Film

Aventura Foreign Film Series presents To Life! Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet, despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live. The film is hosted by Shelly Isaacs who will … +

The Coppolas: Palo Alto (Directed by Gia Coppola) brings a shy, sensitive April,  the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy. Emily, meanwhile, offers sexual favors to every boy to cross her path – including both Teddy and his best friend Fred, a live wire without filters or … +

Based on the international best-selling novel and starring Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, From the Land of the Moon (Cannes Film Festival Official Selection) is the classic story of a free-spirited woman fighting for passionate dreams of true love against all odds. The film is directed by Nicole Garcia (France), 2017/2hrs. It will be screened in French with English subtitles. Gabrielle (Cotillard) … +

Created by students for students! Throughout an entire year, the film students conceptualized, produced and refined their cinematographic stories. Diverse genres collide on the screen: drama, comedy, sci-fi, horror, action, and thrillers. A professional panel will select the best eight short films to be screened at our festival. General Admission – $10.00 General Admission  tickets are available online AND at the door. … +

Miami Beach Cinematéque hosts the première of Ann by Venezuelan filmmaker Carla Fonte.  Ann narrates the story of Ruben, a visual artist who has decided to abandon his tormented life by taking refuge within his own imagination; creating a world parallel to reality, which distances him from all material and emotional attachment, thus exorcising his ego. Directed by Carla Forte, with With … +

Writer-director Bertrand Tavernier is truly one of the grand auteurs of the movies. His experience is vast and his knowledge is voluminous, his love is inexhaustible and his perspective is matched only by that of Martin Scorsese. This epic documentary has been a lifetime in the making. Tavernier knows his native cinema inside and out, from the giants like Renoir, Godard, and … +

Miami Premiere Engagement brings The Trip to Spain, considered one of the funniest movies of the year, and part of Tribeca Film Festival official selection. The Trip to Spain, directed by Michael Winterbottom (UK) tells the story of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embarking themselves on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip after northern England and Italy. This time around, the guys … +

Mexican Director Amat Escalante’ The Untamed comes to Miami Beach Cinématèque as a part of Miami Première Engagement. Winner in Best Director both in Cannes Festival and Venice Festival. With Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Eden Villavicencio and Andrea Peláez. It tells the story of a young mother, Alejandra who is also a working housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel … +

An injured Union soldier (Colin Farrell) arrives at an all-female Southern boarding school during the Civil War. Soon, sexual tensions lead to dangerous rivalries as the women tend to his wounds and offer him shelter and companionship. The school’s owner and headmistress is Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman). Sheltered, frustrated Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) sees the soldier as a tender soul who can sweep … +

Black Audio Film Collective at PAMM presents a selection of films characterized by an interest in the diasporic African experience, memory, and new modes of representation. Between 1982 and 1998 (BAFC) a seven-person group of British artists and filmmakers—produced groundbreaking documentaries and nonlinear films addressing social, political, and racial crises from a particular moment in Britain. John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Accra, Ghana) … +

Finland, 1962. Boxer Olli Mäki (Jarkko Lahti) is 26 years old and in love. He comes from a humble background – his manager Elis Ask (Eero Milonoff), however, wants to turn him into a glamorous boxing star. Olli is expected to be the first Finnish boxer to defeat the US-American world champion for the 1962 World Featherweight title. Olli certainly has the … +

To find the driver of the vintage mocha-colored Mercedes which she thinks hit her son and devastated her life, Diane Kramer (Emmanuelle Devos) embarks on a trip to take revenge. She goes to Évian, where she has learned the driver of the Mercedes lives, but she now has to face another woman, Marlene (Nathalie Baye) – a beauty salon proprietor and owner … +

Mindie 2017, the second annual event of Miami Independent Film Festival takes place at The Historic Miami Beach Cinematheque screening a selection of the best 27 films and web series between the 86 semi-finalists that won the 2016 Monthly Editions. These finalists will be screened during Mindie 2017, winners will receive prizes from our sponsors like Final Draft and Movie Magic. During … +

Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide – the Stalker – leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to … +

In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo’s supernatural powers suddenly … +

David Lynch: The Art Life looks at Lynch’s art, music, and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world and giving audiences a better understanding of the man and the artist. As he says, “I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, you go with ideas, and sometimes the past can conjure those … +

The Florida Film Institute in partnership with the Coral Gables Cinema announces CINEMA, a film education summer camp, from June 12 to July 21, 2017. Up to 25 high school students ages 13 to 18 are invited to attend the workshops. This year FFI will also offer a limited number of full scholarships to students in need of financial assistance. There will … +

Few stories in the history of Cuban popular music have as felicitous an outcome as those of the musicians that came to be known collectively as the Buena Vista Social Club. Director Lucy Walker chronicles the two decades of success that followed the release of the band’s original album produced by Ry Cooder and the documentary by Wim Wenders. Using the band’s … +

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, the two founding members of the house electronica band Daft Punk, wrote and directed the memorably eccentric and bizarre sci-fi opus about two robots’ quest to become human. DAFT PUNK’S ELECTROMA!’ screening on 35 mm will take place one-night-only. The film was shot on 35 mm Kodak stock under the cinematography of Bangalter. He purchased and … +

Homicide detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is one week from retiring when he’s presented with what will be the most disturbing case of his career: a serial killer who stages grisly murders representing the seven deadly sins. Brad Pitt joins Freeman as the newly-transferred David Mills, whose cockiness and marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow will be tested by the horrors committed by the … +