Film: Romeria (Spain / Germany 2025)

 Romería

DIRECTOR

Director: Carla Simón, 2025 Spain / German, 112 minutes

Spanish, Catalan, and French with English subtitles

Amidst the jagged cliffs and summery, sun-kissed shores of Vigo, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, 18-year-old Marina (the arresting Llúcia Garcia) has arrived on a deeply personal mission. Having lost both of her parents at a very young age, the orphaned young woman has set off on a journey to meet her paternal grandparents and extended family for the first time. While connecting with her affectionate, teeming new clan, Marina also is forced to reconcile with the past, negotiating her idealized memories of her parents and difficult truths that have been long buried. Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, evoked in hallucinatory, grainy flashbacks, Romería achingly dramatizes the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones. Carla Simón (Alcarràs) proves again with this delicate, naturalistic, and poignantly autobiographical film that she is an essential voice in international cinema. An NYFF63 Main Slate selection. A Janus Films release.

Film: Tuner (Canada/U.S 2025)

A film by

Daniel Roher

Starring

Leo Woodall

Dustin Hoffman

Havana Rose Liu

In Tuner, Academy Award-winning director Daniel Roher’s first narrative feature, Leo Woodall stars as a gifted young piano tuner whose heightened sense of hearing draws the attention of criminals, who see his talents as useful for opening safes as well as for tuning Steinways. With his once-promising musical career over, he works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman), encountering a range of characters, including composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), with whom he forges an unexpected connection. Niki’s safecracking work threatens his budding romance with Ruthie and pulls him into increasingly dangerous territory.

https://quadcinema.com/film/tuner/

Film: The Hole (Taiwan 1998)

 

DIRECTOR

Tsai Ming-liang

YEAR

1998

COUNTRY

Taiwan

RUNTIME

93 minutes

Set on the eve of the 21st century, Tsai Ming-liang’s fourth feature turns a crumbling Taipei apartment block into one of cinema’s strangest and most tender end-of-the-world romances. Perennial muse Lee Kang-sheng (“the man upstairs”) and Yang Kuei-mei (“the woman downstairs”) are among the building’s last holdouts, refusing evacuation as a mysterious epidemic spreads outside and rain batters the city without end. When a plumber leaves behind an unfinished repair, the man’s floor opens into an accidental passage between two sealed-off lives, turning leaks, trash, pesticide, and petty territorial warfare into a strange form of courtship. Among the most disarmingly funny and cathartic entries in Tsai’s filmography, The Hole finds hope in a world that seems to be falling apart, breaking its deadpan plague scenario open with splendorous Grace Chang musical numbers and poker-faced slapstick. Returning to FLC for its first-ever dedicated New York theatrical release on a newly struck 35mm print, this 1998 vision of isolation remains uncannily, exhilaratingly prescient. A Big World Pictures release.

https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-hole/