Schedule of Events:

1:00 PM: Foreign Tongue - Walter Reade Theater
Claire Burger / 2024 / France/Germany / French and German with English subtitles / 101 minutes

When Fanny (Lilith Grasmug) meets her German pen pal Lena (Josefa Heinsius), their initial rapport is rocky: the shy, insecure French teen has arrived from Strasbourg for an extended visit at a difficult moment for the more assertive Lena. With time, however, the two girls’ relationship grows and deepens into real friendship; when Lena agrees to visit Fanny in France, their shared interest in political activism takes a troubling turn. In her third feature, Claire Burger (co-director of Party Girl, Rendez-Vous 2015) casts an up-to-the-moment eye on two young women exploring their desires and discovering themselves in the context of dangerously charged political and societal circumstances. With outstanding supporting performances from Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni as the two girls’ mothers, Foreign Tongue is at once intimate in its portrait of two differently wounded girls at vulnerable moments in their lives, and thrilling in the unexpected revelations and twists that propel the two through the upheavals of young adulthood.

3:30 PM: Planet B - Walter Reade Theater
Aude Léa Rapin / 2024 / France / French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles / 118 minutes

2039: after a group of environmental activists known only as “R” are arrested in the midst of an attempted bombing, they wake up on Planet B—the world’s first virtual prison. R’s members, among them Julia (Adèle Exarchopoulos), struggle to figure out how to escape, but soon find that the greatest challenge of all might be resisting the temptation to turn on each other; meanwhile, undocumented Iraqi journalist Nour (Souheila Yacoub) learns of the facility’s existence and sets about finding her way in. Unnervingly tapping into contemporary anxieties about VR and climate change, Aude Léa Rapin’s innovative thriller looks slightly into the future to offer a disturbingly convincing vision of what could be in store. Alongside cutting-edge visual effects, Planet B boasts a typically ominous and atmospheric score from director-composer Bertrand Bonello (director of NYFF61 Main Slate selection The Beast).

6:00 PM: In His Own Image - Walter Reade Theater
Thierry de Peretti / 2024 / France / French, English, and Corse with English subtitles / 115 minutes

An acclaimed actor and, in his capacity as director, a Rendez-Vous regular dating back to his first feature, 2013’s Apaches, Thierry de Peretti returns to that film’s Corsican setting in his latest, an ambitiously sweeping account of recent Corsican history that operates in an intimate register. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Jérôme Ferrari, de Peretti’s retelling follows Antonia (Clara-Maria Laredo), an enigmatic but driven photographer, from the 1980s to the moment, bearing witness to her love affair with the increasingly radical activist Pascal (Louis Starace) as it intersects with the intricacies of the island’s often-violent fight for independence. Shooting in masterfully controlled long takes to evoke decades of turmoil, de Peretti conjures a vision of a woman who remains deeply and passionately engaged with the realities of her place and time, steadfastly refusing to separate the political from the personal.

9:00 PM: Winter in Sokcho - Walter Reade Theater
Koya Kamura / 2024 / France/Korea / French, Korean, and English with English subtitles / 94 minutes

Having never met her long-absent French father, Son-ha (Bella Kim) is startled when artist Yan Kerrand (Roschdy Zem) arrives to stay at the small hotel where she works in a Korean seaside town. The half-Korean literature student and the French outsider form a tentative bond, but Son-ha can’t help but wonder about the truth behind his identity and his reason for visiting. An intimate drama set against the naturally majestic background of its wintry setting, Koya Kamura’s understated triumph sketches out a nascent parental relationship in which newcomer Kim proves a real discovery, more than holding her own against veteran performer Zem (The Innocent, Rendez-Vous 2023). The delicately rendered result is a story of tentative beginnings, cross-cultural bonding, and the never-ending search for self-understanding.

Ticket Prices:

General Public: $19
Students, Seniors, and Persons with Disabilities: $17
FLC Members: $14
Opening Night - General Public: $25
Opening Night - FLC Members: $20

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