Miami Film Festival 2023
Some of the features and shorts playing at the Miami Film Festival 2023. The list is in order of schedule.
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- DirectorRay RomanoStarsRay RomanoLaurie MetcalfJacob WardLeo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son 'Sticks' finds success on his high-school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
- DirectorCarolina CavalliStarsBenedetta PorcaroliGalatéa BellugiGiovanna MezzogiornoAmanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses as her new mission to convince her childhood friend that they are still best friends.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsPablo SchilsJoely MbunduAlban UkajFrom two-time Palme d'Or-winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Tori and Lokita is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed.
- DirectorTeona Strugar MitevskaStarsJelena Kordic KuretAdnan OmerovicLabina MitevskaAsja is a 40-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo. She meets Zoran, a 43-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness. During the war in 1993 he was shooting at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, they both have to relive the pain in their search for forgiveness.
- DirectorKristoffer BorgliStarsKristine Kujath ThorpEirik SætherFanny VaagerIncreasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
- DirectorSamuel VargasStarsBrandon BaezRoger TorresLaura SolletA young artist is diagnosed with a medical condition that will leave him blind for the rest of his life. As a result, he loses all his motivation to continue, but only until he finds the support he needs from his husband.
- DirectorMichael JimenezStarsPablo CunqueiroVanesa TamayoLeo, an old, undocumented field worker, gets a chance to escape poverty after winning the lottery. However, he's unable to collect the winnings himself. With no other options, he must seek help from the daughter he abandoned years ago.
- DirectorAlejandro AvilaStarsRodolfo BeguiristanZack GropperStephanie Gutierrez-DiazWhen the last of the endangered Maguffin Birds in a park dies, three park rangers attempt to fake its existence to fool an inspector into maintaining their park's funding. Good thing the animal looks like a mop with googly eyes.
- DirectorRyan LandyStarsGemma Yates-RoundAn experimental documentary depicting the abandoned Aerojet Rocket Testing Facility, a relic of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Separated by day and night, Aerojet portrays the harrowing effect these tests had on the surrounding environment.
- DirectorMelanie Cedeño-López
- DirectorMarc FitoussiStarsLaure CalamyOlivia CôteKristin Scott ThomasWhen childhood friends Magalie and Blandine cross paths after many years, they decide to finally take their dream vacation to Greece.
- DirectorCarolina MarkowiczStarsMaeve JinkingsJean Almeida Da CostaBenedito AlvesA family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.
- DirectorStig BjörkmanStarsJoyce Carol OatesLaura DernJoyce Carol Oates has written over one hundred novels in a variety of genres over an award-winning career. Years of friendship and tireless research gave director Stig Björkman unprecedented access to the writer's solitude.
- DirectorDiego LermanStarsBárbara LennieAlfredo CastroJuan MinujínA substitute teacher gets involved when one of his students is threatened by a drug kingpin.
- DirectorRandy ValdesStarsDaniel CapoteCarmen PelaezAdriana PitaAfter a brain transplant, Remedios struggles to redefine her identity in a male body. When she finds her former body standing in the attic, alive and healthy albeit vacant of mind, it thrusts her meddling family into chaos over what she should do with it, a discussion that traverses a depth of notions regarding our sense of who we are, or what is "I."
- StarsAntone PagánPierre Jean GonzalezSusanna GuzmanSet in 1980's Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY-A spunky Latina must find her own path as she comes of age to face the grim realities of the musician father she once idolized and the deteriorating neighborhood she calls home.
- DirectorAlice WinocourStarsVirginie EfiraBenoît MagimelGrégoire ColinThree months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.
- DirectorShekhar KapurStarsMim ShaikhIman BoujelouahLily JamesIn London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage. In the process, she challenges her own attitude towards relationships.
- DirectorDavina PardoLeah WolchokStarsJudy BlumeMolly RingwaldTayari JonesJudy Blume and the generations of readers who have sparked to her work. Examines her impact on pop culture and the occasional controversies over her frankness about puberty and sex.
- DirectorSophie KargmanStarsKiersey ClemonsAlex WolffJim GaffiganAn awkward college student who seizes the opportunity to bolster her popularity and her under-the-radar true-crime podcast by solving the disappearance of a classmate.
- DirectorFerdinando Vicentini OrgnaniLast Ferlinghetti images and interviews. This documentary retrace the extraordinary adventure of his life, focusing in particular on the issues that make the experience of the lost world of the Beat generation .
- DirectorEmilio Oscar AlcaldeStarsTony ValdésNicolás Reynoso'Chembo' Anselmo FeblesAfroCuba '78, the documentary tells the story and the destiny of the original Cuban jazz group AfroCuba and its musician.
- DirectorCesc GayStarsAnna CastilloChino DarínJavier ReyFive comedic tales criss-cross at random, focusing on the emotions of the main characters and told with a lot of rhythm and action.
- DirectorAndrea PallaoroStarsTrace LysetteVladimir John PerezAli AmineThe intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.