Elizabeth Olsen stars in (and is an executive producer on) the A24 romantic comedy ETERNITY, the Opening Night Film at HIFF33.

Ethan Hawke has long stood among cinema’s most distinctive and quietly brilliant actors. In BLUE MOON, his ninth collaboration with Richard Linklater, he delivers a career-defining performance as Lorenz Hart—magnetic, emotionally raw, and deeply human.

While women were once considered bad luck at sea, marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder built her career investigating the mysteries of the ocean. A trailblazer as the first woman in her field, Widder led the effort to understand and record deep-sea bioluminescence, the phenomenon that allows life to survive in the darkest parts of...

Jung Myung Kim is a photographer who has dedicated decades of his life to capturing wildflowers in Korea, discovering true happiness in the process.

Middle-aged, unemployed, and living with his mother, Oscar (brilliant first-time actor Ubeimar Rios) is a failed writer clinging to fantasies of greatness in the Latin American literary scene. Wandering the streets of Medellín drunk, he stumbles upon an opportunity to mentor a truly gifted teenage poet—but can he avoid screwing...

Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster (NYAD, HIFF 2023) stars in this playful and thrilling mystery from French director Rebecca Zlotowski. Lilian (Foster) is a renowned American psychiatrist living in Paris. Deeply troubled by the sudden death of one of her longtime patients (Virginie Efira), Lilian teams up with her ex-husband...

In this gripping psychological drama, a college professor (Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts) finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Emmy Award® winner Ayo Edebiri, The Bear) makes an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light....

Actress-writer-director Cherien Dabis crafts a powerful, decades-spanning story following one Palestinian family after their displacement from Jaffa in 1948. When her teenage son (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) gets swept up into a 1980 West Bank protest, the family’s matriarch (Dabis) recounts the family story of hope, courage, and...

Reporter Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp embark on a cross-country journey to memorialize the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings.

Golden Globe Award-winning filmmaker Fatih Akin reunites with Diane Kruger (IN THE FADE) for this tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence. Twelve-year-old Nanning (Jasper Billerbeck) lives on a remote German island with his devout Nazi mother (Laura Tonk) as World War II is coming to an end. When his anti-fascist...