SPOTLIGHT FILMS

NEW YORK PREMIERE, NARRATIVE FEATURE, USA, 2023, 89 MINUTES, ENGLISH

In A LITTLE PRAYER, an extraordinary ensemble cast brings empathy and witty charm to a deeply personal tale of complex family dynamics. In a small Southern town in North Carolina, Bill (Academy Award nominee David Strathairn) begins to suspect his son is having an affair. He is caught between an urge to protect his daughter-in-law Tammy (Jane Levy) and his fatherly duty to his son David (Will Pullen), a veteran struggling with PTSD. Writer and director Angus MacLachlan explores a variety of pressing issues in today’s changing modern South, including the limits of patriarchal influence and a woman’s right to choose. A Sony Pictures Classics Release.

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Angus MacLachlan

PRODUCERS: Angus MacLachlan, Lauren Vilchik, Max A. Butler

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ramin Bahrani

CAST: David Strathairn, Jane Levy, Dascha Polanco, Will Pullen, Anna Camp, Celia Weston

NARRATIVE FEATURE, UK, 2023, 105 MINUTES, ENGLISH

On a lonely night in contemporary London, Adam (Emmy nominee Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbor Harry (Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal). As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and to the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy, TheCrown, and Jamie Bell) appear to be living, looking exactly as they did on the day they died 30 years earlier. Director Andrew Haigh (45 YEARS, WEEKEND) returns to HIFF with this stirring, quietly metaphysical story of love and loss, based on the novel Strangersby Taichi Yamada. A Searchlight Pictures release.

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Andrew Haigh

PRODUCERS: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey

CAST: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy

American Fiction

10/7 2:15PM EAST HAMPTON - UA2 10/8 2PM SAG HARBOR - SHC1

EAST COAST PREMIERE, NARRATIVE FEATURE, USA, 2023,

117 MINUTES, ENGLISH

Tony and Emmy Award winner Jeffrey Wright stars in this biting comedy as Thelonius “Monk” Ellison, an underappreciated author fed up with the state of Black literature in America. When he uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, he is propelled into the hypocritical madness he claims to disdain. Acclaimed writer Cord Jefferson (Watchmen,Succession) makes his feature directorial debut with this warm, whip-smart satire featuring an all-star cast, including Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Leslie Uggams and Sterling K. Brown. Based on Percival Everett’s award-winning novel Erasure, AMERICAN FICTION playfully grapples with our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. A United Artists Release.

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Cord Jefferson

PRODUCERS: Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Percival Everett

CAST: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown