Film
Earth Mama + Code Unknown
- 7PM
Join us for an advance screening of Savanah Leaf’s Earth Mama in this special double-feature event that pairs the film with Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown, a key influence on the writer-director’s acclaimed debut. Leaf will appear in-person for a Q&A along with actors Tia Nomore and Erika Alexander!
Dir. Savanah Leaf, 2023, 100min, DCP
With Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Doechii
In Savanah Leaf’s devastating debut feature, the writer-director centers the experiences of Gia (Tia Nomore), a pregnant single mother whose two children have been placed in foster care. As Gia fights to reclaim her children, she learns to embrace and cement a place for herself within her Bay Area community. Leaf’s delicate and deeply-felt drama, evocatively shot on 16mm by Jody Lee Lipes, heralds the arrival of a singular new storyteller in American film.
Dir. Michael Haneke, 2000, 118min, Digital
With Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Alexandre Hamidi
The lives of various individuals—including an actress, a Franco-African drummer, and a homeless Romanian woman—intersect over a calamitous misunderstanding in Michael Haneke’s tense and thrillingly cryptic drama, composed of various vignettes (all shot in single, unedited long takes) set in and around a politically fraught Paris.
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