A day at NOFF 2021: Sunday, November 7
We round-up on the third day of NOFF2021! Choose from the 12 in-person screenings listed below or tune into the Virtual Cinema to stream films and film conference programming at home. Click the program titles to buy your in-person tickets now!
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust + Listen to the Beat of Our Images
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 12 PM
FREE SCREENING thanks to The Helis Foundation
Feature film ‘Manzanar, Diverted’ – Manzanar has been the site of atrocities committed by the same government who forced the diversion of water away from this place.
Preceded by short ‘Listen to the Beat of Our Images (Écoutez le battement de nos images).’ 60 years ago, the French government decided to establish its space center in Kourou, French Guiana. 600 Guianese people were expropriated to allow France to realize its dream of space conquest. Combining field investigation and archival footage, Listen to the Beat of Our Images gives a voice to an invisibilized and silenced population.
Shorts: My Mother
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 12.30 PM
FREE SCREENING thanks to The Helis Foundation
There is nothing more universal and complex than a mother’s love as seen in these short documentaries from around the world.
France
AMC Elmwood Palace 20, 2 PM
Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont casts Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, homelife, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris street. This accident triggers a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. A film that teases at redemption while refusing to grant absolution, France is tragicomic and deliciously ambivalent—a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture.
Doc Shorts: There’s No Place Like New Orleans
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 3 PM
Masking, mourning, art-making, protesting–home is more than a place, it’s a sense of belonging, of communing together in laughter, love, and sorrow in this special place we call home.
Doc Shorts: Beautifully Me
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 3.30 PM
The exploration and acceptance of one’s true self is a journey that can last a lifetime. These short documentaries span a spectrum of experiences in the quest to discover and affirm who we are.
Narrative Shorts: (Comedic)Relief
AMC Elmwood Palace 20, 5 PM
Unlikely pairs, misunderstandings, hidden intentions, and all the little absurdities that make human desires and interactions as hysterical as they are charming. Six shorts to take you along a journey of the heart and make you laugh along the way. See the trailer for ‘The Binding of Itzik.’
Narrative Shorts: (Other)Worldy
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 6 PM
FREE SCREENING thanks to The Helis Foundation
Wicked games between predator and prey, outsiders and insiders. A blend of suspense, lore, and magical realism that explores community, ambiguity, and fear. She the trailer for ‘She Wolf Totem.’
Have a Nice Life
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 6.30 PM
FREE SCREENING thanks to The Helis Foundation
After hitting dead ends in life, Jyothi, an Indian housewife, and Sophie, a stoner musician, find themselves on the run from the law, together on a wild, surreal American road trip from Durham, North Carolina to Montreal, Canada.
C’mon C’mon
The Broadside, 7 PM
Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills.
Jockey
AMC Elmwood Palace 20, 8 PM
An aging jockey (Clifton Collins Jr.), hopes to win one last title for his longtime trainer (Molly Parker), who has acquired what appears to be a championship horse.
I’m Fine (Thanks For Asking)
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 8.45 PM
A young widowed single mom skates around town trying to get money for an apartment by day’s end.
Homebody
Broad Theater sponsored by Film New Orleans, 9.15 PM
9-year-old Johnny is transported into the body of their babysitter, Melanie, in this body swap comedy.