2023 FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 2:00 PM

NR | 1HR 57MIN | DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH

Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

DIRECTOR: LAURA POITRAS 

AMERICANA FILM FESTIVAL 

WINNER- AUDIENCE AWARD 

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER- GOLDEN LION AWARD

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Past Lives

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 4:15 PM

PG-13 | 1HR 46MIN | DRAMA/ROMANCE | ENGLISH, KOREAN

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

DIRECTOR: CELINE SONG

HOLLYWOOD ASSOCIATION MIDSEASON AWARDS

WINNER - BEST SCREENPLAY

WINNER- BEST INDIE FILM 

SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL

NOMINEE - BEST FILM

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The Quiet Girl

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 12:00 PM

PG-13 | 1HR 36MIN | DRAMA | IRISH, ENGLISH

County Waterford, Ireland, 1981. With her exhausted mother of five expecting yet another baby, neglected nine-year-old Cáit leaves her impoverished home to live with her childless distant relatives, Eibhlín and her husband Seán, for the summer. And as the warm and caring foster parents take the withdrawn child in to lighten the load of the family, a minor miracle happens: as the mild Irish summer progresses, Cáit starts to blossom under their care after experiencing affection for the first time

DIRECTOR: COLM BAIRÉAD

DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER - BEST FEATURE FILM

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Theater Camp 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 8:00 PM

PG-13 | 2HR 8MIN | COMEDY | ENGLISH

As summer rolls around again, kids are gathering from all over to attend AdirondACTS, a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York that's a haven for budding performers. After its indomitable founder Joan (Amy Sedaris) falls into a coma, her clueless "crypto-bro" son Troy (Jimmy Tatro) is tasked with keeping the thespian paradise running. With financial ruin looming, Troy must join forces with Amos (Ben Platt), Rebecca-Diane (Molly Gordon), and their band of eccentric teachers to come up with a solution before the curtain rises on opening night.

DIRECTOR: MOLLY GORDON, NICK LIEBERMAN

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 

WINNER - U.S DRAMATIC SPECIAL JURY AWARD 

SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL 

NOMINEE - AUDIENCE AWARD 

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20

A Compassionate Spy

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 12:00 PM

NR | 1HR 41MIN | DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH

The incredible story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia.

DIRECTOR: STEVE JAMES

AMERICANA FILM FESTIVAL 

NOMINEE - AUDIENCE AWARD 

SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

NOMINEE - GRAND PRIX

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Aftersun

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 2:00 PM

R | 1HR 36MIN | DRAMA | ENGLISH

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...

DIRECTOR: CHARLOTTE WELLS

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD

WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY

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The Night of the 12th

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 4:00 PM

NR | 1HR 54MIN | CRIME/DRAMA | FRENCH

Yohan Vivés of the Grenoble Criminal Squad and his team investigate a murder victim's complex life and relations, but what starts as professional soon turns into an obsession for the police captain.

DIRECTOR: DOMINIK MOLL

CÉSAR AWARDS 

WINNER - BEST FILM

WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR

WINNER - BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

LUMIERE AWARDS

WINNER - BEST FILM

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The Phantom of the Open

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 8:00 PM

PG-13 | 1HR 46MIN | COMEDY/DRAMA | ENGLISH

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN tells the remarkable true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator and optimistic dreamer from Barrow-in-Furness who, with the support of his family and friends, managed to gain entry to the 1976 British Open qualifying, despite never playing a round of golf before. With pluckiness and unwavering self-belief, Maurice pulls off a series of stunning, hilarious and heartwarming attempts to compete at the highest level of professional golf, drawing the ire of the golfing elite but becoming a British folk hero in the process. Starring Academy Award Winner Mark Rylance. 

DIRECTOR: CRAIG ROBERTS

BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS

NOMINEE - BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

NOMINEE - BEST FILM

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21

The Earth is All That Lasts 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 AT 4:00 PM

NR | 1HR 52MIN | DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH

A man returns home to the hearts of the great spaces. He recounts his life, which he burned by both ends and which reveals another History of America. Also, through his own history and his characters, he tells his relationship to the world. Through this spiritual and joyful testament, from Livingston MO to Patagonia AZ, he invites you to go back to basics and live in harmony with Nature. This man is one of the greatest American writers and poets. His name is Jim Harrison.

2nd American Debut at The Garden Theater

DIRECTOR: François Busnel, Adrien Soland

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Emily

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 AT 1:30 PM

R | 2HR 10MIN | BIO/DRAMA | ENGLISH

"Emily" imagines Emily Brontë's own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, 'Wuthering Heights.' Haunted by her mother's death, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.

DIRECTOR: FRANCES O’CONNOR 

STOCKHOLM FILM FESTIVAL 

WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR

DINARD BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD

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Polite Society 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 AT 8:00 PM

PG-13 | 1HR 43MIN | ACTION/COMEDY | ENGLISH, URDU 

A merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

DIRECTOR: NIDA MANZOOR

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER - DIRECTORS TO WATCH

FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL 

WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD

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RRR

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 AT 10:00 AM

PG-13 | 3HR 7MIN | ACTION/DRAMA | TELUGU, ENGLISH

A fictitious story about two legendary revolutionaries and their journey away from home before they started fighting for their country in the 1920s.

DIRECTOR: S.S. RAJAMOULI

ACADEMY AWARDS

WINNER - BEST ORIGINAL SONG

CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS

WINNER - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22

Argentina,1985

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 AT 2:00 PM

R| 2HR 20MIN | DRAMA | SPANISH, ENGLISH

'Argentina, 1985' is inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo and their young legal team of unlikely heroes in their David-vs-Goliath battle to prosecute Argentina's bloodiest military dictatorship against all odds and in a race against time to bring justice to the victims of the Military Junta.

DIRECTOR: SANTIAGO MITRE

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER - FIPRESCI PRIZE

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BlackBerry

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 AT 5:00 PM

R | 1HR 59MIN | DRAMA/COMEDY | ENGLISH

A company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway.

DIRECTOR: MATT JOHNSON

CALGARY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

WINNER- AUDIENCE AWARD

SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL

NOMINEE - AUDIENCE AWARD

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The League

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 AT 12:00 PM

PG | 1HR 43MIN | DOCUMENTARY | ENGLISH

THE LEAGUE celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century. The story is told through previously unearthed archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with legendary players like Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil – whose early careers paved the way for the Jackie Robinson era – as well as celebrated Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Hank Aaron who started out in the Negro Leagues. 

DIRECTOR: SAM POLLARD

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

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Date: October 19-22, 2023  

Location:  The Garden Theater, 301 West Main Street, Frankfort, MI 49635

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