.
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Saturday, October 5th, 2024
11:00 am – East Hampton Regal UA
Friday, October 11th, 2024
8:00 pm – Guild Hall
Devoted father Bill Furlong (Academy Award® winner Cillian Murphy) works as a coal merchant to support his family. In the days leading up to Christmas, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent—and uncovers truths of his own—which force him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church. Based on Claire Keegan’s best-selling novel and anchored by a stunning performance by Murphy, Tim Mielants’ SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE elegantly captures a haunted man wrestling with his morality.
THE END
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
5pm – East Hampton Regal UA
Monday, October 14th, 2024
7:30pm – East Hampton Regal UA
Academy Award nominee Joshua Oppenheimer (THE ACT OF KILLING) returns to HIFF with his narrative feature debut, a Golden Age musical about one of the last families on Earth. A wealthy couple (Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon) escaped an apocalyptic event by retreating to their luxurious compound deep underground. After the sudden arrival of an outside survivor (Emmy Award Nominee Moses Ingram, The Queen’s Gambit), their son (George MacKay, 1917) begins to question their seemingly perfect existence. Expressive and surreal, THE END interrogates privilege and denial through dynamic original music and unforgettable performances from its stellar cast.
BARRON’S COVE
WORLD PREMIERE
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
2:00pm – East Hampton Regal UA
Monday, October 7th, 2024
8:00pm – East Hampton Regal UA
Garrett Hedlund (MUDBOUND, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) stars as a grieving father with a violent past who is shattered by the tragic death of his young son. Consumed with the need for answers, he kidnaps the child (Christian Convery) he believes is responsible for his son’s death, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by the kidnapped boy’s powerful politician father (Hamish Linklater). Writer/director Evan Ari Kelman’s twisty feature debut is a gripping thriller about a flawed father’s devotion to his son and the complicated nature of revenge.Scheduled to attend: Evan Ari Kelman (writer/director), Christian Convery (cast), Raúl Castillo (cast)
THE PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
8:00pm – Guild Hall
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
2:30pm – Sag Harbor
The feature debut from Sam Pezzullo and Christopher Bouckoms finds a fresh twist on the mockumentary format. Sam (Pezzullo himself) is a painfully narcissistic theater producer attempting to realize a delusional creative vision: a musical version of his favorite movie, SCREAM, staged at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, with an accompanying documentary chronicling what he believes will be an iconic journey. Along the way, he clashes with quirky characters played by beloved real-life locals, to awkward and outrageous results. Drawing inspiration from cringe comedy classics and crafted largely through improvisation, THE PREMIERE is a keen satire about the Hamptons with a biting love letter to the community at its core. Scheduled to attend: Sam Pezzullo (co-director), Christopher Bouckoms (co-director)
CONCLAVE
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
11:00am – Guild Hall
One of the world’s most secretive and ancient events—selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Locked in the Vatican halls with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders from around the world, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of the Church. Rounded out with an all-star cast including Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini, CONCLAVE is a thrilling interrogation of faith and betrayal.
LILLY
WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
5:15pm – Guild Hall
Monday, October 14th, 2024
11:30am – East Hampton Regal UA
When a hard-working Alabama factory supervisor discovers that her company has been paying her half of what her male counterparts received for 20 years, she begins a historic fight towards justice. Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson fiercely portrays the remarkable life of fair pay activist Lilly Ledbetter, who battles for equality all the way to the Supreme Court, through the power corridors of Congress, and ultimately, into The White House. Rachel Feldman’s empowering feature film debut, featuring supporting turns from John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski, is an extraordinary journey of an ordinary woman who refuses to accept the sexist status quo. Director Rachel Feldman, Actress Particia Clarkson, Acotr Thomas Sadoski, and Lilly Ledbetter will attend the October 10th Screening.
NIGHTBITCH
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Sunday, October 13th, 2024
8:00pm – Guild Hall
8:30pm – East Hampton Regal UA
Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams delivers a bold, transformative performance as a woman who pauses her successful career as an artist to become a stay-at-home mom to her toddler. As her husband (Scoot McNairy, HIFF Breakthrough Artist 2012) works long hours as the family’s sole breadwinner, the unrelenting demands of parenthood drag on, and her new domesticity begins to take a surreal turn. Based on the novel of the same name by Rachel Yoder, writer/director Marielle Heller’s (CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, HIFF 2018) latest both frankly explores the aches and pains of being a parent and captures the innate wildness of womanhood.
