West Virginia International Film Festival
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 02:00pm
West Virginia International Film Festival
Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema
230 Capitol Street
The West Virginia International Film Festival Inspires A Love Of Cinema Through Diverse And Inclusive Films.
Schedule Of Events:
The Substance
2:00pm
Demi Moore Gives A Career-Best Performance As Elisabeth Sparkle, A Former A-Lister Past Her Prime And Suddenly Fired From Her Fitness Tv Show By Repellent Studio Head Harvey (Dennis Quaid).
She Is Then Drawn To The Opportunity Presented By A Mysterious New Drug: The Substance. All It Takes Is One Injection And She Is Reborn – Temporarily – As The Gorgeous, Twentysomething Sue (Margaret Qualley).
The Only Rule? Time Needs To Be Split: Exactly One Week In One Body, Then One Week In The Other. No Exceptions. A Perfect Balance. What Could Go Wrong?
Deliriously Entertaining And Ruthlessly Satirical, Coralie Fargeat's Cannes Sensation Turns Toxic Beauty Culture Inside Out With A Be-Careful-What-You-Wish-For Fable For The Ages. Explosive, Provocative And Twisted, The Substance Marks The Arrival Of A Thrillingly Visionary Filmmaker.
Sleep
5:00pm
Hyun-Su And Soo-Jin Are Newlyweds. Seemingly Out Of Nowhere, He Starts Talking In His Sleep. "Someone's Inside." From That Night On, Whenever He Falls Asleep, He Transforms Into Someone Else With No Recollection Of What Happened The Night Before. Soo-Jin Is Overwhelmed With Anxiety That He'd Hurt Her Family While She Sleeps And Can Barely Sleep A Wink Because Of This Irrational Fear. Despite Sleep Treatment, Hyun-Su's Sleepwalking Only Intensifies, And She Begins To Feel That Her Unborn Child May Be In Danger
Omniloop
7:30pm
A Quantum Physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) Finds Herself Stuck In A Time Loop, With A Black Hole Growing In Her Chest And Only A Week To Live. When She Meets A Gifted Student (Ayo Edibiri), They Team Up To Save Her Life -- And To Unlock The Mysteries Of Time Travel..