“Kill Me”
Peter Warren’s dark comedy starts with a great destabilizing question: Jimmy is pretty sure he didn’t try to kill himself, but he can’t fully prove it. With help from a reluctant 911 operator, he sets out to figure out whether he’s being stalked by a killer or somehow chasing himself. Charlie Day, Allison Williams, Giancarlo Esposito, Aya Cash, Jessica Harper, David Krumholtz, and Tony Cavalero headline a premise that sounds just bent enough to either snap or really sing. (Narrative Spotlight—World Premiere.)
“Beast Race (Corrida dos Bichos)”
A dystopian Rio fractured by class conflict and addicted to blood sport becomes the arena for a resistance leader forced into a violent race to save his sister. Co-directed by Fernando Meirelles alongside Ernesto Solis and Rodrigo Pesavento, starring Matheus Abreu, Rodrigo Santoro, Isis Valverde, Bruno Gagliasso, Thainá Duarte, Seu Jorge, Silvero Pereira, João Guilherme, Grazi Massafera, and Anitta. (Narrative Spotlight—World Premiere.)
“Normal”
Ben Wheatley teams with “John Wick” architect Derek Kolstad for a small-town action thriller about a provisional sheriff whose discovery of a town’s sordid secret kicks off a rip-roaring firefight. Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, Lena Headey, Ryan Allen, Billy MacLellan, Brendan Fletcher, Reena Jolly, Peter Shinkoda, Jess McLeod, and Derek Barnes star. (Narrative Spotlight—U.S. Premiere.)
“Campeón Gabacho”
A spirited Mexican migrant fights—literally and figuratively—for a better life in the U.S., punching through prejudice with heart and humor to become an unlikely hero. Jonás Cuarón directs, with Juan Daniel García Treviño, Leslie Grace, Rubén Blades, Eddie Marsan, Rosario Dawson, Cheech Marin, Marvin Jones III, Carlos Carrasco, and Dolores Heredia. (Narrative Spotlight—World Premiere.)
“Poetic License”
Directed by Maude Apatow, this relationship comedy stars Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman, and Andrew Barth Feldman, following a middle-aged mother who becomes the unexpected point of tension between two inseparable college best friends. (Narrative Spotlight—U.S. Premiere.)
