Philadelphia Film Festival

Schedule Of Events

1:00pm - BABY

After release from juvenile detention, a young man finds himself alone on the streets of São Paulo, desperate to survive and unable to locate his family until an alluring stranger pulls him into the dangerous world of sex work in this engrossing drama.
Director: MARCELO CAETANO
Runtime: 106 min
Film Society Bourse

8:45pm - DESERT ROAD

After a car crash in the middle of nowhere, a fledgling photographer finds herself trapped in a loop that she may never escape in this inventive mystery.
Director: SHANNON TRIPLETT
Runtime: 90 min
Film Society East

6:15pm - FILMADELPHIA SHORTS PROGRAM

A selection of locally made short films.
Runtime: 90 min
Film Society Center

3:15pm - MEN OF WAR

This explosive, stranger-than-fiction documentary profiles the man behind Operation Gideon, a failed attempt by American-trained mercenaries to overthrow the Venezuelan government.
Director: BILLY CORBEN, JEN GATIEN
Runtime: 103 min
Film Society Bourse

8:30pm - NIGHT CALL

As Black Lives Matter protesters clash with the police on the streets of Brussels, a Black student moonlighting as a locksmith responds to a job that sparks a wild, one-night descent into the criminal underworld.
Director: MICHIEL BLANCHART
Runtime: 91 min
Film Society Bourse

6:30pm - SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE

Cillian Murphy delivers a brilliantly understated performance in this quietly moving drama about a man caught between his faith and his conscience when he becomes aware of abuses within his village’s convent.
Director: TIM MIELANTS
Runtime: 97 min
Film Society East

8:00pm - THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME

During the Christmas season of 1989, Romanian bureaucrats and citizens alike intertwine as they fumble their way toward revolution in Bogdan Mur?anu's award-winning satire.
Director: BOGDAN MURESANU
Runtime: 138 min
Film Society Bourse

6:00pm - THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

With his first English-language feature, Pedro Almodóvar merges the captivating star power of Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton for an exquisite exploration of devotion, regret, and mortality.
Director: PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
Runtime: 106 min
Film Society East

8:30pm - THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

Mohammad Rasoulof's daring social thriller follows the dissolution of a middle-class Iranian family when a patriarch’s new government job brings him into conflict with his family.
Director: MOHAMMAD RASOULOF
Runtime: 167 min
Tue, Oct 22
Film Society East

3:45pm - VERMIGLIO

In the secluded mountain village of Vermiglio, the blossoming romance between the daughter of a schoolteacher and a young Sicilian soldier triggers a chain of events that will irreversibly transform their tight-knit community.
Director: MAURA DELPERO
Runtime: 119 min
Film Society Bourse

1:45pm - 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 Bourse