49 min.

Let your imagination take the wheel with Kid Flicks One. Whether dreaming up the fantastical, like a cat the size of a house, or the practical, like finding a summer romance for a beloved teacher, these shorts are sure to surprise and delight.

Recommended for families with children ages 5-10. In English & Korean with English subtitles. 

South Korea/2022—directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda | 129 minutes

Five years after winning the Cannes Film Festival’s highest award for Shoplifters (DFT 2017), the Oscar® nominated Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Broker, the tale of two men who – under the radar of the legal system – accept custody of unwanted infants which they then sell to affluent childless couples.

Circumventing the bureaucracy – and accountability – of legal adoption, these “brokers” try in their limited way to act morally by matching the children with responsible families. But after one infant’s mother surprises the duo by demanding to supervise her baby’s placement, the three unlikely partners embark on a search for the perfect couple, while unintentionally building an unlikely “family” of their own. Thoughtful, powerful, surprisingly witty, and deeply, generously humane, Broker is the gift of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

Parasite’s Song Kang Ho won the Best Actor Prize at Cannes for Broker, the first South Korean actor to receive the honor. In Korean with English subtitles.

“Five Stars! Big-hearted and directed with impeccable skill, delicacy and compassion as secret motives are revealed, sympathies shift, and dangers multiply.” – Nicholas Barber, BBC Culture 

Poland/Italy/2022—directed by Jerzy Skolimowski | 86 minutes

After leaving a traveling circus – the only life he’s ever known – EO, a grey donkey with melancholic and expressive eyes, begins a journey across the Polish and Italian countryside, encountering the unfathomable chasms between cruelty and kindness, captivity and freedom. Legendary 84-year-old master director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Shout) imagines EO’s mesmerizing journey as an ever-shifting interior landscape, marked by absurdity and warmth in equal measure, and always putting the viewer in the relatable perspective of the movie’s four-legged protagonist.

With EO, one of the most visually inventive films of his long career, Skolimowski the artist has constructed a bold, avant-garde vision of the follies and wonders of human nature as seen from the ultimate outsider’s perspective – not even for a moment does this wondrous character lose his innocence.

Recommended for audiences 16 and up. Jury Prize Winner, 2022 Cannes Film Festival; Poland’s official submission to the 2023 Academy Awards® for Best International Feature. In Polish, Italian, English and French with English subtitles.

“A flamboyant, visionary work. The wildest, youngest film in the Cannes lineup was made by an 84-year-old director up for anything.” – Jonathan Romney, Film Comment 

USA/1921—directed by Charles Chaplin | 53 minutes

Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he made The Kid, his first full-length feature. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (Jackie Coogan) he's rescued from the streets.

Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.” 

The Kid will be presented with a live piano score by David Drazin.

François Truffaut’s celebrated, autobiographical “Antoine Doinel” films span 20 years in the life of the late director and his great star, Jean-Pierre Léaud, not to mention the character that Léaud so brilliantly incarnates on screen. Rarely screened together, these five masterworks will be shown at the Detroit Film Theatre Auditorium on one weekend, in chronological order, and in newly restored versions.

The 400 Blows (1959) chronicles the development of the rebellious, delinquent, 14-year-old character of Antoine who then becomes the independent, determined adolescent in Antoine and Colette (1962), the romantic, would-be professional in Stolen Kissses (1968), and then ultimately the resilient but never-satisfied thirty-something in Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979). 

Tickets to each film are available separately, but for those who want the full experience, a pass to all five films to this once-only “Antoine-a-Thon” is available for just $20. 

As part of Midtown Detroit's annual Noel Night celebration, the Detroit Film Theatre will present Manual Cinema's take on Dickens’s holiday classic with an inventive shadow play adaptation, first performed in December 2020.

Aunt Trudy has been recruited to channel her late husband's famous holiday cheer by performing his annual puppet show over a Zoom call. As she becomes absorbed in her version of the story, it transforms into a stunning cinematic rendering of Dickens’s classic ghost story.

Italy/2021-directed by Guiseppe Piccioni | 125 min.

Picture this: it's 1938, Ascoli Piceno. It’s an ordinary day in a provincial town like so many others in Italy. The tables are set and Luciano has just opened his restaurant. Behind the large windows overlooking the old town square, the small town life in those years happen. These are the years of consent, public works and new cities. Luciano is a fascist, like the majority of Italians at that time, but in his own way.  What he cares about are his restaurant and the daily tasks to which he diligently dedicates himself. Until one day outside the restaurant window, a young woman appears and timidly asks him if he is looking for staff.  But that young woman has a secret. 

The Italian Film Festival USA is the largest festival dedicated exclusively to Italian film in the USA, present in 14 cities from coast to coast. The 2022 edition brings you the best line-up of recent Italian cinema with films from award-winning directors, as well as debut films from exciting new talent. This is your chance to see the latest and best in Italian film. 

Presented in partnership with the Consulate of Italy in Detroit.

The DFT’s popular annual screenings of the British Arrows—those uniquely creative “adverts” of British television assembled into a feature-length program screened in select cinemas worldwide—were forced to pause during COVID. Now the Arrows are back on the big screen, in a program that combines the best of 2022’s winners with the highlights we missed in 2021.

The compact storytelling that’s possible in films of only a minute or two provides endless surprises—some of the winners are sharp and effective public service messages, others extol the virtues of beloved brands of tea, ale and chocolate (not to mention certain inexplicably popular British breakfast foods).

Regardless of the product being sold, it’s hard to not be bowled over by the inventiveness and playfulness on display in these British advertisements, all designed to deliver a message while also providing an engaging cinematic kick. (80 min.)

France/1972—directed by Luis Buñuel | 102 min. 

Six well-to-do, sophisticated friends gather regularly to enjoy their privileged trappings of conspicuous consumption—barely giving a thought to the varying degrees of amoral behavior they casually live by daily. Without warning, their untroubled sense of security is intruded upon by a series of frustrating coincidences, plausible at first but then increasingly hilarious; no matter how well-planned their dinner parties, these folks just can’t seem to complete a meal.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, one of the indisputable masterpieces of the cinema’s wittiest surrealist, we’re delighted to present this new 4K restoration that confirms it's as astute and laugh-out-loud funny as it was half a century ago—perhaps even more so. With Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran, and the great Fernando Rey. In French with English subtitles.  

“Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match... It’s mildly amazing that this movie won an Oscar. Typically, the filmmaker told a credulous journalist that his producers had bribed the Academy.” –J. Hoberman, The Village Voice 

France/1979—directed by François Truffaut

Bed and Board was conceived as the last part of the Doinel saga, but Truffaut decided nearly a decade later to make one more visit to Antoine, this time in his thirties, to see if adulthood resulted in a less chaotic life.

Antoine’s memories of childhood and adolescence materialize through sequences from the previous films―a dazzling cinematic scrapbook of Jean-Pierre Léaud from ages 14 to 35. Ultimately, Antoine is who he’s always been, measuring the loves of his life against the romantic dreams that have never ceased to grip him. (95 min.) 

“Truffaut is a master of his art… Love on the Run is a rousing success.” -David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor

Tickets to each of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel films showing at the DIA are available separately, but for those who want the full experience, a pass to all five films to this once-only “Antoine-a-Thon” is available here for just $20.