32ND PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM
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20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s debut feature is a tender portrait of girlhood and womanhood as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old during a family vacation in the countryside.
BETWEEN THE RAINS
With an empathetic subject at its core, this heartwarming documentary from Kenya captures a young man’s exploration of his identity amidst the ecological erosion of his community.
THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED
Filmmaker Joanna Arnow stars as a thirtysomething woman in New York City navigating her BDSM relationship and cubicle hell with a defiant shrug in this wry send-up of modern millennial living.
GOODBYE JULIA
Mohamed Kordofani’s Cannes prizewinner merges Sudanese history into an affecting narrative about two women whose vastly different worlds collide after a horrific tragedy.
IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
Zoljargal Purevdash’s affecting and personal portrayal follows Ulzii, a gifted teen who is suddenly faced with incredibly adult choices when his mother leaves him and his siblings in the dead of winter.
SILVER DOLLAR ROAD
When a land developer leverages legal loopholes to seize waterfront property owned by a Black family for more than a century, it sparks a decades-long battle exposing the fractured American system fueling economic disparity.
SMOKING TIGERS
Director So Young Shelly Yo delivers a refreshing Korean-American coming-of-age narrative about a girl navigating the pressures of adolescence when she is admitted into an elite school.
UPON ENTRY
A couple is flagged by a border agent and forced to endure an invasive probe into their lives in the hauntingly relevant sociopolitical debut from Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez.