PROXY FALL FILM FEST 2024
Knowing that so many of us need a respite from the everyday, this year’s PROXY FALL FILM FESTIVAL is a collection of five inspiring, visually stunning, and aurally appealing films — films both big and small, known and unknown. As always, we look to the best, and most recent independent film releases and this Fall’s selections are filled with joy, wonder, and awe. We hope you come out and lose yourself watching films outside under the stars with us in the weeks ahead!
PRESHOW
9.27 SONGS OF EARTH
SONGS OF EARTH
Directed by Margreth Olin, 2023
Running time: 1h 30m
Norwegian with English Subtitles
With Norway’s dizzyingly beautiful mountain landscapes as its monumental backdrop, filmmaker Margreth Olin embarks on an existential journey with her own aging parents as the human yardstick out in the vast expanses. Here, their family has always lived side by side with nature, even when the Earth’s primordial forces have shown their most merciless side. Her parents’ love and lifelong loyalty bear quiet witness to how surroundings and inner space resonate with each other. But not even the most rock-solid mountain is unchanging – and certainly not in times like ours. The level of detail in Olin’s lyrical and visionary poem to her homeland is almost beyond anything seen on the big screen. And that is most definitely where Songs of Earth should be experienced.
SONGS OF EARTH PRESHOW PLAYLIST
10.4 HERE
HERE
Directed by Bas Devos, 2023
Running time: 1h 22m
Dutch/French/Romanian/Mandarin with English subtitles
Set in beautifully photographed Brussels, Belgian director Bas Devos’ Here follows Stefan, a Romanian construction worker, who is soon to leave on vacation. While getting ready for his trip, he empties his fridge and makes a soup with the vegetables that would otherwise go rotten. He distributes the soup to his friends and family as gifts. On the day he is about to leave, he meets Shuxiu, a Belgian-Chinese woman preparing a doctorate thesis on mosses. Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks.
HERE PRESHOW PLAYLIST
10.11 LA CHIMERA
LA CHIMERA
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher, 2023
Running time: 2h 13m
Italian/English/French/Portuguese with English Subtitles
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth - in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak.
LA CHIMERA PRESHOW PLAYLIST
10.18 HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS
HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS
Directed by Goran Stolevski, 2024
Running time: 1h 47m
Albanian/Macedonian/Romani with English subtitles
Portrait of an unconventional family: the film tells the story of a vibrant yet complex multiethnic LGBT community living together in Dita's large apartment. After Dita loses her partner to cancer, she finds herself entrusted with the care of their two daughters, with support from a fake husband and his young lover. The relationships among them prove to be stronger than any racial, social, gender, or generational conflict.
HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS PRESHOW PLAYLIST
10.26 INSIDE OUT 2
INSIDE OUT 2
Directed by Kelsey Mann, 2024
Running time: 1h 47m
Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.
