The Hamptons International Film Festival will screen Cannes Jury Prize Winner EO by Jerzy Skolimowski, Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane, and Decision to Leave by Cannes Best Director winner Park Chan-wook among others when the 30th edition unspools October 7-16.The lineup of docs and narrative features includes five world premieres.
The fest will present its 2022 Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award to Mariska Hargitay.In EO, a donkey explores a vision of modern Europe, experiencing joy and pain as he encounters good and bad people along his journey.
It will screen as pat of the festival’s Compassion, Justice and Animal Rights Signature Program.Call Jane, the Spotlight Film, is the story of a brave group of women who ran an underground abortion clinic before the passage of Roe vs.
Wade. It premiered at Sundance.Decision To Leave follows a detective who becomes emotionally entwined with the wife of a murdered man.Documentaries include Desperate Souls, Dark City And The Legend Of Midnight Cowboy by Nancy Buirski, the unlikely success story of the iconic film; Prime Video’s Good Night Oppy, by Ryan White, which revisits Opportunity, the Mars rover that captivated the world with invaluable images over 15 years.Three are world premieres: Warner Bros.
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