Tony Manero (John Travolta) doesn't have much going for him during the weekdays. He still lives at home and works as a paint store clerk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. But he lives for the weekends, when he and his friends go to the local disco and dance the night away. When a big dance competition is announced, he wrangles the beautiful and talented Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney) to be his partner. As the two train for the big night, they start to fall for each other as well.

"Tonratun" (2023)

Director, Inna Mkhitaryan

In an Armenian village with a patriarchal tradition, five women who are daughters, mothers and grandmothers debate together about life and war while they prepare lavash, the Armenian traditional bread. 

"Aurora's Sunrise" (2022)

Director: Inna Sahakyan

The movie is based on the real life story of Aurora Mardiganyan, an Armenian genocide survivor,  who after escape, became an actress in the United States. 

Produced by Bars Media Documentary Film Studio (Armenia) in collaboration with Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion (Germany) and Broom Films (Lithuania). 

"1489" (2023)

Director: Shoghakat Vardanyan

When her brother goes missing during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Shoghakat decides to film her parents search and emotional process - even at times when others might have put down the camera. The film won the IDFA award for the Best Film in International Competition, as well as the FIPRESCI Award. 

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There Was, There Was Not

Director, Emily Mkrtichian 

There was, There was not  follows four woman living in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of one war while on the precipice of another. In the midst of its uncertainty, four woman build a life with the hope of making their home a better place. When war breaks out again, what began as an observational meditation on woman's roles, after conflict becomes an urgent and intimate record of their lives interrupted once again by war. From taking up arms on the front lines to fleeing their homes as refugees, we watch each woman's life change irrevocably. The war ends in the unimaginable: the complete ethnic cleansing and erasure of their homeland. Amid these woman's struggle for survival in a new reality, this film becomes the myth of a home lost forever and the power of story to keep it alive. 

"Luka" (2023)

Written and Directed by Venice Lion winner Jessica Woodworth (BE/US)

Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in the legendary Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience, endurance, sacrifice. As he rises through the rank, Luka finds joy and strength in friendship with Konstantin, an enigmatic radar engineer and Geronimo, a light-hearted private. 

"Yeva" (2017)

Director, Anahid Abad

"Yeva" is a captivating Armenian drama film that tells the story of a young woman who flees from Armenia to a remote village in Artsakh after being framed for her husband's death. The film has been presented at more than 40 festivals worldwide, won 20 awards including the Golden Apricot International Film festival. 

Missak et Melinee Manouchian" (2024)

Director, Katia Guiragossian

Synopsys: "On February 21st, 1944 the French resistance figure Missak Manouchian, was executed in Mont-Valerienne along with his friends. That heroic fighter of the movement is my great uncle. 80 years after Missak's execution, I discovered his notebooks to my great excitement. It's a real treasure in my hands. I slide my fingers over the French and Armenian pages, which were written by Manush's hand. He confided his doubts, hopes, thoughts and impressions to these notebooks. These notes revive him."  Katia Guiragossian.

"Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev" (2024)

Director, Edgar Baghdasaryan (Live Q/A with E. Baghdasaryan)

After the collapse of any empire, human destinies are crushed under the rubble. Yasha's fate is a tragicomic story of an ordinary soviet worker who has served faithfully all his life in an unpleasant production and now cannot come to terms with the changed realities. He continues to live in the country that no longer exists. The dead continue to bury the living. 

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Beating Hearts is a 2024 romantic comedy musical film directed by Gilles Lellouche from a screenplay he co-wrote with Audrey Diwan, Ahmed Hamidi and Julien Lambroschini, based on the 1997 Irish novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK? by Neville Thompson. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium

A film by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, with Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, Laurent Lafitte de la Comédie-Française

The target of a sinister plot, young Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

Comical tale focusing on the anarchic adventures of a college drop-out named Ross who has an unhealthy appetite for illegal drugs, particularly amphetamine sulphate, or speed. Having met a heavyweight dealer and drug manufacturer, Ross agrees to become his driver, a job that leads him into a series of manic and increasingly bizarre situations that distract him from his personal quest to find his errant girlfriend.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Saturday November 9th

• 1:30 PM

• 4:30 PM

• 7:30 PM

Comical tale focusing on the anarchic adventures of a college drop-out named Ross who has an unhealthy appetite for illegal drugs, particularly amphetamine sulphate, or speed. Having met a heavyweight dealer and drug manufacturer, Ross agrees to become his driver, a job that leads him into a series of manic and increasingly bizarre situations that distract him from his personal quest to find his errant girlfriend.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Friday November 8th

• 4:30 PM

• 7:30 PM

Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) is a nightclub owner who hires a down-on-her-luck singer for his club, Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald). The two hit it off and even become romantically involved, but soon she is courted by real-estate magnate Jack Burley (Jack Holt) to sing at the Tivoli Opera House. At first she refuses, but when she sees questionable posters of her put up by Blackie, she leaves, forcing Blackie to find a way to win her and his business back.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) is a nightclub owner who hires a down-on-her-luck singer for his club, Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald). The two hit it off and even become romantically involved, but soon she is courted by real-estate magnate Jack Burley (Jack Holt) to sing at the Tivoli Opera House. At first she refuses, but when she sees questionable posters of her put up by Blackie, she leaves, forcing Blackie to find a way to win her and his business back.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Beating Hearts is a 2024 romantic comedy musical film directed by Gilles Lellouche from a screenplay he co-wrote with Audrey Diwan, Ahmed Hamidi and Julien Lambroschini, based on the 1997 Irish novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK? by Neville Thompson. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium

A film by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, with Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, Laurent Lafitte de la Comédie-Française

The target of a sinister plot, young Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Marion Cotillard & Director Mona Achache attending the screening of Little Girl Blue

Docudrama about French writer and photographer Carole Achache. Through the power of filmmaking and the help of Marion Cotillard, director Mona Achache brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.

Marcello Mio is a 2024 French-Italian comedy film written and directed by Christophe Honoré. In the film, actress Chiara Mastroianni confronts living in the shadow of her real-life father Marcello Mastroianni's legacy. She portrays a version of herself alongside her real-life mother, French actress Catherine Deneuve.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

Presented by French Premiere, French American Cultural Society (FACS) & French Talent USA in partnership with local French Media MerciSF.com 

Emilia Pérez is a 2024 Spanish-language French musical crime comedy film written and directed by Jacques Audiard, based on Audiard's opera libretto of the same name, which was in turn loosely adapted from Boris Razon's 2018 novel Écoute.

Re-examine the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur's own voice.

The dashing, mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), after hypnotizing a British soldier, Renfield (Dwight Frye), into his mindless slave, travels to London and takes up residence in an old castle. Soon Dracula begins to wreak havoc, sucking the blood of young women and turning them into vampires. When he sets his sights on Mina (Helen Chandler), the daughter of a prominent doctor, vampire-hunter Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is enlisted to put a stop to the count's never-ending bloodlust.

This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. Frankenstein searches for the elusive being and eventually must confront his tormented creation.

When his brother dies, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) returns to Wales and reconciles with his father (Claude Rains). While there, he visits an antique shop and, hoping to impress Gwen (Evelyn Ankers), the attractive shopkeeper, buys a silver walking cane. That same night he kills a wolf with it, only to later learn that he actually killed a man (Bela Lugosi). A gypsy (Maria Ouspenskaya) explains that it was her son, a werewolf, that he killed, and that Larry is now one himself.

In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum's director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou's friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.

The night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée are brutally murdered by members of a violent inner-city gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the gothic mantle of the Crow, a supernatural avenger. Tracking down the thugs responsible for the crimes and mercilessly murdering them, Eric eventually confronts head gangster Top Dollar (Michael Wincott) to complete his macabre mission.