Philadelphia Film Festival

Schedule Of Events

6:30pm - ANORA

FRIDAY 10/18 | 6:30 PM | Badge and Rush Line Only -Tickets are still available for SATURDAY 10/19 - Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or, Sean Baker’s giddy, fast-paced comedy features a star-making performance from Mikey Madison as a Brooklyn sex worker in a whirlwind romance with a Russian oligarch’s son. Presented on 35mm.
Director: SEAN BAKER
Runtime: 138 min
Film Society Center

12:00pm - ARMAND

By turns controlled and audacious, this riveting chamber drama features a breathtaking performance from Norwegian star Renate Reinsve as a mother whose young son is accused of an unspeakable crime.
Director: HALFDAN ULLMANN TØNDEL
Runtime: 116 min
Film Society East

5:00pm - BEN AND SUZANNE, A REUNION IN 4 PARTS

Defying genre conventions at every turn, U.S. filmmaker Shaun Seneviratne goes abroad to Sri Lanka with his charming and sweet (un)romantic comedy about an American couple's reunion and their increasingly feeble attempts at rekindling.
Director: SHAUN SENEVIRATNE
Runtime: 110 min
Film Society Bourse

9:30pm - BIRDEATER

A bachelor party goes terrifyingly off the rails, threatening to unravel the relationship between a bride-to-be and her fiancé in this brilliant, nerve-rattling takedown of toxic masculinity.
Director: JACK CLARK, JIM WEIR
Runtime: 113 min
Film Society East

4:00pm - BOUND IN HEAVEN

In this stunning, seedy, passionate love story, a woman in an unhappy marriage and a terminally ill man embark on a transformative, yet tragic, affair that dangerously reignites the missing spark in their lives.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: HUO XIN
Film Society Center

7:30pm - DANIELA FOREVER

After his girlfriend dies, a grieving man joins a clinical trial that lets him reconnect with her through lucid dreams. But as fantasy and reality blur, he's trapped by the past, leading to a haunting exploration of grief and obsession.
Director: NACHO VIGALONDO
Runtime: 118 min
Film Society Bourse

7:00pm - DREAMING OF YOU

In search of a cure for his nighttime struggles, a young man enrolls in a sleep study and crosses paths with an enigmatic fellow participant who brings unexpected romance and her own personal woes into his already complicated life.
Director: JACK MCCAFFERTY
Runtime: 95 min
Film Society East

9:45pm - ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY

A mind-melting and frenetic, time-travel-by-sneeze adventure set 3,000 light-years away finds three best friends discovering they have the ability to save their future selves from a life that ***** in this heartfelt and delirious martial arts extravaganza.
Director: YANG LI
Runtime: 98 min
Film Society Center

2:30pm - GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS

At a strict Indian boarding school, rule-abiding Mirabai is torn between duty and desire when a charming new student stirs powerful feelings. Her traditional mother’s disapproval only deepens the conflict in this tender coming-of-age story.
Director: SHUCHI TALATI
Runtime: 118 min
Film Society East

2:45pm - LIVE ACTION SHORTS PROGRAM

A selection of narrative and documentary short films.
Runtime: 90 min
Film Society Bourse

12:00pm - SANTOSH

Newly widowed Santosh finds herself inheriting her late husband’s position as a constable and quickly becomes entangled in a new case after a young girl is murdered in this seering Indian mystery.
Director: SANDHYA SURI
Runtime: 128 min
Film Society Bourse

5:00pm - THE KINGDOM

Set in 1990s Corsica, The Kingdom looks at the world of organized crime through the eyes of a 15-year-old girl whose close relationship with her father is eclipsed by the mounting violence surrounding him and his inner circle.
Director: JULIEN COLONNA
Runtime: 108 min
Film Society East

7:30pm - THE KNIFE

Nnamdi Asomugha co-wrote, directed, and stars in this searing, anxiety-inducing thriller about a Black family whose lives are turned upside down over the course of a night by a home invasion and its aftermath.
Director: NNAMDI ASOMUGHA
Runtime: 82 min
Film Society East

4:30pm - THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS

With her home at risk of government-sanctioned demolition, a young mother with aspirations of changing her son’s life stumbles upon a life-changing amount of money, putting her values and devotion to community to the ultimate test.
Director: THE AGBAJOWO COLLECTIVE
Runtime: 101 min
Film Society East

9:45pm - THE QUIET ONES

Once-promising boxer Kasper is ****** into orchestrating the largest heist in Denmark’s history, but a growing conflict with his criminal partners, his rapidly disintegrating family life, and his own moral uncertainty jeopardizes the incredible feat in this moody thriller.
Director: FREDERIK LOUIS HVIID
Runtime: 110 min
Film Society East

5:15pm - THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT

This gripping study of the political gambles of the Bush ‘89 campaign that reshaped America’s climate future uses rare archival materials to reveal how corporate interests overpowered scientific warnings, setting the stage for today’s climate crisis.
Director: BONNI COHEN, JON SHENK, PEDRO KOS
Runtime: 96 min
Film Society Bourse

2:15pm - TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz and writer Maggie Barrett lead this unflinching and meditative documentary about the complexities of marriage and companionship amid the tumultuous waves of life, creativity, and aging.
Director: MANON OUIMET, JACOB PERLMUTTER
Runtime: 100 min
Film Society East

10:15pm - VULCANIZADORA

Two troubled men embark on an enigmatic trek through the woods of Michigan bound by an unknown pact in filmmaker and star Joel Potrykus’ latest DIY feature that deftly balances cringe-inducing, hilarious monotony with deeply unsettling revelations.
Director: JOEL POTRYKUS
Runtime: 90 min
Fri, Oct 18
Film Society Bourse

12:15pm - WE WERE DANGEROUS

In the conformist world of 1950s New Zealand, a group of fiery teenagers find themselves shackled by the stifling rules of a reform school for delinquent girls and must rely on their wits and defiance to endure.
Director: JOSEPHINE STEWART-TE WHIU
Runtime: 83 min
Film Society East

12:30pm - WHO BY FIRE

A teenager joins his friend’s family on a vacation to a remote lodge owned by a film director he idolizes. The trip soon develops a tense atmosphere as the unhealthy dynamic between the adults becomes clear.
Director: PHILIPPE LESAGE
Runtime: 161 min
Film Society Bourse