Explore the 2025 Sun & Stars International Film Festival Lineup!

LIZA:

A TRULY TERRIFIC ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY

One film is barely enough to encompass all the facets of Liza Minnelli’s life and career, but director Klein pulls it off with many a humorously bossy…

DAYS OF HAPPINESS

(LES JOURS HEUREAUX)

The privileged world of classical music is the setting for drama on and off the concert stage as Emma (Desmarais), a young rising star conductor, makes…

PINK LADY

Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox community is the setting for a comedy/drama of a marriage in crisis when the husband’s secret desires are outed by…

MIDAS MAN

Often called “the Fifth Beatle,” manager/impresario Brian Epstein burned brightly as the man who catapulted the Fab Four to international fame then…

HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR

From 1968 to 1995, Irish television annually featured the “Housewife of the Year” contest in which mostly-middleaged…

AUCTION

(LE TABLEAU VOLÉ)

The issue of the return of Nazi-looted art to its rightful heirs makes this high-stakes art world drama as current as…

THE GLORY OF LIFE

(DIE HERRLICHKEIT DES LEBENS)

A tender love story with Franz Kafka at the center would seem to run counter to the popular image of the author of such deeply paranoid works as The…

YANIV

Consider a Bronx high school drama teacher getting around budget cuts by funding the school’s spring musical with illegal gambling loot. That’s the…

JULIE KEEPS QUIET

(JULIE ZWIJGT)

A scandal rocks an elite tennis academy where a popular coach is suspended under suspicion of sexually grooming his teen proteges. News of the…

EX-HUSBANDS

Griffin Dunne (AFTER HOURS, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON) leads a predominantly male ensemble cast in a wryly humorous tale revolving around…

OF DOGS AND MEN

(AL KLAVIM VEANASHIM)

Following the October 7 attacks, Israeli director Rosenberg (THE VANISHING SOLDIER) felt compelled to process the emotions and the pain by…

THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN

Seasoned documentary filmmaker Collins (SONG OF GRANITE), whose earlier work has explored disappearing aspects of Irish culture, turns…

WILD DIAMOND

(DIAMANT BRUT)

Liane (Khébizi), a working-class teen in the south of France, lives for social media and aspires to Kardashian glitz styled from tawdry shoplifted booty…

NEVER ALONE

(EI KOSKAAN YSKIN)

Many heroes of Jewish resistance to the Nazis are still relatively unknown decades after WWII. In the hands of Klaus Härö (THE FENCER), the story of a risky…

YASMEEN’S ELEMENT

The beauty of northern Pakistan’s mountainous Hunza Valley region is the breathtaking backdrop to a colorful tale of an earnest child’s pursuit of her…

TROLL STORM

A Montana realtor’s win in a groundbreaking First Amendment court case that struck a blow to white supremacy and neo-Nazism is charted in…

THE KISS

(KYSSET)

Director August (Oscar-awarded PELLE THE CONQUERER) adapts Stefan Zweig’s best-selling novel Beware of Pity as THE KISS. In 1913 Denmark…

BAD SHABBOS

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, this comedy had New Yorkers in stitches with its pointed jabs at family dysfunction, religious…

FIRST CASE

(PREMIÈRE AFFAIRE)

With this first feature, writer/ director Musiedlak constructs a thrillingly tangled web of ethical dilemmas and necessary lies, all held together by the…

ETERNAL YOU

ETERNAL YOU takes an incisive look at the ways artificial intelligence technology is transforming the ways humans deal with death. A new industry…

THERE’S STILL TOMORROW

(C’È ANCORA DOMANI)

Italy’s biggest box office hit in years is a canny comedy/drama shot in black-and-white with a look that mimics the style of Italian Neorealism. Director…

MY SUNSHINE

(BOKU NO OHISAMA)

The enduring appeal of icedancing casts a spell over a film steeped in the bittersweet nostalgia of first love. Set at a small-town skating rink in…

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

(UN LANGUE UNIVERSELLE)

Winner of the first-ever Directors Fortnight Audience Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and Canada’s official submission for the upcoming…

HOLY COW

(VINGT DIEUX)

Winner of the Youth Prize at the 2024 Cannes International Film Festival, HOLY COW is a roughand-ready coming of age film with a foodie angle, set in…

BROKEN DOLLS

A mother’s obscured past become a daughter’s call to action in reconstructing a history altered by the Holocaust. In 1939, a mysterious benefactor enables…

BUSHIDO

(GOBANGIRI)

This reinvented samurai tale set in feudal Japan is steeped in history and the samurai code, and offers wrenching family sacrifice, dastardly betrayal…

THE FRENCH ITALIAN

CLOSING NIGHT

A white lie about a plate of cookies is the first tipoff to the flexible ethics of 30-something Manhattan hipsters Valerie (Cohen) and Doug (Athari)…