Aspen Film Aspen Film is proud to announce the program for its 43rd annual Filmfest, which will showcase top filmmaking from across the globe from September 27-October 4. The festival consists of screenings, taking place at Aspen’s Metropolitan’s Isis Theatre, The Wheeler Opera House, and the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale.
This year’s festival includes four to six films per day as well as filmmaker and panel discussions following multiple films including: Till, Wildcat, Four Seasons, and many more.
A few highlights for this year’s festival include:
- Decision to Leave: Friday September 30th, 8:00pm Wheeler Opera House. What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? Winner of Cannes Best Director in 2022, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) returns with a seductive romantic thriller that takes his renowned stylistic flair to dizzying new heights. When detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) arrives at a murder scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae (Tang Wei) may know more than she initially lets on. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, Hae-joon finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire, proving that the darkest mysteries lurk inside the human heart.
- Empire of Light: Saturday October 1, 2:00pm Wheeler Opera House: Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, by Academy Award®-winning director Sam Mendes.
- The Lost King, Friday September 30th, 5:00pm Wheeler Opera House: Stephen Frears’ latest retells the true story of an amateur historian (Sally Hawkins) battling skepticism and bureaucracy in a quest to locate the final resting place of King Richard III.
- Aftersun: Wednesday September 28th, 8pm Wheeler Opera House: At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare times together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film.
- God's Creatures, Saturday, October 1 5:00pm Wheeler Opera House: In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.
Aspen film is also hosting Posterfest 22. To help raise funds for Aspen Film, 30-years worth of original movie posters from films shown at the Isis Theater will be auctioned. Learn more about the auction here.
It is highly recommended to purchase tickets in advance online here.
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