The best new cinema that wouldn’t screen in Knoxville otherwise.
International Currents
Highlights from the year’s top international festivals, with a particular interest in work that demonstrates ways of approaching “regional” filmmaking. The International Currents program at FILM FEST KNOX 2023 began with Bas Devos’s particular vision of Brussels, Belgium as a site of migration, construction, and pockets of natural beauty in Here, and ended with Aki Kaurismäki’s typically dry and romantic view of working class Helsinki, Finland in Fallen Leaves.
2023 Program
About Thirty
Dir. by Martín Shanly
Arturo's penchant for indiscretions is impossible to overlook.November 12 · Regal Riviera · 5:20 p.m.
Anselm
Dir. by Wim Wenders
A 3D portrait of artist Anselm Kiefer. Screening with Laberint Sequences by Blake Williams.November 11 · Regal Riviera · 5:30 p.m.
Fallen Leaves
Dir. by Aki Kaurismäki
Screening with Pedro Costa's The Daughters of Fire.November 12 · Regal Riviera · 7:30 p.m.
Here
Dir. by Bas Devos
A potential love story between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese doctorate student of moss.November 10 · Regal Riviera · 7:30 p.m.
Mambar Pierrette
Dir. by Rosine Mbakam
Pierrette carries on as best as she can, laughing and commiserating with her neighbors.November 12 · Regal Riviera · 3:20 p.m.
