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RECENT
the voice of hind rajab
12.19.25
Director & Writer - Kaouther Ben Hania
Advanced Screening
(Willa)
Film: Told in real time through the recorded emergency calls of six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza, the film follows rescue dispatchers as they race to reach her under impossible conditions. Anchored by Hind’s voice, it bears intimate witness to the human cost of war and the devastating consequences of systemic failure.
AFTER THE HUNT
10.09.25
Director - Luca Guadagnino
Advanced Screening
Hosted by WUTI & AMANDA HARRIS WILLIAMS
Film: A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroad when a star student levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, threatening to expose a dark secret from her own past.
EAST OF WALL
8.06.25
Director & Writer - Kate Beecroft
Advanced Screening with
KATE BEECROFT, TABATHA ZIMIGA, PORSHIA ZIMIGA & SCOOT McNAIRY
(Sony Pictures)
Film: An authentic portrait of female resilience in the "New West" inspired and played by the women and girls who live it. Set in the Badlands of South Dakota, Tabatha, a young, rebellious rancher, who rescues and resells horses, must make hard decisions to deal with her fractured family, financial uncertainty of losing her ranch, and unresolved grief, all while providing refuge and the skills of the horse trade to a group of wayward neighborhood teens.
7.09.25
Director & Writer - Maris Curran
Special Screening with
MARIS CURRAN
JEANNETTE
Film: JEANNETTE is a testament to community, and the ways we rebuild in the wake of tragedy. Jeannette is a queer single mother, navigating the journey of healing after surviving the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre.
7.08.25
Director, Writer and Producer - Sophie Brooks
Advanced Screening with
SOPHIE BROOKS, MOLLY GORDON, LOGAN LERMAN & GERALDINE VISWANATHAN
(Sony Pictures)
OH, HI
Film: Iris and Isaac's first romantic weekend getaway as a couple goes awry. Convinced that he's just confused; Iris goes to increasingly ridiculous and irrational lengths to prove to him that they are meant to be together.
DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT
7.01.25
Director - Embeth Davidtz
Advanced Screening with
EMBETH DAVIDTZ
Film: Based on Alexandra Fuller's memoir of the same name, DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT captures the childhood of 8-year-old Bobo on her family farm in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) at the end of the Zimbabwean War for independence in 1980.
6.27.25
Director & Writer - Eva Victor
Advanced Screening
(A24)
SORRY, BABY
Film: Something terrible happened to Agnes. But life goes on for everyone else. When a friend visits on the brink of an important milestone, Agnes realizes how stuck she's been, in this bittersweet story of finding your way after your world comes crashing down.
Film: A small hotel's night desk clerk navigates ethereal fantasies unfold during routine tasks over night shift. Time stretches as transitive space blurs reality and imagination in interconnected narratives unveiling throughout clerk's shift.
5.29.25
Director - Robina Rose
Special Screening
NIGHTSHIFT
MAGIC FARM
5.10.25
Director - Amalia Ulman
Advanced Screening
(MUBI)
Film: A media team lands in the wrong country while pursuing a musician's story. They team up with locals to create viral content, forming bonds as a health crisis emerges in the background.
5.5.25
Director - Hala Matar
Advanced Screening with
HALA MATAR & DARYL WEIN
ELECTRA
Film: Two journalists travel to the lush Italian villa of a famous musician and his partner for an interview, but all is not as it seems and the trip spirals into deceit and deadly betrayals.
Matar is the first female Bahraini filmmaker in history to make a feature film.
JANE AUSTIN WRECKED MY LIFE
5.5.25
Director and Writer – Laura Piani
Advanced Screening with
CAMILLE RUTHERFORD
Film: Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman, who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer, and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writers block.
JULIE KEEPS QUIET
4.4.25
Director - Leonardo Van Dijl
Advanced Screening
Film: As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club’s players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet.
The Film: Nicole Kidman is the meticulous Nancy Vandergroot, a teacher and homemaker whose picture-perfect life with her community pillar husband and son in a tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles into a twisted tale. Nancy and her friendly colleague become suspicious of a secret, only to discover nothing in their lives is what it seems.
3.25.25
Director - Mimi Cave
Advanced Screening
Holland
The Film: For the first time, Maria Schneider’s story takes center stage in Palud’s sensitive biopic, exploring the making of the Last Tango in Paris and her treatment at the hands of Bertolucci & Brando (Matt Dillon)
3.24.25
Director – Jessica Palud
Advanced Screening
(Kino Lorber)
BEING MARIA
3.14.25
Featuring Filmakers:
Cara Stricker, Jackie Bao, Jazmin Garcia, Lucy McRae & Sean Frank
DJs : Alix Brown, Ana Calderon, Bec Adams, Daisy O’Dell, Dana Boulos
WUTI WONDERLAND
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“NEW RULES”
Talks series
Navigating Film’s Unfixed Future.
In Partnership with WePresent, WUTI poses the tough questions to some of the film industry’s most exciting new voices in order to learn from both their success and failures, and gain their perspective on where the film industry is headed.
FINDing YOUR AUDIENCE
We dissect the changing state of film distribution and question how to find your audience. Featuring Molly Manning Walker (How to Have Sex), Janicza Bravo (Zola), Head of Creative at Film4 Farhana Bhula (How to Have Sex, All of Us Strangers) and Graham Fulton, co-CEO of distribution company Conic.
IP & originality
We question whether the film industry relies too heavily on existing IP and discuss how to get your story to resonate with an audience, as well as how to protect your ideas. Featuring Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack, Skate Kitchen), Amrou Al-Kadhi (Layla) and Octavia Peissel, independent producer and lWes Anderson collaborator (Asteroid City, The French Dispatch).
FUNDING
We ask how the landscape has changed and examine the challenges and opportunities that this may present. With Charlotte Regan (Scrapper), producer Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor (Blue Story), and Rich Peppiatt (Kneecap). We hear firsthand how they funded their films and what they learnt from the process.
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