Film
Most Beautiful Island (screening with Innards)
- 9:45PM
Single Tickets
Ana Asensio’s gritty debut, which won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at SXSW, takes inspiration from the director’s own experience overstaying her visa. Luciana (played by Asensio herself), an undocumented Spanish woman living in the shadows of New York City, struggles to get by on demeaning odd jobs. When she’s offered a chance to make what seems like an easy $2,000, she jumps at the opportunity—but soon finds that it comes with a sadistic catch. Most Beautiful Island combines twisted genre thrills with a sobering depiction of life on the margins.
Innards
Dir. Tyler Rubenfeld, US, 2017, 11min
Over the course of a long night, a former child actor reconnects with his twin brother to discuss a role they once shared: the lead in a cruddy, shot-on-video cannibal film called Innards. World Premiere.
Documentarian Nanfu Wang’s poignant portrait of American individualism and a young man lost.
A teenage girl tests the waters of the real world during a languorous Chicago summer.
A startling, all-access look inside the scandal-plagued Oakland Police Department.