The Beyond / Retro
The Beyond offers films that dare to be different. Films in this section are eligible for Audience Awards for Best International Feature or Best Narrative Feature.
THE BEYOND
★ World Premiere: In this unnerving chiller, a young couple agrees to document their first pregnancy for a reality show, but when unexplained events start to plague the production, they suspect something might be wrong with their unborn bundle of joy.
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Directed By: Brian Netto
Written By: Brian Netto, Adam Schindler
Produced By: Adam Schindler
Featuring: Laurel Vail, Danny Barclay, Rob Cobuzio
THE BEYOND
★ US Premiere: Mr. Hasumi is the perfect teacher: young, intelligent, popular and cute. He’s also a psychopath, a fact that doesn’t bode well for anyone who crosses him. Takashi Miike directs this violent high school thriller, and shows off a sense of humor that’s as black as dried blood. (Japan)
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Directed By: Takashi Miike
Written By: Takashi Miike
Produced By: Koji Azuma, Toru Mori, Misako Saka
Featuring: Hideaki Ito, Fumi Nikaido, Kento Hayashi, Shota Sometani
THE BEYOND
Home sweet home becomes a little less so when murderous mask-wearing maniacs invade. One of the sharpest horror movies in recent memory, You’re Next is as fun as it is thrilling, boasting an energy that doesn’t flag until the final kill.
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Directed By: Adam Wingard
Written By: Simon Barrett
Produced By: Keith Calder, Jessica Wu, Simon Barrett, Kim Sherman
Featuring: Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Rob Moran, Barbara Crampton , L.C. Holt, Simon Barrett, Lane Hughes
RETRO
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Fellini’s beloved Amarcord, his fantastical reimagining of his childhood in a provincial seacoast town during the Fascist era, with a screening of the Oscar-winning masterwork. (Italy)
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Directed By: Federico Fellini
Written By: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Produced By: Franco Cristaldi
Featuring: Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Gianfilippo Carcano, Armando Brancia
LAFCA’S FILM THAT GOT AWAY
Sri Lankan director Vmukthi Jayasundara revisits the decades-long Sri Lankan civil war with his surreal, visually stunning 2009 feature. An unforgettable re-imagining of upheaval in a carnivorously fecund battle zone. A Los Angeles Film Critics Association selection. (Sri Lanka/France)
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Directed By: Vimukthi Jayasundara
Written By: Vimukthi Jayasundara
Produced By: Michel Klein, Philippe Avril, Michel Reilhac, Anura Silva, Chandan Aluthge
Featuring: Thusitha Laknath, Kaushalya Fernando, Huang Lu
RETRO
Nighttime New York in 1958 comes to moody, jazz-soaked life in this rarely seen noir from the great Jean-Pierre Melville, who cast himself as a journalist on an ethically fraught mission to track down a missing French diplomat. (France)
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Directed By: Jean Pierre-Melville
Written By: Jean-Pierre Melville
Produced By: Florence Melville, Alain Térouanne
Featuring: Pierre Grasset, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michèle Bailly, Jean Darcante, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall, Monique Hennessy, Jean Lara, Jerry Mengo