PFF27 CURATED SUBSCRIPTIONS
CURATED SUBSCRIPTIONS
NEW THIS YEAR! A Guided Festival Experience! Pick from FOUR great options:
World Perspectives, PFF Sampler, Dark Shadows, and Festival Circuit.
Prices vary between packages based on the total cost of all included tickets.
WORLD PERSPECTIVES | Six films for $76 / $52 for PFS Members
WOMAN AT WAR
Friday, October 19 | 12:00 PM | Ritz East
In this rousing Icelandic drama, a mild-mannered choir instructor becomes an unlikely eco-warrior when she decides to take the fight against big industry into her own hands.
MUG
Saturday, October 20 | 9:00 PM | Ritz East
A biting satire of prejudice and hypocrisy in rural Poland, this affecting drama follows a young man whose small town turns against him after a freak accident leaves him disfigured.
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Sunday, October 21 | 7:15 PM |Ritz East
The mythic birth and tragic rise of the Colombian drug trade is shown as never before in this stunning epic that opened Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
HAPPY AS LAZARRO
Friday, October 26 | 12:00 PM | Ritz East
Simple-minded Lazzaro finds himself thrust into the center of a time-bending, saintly odyssey after he’s enlisted to stage a kidnapping by the rebellious son of an Italian tobacco tycoon.
RAFIKI
Saturday, October 27 | 10:00 PM | Ritz East
On the lively, colorful Nairobi streets of the Slopes, two young daughters of local political opponents fall for each other despite the dangers if their controversial romance were to be discovered.
ASAKO I&II
Sunday, October 28 | 12:30 PM | Ritz East
After the love of her life mysteriously vanishes, a lovelorn college student attempts to move on, finding hope when a potential new beau eerily resembles the disappeared.
PFF SAMPLER | Six films for $83 / $56 for PFS Members
INFINITE FOOTBALL
Friday, October 19 | 4:50 PM | Ritz Five
Corneliu Porumboiu brings his trademark off-kilter humor to this documentary portrait of a small-time bureaucrat on a decades-long quest to revise the rules of the world’s most popular sport.
BUTTERFLIES
Saturday, October 20 | 4:30 PM | Ritz East
A motley trio of siblings is reconnected after an unexpected phone call from their estranged father prompts them to return to their hometown to fulfill a surprising last request.
BURNING
Sunday, October 21 | 4:15 PM | Ritz East
In this thriller from Lee Chang-dong, one of the modern giants of cinema, an alienated young man begins to suspect the sinister intentions of the wealthy stranger who’s won the affections of the woman he longs for.
THE WIND
Wednesday, October 24 | 9:50 PM | Ritz East
Left alone on the edge of the Western frontier, a young settler must guard her homestead and her mind against dark forces lurking just beyond her lantern’s light in this unnerving genre-bender.
NARRATIVE SHORTS
Saturday, October 27 | 12:15 PM | Ritz East
This year’s most enjoyed, surprising, and memorable American and international short films.
ALL SQUARE
Sunday, October 28 | 12:00 PM | Ritz East
A small-time bookie (Michael Kelly) temporarily hits it big when he starts taking bets on little league games in this scrappy dramedy.
DARK SHADOWS | Six films for $90 / $60 for PFS Members
BODIED
Friday, October 19 | 8:50 PM | Ritz East
Outrageous and insightful, Joseph Kahn’s comedy follows a white, hip-hop-obsessed grad student who becomes immersed in the world of underground rap battles.
BORDER
Saturday, October 20 | 7:10 PM | Ritz East
An unusual looking border customs agent with a sense of smell so powerful it can identify criminals meets a suspicious stranger who shares her abilities in this utterly unique mystery.
WILD
Sunday, October 21 | 9:40 PM | Ritz East
Regardless of the harsh environment that surrounds Leo, a 22-year-old gay hustler, he longs for human connection and love, and will do anything to find it.
PIG
Tuesday, October 23 | 9:40 PM | Ritz East
As a serial killer targeting the country’s best filmmakers terrorizes Tehran, one cocky but deeply neurotic director doesn’t know whether to be fearful or offended not to have made the hit list in this Iranian satire.
DIAMANTINO
Saturday, October 27 | 5:40 PM | Ritz East
In the most bizarre, puppy-filled political satire of the year, disgraced international soccer star DIAMANTINO unknowingly becomes the center of a Portuguese conspiracy to secede from the EU.
DONNYBROOK
Sunday, October 28 | 8:00 PM | Ritz East
Amidst the opioid epidemic infecting America’s rust belt, down-and-out ex-Marine Jarhead Earl (Jamie Bell) battles for a large cash prize in an underground boxing ring against a raging madman.
FESTIVAL CIRCUIT | Six films for $76 / $52 for PFS Members
SOFIA
Saturday, October 20 | 12:20 PM | Ritz East
When a Moroccan woman unexpectedly gives birth to a child and is reluctant to name the father, she must face the harsh repercussions of Casablanca law and the dishonoring of her family.
FOREBODING
Tuesday, October 23 | 9:15 PM | Ritz Five
Kiyoshi Kurosawa continues to dazzle audiences with his newest cult sci-fi entry that explores an alien race’s invasion of earth to further understand life, love, hate, and death.
TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD
Friday, October 26 | 12:20 PM | Ritz East
After a massacre leaves him the sole survivor, a French WWII soldier goes rogue in the nightmarish jungles of Indochina in search of revenge as his own heart descends into darkness.
AMIN
Friday, October 26 | 2:35 PM | Ritz East
A solemn Senegalese immigrant in Paris finds himself in a moral struggle after he strikes up a fleeting romance with a recent divorcee while raising money for his wife and children back home.
DEAD PIGS
Saturday, October 27 | 2:45 PM | Ritz East
Following the crisscrossing paths of several eccentric characters, this ensemble satire captures the outrageous showdown between tradition and modernity in rapidly developing Shanghai.
L’ANIMALE
Sunday, October 28 | 3:00 PM | Ritz East
Tomboy Mati is treated just like one of the rowdy boys in her dirt bike gang, but when she rejects a fellow rider’s admiration, her exclusion from the group forces her to set a new course.