PROXY FALL FILM FEST 2022
This Fall season’s films examine the concept of people coming into their own power – through the lens of womanhood, sexuality, identity, and adversity. In each film, characters overcome personal hardships to etch out new meaning for themselves within the lot life has dealt them.
9.23 Memoria
Memoria
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021
Running time: 2h 16m
Spanish/English with English subtitles
A bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
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9.30 Lead Me Home
Lead Me Home
Directed by Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk, 2021
Running time: 39m
500,000 Americans experience homelessness every night. Lead Me Home is a documentary short by Jon Shenk and Pedro Kos that captures the experience from multiple perspectives. This immersive, cinematic film personalizes the overwhelming issue by telling the real-life stories of those going through it as a first step toward challenging uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies and gives the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope and diversity of unsheltered America today.
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10.7 Neptune Frost
Neptune Frost
Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman, 2021
Running time: 1h 45m
Kinyarwanda/English/Swahili/French with English subtitles
In an otherworldly e-waste camp made of recycled computer parts, a subversive hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.
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10.14 Happening
Happening
Directed by Audrey Diwan, 2021
Running time: 1h 40m
French with English subtitles
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
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10.21 Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman
Directed by Emerald Fennell, 2020
Running time: 1h 54m
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