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Manhattan Short Film Festival 2024

(2024, 162 minutes)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

SOLD OUT | Vote for your favorite during this popular compilation of short films. Audiences around the world unite during the same week to see the work of the next generation of international filmmakers.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

2 p.m.
The Red Shoes

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
(UK, 1948, 135 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

This iconic melodrama, inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen tale, focuses on a young ballerina cast by an obsessive Russian impresario to star in his ballet The Red Shoes.

Friday, October 11, 2024

7 p.m.

Sunday, October 13, 2024

5 p.m.
Ratatouille

Directed by Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava
(USA, 2007, 111 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

Presented by Chris Shepherd, chef and restaurateur
In one of Paris’s finest restaurants, Remy, a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Remy and his pal Linguini set in motion a hilarious chain of events, turning the City of Lights upside down.

Saturday, October 12, 2024

7 p.m.
The Small Back Room

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
(UK, 1949, 107 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

This gripping character study tells of a neurotic and alcoholic munitions expert during World War II. The story’s climax—a long, tense scene of bomb disposal—is a virtuoso suspense sequence.

Friday, October 18, 2024

7 p.m.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

7 p.m.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Directed by David Hinton
(UK, 2024, 131 minutes, in English)
Lynn Wyatt Theater and Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

In this new documentary, director Martin Scorsese celebrates his lifelong love affair with legendary filmmaking team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Scorsese explores their collaboration and describes how deeply their films have influenced his own work.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

3 p.m.
Brewster McCloud

Directed by Robert Altman
(USA, 1970, 105 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

In her first feature film, Shelley Duvall is “unlike anyone seen onscreen before.” Bud Cort plays Brewster, an intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter within the Astrodome.

Sunday, October 20, 2024

5 p.m.
3 Women

Directed by Robert Altman
(USA, 1977, 124 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Shelley Duvall won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role of Millie, the vain chatterbox roommate to naive teenage coworker Pinky (Sissy Spacek), with whom she appears to exchange identities. Janice Rule also stars.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

7 p.m.
The Shining

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
(UK/USA, 1980, 144 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

In Stanley Kubrick’s terrifying adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado. He settles in along with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and his psychic son (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by horrific premonitions.

Sunday, October 27, 2024

5 p.m.
Exhuma (Pamyo)

Directed by Jang Jae-hyun
(South Korea, 2024, 134 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

A wealthy family hires a renowned shaman and her protégé to investigate the disturbing supernatural illness affecting only the firstborn of each generation. They soon trace the affliction to a long-hidden family grave on sacred ground. This K-horror film is perfect for Halloween!

Thursday, October 31, 2024

7 p.m.
Black Gospel

Directed by Hismt Ministry
(South Korea, 2013, 93 minutes, in English and Korean with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun. Actors and real-life friends Yang Dong Geun, Jung Joon, and Kim Yoo Mi join members of Heritage, a musical ensemble whose members co-founded the Heritage Mass Choir on a trip to Harlem in New York City.

Friday, November 1, 2024

7 p.m.
Fighter in the Wind (Baramui paiteo)

Directed by Yun-ho Yang
(South Korea, 2004, 120 minutes, in Japanese, English, and Korean with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun. Yang Dong-geun stars as real-life Korean-born Choi Yeong-eui as he arrives in 1938 Japan, hoping to become a fighter pilot, but ending up on a different path.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

1 p.m.
Handsome Guys (Haenseomgaijeu)

Directed by Nam Dong-hyup
(South Korea, 2024, 101 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital
The debut film from Nam Dong-hyup is a remake of Canada’s black comedy/horror film Tucker and Dale vs. Evilfrom 2010. Misunderstood friends Jae-pil (Lee Sung-min) and Sang-gu (Lee Hee-joon) appear to be tough guys, but are more often clueless. When they achieve their dream of buying a fixer-upper and living in the country, they come to the aid of a drowning girl but are mistaken for kidnappers. …

Saturday, November 2, 2024

7 p.m.
By the Stream (Suyoocheon)

Directed by Hong Sangsoo
(South Korea, 2024, 111 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Jeonim, an artist teaching at a Seoul university, who invites her uncle—a former actor with a controversial past—to direct a student play. He becomes involved with an academic administrator who is improbably his super-fan, causing drama for everyone around them.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

2 p.m.
Save the Green Planet! (Jigureul jikyeora!)

Directed by Joon-Hwan Jang
(South Korea, 2003, 118 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Ahead of its time in 2003, Save the Green Planet! is now a cult favorite due the popularity of the Korean New Wave. Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun) believes the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save planet Earth.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

5:30 p.m.